If you ask about the purpose of American education in the past few generations, the answer is likely to be predictable.
You will be told that quality education is about imparting basic skills and experience so that the next generation will not only have the opportunity to go to university and find a good job, but also get critical thinking about themselves, their community and the world. These foundations are not only essential for effective citizenship, but also essential for living a full and prosperous life.
However, the era and goals of public education in California and Los Angeles have changed, and the priorities of public theorists and false educators (such as the president of the Los Angeles United Teachers Association, Cecily Myatt-Cruz) have also changed.
For Myart-Cruz, acquiring basic skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics, as well as collaborative experience that can only be gained through interaction with classmates, is not as important as turning children into tools for infantry and left-wing social protest.
When asked about the potential learning loss that students would suffer as a result of their decision to close the school, Myart-Cruz replied The most recent interview for Los Angeles Magazine That: “Our babies may not have learned all their schedules, that’s okay. They learned resilience. They learned to survive… They know the difference between riots and protests. They know the words uprising and coup.”
Never mind that public schools should not be used as indoctrination camps, or Myart-Cruz itself is responsible for prolonged and unreasonable school closures, which require students to learn these “survival” skills.
Not because of any exaggerated dangers of COVID-19 to children, but because of the closure itself, which has caused immeasurable losses to thousands of LAUSD students.
This includes a surge in childhood depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and attempts, physical illness, and drug abuse and addiction.
If these closures are based on the desire to truly protect the health and safety of teachers and students, it will be one thing. But as revealed by several recent lawsuits, Myart-Cruz’s efforts to close LAUSD schools were actually based on an ideological agenda, which left district officials confused and asked in essence: “This is related to COVID-19. what is the relationship? ?”
These agenda items include canceling funding for campus police, boycotting Israel, and promoting academically questionable topics such as “critical race theory”, universal health care, “millionaire tax”, public financial support for illegal immigrants, and resettlement of homelessness. Returnees, renting and eviction relief, and many other issues Absolutely not Related to improving the quality of student education.
The fact is that UTLA, led by Cecily Myart-Cruz, is no longer a public union. Its mission is to advocate better wages, working hours and working conditions.
On the contrary, it has become a “social justice” organization that is more concerned with promoting the Marxist ideology aimed at destroying the most prosperous and fairest society in the history of the world is replaced by a customized version of utopia, these utopias are affected by the politics of resentment .
The framework is contained in such as “Race Justice in the Educational Resource Guide”, Provided by the National Education Association, which regards the existence of “systematic racism” as an indisputable fact, and continues to argue that public teachers must accept (and pass on to students) the notion that American society is inherently racist, Even questioning the assumption of critical racial theory is racism, white people will make you inherently oppressive.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream ends here, so that individuals should not be “judged by their skin color, but by the content of their character.”
At the same time, neo-Marxists lamented the imaginary power structure while retaining their own power structure. “You can recall the governor. You can recall the school board,” Myart-Cruz boasted. “But how do you think of me?”
Such a person is immersed in his own authority and righteous intentions, and is the person you least want to have power. Especially the education of 600,000 students can be controlled.
Although many UTLA members may support classifying students based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and other characteristics, and teach them to hate or doubt anyone who is not in the group to which they are assigned, it is equally possible that many teachers would rather focus on Focus on Actual educator Rather than promoters of radicals like Myart-Cruz, for them “(e) education is political.”
For most families with children who seek education through LAUSD, education is by no means political. This is about teaching our children how to think independently, rather than dragging the party line.
The only question is how long it takes for the principled educators and affected families in Los Angeles to let Myart-Cruz and her cronies be numbed by hatred, so that they turn a blind eye to the harm they cause to the next generation and pretend Represent their interests.
Timothy R. Snowball is a litigation lawyer for the Liberty Foundation.
