How much are our schools influencing the politics in America?

Are the Universities destroying America by injecting politics of the far left into their scholastic endeavors?  Over the years academia has moved solidly to the left.  It reminds me of Nikita Khrushchev’s statement that “they the Communists will take over America without firing a shot.”  How far from the truth is that statement?  The left has totally taken over the news media, the universities and the unions in America.  They shape the minds of our youth and when one of them denounces this they chastise the accuser.  We send our children off to be educated not indoctrinated, yet these, in many cases State run organizations continually warp the minds of their students.  Professors like Ward Churchill of Colorado who because of tenure have continued to expound their hate for the American system.  Thankfully Churchill was finally dumped after years of the damaging brainwashing he administered to his students. 

A teacher can have a preference in politics, no one can or should deny their right to an opinion but their opinion and their politics should stay out of their curriculum.  The youth of America have the right to build their own consensus in regards to politics.  In the 50’s and 60’s it was the strong desire of parents that their children would have an opportunity for a better education than they did.  Many gave up their life’s pleasures to afford this for their children and sadly watched as the likes of the Weather Underground and other campus radicals took over the academic leadership in the schools of the United States.

There is a solution to this problem and it lies in the State supported institutions all across the country.  As with all government agencies the only way to stop their influence is to cut off their funding.  The schools themselves will eventually get the message and cleanse themselves of the radical element.  The key is to elect legislators from within your community who have the courage to attack this problem and fight for real educational reform from kindergarten up.  Politics do not belong in elementary, middle, or high schools and should be limited to political science classes in college.  Just how nice would it be to see a school that concentrated on the 3 R’s rather than things like Johnny has two Daddy’s?   There are two things that do not belong in our schools;  Political Correctness for one and extreme sex education other than hygiene.  The thing that needs to be brought back to schools is God and discipline.  It wouldn’t be bad to throw in a little patriotism too.

This notion that it’s the community’s responsibility to raise your children is the problem with society today, if you are old enough and man or woman enough to have children then be grown up enough to take responsibility for their upbringing.  Children need structure and that is what should be provided by the parents.  Teachers are not babysitters and proxy parents, they are there to teach reading, writing and arithmetic, morality, commonsense and behavior should come from the home.     

That’s my opinion, what’s yours?