This notion that "balance" fixes indoctrination in K12 is silly. First, as a practical matter, school isn't the McNeil Lehrer Report. It's school. It's supposed to select some values to teach, and in public school, they were supposed to be as universal as possible. 1/
Second, there are only so many hours in a class day, and only so much space in the library. Third, creating confusion is the point of wokism; adding more messages helps their cause, it doesn't balance anything or return a child to equilibrium.2
Fourth, children who are pre-rational (and taught by irrational wokists) aren't able to tease out "truth" from competing ideas. They have to be taught and incentivized to do this. Load the library with Locke and Sowell, and their fiction counterparts, and it won't make a dent.3/
Fifth: how do you "balance" pornography?! What's the text that helps the child regain his or her (yes, HIS or HER) innocence? What magical texts make age inappropriate texts appropriate? 4/
I'd like to ask all you "everything in balance" "let the kids decide" people if that's how you parent? Would you hand your kid Lawn Boy and Hatchet, and let him or her decide? How about a beer and some ginger ale? Sounds like reasonably balanced options using this calculus, no?5/
Juxtaposed opposites aren't "balancing" anything. Rational people know this, but we've been stuck in the CNN/Fox News world of polarity = balanced news so long, we think it works for teaching kids too. Pro-tip, it doesn't, that's a cop out, and an abdication of moral authority.6/
Yes, we do have a moral authority over children, and yes we need to take this responsibility seriously, and yea we need to impart some standards and assert the primacy of some values. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either naive, or lying to you (or, I suppose, immoral). /END
Oops, forgot third, sorry.
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