AMAC Exclusive – By Herald Boas
The Republicans’ most successful grass roots issue, both in 2021 and 2022, was parental rights in K-12 education in public schools.
It not only brought the GOP an upset win in the Virginia gubernatorial election, and a new national political star, Glenn Youngkin, last year, it also provided conservatives with numerous 2022 wins across the country in local school board elections. An example of how potentially significant this was took place in Minnesota. While liberal Democrats won every statewide office, more than 50 conservatives won school board seats previously held by liberals across the state.
The political implications of this are that there are now new conservative elected officials at the local level who in most cases will run for re-election, and likely increase the base of conservative voters in subsequent elections — an expanded base that will also likely permeate up-ballot to municipal, legislative and statewide races.
This turns the usual political “wisdom” of candidates for major offices helping candidates down-ballot on its head, and further expands the ongoing grassroots transformation of the Republican Party into a more populist and non-elitist blue collar and middle class political party — a phenomenon evolving since 1980, when Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter for president.
Parental rights in public school education is a cultural issue, and a key part of the struggle against the current wave of woke/politically correct cancel culture and indoctrination now raging in American public life. Although the two sides of this issue cannot be neatly defined by those who support the two major parties, the impetus for promoting woke ideology in schools has come from the radical left, and is now part of much of Democratic Party public policy. Opposition to it came primarily from the right, and is now part of Republican Party public policy — although as the issue became more extreme, its opponents now include many independents and even Democratic parents who find school policies contrary to their values.
American public secondary school education is now in a heightened crisis mode, as many parents have taken their children out of the public schools and have either enrolled them in secular or religious private schools or are homeschooling them.
The ideological indoctrination has taken many forms, including rewriting textbooks, promoting critical race theory (CRT), imposing radical gender theory on students, encouraging teacher political bias, and institutional disregard for parental concerns and input.
Rewriting textbooks and promoting teacher ideological bias is a consequence of political correctness and the so-called “cancel” culture in the modern American adult environment. These phenomena are an attempt to impose an excessive corrective to legitimately identified historical failures and shortcomings in U.S. social and political life.
One of the most common examples of this has been to “cancel” significant U.S. historical figures who one or two centuries ago were part of slaveholding families. The failure to eliminate slavery was one of the failures of colonial and pre-Civil War American life, and should be condemned. But cancel cultists say that being a slaveholder alone disqualifies most of the founders of the Republic (including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson — in fact, ten of the first twelve presidents) as well as most of the significant pre-Civil War leaders. The Democratic Party has gone so far as to ‘’cancel” the two men who founded their own party — Jefferson and Jackson.
This ludicrous overreach has been expanded into widespread denigration of the fundamental socio-economic system of democratic (small “d”) capitalism by leftists and radical commentators who appear to be advocating various forms of totalitarian socialist models as preferable to what has arguably been the most successful form of government over the past few centuries.
Most Americans, it seems clear, do not agree with this radical put-down of U.S. history and democratic capitalism, and when it takes the form of the indoctrination of a whole generation of U.S. children, and is justified by many Democrats, including President Biden (who has dismissed legitimate parental involvement in public school curricula), mothers and fathers across the nation are now increasingly using their votes to say “Enough!”
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and take education away from the bureaucrats in D.C.!
Send the government checks back. Get local businesses supporting the sports teams again. Get the pta back in power. Tell Washington that our kids are not their science project.
Te Founders who owned slaves simply could not free them BECAUSE they were debtors. Incases where such attempts were made the CREDITORS would usually attach them as property and sell them in less desirable circumstances. Jefferson DID free some when he observed situations where he thought he could get away with it and was successful.. Washington used his will and his wife’s to free his entire group, true, but after all, he was Washington and by 1802 clearly no creditor was willing to risk attachments in his case.
CW Miller PhD
If we could learn one thing here it is this. Any time you involve the Federal Government in anything you are going to get a diminished product at an increased price. No exceptions exist to this rule. School system, city government, Federal Emergency Management Administration. This last slew of money given to the states over COVID 19 will come at the price of more federal control of local problems.
