Leftists love their dominance of education because it allows them to steep children in their beliefs. It doesn’t matter to them if the kids can’t do basic math or if they write English poorly, as long as they can spout off the clichés about race, intersectionality, power systems, etc.

In this article, Wenyuan Wu writes about the spread of “ethnic studies” throughout California.

She writes, “To this end, ethnic studies, an emerging discipline fraught with controversy, is an especially powerful Trojan horse. In California, ethnic studies will become a high school graduation requirement by 2025 because of the passage of Assembly Bill 101 in 2021. California law requires that ethnic studies be taught to prepare students to ‘be global citizens with an appreciation for the contributions of multiple cultures’ and that it be free of any bias, bigotry, discrimination, or religious doctrine.”

What a ridiculous pretext — that students in California would not be able to deal with people from differing cultures without taking an “ethnic studies” course. Young people are constantly surrounded by information about different cultures. The implication that many of them will become bigots without instruction from public education is sheer nonsense.

Wu continues:

Based on the revised criteria, ethnic studies courses must apply “culturally relevant pedagogy,” “abolitionist teaching,” “critical analysis,” and “nuancing approaches to race, racism and racialization” in order to be approved for UC undergraduate admissions. Questionable scholarly sources including “Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Race: Ethnic Studies and Literacies of Power in High School Classrooms” and “The Development of Critical Consciousness and Its Relation to Academic Achievement in Adolescents of Color” are cited as research evidence for K–12 ethnic studies. If the proposed criteria were to be adopted, the University of California would enact a set of ideologically rooted guidelines, thereby providing top-down incentives for local school districts throughout the state to teach ideologically hijacked ethnic studies.

The best we can hope for is that the students won’t learn any more in these courses than they do in their non-politicized ones. Parents who want a sound education for their children should abandon the public schools.