As 2025 kicks off, there is no end to the bad news in the public education sector.
Author: Larry Sand
Now that the holiday season hoopla is behind us, a look at the latest doings in education is in order. To begin with, the sex cultists are still alive and well. In fact, according to The Heritage Foundation, there are 16 states that force transgender lessons on children.
Heritage’s “Gender Ideology as State Education Policy” report highlights the education standards and frameworks of states that encourage gender ideology, which is defined as “the subordination or displacement of factual, ideologically neutral lessons about biological sex with tell-tale notions such as ‘gender identity,’ ‘sex assigned at birth,’ and ‘cisgender.’”
Not surprisingly, only one of the states—Wyoming—is of the red persuasion. In deep blue Oregon, the state’s health standards include “heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, asexual, two-spirit, and pansexual,” in their definitions of sexual and romantic orientations.
In a similar vein, New Jersey’s learning standards state, “Gender assigned at birth means the gender that someone was thought to be at birth, typically recorded on their (sic) original birth certificate. The gender someone was assigned at birth may or may not match their (sic) gender identity.”
Hence, with the onslaught of misinformation and proselytizing, it becomes understandable that 5.1% of adults younger than 30 claim to be transgender or nonbinary, per a Pew Research poll, and this social contagion is being used as a political cudgel by many with a perverse agenda.
In reality, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute, an LGBTQ advocacy group, a staggering 99.4% of the population does not have the physical traits that cause someone to become transgender.
Also, Brown University physician and researcher Lisa Littman released a study in 2018 that showed “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” in young people may be driven by “social and peer contagion.” She stresses that nearly 70% of the teenagers were involved with a peer group in which at least one friend had identified as transgender.
When it comes to being sex-crazed, California, which maintains that “some children in kindergarten and even younger have identified as transgender,” is in a leadership role. One of the myriad laws that took hold in the state on January 1 is AB 1955, the so-called “Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act.” This haughtily titled law specifically forbids schools from adopting any policies that force them to disclose “any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person—including parents—without the pupil’s consent. California also now mandates public schools with classrooms for grades 3 to 12 must make free menstrual products in “all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom.”
The Golden State is also ground zero in the ethnic studies wars. While each school district has the right to decide on content, many are going with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. The LESMC is infused with Critical Race Theory and employs every CRT buzz term imaginable to get its indoctrination across. For example, it asks students to “critique imperialist/colonial hegemonic beliefs and to critique empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.”
Jews, especially, don’t do well in the LESMC. The curriculum claims that Israel is a colonialist and settler state created through “genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.”
While many government-run schools nationwide are mired in the promotion of sex and politics, traditional standards have taken a backseat. As a way to divert attention from its miseducation, Massachusetts has become the latest state to ditch standardized tests.
For over 20 years, Massachusetts high school students have had to pass a standardized test to graduate—a requirement that is at least partially responsible for the state’s reputation for excellence in education. Passing Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) in 10th grade became a graduation requirement starting with the high school class of 2003. In November, however, a teacher union-backed ballot initiative to end the graduation requirement was voted in.
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