August 17, 2024
Madeline Peltz: Heritage president details MAGA plans to remake education: “America’s teachers have gone insane”
Published by Peter Greene
Media Matters has a copy of the book written by Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts. The book’s publication has been delayed until after the election in November. The chapter on education is particularly stunning, as Madeline Peltz reports.
“A revolution in American education has begun,” Roberts threatens, before later specifying the scope of his vision: “We don’t merely seek an exit from the system; we are coming for the curriculums and classrooms of the remaining public schools, too.”
Roberts begins the book’s education chapter with a warning: “I’ll state it extra clearly for the FBI: I am a parental rights extremist.” Presumably he is referring to the false right-wing media narrative that the FBI is targeting conservative parents who show up to and complain about policies at school board meetings. (This is not an accurate understanding of the way that the FBI tracks threats across the country — in this case, those made against school employees — and the bureau explicitly stated that it “has never been in the business of investigating parents who speak out or policing speech at school board meetings, and we are not going to start now.”)
The Heritage president then goes on to attack teachers (emphasis added):
The current educational crisis does not really arise from a fundamental disagreement about rights, about whether a parent or a teacher should educate a child. In a healthy society, it would be both. The problem is that our schools have been transformed from institutions designed to cultivate children’s souls into godless assembly lines meant to shape obedient little comrades who think morality is a construct and nature is an illusion.
Right now, parents’ rights must be jealously guarded because America’s teachers have gone insane. The reason many parents are having to reassert their rights is that teachers are trying to enforce a truly radical agenda, one that assumes that reality is a social construct.
Roberts repeatedly describes this “radical agenda” of America’s teachers in paranoid, conspiratorial terms.
“It might seem to average American parents as though our current educational environment is a passing fad,” he writes. “In fact, it’s the result of a hundred years of plotting by progressives who want to create generations of obedient drones.”
Teachers are shaping their students into “ideal cogs in a globalist, Uniparty economic system,” the Heritage Foundation president warns, later adding that “the various educational factions of the Party of Destruction” are seeking “to replace parents, to replace the tradition parents are trying to hand on with a very different one, like a cuckoo kicking another bird’s babies out of the nest to replace them with its own.”
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