But, of course, many progressives do believe that wrong-thinking parents must be stopped, or at least, kept in ignorance of what their kids are actually being taught on some subjects in school. Like Teacher telling the kids that what they were learning would be "our secret" so too many schools try to obfuscate, deny, or outright hide the fact that they're pushing their progressive agendas on their pupils. This happened recently with one of my sisters. She and her husband have their nine kids in public school (two now graduated) and for a long while escaped a lot of the nonsense because they live in a very rural area. But in the last few years, their local schools have been catching up rapidly on all the progressive causes. So when one of their youngest boys came home with a report about some, shall we say, questionable lessons he was being given, my sister immediately emailed the teacher and requested that she be given a lesson plan as to what the children were being taught on this subject. The teacher emailed back a reply that told her no details of what was being taught, but just said obscurely something about "required outcomes" being met. This teacher obviously doesn't know my sister if she thought that this was going to be accepted as an appropriate response to her query. My sister emailed back saying that she was not interested in outcomes; she wanted to know what exactly was being taught to her son. She was next contacted by the school principal who told her that the teacher didn't have time to provide her with an outline of the lesson plan but that he, the principal, had looked it over and could assure her that it was appropriate for the children to learn. But of course, she couldn't know what those lessons actually were... she must just take his word for it. At this point my brother-in-law got involved, setting up a meeting with the principal. He wouldn't let my sister go with him, saying that she might not be able to control her temper. Which just goes to show that he knows her pretty well after over 20 years of marriage. He managed to wrench some details out of the principal and informed the man that my nephew would not be being educated in deliberate untruth and misinformation. They ended up pulling him from the last few weeks of school. I and my eight brothers and sisters attended public school; only about a third of my nephews and nieces do. This is why.
So what is to be done? Well, my first and foremost bit of advice is to get your kids out of the public school system. Its mandate is to provide children not with facts, but with a progressive world view. Everything else is secondary and will, if necessary, be sacrificed in service of the "greater good". Contrary to what Barak Obama said, home schooling is not a luxury; it involves a lot of hard work and sacrifice, but it's worth it. There are of course some other options as well- various forms of private education. Of course, these aren't always options for people and, if your kids are in public school, you need to keep on top of things. Talk to your kids. Know what they're being taught, and don't hesitate to go to the school and demand accountability. Push your weight around. Tax payers fund the school system; it should jolly well answer to us. Perhaps most importantly, never assume that your children will simply absorb your values through osmosis. You need to teach them to your kids, explain why these values are important and good, and also model them so that your children know what they look like in practice as well as theory. Above all, remember that the family is the cornerstone of society. Those who wish to tear it down have a vested interest in destroying that foundational block. Don't let them do it. Resolve yourselves to build strong families with strong-minded, confident children who know what is true and why.