CV NEWS FEED // In an op-ed titled “Hey, Kamala: Leave Them Kids Alone” this week, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-AL, warned against Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ ties to “left-wing indoctrination” in the public school system.
“Many parents came to grips with just how radical some of our schools have become” during the COVID-19 school closures that began in 2020, Tuberville wrote.
Among the controversial materials Tuberville cited were
critical race theory, age-inappropriate content (such as sexually explicit picture books in elementary schools), anti-American revisionist history, environmental extremism and climate fearmongering, and other left-wing propaganda.
But the presence of these themes in public school curricula should not have come as a surprise, Tuberville argued. “For many decades, our educational institutions haven’t been educating young Americans; they’ve been indoctrinating them instead,” he wrote.
While he credited good educators for their diligence in the classroom, Tuberville highlighted that “bad actors—emboldened by corrupt teachers unions—have prioritized preaching woke political ideology over ensuring a quality education.”
Tuberville then cited the detrimental effect of this content on youth. “Our progressive education system,” he wrote, “controlled by teachers unions, has led the United States into a literacy crisis and made us rank 26th in the world in math.”
“Attempting to capture and mold the minds of young people to achieve desired political ends is nothing new,” he continued. “It’s been employed by the Left in many countries for many years. We saw this during the communist takeovers of educational institutions in China and Russia in the 20th century.”
Comparatively, “The Democrat Party, now run by the far Left, began a similar march through our institutions in the second half of the 20th century.”
Harris-Walz Ticket and ‘Woke’ Schooling
Tuberville pointed out that “Kamala has said she’s ‘a proud product of public education.’ And it shows today, as both Harris and Walz are vocal proponents of left-wing ideology in our schools.”
For example, “Harris said in an ‘educational’ video on Twitter (now X) that ‘equitable treatment means that we all end up in the same place’ and that ‘there’s a big difference between equality and equity’—echoing Marxist talking points,” Tuberville noted.
In addition, “Walz was the faculty adviser to his high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, an organization with chapters across the country that promotes drag queen shows, chest binders, and transgender surgeries for minor children.”
“Throughout their careers,” Tuberville pointed out, “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have supported two things simultaneously: unwavering commitment to left-wing ideology and expanding access to public ‘education.’”
“When you combine these two things,” he explained,
you get a conveyor belt producing left-wing ideologues who go on to work in higher education, the federal bureaucracy, and corporate America. The goal is to pump as many students out of the indoctrination factory as possible.
This is one reason why the Biden-Harris administration has attempted, multiple times now, to pay for students’ college loan debt by printing more money. Colleges and universities get a blank check, and in return, the Democrat Party receives a consistent stream of new voters and foot soldiers.
“Education, not indoctrination, is the bedrock of the American republic,” Tuberville concluded later on in his essay. “When equipped with the right tools, our students will help make America great again. When our young people are provided with this firm foundation, America can and will achieve greatness for years to come.”
Readers can find Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s full essay here.
