It can no longer be denied that America’s educational system is largely dominated by those that do not have the interests of the nation’s children at heart. The evidence is abundant and clear: substantial portions of the vast dollars that have been committed to our schools have been, essentially, misappropriated by those who have replaced learning with propaganda.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, In 2018, the United States spent $14,400 per full-time student on elementary and secondary education, an astounding 34 percent higher than the average of similar nations countries at $10,800 (in constant 2020 U.S. dollars). At the postsecondary level, America spent $35,100 per full time student, double the average $17,600 of other nations.
What did all those dollars achieve?
According to a Scientific American study, “On vital measures that predict later success in school and life, small children in the U.S. do worse than kids in comparable countries.”
Older groups fared poorly, as well. An analysis in The Balance revealed that “The Program for International Student Assessment tests 15-year-old students around the world and is administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In 2018, when the test was last administered, the U.S. placed 11th out of 79 countries in science. It did much worse in math, ranking 30th.The U.S. scored 478 in math, below the OECD average of 489. That’s well below the scores of the top five, all of which were in Asia: Singapore at 569, Macao at 555, Hong Kong at 551, Taiwan at 531, and Japan at 527. “
Since academic achievement is lacking, what are those abundant funds being spent on?
Just a very few examples:
A Manhattan Institute study reports that “Something peculiar is spreading throughout America’s schools. A public school system just outside the nation’s capital spent $20,000 to be lectured about making their schools less racist. At a tony New York City prep school, a teacher was publicly denounced by the administration for questioning the idea that students should identify themselves in terms of their racial identity. Educators in California are locked in pitched combat over a statewide model curriculum overflowing with terms like “hxrstories” and “cisheteropatriarchy.”
The Daily Mail found that a School board director in Washington state is planning to hold workshop to teach children as young as nine about “sexual anatomy for pleasure” The publication also noted that a Woke California school board member called for people to “boycott the Fourth of July because there is no reason to celebrate.”
The New York Post found that elite NYC private schools “are teaching kids that American society must be destroyed.”
A Heritage examination disclosed that “New Jersey’s Department of Education will be teaching young children in 2nd grade to ponder their ‘gender identity.’”
The Federalist notes that “public schools routinely use left-leaning or ‘woke’ materials while quietly doing away with older materials that encourage American patriotism, Western civilization, and Judeo-Christian values. In English class, this means replacing “Hamlet” and “The Scarlet Letter” with ‘The Hate U Give,’ a novel based on themes from the Black Lives Matter movement, and ‘Symptoms of Being Human,’ a novel about a gender-fluid punk rocker who blogs about his insecurities.”
The Hill reveals that “A radical progressive political agenda has replaced the pursuit of truth and objectivity in our nation’s classrooms…At New Trier High School, a public school in Winnetka, Illinois, students were subjected in 2017 to an ‘All-School Seminar Day’… chock-full of race-baiting discussion topics, left-wing speakers, and one-sided, indoctrinating ideologies.”
It would be an error to view this issue as political, the anger of moderates and conservatives at the extremist Progressive dogma being foisted on students, or as a reflection of parental anger at the usurpation of their rights to address highly personal issues such as sexuality to their children.
It is, in fact, something far simpler. It is the outright theft of taxpayer and parental tuition funds for partisan purposes. Legally, it can be described as the embezzlement of education dollars to push partisan leftist ideas.
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