Outing Activist Teachers

The Sierra Times has a great column todayexposing some of the ways in which activist teachers try to indoctrinate our kids in school.

Their main tactic is to promote the idea of "critical thinking," but while critical thinking is important to developing your own beliefs it does not neccessarily mean a complete and total rejection of values previously held. Too often, teachers talk about critical thinking, but instead push for the student to take up a position in line with the values of the teacher.

There seems to be a real and genuine identity crises going on in the educational world between the teachers who truly want to teach and those who want to be intellectual parents. The teachers want family to be involved, want parents to help guide their children through life. The activists want to indoctrinate, which means that they really want to cause a schism between the kids and the parents so as to make the reeducation easier. Anymore, it seems like the members of the profession can't decide who or what they should be.

There need to be more administrators, like the one in the article, who recognize the problem for what it is. Parents need to spend more time being involved in their child's education.

But most importantly, we need to figure out how to rein in the activists.