The social justice drive to destroy American education

[rangerrebew]

 The social justice drive to destroy American education

By Heather Mac Donald

December 11, 2019 | 7:35pm
 

Social justice ideology is turning higher education into an engine of progressive advocacy, according to a new report by the National Association of Scholars. Left-wing activists masquerading as professors are infiltrating traditional academic departments or creating new ones — such as “Solidarity and Social Justice” — to advance their cause. They are entering the highest circles of college administration. From these perches, they require students to take social justice courses, such as “Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse” or “Hip-hop Workshop,” and attend social-justice events in order to graduate.

But social justice education is merely a symptom of an even deeper perversion of academic values: the cult of race and gender victimology a k a “diversity.” The diversity cult is driven by one overwhelming reality: the seemingly intractable achievement gap between whites and Asians on the one hand, and blacks and Hispanics on the other. Radical feminism, as well as LGBT advocacy, are also deeply intertwined with diversity and social justice thinking on campus and off. But race is the main impetus. Liberal whites are terrified that the achievement and behavior gaps will never close. So they have crafted a totalizing narrative about the supremacist white norms and racism that allegedly hold back black achievement.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/11/the-social-justice-drive-to-destroy-american-education/

[Fishrrman]

The only way to end this is to physically REMOVE the majority of leftist teachers and administrators from the public schools, and bar them from teaching afterwards.

Nothing less will do.
But of course, that isn't going to happen.

So... the only alternative for traditional-minded parents is to send their kids to private or religious schools that hopefully will actually TEACH them something of relevance.

[Absalom]

Just thinkin!
The Ancient Greeks and Romans had neither formal/structured education nor credentials.
Yet reflect a moment on how Plato, Homer, Sophocles, Aristotle, Pindar, Archimedes, Cicero, Tiberius, Virgil, Caesar, Vitruvius; among hundreds were able to sustain themselves.
Think how deprived and lonely those poor souls must have felt w/o degrees to prove their worth.
How did they ever manage to survive and thrive????????????????????????