Date: February 15, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Alex Newman
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What is happening under the guise of public education is both frightening and appalling. Last Fall we learned of a Christian student who filed a religious discrimination lawsuit indicating she was ordered by Chicago Public School staff members to meditate during a required quiet time. She was told to bow to deity that she didn’t recognize and to internalize mantras in order to reach “Zen.”
Other school districts have required students to memorize the Islamic pillars of faith and even take a field trip to a mosque. Textbooks have been rewritten to push Critical Race Theory and a false accounting of our nation’s history. Planned Parenthood has been invited into schools for their services. Then there’s the account earlier this month of a drag-queen teacher in West Virginia that was arrested on child sexual exploitation charges. In Colorado, legislation is being considered that would require the state’s public and charter schools to socially transition any gender-confused student by adopting that child’s preferred name and pronouns. Finally, the U.S. Department of Education has submitted to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget it’s final Title IX rule that would force widespread recognition of LGBT identities throughout the entire education system in America.
Is all of this just happenstance or is there history proving that the education system has been steered toward this result? Returning to Crosstalk to answer that question was Alex Newman. Alex is an award-winning international freelance journalist, author, researcher, educator and consultant. He’s senior editor for The New American, co-author of Crimes of the Educators, author of Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes and author of the new book, Indoctrinating Our Children to Death. He’s also founder of Liberty Sentinel.
Alex noted that while the Bible has much to say about how children are to be educated, raised and discipled, there’s no chapter or verse that tells us that Caesar or government authorities play any role in this process. Historically speaking, the creation of government centered education in the U.S. is actually a fairly recent event, forming around the mid-1800’s and was fostered by such individuals as socialist Robert Owen, Horace Mann and John Dewey.
As Alex describes the timeline of the movement, you’ll also hear him discuss the Frankfurt School, the National Education Association (NEA), the Department of Education, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), social-emotional learning (SEL), Alfred Kinsey and more.
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