[–] selpai 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
The problem isn't philosophical indoctrination. The major problems are the promotion and rigid enforcement of PC culture, selective & sometimes outright erroneous historical narrative, and focus on the spartan aggregate of logical & linguistical intelligences, which offers a rather limited assessment of a persons capacities.
[–] oedipusaurus_rex 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
PC culture has it's place. It works well in work environments where a bunch of different people from different places get together with a common goal. PC culture cuts down on infighting within that group. It just so happens that schools are places where people from different walks of life congregate with the single goal of learning how to be a functioning member of society. ALSO, and this is important (notice the capitalization), schools are there to supplement the learning that a child is supposed to be getting from home, not replace it. Parents still have the responsibility to teach their children. If all the kids are getting is an education from school then that's the parent's fault.
The historical narrative is always selective and erroneous, regardless of who is teaching it and what they say. It gets worse the further you go back too.
When you raise an argument about the logical and linguistic intelligences being the only focus of public school, I point you to my argument about how schools are there to supplement the education that a parent gives a child. They aren't there to replace it.
[–] selpai ago (edited ago)
No it doesn't. PC culture promotes an collectivist mindset, which in turn leads to racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. It shifts focus from the individual onto group identity. We should be promoting a culture that rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
When someone from the regressive left so much as mentions the word "diversity", know you are dealing with a racist. Advocates of "diversity" will refuse to recognize it, but their obsession with group identity promotes bigotry and social friction. "diversity" is inherently racist/sexist.
PC culture is veiled beneath a thin shroud of good intentions. You can get away with almost anything as long as you champion yourself the protector of the weak and the downtrodden. But in doing so, advocates have singled out groups as weak, and in need of special protections. This creates an uneven playing field, with it's pits and mounds dug arbitrarily. Well, a rotten apple spoils the barrel, as the saying goes. Decades of affirmative action have forced even the most open minded of us to make considerations that would have been deemed absurd a generation ago. Is my coworker a diversity hire? She's a minority & and a women. Is she qualified, or did the company need to hire a Mexican to keep up appearances? My new primary care physician is black. Should i find a new doctor? How do i know he's competent when medical schools require weaker grades from them to be accepted & graduate? Should i find an Asian doctor instead? These scenarios would have been laughable just 20 years ago, but thanks to PC culture they are now a very frightening reality.
There is no place for PC culture amidst a society that values individual rights & rewards individual achievement.
History may always be subject to distortions, as time distances us from relevance & true-understanding, but the extent of the omissions seen at public schools today is offensive. Common core teaches a historical map of just the past 100 odd years, and promotes a narrative that leans more towards religious dogma than that of scholarly analysis. Parents who home-school their children are helping to fight against the "one right way" approach to education. This is important because their is no "one true history" to be taught, and if in place of diverging narratives we have a central authority occupying the paternally role, brainwashing our children into worshiping the status quo, then society is enriched simply by the diversity of perspectives brought to the metaphorical table.
There was a time when public education was not mandatory, when maturing children would wander around their community seeking wisdom, perspective, and experience from those around them. Free time was in abundance compared to what we have today, as society demands that we gather our children into designated detention centers, which demands all of their time & attention, and divert their focus to a dozen different tasks, denying true learning. The administrators of these facilities act disciplinarians, educators, role models, dieticians, social-mediators, and moral authorities. They resent parental interference, on any level, and restrict involvement to the point where it is simply not the norm. But please, tell me again about how our public schools (and i do mean our) are structured to be supplementary to what parents are expected to teach their children.