After this last mid-term election I have resigned myself to the fact that the Democrats have gained all the control over the voting system in this country they need to make their total take over of the country complete. There is no longer a two party system, Biden Inc. is mob control of the country with total disregard for the laws, the Constitution, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Right to a speedy trial, and on and on.
GOP would do well to address the tremendous increase in school administrators (87.6%) compared to students (7.6%) and teachers (8.7%) increases cited in Imprimis (Re: Hillsdale College, Larry Arnn).
Seems a shameful misdirection of resources when the official line typically is not enough teachers. Why would we need that many more administrators? May point to some of the mischief in our public education system.
Read Mark Levin’s Book American Marxism. It addresses the article above. An eye opener.
Bob, Mark Levin’s other books “Ameritopia and Rediscovering Americanism” also address the issue. Well woth the read.
“The elephant in the room” is the issue that cost us many elections. Those voters, the true “deplorables”, insist on murdering the pre-born, and taking our 1st & 2nd Amendment rights.
many of those are “useful idiots” referred to by lenin.
Republicans have many valid issues that are as equally important as the public education issue. Control of the public education process just ensures the left a steady and reliable stream of fresh, new Democrat voters to advance the socialist agenda in this country. Indoctrination of the youth of this country is merely one element of a multi-faceted strategy to achieve the Marxist endgame. This is nothing new. It has been ongoing for over 50 years now in the K through 12 public education system in this country.
The Republican Party doesn’t lack either issues or solutions to any of these items. What it has generally lacked for years on end is effective leadership, effective messaging and the drive to actually get things done. Interrupted only twice in recent history by both Reagan and Trump. Both of which the Republican Party establishment decided to quickly run away from and return to the standard “business as usual” way of doing things. This has resulted in decades of the left having a wide open field for them to move their agenda forward almost completely unopposed. What we’re seeing today is merely the consequences of all those decades of apathy, laziness and frankly corruption at the GOP leadership level bearing fruit.
At least half the country is a lost cause. This is just something our side has to accept and stop thinking “If we just explain things differently, they will join us and “wake up” to how wrong they have been.”. That is NOT going to happen in well over 95% of the cases. They have been successfully conditioned to prefer socialism over capitalism. They honestly can’t reason for themselves. Anything that conflicts with what they have been conditioned to believe results in them lashing out in some profanity-laced tirade or a mental shutdown. They prefer the government “take care of them” and “make decisions on their behalf” for them. They honestly do hate this country or at least think it is so fatally flawed, that the only solution is to re-make it into their dreamed of socialist Utopia. They have been successfully conditioned to view the federal government and Democrats as essentially Santa Claus, who periodically delivers something new and “free” (at least they think it is free because they are mostly economically illiterate) all in exchange for just voting Democrat.
All the problems like rampant crime, their lack of ability to land the high paying jobs they were promised for getting college degrees in woke or nonsensical majors, high inflation, etc., etc. aren’t the fault of the Democrats and their policies that control almost everything. It is “the evil Republicans” or some other country like Saudi Arabia for not bumping more oil to offset Biden shutting down domestic energy, Mexico for doing the same, etc., who won’t go along with the ludicrous policies that have caused so much damage to the country.
Agree especially with your final two paragraphs. Too many young folk have been indoctrinated by the left to believe what they have been taught in higher education. After many years of fighting against the WOKE culture, it has now prevailed itself into my county’s educational system. Too much caving in.
Hi Max,
Yes, caving in is a good description for what most Republican politicians have been doing non-stop for decades. When only one side fights for its values, that being the Democrats, it isn’t hard to determine who will ultimately win in the end. It’s one thing I’ve seen repeatedly all around the world.
In countries where the people stand up, one way or another, for their rights, freedoms and values, they usually prevail and keep those that wish to enslave them out of power. In countries where the people do pretty much what we have done over the last 50 to 60 years, continuous capitulation to a vocal and aggressive minority that only wants money and power over everyone, that minority eventually becomes the majority and takes over the country.
I believe you’re right when you say that half the country supports socialism. So be it. I propose that we let them go their own way and leave the country or secede. I’m tired of dealing with them and their insanity.
