Aspen Ideas
When It Comes to Education, Do Parents Know Best?
Aspen Institute, 2022
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When culture wars enter the classroom, parents are the foot soldiers, and children and teachers are the casualties.
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The 2021 concern over critical race theory (CRT) wasn’t the first time Americans fought their cultural wars in the classroom, and it certainly wasn’t the first time greater conflicts concerning racism were enacted in the classroom. The CRT scare was in reaction to two upheavals: the murder of George Floyd had started another national conversation about racism, and parents were already frustrated with the school system because of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. During this session of the 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival, a panel of parents and educators discuss the most recent incarnation of culture wars in the classroom.
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About the Speaker
This session of the 2022 Aspen Ideas Festival includes host Jane Coaston, of The Argument podcast, and panelists Renee DiResta, the technical research manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory and mother of three; David French, senior editor of The Dispatch, former attorney arguing religious liberty cases in schools and father of three; and Esau McCaulley, professor of religion at Wheaton College, contributing writer for The New York Times and father of four.
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That's partially because conservatives tend to have more children on average. Liberals and progressives don't want to have children, they'd rather abort them, become teachers, and then convince the conservative parents' children that they can be the opposite gender. Dear reader, can they do that? And do you think abortion is bad, good, a necessary evil, or a constitutional right?
Conservatives didn't construct parent's rights, they uphold them.
"Generally, when parents fight over what’s taught in school, it’s because they want teaching that replicates their own beliefs, so it’s “reading, writing and more of me.”"
Schools are for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. I agree. I think parents are tired of the government trying to teach ethics. Less than 25% of people on average trust the federal government, according to a study done by Pew Research. Why are we trusting the government, federal or local, to decide what kids should believe?
Yes, parents want their children to believe as they do. To the childless, this might be a bit surprising, but if you believe something to be true, and you believe that your child will be happier for it, you try your best to not let others take that away from them.
Ethics are really the job of the parents. Then again, with fatherlessness so high, it won't be easy to teach it to the next generation.
I never comment, but I was so astounded as this article being rated a 10/10 that I couldn't help but point out its obvious flaws. Whoever you are, thanks for reading. I love you, no matter where you are or what you've done. Listen to your parents, they love you and know better than you. Be humble, it'll make you kind.