No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills

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Andrew L. Seidel
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Banning books, "don't say gay," attacking CRT and trans students... "These bills are awful and rightly vilified for their anti-equality, anti-reality, anti-education goals. But that last goal is far larger than most people realize."

No More Pencils, No More Books: The Ultimate Goal of All Those Anti-Education Bills That Nobody's...
There’s an important element missing in our national conversation about the flood of legislation attacking critical race theory, banning books, muzzling teachers, and opening public schools to legal...
religiondispatches.org
10:33 AM · Mar 8, 2022

https://religiondispatches.org/no-more-pencils-no-more-books-the-ultimate-goal-of-all-the-anti-education-bills-that-nobodys-talking-about/

There’s an important element missing in our national conversation about the flood of legislation attacking critical race theory, banning books, muzzling teachers, and opening public schools to legal liability for teaching about the realities of race in America and American history.

More than half the state legislatures have introduced or passed bans on critical race theory, which the supporters are adamantly against even if they cannot explain the first thing about it. (Please read Robert Jones’ skewering of one such proposal in Florida which makes it illegal for public schools to cause “discomfort” to white men.) We’ve seen the revival of the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” proposals, also in Florida. In Tennessee, Pulitzer-prize winning Holocaust novel Maus has been banned, quite a story to break on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

These bills are awful and rightly vilified for their anti-equality, anti-reality, anti-education goals. But that last goal is far larger than most people realize.

One anti-education goal is to create such uncertainty about rules and potential lawsuits that it scares teachers and administrators away from the subjects. This is part of an old playbook. Among the many tactics used to undermine the teaching of evolution in our public schools was to make it miserable on science teachers who dared educate children about this fact so that, whatever the Supreme Court might decide (and nowadays there’s little guarantee the court would do the right thing), teachers simply avoided the subject to make their lives easier.

It worked.

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I think the big picture is to get rid of public education all together.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. When I think of the slop we were brainwashed with, who knew it could get far worse?

[LiberatedUSA]

2. "We don't need no education...

…we don’t need no, thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone!”

[ret5hd]

3. Madrasa. The word they are looking for is madrasa.

[CousinIT]

4. "the big picture is to get rid of public education all together"

That's fact. Koch Bros among evangelicals and many others want public schools and Dept of Ed (along with EPA) abolished.

[crickets]

5. 👆👆

[Hestia]

6. as they troll money from gov't's to do it - they own refineries, paper products and other

manufacturing that have no competitors