Conservative parents said they’re looking to exit public schools after an anemic performance by right-leaning candidates in school board elections this week.

  • @Additional_Prune
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    1610 months ago

    Unfortunately, a lot of parents are in a far-right media bubble that tells them that public schools are teaching third graders about anal sex and trying to make every kid trans. And that any mention of racism is the dreaded CRT. The people with the money behind this propaganda want to eliminate public schools and put every American kid in a private Christian school.

    Here’s a pledge from a group of privately owned charter schools that RELY ON TAXPAYER MONEY. The head of the schools refuses to disclose his salary.

    I pledge to keep myself healthy in body, mind, and spirit, staying physically fit, mentally awake, and morally straight.

    I pledge to be truthful in all my works, guarding against the stains of falsehood from the fascination with experts, the temptation of vanity, the comfort of popular opinion and custom, the ease of equivocation and compromise, and from over-reliance on rational argument.

    I pledge to be virtuous in all my deeds, with the courage to exemplify faith in my beliefs, hope for a better future, and charity towards my neighbor – with prudence in new undertakings, with justice when called on to judge, with fortitude in the face of adversity, and with temperance toward temptation.

    I pledge to be obedient and loyal to those in authority, in my family, in my school, and in my community and country,

    So long as I shall live.

    The owner of these schools took a case all the way to the Supreme Court on the issue of whether he could require girls to wear skirts because girls are “fragile vessels.”

    https://newrepublic.com/article/171824/charter-school-north-carolina-requires-girls-wear-skirts

    https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/who-behind-attacks-educators-and-public-schools

    • @Something_Complex
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      710 months ago

      Omg ok ok ok ok that is or has to be a Cult .

      “and from over-reliance on rational argument.”