A Conservative View on Brainwashing in Public Schools
Can you imagine a video of grade school children singing Obama’s campaign slogans during the last presidential campaign? Even after the election, we see more evidences where teachers in public schools are brainwashing our youth with liberal messages. We have seen many examples that this brainwashing is happening, from young children being embarrassed in front of their friends when saying something conservative, to college students fearing their grades will be lowered if they dare to state a conservative concern.
To illustrate, before the election, a public school teacher asked her class to wear blue to support Obama on the Tuesday prior to the election. Since she did not ask Republican children to wear Red for McCain, she had no right to do this.
The most shocking, on the news of 10/7/08, a militant-looking group of middle school boys were shown on another video, dressed in black uniforms with an Obama logo on their shirts. They were doing a military-like exercise of marching while displaying clinched fists and other confrontational gestures, and singing praises to Obama. There was an Obama sign in the background. They obviously had practiced this routine many times, all this done in a public school, using class time, and the services of a teacher with salary paid for by taxpayers. Apparently, the American public never objected using their taxes for this purposes.
Indoctrination America’s young people in liberalism without allowing the conservative aspect to be presented should be the number the one educational issue in America today. How so? Because we are forgetting the lessons of the past. Think of Hitler’s Youth. At the age of ten, boys were initiated into Hitler’s Youth for education in bodily and martial arts. Hating Jews and the superiority of the Germanic race was Hitler’s goals, and the boys were taught to detect and tell any questionable behavior of their parents, which often resulted in the German Gestapo arresting their parents. Schoolgirls had similar training. This youthful programming was successful. The backbone of the German Army in World War II consisted of Hitler’s Youth, a compliant army who could not think for themselves, and who did not question what they had been taught.
Obama is not, however, the main point I am stressing in this educational problem. Obama’s campaign just gave prime examples of indoctrination.
Why am I concerned? Viewpoints of liberal philosophy are presented over that of the conservative values more and more often, resulting in that children in America are taught one side only, usually that of the liberals. Out of control political correctness is a fundamental element of liberal indoctrination. Students who have the courage to state the conservative side of an issue are branded with names like sexists, homophobes, or racists. Conservative students not only face humiliation before their peers, but they also now have a label that can be very damaging. Students usually just keep quiet rather than face this type of censure.
It is of extreme importance that all sides of ideology are taught in the classroom. Conservative taxpayers must become informed of any kind of one-sided dogma taught without other side’s also being taught, if done in public schools with public funds.
From preschool through state supported colleges and universities, Conservatives must become more involved in what our schools are teaching. Brainwashing just the liberal side of an issue in public schools must stop. Please give me your opinion on this timely educational matter.