Ending Teacher Wokeness Starts With Higher Education Standards

The war to get wokeness out of school has been going full bore since President Trump took back office in January. For all intents and purposes, at least on the surface, Republicans have been winning. Laws have been passed at federal and state levels banning the teaching of critical race theory and DEI initiatives in schools and with good reason. Both practices preach nothing but insanity, racism, and discrimination. Things we Democrats abhor unless it is their party preaching them for their warped progressive ideologies.

Yet even with laws banning such things, public schools in multiple states, including Texas, are marching right along with their same old song and dance. Teachers are failing students for promoting Christianity, as seen at the University of Oklahoma, and teachers have been videoed going on tirades about respecting transgender people. For all the laws and regulations passed, there still seems to be issues with the serpent of progressivism slithering into young minds.

As the age-old tale goes, killing the serpent requires cutting off its head. Figuratively, of course. In this case, the serpents head is higher education.

Corey DeAngelis of the American Culture Project says schools are just moving the goal posts, still doing whatever they want, and it needs to stop.

"Public school administrators are admitting to investigative journalists undercover...that they are still teaching things like critical race theory, but just calling it something else," he says.

You can call it whatever you want, the idea of teaching critical race theory is abysmal and needs to be addressed. Blaming white people for every problem in your life is not the answer. Sometimes, you just have to look within to solve your own problems. But blaming others and demanding they apologize for being white is, in short, objectively insane.

But this problem does not begin in the lower levels of public schools. Yes, that is where students have been indoctrinated in this insane ideology. But the teachers are the ones who push the narrative. That means higher education is to blame.

"We need better teacher training programs, alternatives to the current woke colleges of education we have today," says DeAngelis.

This writer experienced it even as far back as 2014 while a student at Texas A&M. Even then, professors in classes were pushing the idea and it has since exploded into a mind virus infecting everyone top to bottom.

One option is instituting more school choice, which would give parents the freedom to send their kids to schools that align with them ideologically. But parents should not have to do that, regardless of how positive school choice might be. Really, we just need fair balance and regulation at the top.

"Having these teacher colleges be more ideologically balances will ultimately make our schools focus more on education instead of activism," DeAngelis says. "It will actually lead to a more harmonious country, with more social cohesion."

It is a long road to try and disinfect higher education and root out the woke serpent. But if any administration is going to do it, it will be the Trump administration.