Public Schools are Marxist Maternity Wards
The mission of the public schools is the creation of good little Soviets.
Often, the first criticism of the non-Marxist by the Marxist is that they aren’t “paying their fair share” or some other trope to indicate that in the view of the Marxist, the non-Marxist is not contributing enough of their time, treasure, or efforts to the collective “cause”.
In a free, capitalist society, individuals are free to contribute whatever and however they wish to any collective – if that collective is meeting the needs, wants and desires of that individual. A Marxist society demands that contribution regardless of the success of the collective in successfully delivering that outcome.
We like to think that America is not a Marxist state – and by strict definition, it is not – but there is a myriad of examples where this Marxist ideal of forced association are at work.
Perhaps there is no single better example than our schools. American Christians are forced to send their children to Government schools that denigrate Christianity and its practice even as they glorify and attempt to mainstream other religions and promote views that are contrary to Christian teachings. White parents are forced to send their kids to schools where their children are being taught that their parents are evil racists and they are, too. Beyond that, children are being exposed to subjects of sexual behaviors and practices that many parents feel are not age-appropriate subjects or are subjects better addressed by a parent than a teacher.
Nonsensical programs like Common Core try to complicate and convolute simple learning practices while catering to the least common denominator. Parents have been arrested for refusing to allow their children to take standardized tests – and have been accused of trespassing for showing up at the school to attend to their children. Once kids cross the school threshold, parents often lose the right to know what and how their children are being taught once they enter the school door – the kids are often treated as state property. Now Merrick Garland, the Attorney General (thank God for Mitch McConnell stopping his nomination to the Supreme Court), has weaponized the DOJ at the behest of teacher’s unions to classify people who protest at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists”. Garland just directed the FBI to get involved.
School vouchers are routinely rejected to destroy parent’s ability to choose to get their children out of failing schools – curiously, the denial of such vouchers primarily harms inner city minorities – the very proletarians the Marxist claims to want to help. Homeschooling is a prosecutable offense in some jurisdictions. Some teacher’s unions have made it nearly impossible to fire bad teachers. On some college campuses, the Marxists are so entrenched that so called “speech codes” prohibit distribution of copies of the Constitution of the display of the American flag because some students might find it “offensive”.
Programs of “affirmative action” are not about guaranteeing equal access, they are better described as discriminatory “preferential directives” to advantage lesser qualified minority students over those in the majority who possess greater qualifications. As recently happened in New York, higher performing charter schools were effectively abolished, not because they were failing – because they were too successful and were embarrassing the public school administrators.
All of this on the taxpayer dime…regardless of the choices of the taxpayer – or the parent.
Didn’t we start a revolution over taxation without representation?
And when people leave these systems because they do not meet their needs, what does the Marxist do?
Blame them, shame them and then tax them.
In 2013, Karen Lewis, the former President of the Chicago Teachers Union (she passed in February of this year), blamed “rich white people” for the failures of the Chicago School System – the same “rich white people” who gradually left the inner city for the suburbs where schools were more responsive to the needs of their kids. The problem in Ms. Lewis’ mind is not that they left, it was that they took their tax money with them. Her suggestion to fix the issues – a progressive tax on Chicago’s higher earners.
All the way back in 2014, even as Lewis carried the same battle cry of inequality, she and her cronies began the institution of an academically questionable “Afro-centric” curriculum that seems to be designed to teach black superiority through fiction rather than history based on actual scholarship and in true Gramscian fashion, sought to institutionalize the teaching of something we all know too well today as “critical race theory”, a line of thought that racism is institutionalized in western society and “white privilege” is the primary cause of the oppression of people of color.
Often it has been said that unions are Marxist incubators – if that is true, our schools have become little more than Marxist maternity wards.