It was always about the revolution, not the children. Of course, you knew that. But now a Portland teachers union apparatchik spells it out.
The other day I interviewed Xi Van Fleet for my “Adult in the Room” podcast. The author of the book “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning,” which I’ll be highlighting in more depth soon at PJ Media, has an indisputable thesis that America is going through a Cultural Revolution like the one she suffered through as a child “worker” in China. When revolution comes, she says, “we all end up slaves.” Back during Mao’s march through the institutions, the bourgeois teachers were removed from the schools and “re-educated”–or worse. Schools were closed for two years while the revolution caught up. The cadres preferred the people be uneducated rather than exposed to wrong thought. When schools were reopened, she says, students had little more than Mao’s “Little Red Book” to study. The difference in the U.S., we agreed, was that now the teachers are the revolutionaries in control of the messages your children hear and read.
As I write nearby, the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT) has wrapped up a month-long strike,…
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