A Terrible Role Model - and it is a true story we are now living!!
We are justifiably concerned, even alarmed, by the lessons being taught to our children in K-12 schools. Parents and many teachers have raised the alarm and are marshalling resources to fight back against the indoctrination proliferating in the name of Critical Race Theory in its obvious manifestations and its subtle but no less sinister guises.
Left unchecked and unrebutted a disaster will ensue that will eventually corrode the fundamentals of our democracy. I propose we confront our adversaries in our educational institutions not merely by dismantling CRT as the invidious ideology that it is but in acknowledging our current educational crises as a cardinal opportunity. Now is the moment to have an open conversation on the purpose of education for our children. It is too important a task to be left to educators alone, as similarly, in a criminal trial, justice is best served by the verdict of a jury of peers, a cross section on the community whose combined intelligence and life experiences is preferred to any panel of experts from a solitary discipline.
The curriculum in the schools in question are not identical but all of them are more crowded every year. Drug education, conflict resolution, bullying activities, health and community building and now the omnipresent and noxious CRT. It is no wonder that insufficient attention is given to the study of economics. How my students graduate from grade 12 knowing what Peronism is and how Bernie Saunders and the progressive left are the progeny of Peron? How any are aware on the abundant wealth that Argentina enjoyed that was chiseled away beginning in 1902 an in what manner of policies and programs? How many know how Peronism ravished the countries wealth and the independence of its cowed citizenry and, how many are equipped to draw parallels between Argentina then and our United States today.
Peron built a sprawling welfare start to purchase future voter loyalty. He nationalized industries and used central government to drive industrialization on the Hitler and Stalin model.” Given his economic literacy we are not surprised that Pope Francis was influenced by Peron.”
Economic instruction needs to start early to ensure that students are well prepared for their adult roles as consumers, producers, investors, US citizens and global citizen. We don’t often think of it this way but a great grasp upon the principles of economics and the facts of economic history constitute our best defense against the idiocy of imitating Peron and repeating the failure of Argentina. It is the best preventative medicine to avoid succumbing to the siren song played by the corporate media and their servants in political office. this is our opportunity to change education for the highest of purposes, an informed electorate and we take the first step by weaponizing the economic truths by which we will be set free to “pursue happiness along the lines of an enlightened capitalism.
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