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> As a kid, I was interested in woodworking, cars, engines, even electricity, but the teachers had us coloring world maps? Wait until you read this [0] [1] [0

> As a kid, I was interested in woodworking, cars, engines, even electricity, but the teachers had us coloring world maps? Wait until you read this [0] [1] [0] https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-elites https://www.city-journal.org/the-miseducation-of-americas-el... [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-course-outlines-prompt-conversations-about-identity-race-in-seattle-classrooms-even-in-math/ https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/new-course-outlin...

a_t48 6y ago
Care to give a little bit more context?
xxpor 6y ago
As Matt Yglesias put it, the first article makes 0 sense. If they don't like what the school is teaching them, pull their kids out! Isn't that the whole point of private school? It's a choice to go there.
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- spazrunaway 6y ago
  As if they're not teaching the same things in public schools. And it's sort of frustrating that the woke teach actively fighting supposed oppression in every institution, every workplace, every household, and really every imaginable part of life in order to be an 'ally', lest your 'white silence' and complicity encourage 'violence'...and the rest of us are told that if we don't like something, we should just shut up and avoid it.
  - xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
    They aren't teaching the same things in public schools. (I doubt they're teaching them in that prep school, either, but I haven't looked into it.)
  - 8note 6y ago
    That's got nothing to do with whether a school teaches carpentry? If you want to teach your children to be racist, you'll probably have to do it yourself. You could maybe sign them up to volunteer with the kkk?
    - spazrunaway 6y ago
      Oh, I think they'll be plenty racist after their K-12 education.
jbroson 6y ago
It's amazing how conservatives write love letters about the "free market" but despise absolutely anyone in this "free market" who do not follow conservative orthodoxy. It's a PRIVATE SCHOOL! Send your kids elsewhere if they don't teach the kids enough Ayn Rand and Michelle Malkin! None of these conservatives seemed to give a shit 15 years ago when rural PUBLIC schools like mine were teaching anti-science creationism, or historical revisionism in the Lost Cause/Civil War apologia. Many were shrieking their heads off if their kids weren't taught such utter bullshit.

a_t48 6y ago

Care to give a little bit more context?

xxpor 6y ago

As Matt Yglesias put it, the first article makes 0 sense. If they don't like what the school is teaching them, pull their kids out! Isn't that the whole point of private school? It's a choice to go there.

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spazrunaway 6y ago
As if they're not teaching the same things in public schools. And it's sort of frustrating that the woke teach actively fighting supposed oppression in every institution, every workplace, every household, and really every imaginable part of life in order to be an 'ally', lest your 'white silence' and complicity encourage 'violence'...and the rest of us are told that if we don't like something, we should just shut up and avoid it.
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
  They aren't teaching the same things in public schools. (I doubt they're teaching them in that prep school, either, but I haven't looked into it.)
- 8note 6y ago
  That's got nothing to do with whether a school teaches carpentry? If you want to teach your children to be racist, you'll probably have to do it yourself. You could maybe sign them up to volunteer with the kkk?
  - spazrunaway 6y ago
    Oh, I think they'll be plenty racist after their K-12 education.

jbroson 6y ago

It's amazing how conservatives write love letters about the "free market" but despise absolutely anyone in this "free market" who do not follow conservative orthodoxy. It's a PRIVATE SCHOOL! Send your kids elsewhere if they don't teach the kids enough Ayn Rand and Michelle Malkin! None of these conservatives seemed to give a shit 15 years ago when rural PUBLIC schools like mine were teaching anti-science creationism, or historical revisionism in the Lost Cause/Civil War apologia. Many were shrieking their heads off if their kids weren't taught such utter bullshit.