Are You Woke to the State of Education in America?

Stolen Youth: The Ideological Capture of Children in American Schools

• The book "Stolen Youth" by Carol Markowitz discusses how the woke are targeting children for indoctrination and what parents can do about it.

• The left wants to remove boundaries of age-appropriateness and is teaching climate change fear and inappropriate behavior to young children.

• The drag queen Story Hour started with reading books but has now progressed to twerking and dancing.

• The spectacle of leftism is a big part of the indoctrination movement, where not only belief but also demonstration of belief is required.

• The movement is Soviet totalitarian authoritarian and is aimed at children.

• The K-12 Public School System is being destroyed by authoritarian doctrines that let bad teachers preach and keep good teachers silent.

• Pornographic books, specifically LGBT, are being allowed into classrooms and libraries under the guise of anti-homophobia.

• Wider issues of younger sexualization and pitching inappropriate ideas to children are also prevalent.

• The movement is a cultural revolution targeted at children, with captured teacher unions, teacher accreditation societies, and library associations.

• The movement is a wider issue of much younger sexualization and just pitching ideas to kids that are completely inappropriate.

• The movement is a hedonistic movement that aims to maximize short-term pleasure and demonize objections to their behavior as prejudice.

• The book suggests that open communication with children is the key to protecting them from anyone and laying a foundation at home is essential.Conservative Response to Leftist Indoctrination in Education

• The debate is about the appropriateness of children's literature, including sex education, in schools and libraries.

• Florida Governor DeSantis objects to the availability of books with graphic sexual content in elementary school libraries.

• The difficulty lies in defining the line between sexual education and pornography, and regulating what is shown to children without resorting to censorship.

• The empirical evidence for the effectiveness of sexual education in preventing teenage pregnancy is dismal.

• Conservative objections to sexual education outside the context of long-term committed relationships and marriages.

• The left seeks to remove age-appropriateness boundaries, including in sex education and climate change fear.

• The spectacle of leftism is a significant part of indoctrination.

• The conservative response to leftist indoctrination is inadequate because of the monopoly of faculties of education on teacher certification.

• The faculties of education are responsible for pathological educational fads that have little research support.

• Students in faculties of education are not necessarily the best and brightest, and faculties of education have never produced evidence that they make teachers better.

• Republicans have allowed the monopoly of the leftists to continue on teacher certification for over 50 years.

• There is a teacher shortage in many states, making it even more crucial to address the issue of teacher certification monopolies.The Monopoly of Teacher Certification and the Failure of Republicans in Education

• The monopoly on teacher certification has been granted to faculties of education, enabling the spread of woke ideologies in education.

• Republicans and conservatives are not doing enough to counter the spread of these ideologies in education.

• The way children are taught to read in America has been problematic, with a focus on memorizing whole words instead of phonetic learning.

• The faculties of education are responsible for implementing preposterously stupid theories, such as whole-word reading, that have been proven to be ineffective.

• The faculties of education are also responsible for the self-esteem movement, which has resulted in children becoming narcissistic instead of confident.

• The faculties of education have implemented numerous educational fads, such as social emotional learning, without any evidence of their effectiveness.

• Teachers colleges use Marxist books to teach teachers, resulting in teachers passing on critical theory to children unknowingly.

• The Republican party is blind to the cultural war being waged in education and is losing ground to the woke mobs.

• School choice through voucher programs is not enough to counter the spread of woke ideologies in education.

• The faculties of education should be abolished, and their monopoly on teacher certification should be revoked.

• Civic responsibility that is abdicated is taken up by tyrants, as seen in the takeover of school boards by woke radicals.

• Parents have a responsibility to get involved in their child's education and fight for their values and beliefs.The Importance of Fighting for Children's Education and Against Woke Culture in Schools

• Parents across the US have been running for school board positions to fight against the curriculum's woke culture, including critical race and gender theory being taught at a young age.

• The left has a 20-year head start on influencing school boards, but more moderate or right-of-center parents are now running to make a change.

• Republican politicians should encourage people to run for school board positions to fight back against the left's influence and win the culture war.

• The author's background as a journalist led her to write a book about the neglect of children's education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• During the pandemic, many parents were more concerned with their own children's education and safety than those of other children in their community.

• Children were uniquely targeted during the pandemic, being forced to wear masks despite low risk and being left behind in terms of education.

• The left has been using children as activists, marching for causes like climate change and gun control, making it impossible for adults to argue against them.

• Boys are being demoralized in school, being taught that their natural proclivity for boisterous activity is inappropriate and that their ambition is nothing but the manifestation of implicit tyrannical force.

• The demoralization of young men is widespread and hurting people in a deep way, leading to a lack of gainful employment, mature relationships, and sexual activity.

• The demoralization of boys and men is not just hurting them but is also hurting women as they are unable to find partners due to the lack of available men.

• The author has three children and believes that boys and girls are born different and should not be treated exactly the same.

• The goal is to treat boys and girls equally, but in the meantime, more needs to be done to support boys and their unique needs in education.