Jane Robbins
About Jane Robbins
MUST READ: Solipsism, American Pre-K Style
The problem:
Progressive educators have long understood the importance of public schooling and the concept of the “hidden curriculum” in particular, the implicit messages and lessons a school inculcates. Everything that occurs in a school building communicates a philosophy to students. Who creates the curriculum and which books are chosen or excluded? What behavior is punished or rewarded? What student work or images are displayed throughout the building? Our schools form the philosophy of the next generation without any blue-haired ideologues ever needing to assign Kimerblé Crenshaw or Herbert Marcuse.
What’s on the contemporary hidden curriculum? “Action civics” has replaced history. Young adult fiction has replaced the classics. Student choice has replaced the curriculum. Free reign has replaced discipline. Media literacy has replaced literature.
The solution:
Rebuilding the core curriculum of our schools would provide our students with the guidance that popular culture and many adults refuse to provide. The mere existence of a curriculum implicitly communicates to students that there are things worth knowing, even if it doesn’t immediately interest them, that there are historical figures worth emulating, that the here and now is not all there is, and that there are things worthy of consideration beyond our mere passions and insular interests.
TOXIC TAX ABUSE IN AMERICA But no matter how much money the government has already wasted, politicians demand even more. Spender-in-Chief Joe Biden is now proposing universal free lunches for students.
Government grifting needs to be reined in.
Most recently, a veteran editor resigned from NPR after being suspended without pay for writing an essay that exposed the left-wing bias of the public radio network. Uri Berliner, a 25-year employee, stated, “It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.”
DEI DUMBS DOWN A FORMERLY GREAT SCHOOL: Thomas Jefferson High School Drops Out of Top 10 Nationwide After Adopting “Equity” Admissions Policy
GEE, DO YA THINK: Report: American Colleges Failing to Fight Antisemitism
CHINA IS ENGAGED IN WEAPONZED EMIGRATION, WEAPONIZED LAND PURCHASES IN THE U.S., WEAPONIZED DRUG PRODUCTION AND EXPORTATION, WEAPONIZED DISEASE PRODUCTION, WEAPONIZED ESPIONAGE, AND NOW WEAPONIZED EDUCATION: Florida Warns Schools Against Using China-Linked Tutoring Service
WHILE IT’S TRUE THAT THE LEFT EATS ITS OWN, THE WEIRD THING IS THAT THE LEFT CONTINUES TO GROW. Figure that one out: ‘The Left Is Eating Its Own’: An ‘Intersectional’ Atomic Bomb Hit A Local Public School In Amherst
THIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Here’s How Much Biden’s Newest Student Loan Giveaway Would Cost Taxpayers
PRETTY SURE THIS KIND OF THING IS NOT BEING TAUGHT IN CHINESE SCHOOLS. #JustWalkAway. Seriously, what choice do you have? Mandatory queer indoctrination at school causes huge uproar
ALAS, THERE ARE NO MORE LIKE HIM: John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
GET RID OF HER, THEN GET RID OF THE JOB: DEI Official at UCLA School of Medicine Accused of Plagiarism
THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CANNOT BE SAVED. Period. And you are a fool if you think they can be reformed: Controversy over First Grade Gender Pronoun Lesson
BECAUSE YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT EVIL. Note the emphasis on the “true” history versus what his taught or not taught now: Why We Must Teach the True History of Communism
THIS IS CLEARLY BETTER THIS THAN THE ALTERNATIVE, BUT EVEN BETTER THAN THIS IS ABOLISHING THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM. You might say, “well, that’s impossible.” No, it’s not for you and your children. All you need to do is #JustWalkAway: Iowa Lawmakers Revive Focus on ‘Western Civilization’
HAVE THE COURAGE TO DEFEND YOUR CHILDREN FROM LEFT-WING GOVERNMENT TEACHERS. #JustWalkAway: Elementary school district defends teaching kids lesson on made-up pronouns
THAT’S BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE ABOUT INDOCTRINATION AND NOT EDUCATION: Biden’s Education Spending Puts Critical Race Theory Over Real Learning
LIBERALISM (BY WHICH I MEAN 20TH-CENTURY “LIBERALISM,” WHICH REALLY IS JUST NIHILISM [THE MEANS] + SOCIALISM [THE END]) IS A SUICIDE CULT: UC Davis Requires Surgical Oncologists To Submit DEI Statements
NOT YOUR FATHER’S UNIVERSITY: ‘Transgender Archeology’ PhDs And Degrees In ‘Magic’ Being Funded With Taxpayer Money
ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Biden’s education secretary vows to shut down the largest Christian university in the US
THIS IS WHAT SYSTEMIC RACISM LOOKS LIKE: CUNY prof says O.J. Simpson was guilty, but his acquittal was ‘necessary’ in a ‘racist legal system.’
HE KNOW DOUBT LEARNED HIS ANTI-SEMITISM FROM SOME OF HIS PROFESSORS: Former Cornell student pleads guilty to threatening to shoot Jewish students.