Black teacher says the Far Left has turned public schools into indoctrination centers, and any teacher who doesn’t support the liberal trajectory gets no place in the system

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/teacher-says-left-turned-public-schools-indoctrination-centers/

If you want to keep your job as a conservative public school teacher you learn to keep your mouth shut, a Chicago area teacher told The Daily Signal. “I definitely want out,” Foster said, it is “becoming even harder to stay apolitical, or to come across as being neutral.” “You are being forced to ultimately support the liberal narrative in public education,” she said of herself and other teachers. “We are too far over the hill,” Foster said, arguing that public schools have “become indoctrination centers.”

As a black woman who teaches at a predominantly white high school, Foster says she would never tell colleagues she is conservative for fear she would lose her job. “I would even say that [my colleagues] would try to school me in my own oppression,” Foster said. “They would probably see me as though I was ignorant, like ‘Why are you, a black person, not part of our team?’” Assuming her to be in agreement with progressive views, leadership at Foster’s school asked her if she would consider leading a class to teach high school students about white privilege. She declined the offer. “From my perspective, it’s a lot of self-hatred on their own part, like they feel guilty for being white,” Foster said of her fellow teachers.

Foster said educators have adapted curriculum in all courses from English to health to further a far-left ideology. Administrators are removing classic works of literature by William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Dickens from English classes because they regard such works as furthering white privilege and supporting patriarchy, Foster said. Adopted in their place are “Latinx books, black books, [and] LGBTQ+ books,” Foster said. “The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas, a book for young adults inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, is one book replacing classic literature at Foster’s school. Foster’s school also asks teachers to include elements of The New York Times’ disputed 1619 Project in the English curriculum. The school’s health curriculum has seen “a removal of certain pronoun terms … to be more what they call LGBTQ+ inclusive” and use more gender-neutral terms.

Foster said she has come to believe that “everything in public education is liberal, from the unions… to the school board, to the education administrators, to the educators.” “There are now interview questions that are strategically asked to gauge whether or not a candidate [for a job] is liberal or conservative,” Foster said.

As an African American, she was troubled to see race used as an excuse for why students weren’t succeeding. Foster said the sentiment in the school was that “black kids are not achieving at the same pace as non-black students and … it is because of oppression. It is because of white supremacy. ” “I had students tell me that they were still slaves to the system. They actually said that because that was being reiterated to them in their social studies classes,” she recalled. The school administration created a separate set of standards for black students, calling it equity, but “it was not equity,” Foster said. “I would argue that that was the epitome of bigotry.” Foster said she witnessed black students receive passing grades regardless of whether they understood the material or completed assignments, because teachers held them to a lower standard. The operative idea seemed to be that “‘these kids are not able to do what other kids are doing,” she said.

With administrators infusing progressive ideology in the curriculum, Foster said, a teacher who doesn’t support the liberal trajectory has no place in the system. Foster said she now backs school choice, homeschooling co-ops, Christian schools, and other education programs that give parents more say over what their child is learning. “Public education, you would think, would be a forum to teach our students how to think critically and engage in difficult conversations, [but] it’s not happening,” she said.