As I read the story (Herald, Dec. 1) about pipeline protesters demonstrating in Pagosa Springs, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. So many points could be raised, but I’ll focus on one – the left’s hijacking of taxpayer-funded public education, with Fort Lewis College being a prime example.
While attending Fort Lewis to earn a K-6 teaching license, I was alarmed at the anti-American rants of many professors.
The left-leaning curriculum to which I was subject could have just as easily been part of a program in Moscow or Beijing.
For example, in a foundations of education class, the emphasis was on the bigoted nature of Western civilization, with a heavy dose of multiculturalism and a textbook message of the superiority of Marxism over capitalism. A children’s literature class focused on the racist nature of American culture, with “social justice” posters on the walls, and of course, few American classics.
I could give many more examples, but suffice it to say it was indoctrination rather than education. By and large, this is how America’s teachers are indoctrinated to teach America’s children, from preschool through college.
Fast forward to the pipeline protests, which were organized by Fort Lewis College, with one professor taking center stage.
What business does a teacher, whose salary is paid by taxpayers, at a taxpayer-funded college, have to organize political protests many of those funding the institution would disagree with?
What right do publicly funded educational institutions have to indoctrinate America’s children with an ideology foreign to the principles upon which our nation was founded?
This is the great elephant in the room, not teacher-per-student ratio, or money, or days in class. The great threat to American education is that a philosophy subversive to our republic – the bulk of Common Core, by the way – is being shamelessly pumped into the minds of America’s youth, paid for by their parents and grandparents, many of whom would be aghast if they knew what their children were really learning.
Karen Edmonds
Bayfield
