In today's world education has become indoctrination

Public education makes sense in the present-day U.S. as most families are two-person working families. Home schooling is a luxury for those who can manage the variety of topics needing to be taught to their children.

If it were all so simple. Send your children to school to give them a good education, learning skills to survive in today's world such as basic math, language, social skills and American history. Yet in today's world, it has become an indoctrination education. Basic math and language skills are below grade level across most of the nation. In Oregon, they have dropped all requirements for graduation. Imagine the shock when they try to get a job. No problem, the government will give them a basic income, free health care, et al.

Remember Vladimir Lenin, most don't when asked. Lack of history in school. Quote "give me your children for four years and the seeds I have sown will last a lifetime." We give our children to the indoctrination system for 12-plus four years. When children are young they are eager to learn and may be easily manipulated whichever way the teachers wish them to go. School boards are also eager to influence what the children are taught. Schools across the country seem more focused, at the behest of the government, unions and socially correct, on politically motivated teaching. Speak of God at school, you will be somehow reprimanded. But they also teach the five pillars of Islam and girls wear head coverings.

Bring in the cross-dressing LGBTQ group for a party with the children. Critical race theory is a hot topic now. Idaho has outlawed it but is prevalent across the country, especially blue states. In Maine Wellesley Public Schools, they are now segregating by race. In the not so distant past, we were busing children to integrate the schools. Over the last several years racial tensions quieted as more minorities improved their lots in life. Now with CRT and all the "woke" businesses, most feel that racial tensions are at nearly back to Civil War times. 

Teachers, and school boards, need to get back to teaching skills and history (not the politically motivated 1619 Project in its many forms), important to surviving in this complex world. Bring math, science and language skills to grade level. We (taxpayers) pay more per student with poorer outcome than roughly 30 other first world nations.

And get the masks off the kids. They miss the social interaction of facial expression, get to breathe their own CO2 and get less oxygen, especially when exerting. Their risk of COVID is less than 1%. Bad if you get it, bad if you are subject to the ill effects of the mask.

DAVID MONTGOMERY

Moyie Springs