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Education: anti-parents

SchoolhouseGeorge Will read US Sen. Ben Sasse’s new book.  A slice:

In the long-running rivalry between the realist and romantic views of human nature, Sasse is firmly with the former. This aligns him against those who believe that schooling should be “a substitute for parents” as life’s “defining formative institution.” In the progressive view of education with which the philosopher John Dewey imbued the United States’ primary and secondary schools, parents “with their supposedly petty interests in their children as individuals” are deemed retrograde influences, hindering schools’ mission of making malleable young people outfitted with the proper “social consciousness.” Schools should embrace the need of “controlling” students and “the influences by which they are controlled.” Parents must be marginalized lest they interfere with education understood, as Sasse witheringly says, as “not primarily about helping individuals, but rather about molding the collective.”

Once again, I have seen the attitude of teachers openly professing this view directly to parents at a School Board meeting.  Even when called out as “stepping over a line” (given that the parents are paying these employees who do not know their place), the teachers GLARED at those that dared to challenge their narrative.  End result: it was clear that the students knew better than the parents due to the ministrations of the teachers.

Teachers – thinking that they are no longer the employees of the body politic.  They are taught this in school (my daughter-in-law who just got her degree – she relayed that HER teacher said “don’t trust your parents”.

And they wonder why enrollments are down in government schools and parents are clamoring to get their children in the private or charter schools – or deciding the level of education their kids are receiving (more indoctrination than education?) deciding to homeschool.

(H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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