Activist teachers brainwashing children

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The presenter is a right-wing hyperpartisan, and I am not happy with that.
I also disagree with some of the things he says.

However,
Watch the video clips of political activist teachers that he has put together.

This presenter is more reasonable.
Still right-wing.

Same teacher activist as in the first post.

I'm not sure what to think about this.
"Don't shoot the messenger."

There really aren’t too many of these “activist” teachers in primary schools.

Many teachers have conservative values, too.

The main focus in early primary school classrooms is keeping order in the class. There’s really not much time for “activism.”

This person is almost certainly an outlier.

This is not what goes on in the vast, vast majority of classrooms.

Anyway......some of the "woke" stuff isn't bad. I wouldn't mind it, say, if a teacher tells children that people should be treated equally, regardless of race/gender.

I'm sure----if I was told about "gay lifestyles" when I was a little pupil----that I wouldn't have adopted those lifestyles later on in life. I am naturally heterosexual.

I don't feel teaching about "gayness" in age-appropriate ways will produce more gay people. There will always be about 10% of the population who will turn out gay.

Anyway...in truth....it's really not necessary to teach about this sort of thing when kids are young. Unless one kid happens to have two mommies or something.

One video said "feeling uncomfortable being near the flag, which is unthinkable in other countries, especially non-Western countries".
Many Chinese will have different views on this.

But teaching biased political/religious views in public schools is absolutely despicable. No matter how "correct" the parties think these views are.
Even though I agree with some of these political points, that doesn't mean I think it should be taught to children. Political/religious ideas should be thought and chosen by oneself, not taught. This is turning political opinions into beliefs.
Some political factions are using their influence in the education system to expand themselves. This "womb preaching" deserves to be spurned. If a political/religious opinion doesn't get enough support from adults, it should die.

I don’t have a problem with teachers going political in a high school classroom. I do it. I tell kids that politics, religion, tradition, and innovation all intersect, and the music you listen to comes from that. What you listen to and how you listen to it are a product of all these things.

I don’t hide that my values are conservative-leaning, but I don’t exactly fit one mold or another. I will say, for example, that I’m heartbroken over what’s going on in Ukraine, I disagree with the our leadership’s motives for staying out of Europe, but I’m glad we aren’t getting involved. Students will argue with me because their parents have talk about things and say we should do something about Putin. And so the students challenge me to defend my ideas, and I do, and I turn it around on the kids to explain why they feel the way they do.

My job isn’t to dictate to them what to think or feel, but to get them used to thinking about things on their own and expressing these opinions. Teachers are human beings. We have our own thoughts. I think we do kids a disservice by NOT modeling how to speak up. I remind kids that this is only what I think and if they disagree with me, it will not affect their grades one bit.

Incidentally, Russia comes up when discussing classical music because of the differences between the Catholic west and Orthodox east allowed new western, secular music to flourish, creating a sort of feedback loop that brought new ways of doing things in church music, in contrast to Orthodox strongly discouraging secular music. It wasn’t until Tchaikovsky that Russia caught up with the west, and by understanding these political and religious traditions throughout the intervening years, you can begin to understand Russia’s apparent obsession with Ukraine and resentment towards Western Europe and the US. Why are politics and religion relevant to a music class? Because classical composers have to eat, and wealthy individuals, intellectuals, the church, and the state pay their bills. Music is a reflection of philosophy and values, and it’s not possible to fully understand classical music without exploring these things.