My experience with young children and college student is different than yours. We stereotype young children as being dumb and naive, but starting around 3rd or

My experience with young children and college student is different than yours. We stereotype young children as being dumb and naive, but starting around 3rd or 4th grade, they're pretty smart. They just know less. It's around teenage years that they become arrogant and impressionable. Woke started as a college student phenomenon. The way you continue to develop critical thinking skills is by having those difficult discussions. But that's beside the point. If you want smart, competent, thoughtful teachers, we need to start giving room for people who are smart, competent, and thoughtful in the profession. Most of the teachers in my local school district are idiots, and that's in part because of how the district treats them. I'd love to teach, but not there. What happens when teachers indoctrinate students? That's already happening. School districts are grounded in municipal politics, and my local curriculum is grounded in ideology and doctrine. Teachers don't want to diverge from that, but if they wanted to, they couldn't. It's not clear top-down indoctrination is any better than bottom-up. In other words, I'm not sure your proposed solution addresses the problem.