Government-run education, like everything else with that designation, wastes vast sums of money for negligible output. And cutting corners is a no-go if it means fewer union teachers, no matter what the cuts.
So, spending gets out of hand quickly and annually. If you dared ask for austerity on any front, the Left would say you wanted to end sports, chorus, band, or extracurricular activity. Given that the institution’s original purpose was to teach math, reading, and a bit of history, these are likely targets. Intangibles. But, “How dare you,” to borrow from not-so-muppet Greta Thunberg, take away the things that round out future generations.
And it works.
The budget is saved, as are the union jobs, as scholarly output continues to decline. But a School Director in Washington State has taken a different approach. It is looking to cut its budget, but one director has flipped the narrative. He has targeted a once-blessed music program for the cutting block because he says it could “inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence.”
He does not mean violence by so-called under-represented minorities trapped in Democrat-Run cities rebelling at the advice of their progressive masters.
“We’re a school district that lives in … is entrenched in … is surrounded by white supremacy culture. And that’s a real thing,” Clifthorne told parents.
“There’s nothing about strings or wind instrumental music that is intrinsically white supremacist,” he said. “However, the ways in which it is and the ways in which all of our institutions, not just schools — local government, state government, churches or neighborhoods — inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community.”
Put another way, when the mismanagement inherent in socialist systems becomes untenable, and you have no choice but to cut, label something as racist, and it would be racist to object to its excision.
“This is actually par for the course. The issue is we are having such a catastrophic budget crisis right now that they’re having to cut programs. And so what has happened is this program has been deemed ‘inequitable.’ And in a previous comment, the director of elementary education stated that not only is this program ‘inequitable,’ but when she heard the word ‘tradition of excellence,’ which was used to describe our music programs, she said that the word ‘tradition’ actually translated to her to mean systemic discrimination.”
Again, not new. With math and reading scores in decline, the solution from the ed experts is to label them as examples of discrimination or inequity. It is the high-minded white culture of European colonialists forced on students of color (for example). It has become the go-to excuse of those unable to do anything but waste other people’s money on the only thing they care about – indoctrination.
We see the example of this process in Democrat-Run cities crowded with minorities forced to do with less, surrounded by more crime, despite being shepherded for decades by Democrats committed to their welfare and safety.
Right is Left, Down is Up, forward is backward.
But don’t socialist societies need intellectually agile minds to do great things for the People’s Government? No worries. The children of wealthy or connected progressive party members continue to attend private schools, top-rated secondary schools, and institutions of higher learning. These elites of the future (the American aristocracy) will manage the dolts whose fate was decided by their forefathers to ensure a two-class communist society Democrat-socialism. Rulers and workers.
The children of elites learn math and how to read and write despite its white racist roots. They will participate in music and culture (regardless of the inequity and discrimination); travel in fuel-powered cars and jets and eat protein-rich meats (that are killing the planet); and accumulate and manage whatever is left of value even though being rich has always been the biggest sin of all.
Warm, housed, and protected by people with guns.
It is called Liberal Privilege, and as we descend Marx’s slippery slope, it will be invoked for everything we once had that only they can get. That is because the Middle Class the Left has long said it supports and protects is more white supremacy, and the truth behind the equity and inclusion movement will finally be realized. When they said we all deserved to be included and equal, they meant in misery, and they never meant to join us.
Fourth Graders losing out on music lessons might seem trivial, but it used to be a sacred cow. A few years along, and it’s systemic racism. Not because it is but because it needs to be. A label they will place on anything their system can no longer sustain, including transportation, clean water, electricity, clothing, and even food, EBT, affirmative action, and human rights.
The ruling apparatus and its infrastructure inevitably consume everything, and the government is the only thing worth saving.
HT | Daily Wire
