What Parents Want vs. What Eduper ators Push
Categories: US Education News
The latest Pew poll finds that an overwhelming majority of both whites and nonwhites say “academic achievement matters more than race” (“Americans for Merit-Based Admissions,” Review & Outlook, April 29). Meanwhile, our primary schools teach the opposite. The best illustration of the divergence between parents’ expectations and the education establishment’s actions is in California. A group designated by California’s Education Department came up in 2019 with the first draft of the Ethnic Studies Curriculum (ESC). It was roundly rejected for its ideological and anti-Semitic content expressed in an unprofessional jargon. The second draft, in 2020, wasn’t much better. Finally, the third draft, in 2021, had some improvements. Still, it remains divisive and tendentious, presenting America as frozen in the slavery years and abusive of minorities who have never experienced any meaningful betterment. Nowadays, a collective of educators called Liberated is promoting the ESC’s first draft. The group even managed to convince the University of California conglomerate to consider making its version of the ESC a prerequisite for admission. And thus, students will learn that America, the country of immigrants, which defeated fascism and communism, which has made tremendous progress in all spheres, is an oppressive monster. This march toward an educational abyss may be stopped only when the pro-merit majority finds its voice.