Sunday, February 5, 2023

Conservatives angry about school ‘indoctrination’ are telling on themselves

Moral panics happen because political entrepreneurs want to spread panic… 

Good teachers will assist students with how to think through issues; they don't tell them what to think about issues. It is telling that some conservative crusaders – with an obvious tendency to project their own approach on to others – cannot conceive of teaching this way. To them, education is a weapon; content is not to be debated, but imposed. It is one thing to find fault with the specifics of the "western civ"-style curricula that DeSantis cadres want to do; it's another to point out that the very approach is a continuation of Trump's unprofessional 1776 Commission, which can only see history as a patriotic confidence-booster and, indeed, indoctrination…


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