They won’t go away quietly or simply opt to congregrate in a dozen or so states and secede from the union. They want total and absolute control of everything and everyone or eliminate those that will not capitulate to their will. Our side has been good at saying “Lets just leave them alone and hope they go away” for decades. That is essentially the philosophy of appeasement and appeasement never ends up turning out very well. That is how we have ended up where we are today. All that has accomplished is allow them to grow stronger and more numerous to the point of making us a minority in our own country, with vanishing rights and freedoms.
Yes, agree with you most especially on the ‘rampant crime’. The Democrats/Communists are directly responsible for the exorbitant increase in crime. Waiting for months, for the Democrats/Communists to apologize for demonizing, defunding; and all out destruction of the USA Police Departments! (Isn’t that a laugh getting an apology from the Marxists?) Also, where is the apology to President George Washington and Our Founding Fathers for the censorship and removal of anything from the Colonial Period? Where are the apologies for the removal of ‘Civil War Heroes’ burial sites? Destroy, Destroy, and NEVER apologize or make reparation for one blessed thing! They need to make apologies and make monetary reparations for all their ‘sweetness and light’. They don’t give a blessed care for the equality of anyone or anything. They have one wicked agenda.
This is a good start, but how do the parents get back the real estate tax dollars still being spent on these schools teaching Critical Race Theory. Public school funding should not be attached to property owners real estate, via real estate taxes, but be a voucher program to allow freedom on where to have a child educated.
That is where you need to replace the Governor and State Legislature with people who will revise the laws and financing for tax dollars to follow the child, not be tied to where the family lives, which locks them into a specific public school district. Some members of the Republican Party understand and support this idea, as it makes the most sense for turning around our declining test score nation-wide. However, the vast majority of the Republican Party is compromised of the “go along to get along” types, who just want to continue the broken model we currently have. It’s a hard lift, but it is the only way to fix a badly broken education system.
The teachers unions have immense power and tons of cash to go with it. No discussion of the sad state of our educational system is complete without reference to this massive problem.
I lived in Nevada and it is a Right to Work state. That means joining a union is optional. Becoming a Right to Work state could be one way to start combatting the powerful and activist unions, especially teachers unions.
Bingo, definitely like that thought! We don’t even need reparation’s for past sins. Just start it now.
History was my favorite subject and still is today. Communism/Marxism has its tentacles around the neck of our children; killing mentally, spiritually, and physically. The only thing good that has come out of this is: buying every history book that I can get my hands on and actually READING THEM! How it was all taken for granted. How sadly poignant that at almost seventy years old; to watch the destruction, obliteration, and censorship of my beloved history! Just bought an 8 volume set of: ‘Life of George Washington’ by Washington Irving! Now, the Communist/Marxist MSM will be turned OFF and my mind will be marinated by real history. No one has EVER said that Our Founding Fathers walked on water! However, they suffered greatly bringing about this great nation of ours. Something the Communists/Marxists will NEVER do to us, we, of this United States of America; is take away Our History or Our Memory of Our Beloved Founding Fathers! ~ George Washington’s Admirer
Thank you, I could not have said it better.
You’re Welcome. Bless you. May God Bless This United States of America.
Many believe your second sentence to be literal truth as do i. The problem is that few are willing to act on that belief or support those who would act. We are a ‘nice’ people and thats sealing our doom.
That is correct. This lends to a more inclusive conversation. Suddenly, at age seventy or so, we don’t feel like always being nice. We are watching the culmination of current political events in absolute shock. However, this all has been evolving for decades. As a child I could not piece it all together. Ah…Now, its easier to count the crumbs all the way to the Marxists; who have been having ‘sleepovers’ with the ‘democrats’ for years. There was some warning along the way. These warnings were labeled as ‘troublemakers’. Warnings about Communist infiltration in the 60’s for example. You’re right its time to make a stand. Our Founding Fathers can’t make it alone. God Bless America & Let’s Make A Stand!
