Why conservatives keep losing the education wars

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

"All of this has happened before, all of it will happen again."

Thus began the title sequence of the 2000s science fiction series Battlestar Galactica, which expressed the view of the show's Cylon androids that time is cyclical. Rather than progressing toward resolution, they believed, historical events follow a repetitive pattern.

Even without an android's philosophy of history, it's hard to escape that feeling about the education wars that periodically consume American politics. At least since the anti-communism of the postwar era, conservatives have accused public schools of indoctrinating children with left-wing dogma. Critical Race Theory is the target today. In the past, socialism, so-called secular humanism, and multiculturalism played the same role.

If accusations of indoctrination have a repetitive quality, so do the responses. Activists publicize questionable tendencies; education experts deny anything is wrong; usually placid school board or advisory council meetings degenerate into shouting and sometimes violence; politicians with large platforms but limited powers issue sweeping pronouncements about the future of the republic. Finally, state legislatures, which wield broad authority in such matters, prohibit certain curricula or materials and require others.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-conservatives-keep-losing-education-094610671.html

[rickyhall]

1. Conservatives depend on the ignorance of their followers.

[TheRealNorth]

2. This article seems like an excuse not to take the Cons seriously

We are still dealing with the decision to whitewash the Southern Confederacy. To think that these efforts to control what kids learn are not effective is ignorant at best.

In fact, at the end it seems to be making the argument that for Conservatives to be successful, they must purge and/or replace liberal educators with conservative ones.

[NEOBuckeye]

3. When you think you know all there is to know

You have no chance of “winning” anything in education.