Big YES on all that, Zeltreise. Civics class has been replaced with crap like Transgender Studies.
The Big Leftist Push isn't new. In the Sixties, my Civics class was taught by a woman who sneered at the Goldwater campaign, telling me: "Recognize propaganda when you hear it." And yes, her voice had a definite sneer in it.
Goldwater was no Donald Trump (much less a Tolkien-style abolitionist) but he was the MAGA candidate of his day, and his pushing Constitutional restraint of government power was appalling to the person TEACHING CIVICS TO MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS. Sixty(ish) years ago. In Texas, not San Francisco.
A widely-quoted comment by Tolkien from a letter to his son:
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control, not whiskered men with bombs).
Very true! And as you surely know, the push to bring education under government control goes back even further in the US:
As president of the State Senate, Mann was instrumental in establishing the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837 during the height of Whig and Unitarian influence in the state. Appointed as the board's first secretary that year, he served until 1848 when he resigned to fill a vacant seat in Congress. On the board, Mann combined an evangelical fervor for the common school with adroit political skills to accomplish three objectives: (1) state collection of education data; (2) state adoption of textbooks through the establishment of state-approved school libraries in each district; and (3) state control of teacher preparation through the establishment of "Normal Schools" (teacher colleges). Although Mann did not invent the original "public" schools, he advocated state control of the very character and mission of "public" education, and laid the groundwork for greater governmental control. 25
Big YES on all that, Zeltreise. Civics class has been replaced with crap like Transgender Studies.
The Big Leftist Push isn't new. In the Sixties, my Civics class was taught by a woman who sneered at the Goldwater campaign, telling me: "Recognize propaganda when you hear it." And yes, her voice had a definite sneer in it.
Goldwater was no Donald Trump (much less a Tolkien-style abolitionist) but he was the MAGA candidate of his day, and his pushing Constitutional restraint of government power was appalling to the person TEACHING CIVICS TO MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS. Sixty(ish) years ago. In Texas, not San Francisco.
A widely-quoted comment by Tolkien from a letter to his son:
We had a mock election in my class. I was the only one who voted Goldwater. I was about 8 years old. Lol
Very true! And as you surely know, the push to bring education under government control goes back even further in the US:
https://www.mackinac.org/2035