Public schools are feeling the fallout
from the COVID lockdowns
Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/19/2022 8:18:29 AM
Vladimir Lenin allegedly said, "Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted." America's leftists have taken those words to heart and, since the 1930s, have assiduously winnowed their way into America's education system. The COVID lockdown, for all its destruction, may have ended up performing a huge service by exposing to parents just how bad the leftist toxin has grown in the last ten to fifteen years. The sea change in parental attitudes toward education is shown in the fact that, across America, public school enrollment is collapsing.
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is put on 'pause' 25 replies
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is put on 'pause' 25 replies
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