Turning Point USA turns its attention to elementary-schoolers

[Nevilledog]

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/turning-point-usa-turns-its-attention-elementary-schoolers

A decade ago, Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA, whose stated intent is playing “offense with a sense of urgency to win America’s culture war” on high school and college campuses. Now, the organization has turned its attention to an even younger demographic, announcing the launch of Turning Point Academy, a supposedly anti-“woke” “educational movement” curriculum which aims to bring conservative values and right-wing talking points into elementary and high school classrooms.

Recent TPUSA campaigns, which feature at least one K-12 school and incentives for young people to attend the organization's annual conference, come amid a broader political landscape in which right-wing media and political figures, including Kirk and others associated with TPUSA, have been lobbing false accusations that Democrats are forcing a “woke” agenda on children that amounts to sexual grooming.

On June 7, TPUSA put out a press release announcing that it would be opening its first “brick and mortar” school, Turning Point Academy, in collaboration with Dream City Christian Schools in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. According to the release, “Dream City Christian, a Turning Point Academy,” is the first in a “growing network of schools” that will incorporate the curriculum and structure designed by TPUSA and Kirk.

This curriculum attempts to undermine what right-wing figures have identified as threats to conservative education. Rather than arguing that this educational project is apolitical, as other right-wing figures have, Turning Point Academy is proud to announce that it is “Christian, Classical, conservative, church-based and cost-affordable.” Turning Point Academy assures parents that “CRT, postmodernism, ‘Wokeism,’ deconstructionism, queer theory, radical LGBT agendas, and anti-American ideas such as the 1619 project will have no place at our institution” and promises “to never waver from the truth and to teach self-government and liberty to students.”

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Indoctrination.

[reymega life]

1. reminds me of child soldiers in Liberia and Congo and REWANDA

[CurtEastPoint]

2. man, talk about GROOMERS. GDMFSOBs

[Caliman73]

3. There is Education, then there is "Conservative education"

One is founded in academic rigor and research by experts in various fields who go through the peer review process and the most consistent and accurate standards that are known to humans, the other is "Conservative education".

Conservatives see Education as indoctrination. They see it as "liberalism" being forced onto people and that Conservative education is just an equal but opposing viewpoint. This is where they are wrong, not about the opposing aspect, but the "equal" aspect. There is no valid idea behind Conservatism.

[Initech]

4. I really wish school admins would keep this POS off their campuses.

[keep_left]

5. Charlie Kirk is a college dropout. It baffles the mind that anyone would consider...

...Kirk or his ridiculous "think" tank to be any kind of solution to the nation's educational woes.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk