As some of you may know, I am a fan of word games, but not a fan of either the public schools or Critical Theory.
Scrabble, good. Marxism, bad. That's the big idea.
Imagine my dismay then at this Harris Rigby post at Not The Bee highlighting undercover reporting by Accuracy in Media, exposing public school teachers and administrators in Iowa and Tennessee openly admitting that recent legislation banning the teaching of CRT in their states basically is negated by their ability to modify their language while still communicating the core ideas and principles of CT, CRT, DEI, et cetera.
This sounds familiar. It almost reminds me of some concerns I've raised about authors of church leadership books seeming to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusivity, the patriarchy, and so-called toxic masculinity without using the specific terms which would trigger theological, social, and political conservative consumers.
But alas, it also reminds me of cautions I wrote into my own book on why my wife and I homeschool.
You see, it is not enough for parents to tell activist public schools that they don't want their kids being taught to experiment sexually with one another, or change their gender, or hate capitalism, or deconstruct their whiteness, or check their privilege, or throw out the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence. It's apparently not enough even to get laws written and passed forbidding the same.
As it turns out, the particular words sounds are not the really dangerous thing. It's the substance of the remarks and ideas which really matter.
Establishment Progressives grin wryly, therefore, resolving to keep on doing what by their own admissions they are true believers in: controlling what we and our children think, and telling us what to think without teaching us how to think rightly.
It reminds me of playing computer games when I was a kid and accidentally quick-saving right before my character fell off a cliff and died. Reloading my quick-save over and over yields the same result. And while funny, a winning strategy that is not.
The only way to win in such cases is to reload the save file from before the critical mistake which is going to invariably lead to losing again and again. And if you can't do that, perhaps you play a different game.
So also, it is not enough to tell public schools not to teach CRT and Gender Theory. Reload the save file from before our children were being taught to regard the State as their god and father and mother.
Don't think you're smart enough? Don't feel like you've got what it takes? Remember where it is that you got your schooling. And if, as the statistics would suggest, you got your education in the public schools, why would you want your kids to get theirs from the same place when you're not so sure you got a good one there?
Bear in mind how we got to the point we're at now where our economy is in shambles and society is being ruined, where free speech is under constant assault, and both mothers and fathers are expected to work outside the home in order to barely make ends meet.
At a certain point we have to do the long-game cost-benefit. At a certain point we have to actually do the thing the Left has for so-long hijacked in word only to justify their irresponsibility, only this time for reals. We have to get our kids out of these Leftist indoctrination centers known as public schools.
