Woke

The End of WOKE?

“Woke” is a shorthand expression that encompasses the radical ideas of the Democrat agenda: critical race theory, diversity-equity-inclusion, “trans” children, elective abortions up to the moment of birth, and the squelching of our speech and ideas.

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Central High School St. Paul

Ethnic Studies: The New CRT in Sheep’s Clothing

Just when you thought the left could not hijack the language any further (actually, that will never happen), “Ethnic Studies” is the new disguise for Critical Race Theory in the world of education. This stealthy push to encourage even more racial division in schools sounds benign at first glance.

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School

Who is schooling who?

As parents are stocking their shopping carts with pencils, paper, and other classroom items, the cost at the cash register isn’t the biggest thing weighing on their minds. With politics and extreme agendas driving curriculum in public schools, parents are concerned about what their children will face and if they will be able to advocate for their child’s well-being.

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friendship

Beware of a Government Concerned About Your Loneliness

If the COVID shutdowns taught us anything, it is that government entities enjoy the power they feel when their subjects are isolated from each other. Now, though, the government has suddenly issued an advisory about “the epidemic of loneliness and isolation” in the country. Does anyone sense a new, intrusive federal initiative?

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Stop Excuses!

A Ministry of Truth?

John McWhorter, the distinguished linguist, has an ecclesiastical term for the members of the current woke/progressive/CRT movement: The Elect. He has chosen that term to emphasize the fact that the movement is not just like a religion, but actually is a religion (or at least a cult) in his new book, Woke Racism.

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1966 Red Guards China

Parents, You Must Teach History

The past few years have seen an ever-increasing effort to rewrite American history according to the social justice ideology of “presentism.” This approach asserts that history should not be viewed according to what was happening at the time of the event or movement but instead through a prism of current-day issues of race, gender, sexuality, and nationalism.

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Education Parents

Homework for Parents

Over the last two years, the pandemic lockdowns gave parents a daily inside look at what students were learning. It’s no surprise they didn’t like what they saw and took their grievances to school boards across the country. Now that students are heading into a new school year, parents must again be motivated to advocate for their child’s education.

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