{"id":68048,"date":"2021-12-01T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=68048"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:38:35","slug":"qotd-when-mere-teaching-isnt-enough-indoctrination-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/12\/01\/qotd-when-mere-teaching-isnt-enough-indoctrination-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: When mere teaching isn&#8217;t enough, indoctrination takes over"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>There is no such thing as learning loss. Our kids didn&#8217;t lose anything<\/em> [during the pandemic]. <em>It&#8217;s okay that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words <strong>insurrection<\/strong> and <strong>coup<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamag.com\/citythinkblog\/cecily-myart-cruz-teachers-union\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">So says Cecily Myart-Cruz, president of the United Teachers Los Angeles union<\/a>. A union representing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utla.net\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">33,000<\/a> teachers and associated educational staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Education is political&#8221;, says Ms Myart-Cruz, who boasts of her ability to act with near-impunity, and whose list of Intolerable Things includes cognitive testing, &#8220;structural racism&#8221;, border controls, policing, and the supposed &#8220;privilege&#8221; of parents who would like their children to actually learn things, including times tables. Our Mistress Of Higher Purpose struggles to comprehend why parents might object to their children&#8217;s education, even in basic skills, being supplanted by the nakedly self-serving and increasingly weird <em>activism<\/em> of the people paid to teach them those basic skills. Instead, she endorses claims that such objections must be driven by &#8220;white-supremacist thinking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>David Thompson, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2021\/08\/activism-farms.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Activism Farms&#8221;, <em>DavidThompson<\/em><\/a>, 2021-08-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no such thing as learning loss. Our kids didn&#8217;t lose anything [during the pandemic]. It&#8217;s okay that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,53,41,13],"tags":[35,374,1202,750,1020,392,1363],"class_list":["post-68048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-california","tag-children","tag-epidemic","tag-losangeles","tag-progressives","tag-unions","tag-wuhancoronavirus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hHy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70285,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68048\/revisions\/70285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}