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As a teacher for over two decades, I\u2019m allowed to criticize people who regularly extol all the wonderful teachers in our country. In any cohort numbering over five million, there are obviously many excellent teachers, but as a whole, educators are one of the nation\u2019s least admirable professional cohorts and contain numerous individuals who shouldn\u2019t be near children at all.<\/p>

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Thomas Sowell has long noted that education majors represent the dregs of college and post-graduate applicants. One study found that only 7% of high school seniors with SAT scores in the top quintile chose education as a major, whereas more than half of those in the lowest quintile went into education. What\u2019s true of students is also true about their instructors and the quality of classes taught by these \u201cdoctors\u201d who rank at the bottom of the academic totem pole in terms of collegial respect. Little wonder that Jill Biden\u2019s \u201cdoctorate\u201d degree (Ed.D.) was in education. Her so-called dissertation was accurately described in a 2020 Wall Street Journal <\/em>opinion column as emitting \u201cso much noxious methane the EPA should regulate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the paucity of significant content compared to disciplines like history or science, there is always the temptation, as Sowell again notes, to promote educational fads. Some years ago, for example, the look-say method of reading replaced a long-proven technique, phonics, doubtless to create some new-and-improved product. As if depriving generations of children the ability to read effectively weren\u2019t bad enough, schools of education (along with their 10 to 1 leftist scholastic mentors) also employ curricula designed to indoctrinate kids in perverse ideologies that have proliferated for decades at universities where former terrorists like Distinguished Professor of Education Bill Ayers and Northwestern Law\u2019s Bernadine Dohrn found cushy employment.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/figure>\nI offer as one example of egregious educational malpractice this video of a Las Vegas “English” teacher who actively imposes his \u201ceverybody should be a little gay\u201d philosophy on middle-school students while hiding preferred pronoun interactions from parents. This \u201ceducator\u201d even involves his students in choosing the color of his makeup and eye shadow. Unsurprisingly, critical race theory also finds its way into this \u201cEnglish\u201d class as well as lessons about police brutality and racism via a book called Hush<\/em>. In this literary classic two white cops kill a black teenager, leading to the inevitable anti-cop, white racism conclusion. Needless to say, this shaper of young minds isn\u2019t at all shy about confronting black students with MAGA sympathies or helping other students \u201ccome out\u201d as gay.<\/p>\n

The very fact that someone like that was hired to teach at Gunderson Middle School says something unflattering about school administrators. As of this writing, the school principal only confirms that a \u201cmassive investigation\u201d is under way, not that the teacher pushing a totally unethical sexual and political agenda on captive kids has been fired. At least in the Vegas case, what the teacher did was a violation of the school\u2019s policy vis-\u00e0-vis parents. In California, the benighted legislature actually passed a law in 2024 (AB 1955) forbidding school districts from requiring parental notification about gender identification. That law was tossed 6-3 by the Supreme Court earlier this year, but in the words of Grok, \u201cAs of June 2026, California public schools operate in a state of legal tension and partial limbo on parental notification for students\u2019 gender identity or pronoun usage.\u201d That statement means teachers can\u2019t be required to withhold information but are likely free to do so if not directly asked by parents.<\/p>

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The overwhelming alignment of educators with the Democrat Party and its now-bizarre policies was made clear as long ago as 1980 when at least fifteen percent of DNC Presidential delegates were affiliated with education, most of them members of unions like the National Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers. The latter organization\u2019s current president, Randi Weingarten, provides a visible symbol of education\u2019s decline, a shrieking harridan for whom reasoned discourse is as foreign as particle physics to a preschooler. This incestuous collaboration of teacher unions and Democrat politicians has created a scenario in which favors benefiting the union (not students) are traded in exchange for contributions and votes.<\/p>\n

Finally, consider teachers leading a flock of elementary school students on a \u201cNo Kings\u201d march with prepared signs that confront motorists on a busy street just a few yards away. This outrageous manipulation of kids barely able to read, much less grasp the intricacies of political issues, happened in my still marginally conservative Southern California city. I don\u2019t doubt that other teachers took liberties with their students thanks to this \u201cNo Kings\u201d communications toolkit distributed to NEA members.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, I reviewed a CBEST math test for California public school teachers that was so risibly simple I could hardly believe any qualified applicant would fail to pass it. Here was one question: \u201cSeven more than two times a number is 35. What is the number?\u201d Slightly challenging perhaps, but not if it\u2019s a multiple-choice question: A.42 B.28 C.21 D.14 E. 5. Yet lawsuits were filed about how such tests unfairly excluded otherwise \u201cqualified\u201d minority teachers, and even now the education establishment pushes to eliminate these minimal competency tests. So please spare me encomiums about great teachers unless you\u2019re speaking about the distinct minority who didn\u2019t major in education, know their subject matter, aren\u2019t active union members, and don\u2019t dehumanize students through indoctrination, grooming, or using them as political props.<\/p>\n

Richard Kirk is a freelance writer and retired teacher living in Southern California. His book Moral Illiteracy: <\/em>Who’s to Say? is also available on Kindle, as is his book <\/em>Poetry with a Moral Edge.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>

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