George Will says that
“consciousness-raising” is the politically correct term for “propaganda” in the
progressive mind and with funding from the federal government they are probably
bringing this to a school near you.
Schools
push a curriculum of propaganda
By
George F. Will
Washington
Post, April 3, 2013
Take the time to read this
thing. What do you think of teachers telling
school children that they have insufficient guilt about having white skin? How does such a program fit with the morons
who believe requiring a child to learn might damage the kid’s self esteem?
Highlights:
Wisconsin’s
Department of Public Instruction in collaboration with the federal program
VISTA [Volunteers in Service to
America but the “volunteers” are paid] urged white students to wear
white wristbands “as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal
commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.”
A
flyer distributed at a DPI-VISTA training class urged whites to “put a note on
your mirror or computer screen as a reminder to think about privilege,” to
“make a daily list of the ways privilege played out” and to conduct an
“internal dialogue” asking questions such as “How do I make myself comfortable
with privilege?” and “What am I doing today to undo my privilege?”
After
criticism erupted, the DPI dishonestly claimed that the wristbands were a hoax
perpetrated by conservatives. But the flyer DPI used explicitly advocated the
wristbands and Wisconsin’s taxpayer-funded indoctrination continues, funded by
more than Wisconsin taxpayers.
Today,
the school systems in 20 states employ more non-teachers than teachers. Between 1950 and 2009, while the number of
K-12 students increased 96 percent, full-time-equivalent school employees
increased 386 percent. The number of
teachers increased 252 percent, but the number of bureaucrats — including
consciousness-raising sensitivity enforcers and other non-teachers — increased
702 percent. States could have saved
more than $24 billion annually if non-teaching staff had grown only as fast as
student enrollment. Americans wonder why
their schools have done so little to improve reading, math and science scores.
President
Reagan said: “If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal,
state and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down,
whatever. But if you provide a child
with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you’re liable to be given
more money to do it with.”
N and I often wonder why
diversity Nazis never demand that all-black public housing include a
proportionate share of white folks and other races. Are all-black colleges sufficiently
diverse? How about black caucuses?