And in the 60s and 70s, when marxists were being called out conservatives were told that EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, EVEN IF WE DISAGREE WITH IT so “conservatives” piped down and let it happen. NOTE NOW THAT MARXISTS(TOTALITARIANS) ARE TAKING OVER “FREE SPEECH” IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE, ONLY THEIR SPEECH.
That’s right. Marxists/Communists/Democrats; (I’m tempted just to call them Marxists), are ‘absolutely sure’ that they are the ONLY people protected by the First Amendment. They want the Internet censored, regulated, and policed!. (Note that many of these individuals are lawyers who of course, went to law school.) They then, of course took extensive courses in famous documents such as: The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and Ad Infinitum. Now here, is what’s interesting. They ALREADY KNOW that the Bill of Rights is for EVERYBODY!… They then, have a sudden case of amnesia. They feign ignorance of the law! They are phony. They are poor actors. Yes, they did some marvelous acting in the 1960’s. People were warning of Communist Infiltration then. The people warning everyone were made fun of! “Oh, they are looking under every bed for Communists!” Over one million copies have been sold of: ‘The Naked Communist’ by W. Cleon Skousen. You won’t hear about this book on MSM; I assure you. Its a 1958 anti-communist book. The main premise of the book is an alleged communist plot to control all the world’s governments through the implementation of social progressivism and promoting internationalism. Hum, does that mean GLOBALISTS? Since, I’m certainly no expert; its time to hit the books! Including: ‘The Naked Communist’. Yes these educated lawyer types can play dumb, dumber, & dumbest!
Is there even one person connected to Dept. of Ed. that can see the disaster our schools became? Students are performing on substandard levels ,do not come even close to others on international level .we spend most per capita only to produce failing grades Someone is benefiting unfortunately it is not the student
The Department of Education planned this dumbing down of schools – it was not by accident
lenin said(paraphrasing) give me control of the education system and I will have students believing WHAT I WANT THEM TO BELIEVE. many of those “students” are now “adults” voting for marxism.
The Deparment of Education in Washington is filled with like-minded Progressives who created and implemented the very failed policies that have resulted in what we see today. Don’t expect the solution to come from D.C.. The states are going to have to fashion their own solutions without federal tax dollars or support.
Yes, but support and fed tax dollars will keep it pushed down their lists.
And, it will not happen similarly, where the Supreme Court stepped in and ruled on abortion rights moving to the states.
Dem robots in places like Minnesota are reacting to extreme provocation. This doesn’t mean that they’re undergoing political evolution. Just as soon as things go back to ‘normal’ all this will fade back to business as usual. I think of it as if it were a dental emergency. The Rs are the dentist. Just as soon as the pain is gone its back to routine. No one goes to live with their dentist in other words. In fact they dread the next visit if they even think about it. Political indoctrination is usually for life. Thats why the demonics spend so much effort on kids.
Some oif this reminds me of the early 60’s when the Hippies came along. Education started going down hill from then. A lot oif school kids didn’;t shoiw as Hippies ,but adheard to their philosphy. Schools are ruined. Flags should be but 2. The U S and State. Biuble should be on the desk. I think J.Farley stated one time he was way up the senior age scale. So am I. Listin to us 9ld folks . We have been there. Kyle L.
Parents must protect their children from the teaching of the left, there is no more valuable resource for America than our youth, if we can save our youth from the teaching of the Left/Socialists/Communists/Fascists we just might be able to save America.
We as parents share same of the blame, we trusted those in the educational system to do the right thing and teach our children as most of the us raised in the 40’s and 50’s that America was a special place and that the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were Special and that we were a Nation that spread good around the World.
We must get our educational system back and ensure that it is never lost again.
I see at least one of you hates America, I wish I knew which one!
Agreed.
Don’t forget Facebook, Twitter, Tik-Tok, etc.. Even if you do not give your children phones, other children’s phones are always available to see and read content! That is the real education they have been receiving and want to receive. Cannot live without it.
You are correct in your remarks, we as parents need to talk with our children and give them guidance as to make good choice’s!
Yes & expand to Trump policies too
There should not be a socialist education system, it has turned into an indoctrination system teaching what to think rather than how to think. School choice is the best answer.
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