Heather Heying: The schools are very successful at beating down the human spirit

"Instead of gardens and arts and sport and actual science, our children are getting gold stars for everyone, preferred pronouns, rainbow flags, and a pathological focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The human spirit is inquisitive and creative, but the human spirit can be beaten down.
The schools are doing just that, becoming centers of ideology and control. The schools are very successful at beating down the human spirit. In the new religion called the science, being advocated for by the Democrats, there is nothing new under the sun, no hope, no wonder, no excitement. It's not science, it's technocracy. Everything is already known.
The experts have the answers. The experts will deliver you what you need. Processed food, a pill in a shot, and a screen with endless apps in which to waste your days. This is life for children in the 21st century America. A life lived through screens, pharma, and fake food. Instead of one lived through creativity, exploration, and the fruit of the land.
It is the parent's job to model and teach honesty and integrity, loyalty and kindness, determination and courage. Parenting comes with a responsibility to restrict your children, to establish and enforce honorable rules and to gradually release those structures and those strictures as your child becomes more capable and has to take risks in the world. It is also a parent's job to provide as much opportunity as possible for their children and to teach their children that any opportunities that do not come to them they need to find for themselves."