I finished Vision of the Annointed by Thomas Sowell last month, and the book (written in 95) was his takedown of academic elites on many topics. One area he discussed was sex ed and questioned the obsession with discussing sex with children as young as kindergarten or discussing homosexuality with kids. Most of my life I’ve lived in Oklahoma or Texas in pretty red/Christian areas so my sex ed in 5th grade was slightly more than “boys have a penis and girls have a vagina”. I didn’t realize the heavy push for that was going on in the 90s but I guess in more left wing areas it was, plus he has been in academic circles for decades so o guess he has seen a lot of wild theories pushed.
One of my favorite lines from the book is “there is plenty of talk about the haves and have nots, but very little discussion about the doers and do nots”
True. Another one would be school lunches. Or some schools have bfast and dinner for kids. Obviously it’s not the kid’s fault for their parents irresponsible behavior but at this point you can’t get rid of those programs. My dad was born in 53 and he said that as a kid the schools sent them home for lunch because they didn’t view it as their responsibility to feed the kids
It's creeping socialism. I'm not saying that studies showing that kids with good nutrition learn better are wrong- they're probably 100% correct- but where do we draw the line?
Basically, if you don't come from a wealthy family, doors are closed to you from the moment you are born. The only way to level the playing field is to make everyone the same.
For most of History, we understood that some things are the realm of the state and some things are not. Government in general, and the left in particular, just no longer respect those boundaries.
Great show. Only classic show I like more is Leave it to Beaver
a time in this country so universally beloved they're doing everything they can to tarnish and rewrite it.
A lot of them would say what amounts to "Because I don't trust republicans to teach their children right", revealing two things: First, that they don't think republicans should be allowed to raise their own children the way they want, and second, that deep down, they know the left has such an iron grip over education in this country that there's no real chance of the right using that same authority to control how their kids are raised, despite how many of them have convinced themselves they're "fighting the man" and that conservatives are "the establishment".