1/ This teacher admits she doesn't know when America was founded. She also says she doesn't teach her students the curriculum, but instead teaches about protesting anti-racism, activism, and Black Lives Matter. So....Let's talk about the Department of Education. A Thread🧵

2/ The entire education system, including the Department of Education, is full of activists, professors, teachers, and other people who thing teaching is a political act, and that Social Justice (AKA: woke ideology) should be the foundation of all learning and education.

3/ In his book "The Critical Turn in Education" Isaac gottesman, explains how leftist brought marxism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory into universities and used them to radicalize the field of education in the 70's and 80's

4/ All of this begins with the work Paulo Freire. Freire was a Brazilian Marxist and education theorist who said the main goal of education is to create political and social change. That is, the goal of education is to teach students how to be activists who transform society

5/ According to Freire teaching has two aims: 1. To teach students they are oppressed 2. To teach students how to engage in "praxis" (AKA, activism) on behalf of leftist social change Things like literacy and math take a backseat to the real goal of teaching leftist politics.

6/ The field of education has been taken over by Marxist ideology. Isaac Gottesman shows this in "The Critical Turn in Education" and you can see it in the fact Freire's work has 568873 academic citations. That's more academic citations than *EINSTEIN* (who has 199740)

7/ Let's connect this to the Department of Education. In the 1990's a professor named Gloria Ladsen-Billings wrote a paper explaining how she brought CRT into education, and how the founders of CRT saw moving CRT into education as the logical extension of Critical Race Theory

8/ Now, Ladson-Billings brought CRT into education, but that's not all she did. She invented "Culturally Relevant Pedagogy" a method to, in part, help students develop "Critical Consciousness," an idea that comes from Paulo Freire (the Marxist educator we discussed earlier)

9/ In "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Freire says Critical Consciousness is understanding the world through the Marxist framework of Oppressor vs. Oppressed. So when Billings talks about Critical Consciousness, she's referring to understanding the world through a *Marxist* lens.

10/ What does this have to do with the Department of Education? Well, the United States Department of Education as a research arm called the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The IES is supposed to be research based, neutral, fair, and non-partisan. However....

11/ The IES is encouraging educators to use the Gloria Ladsen-Billings Marxist infused "Cultural Responsive Pedagogy." Remember, Billings wants students to adopt the marxists opppressor/oppressed framework and gain the "Critical Consciousness" of how oppressed they are.

12/ Further, the REL (Regional Educational Libraries) that are run by the IES (which is run by the Department of education) are similarly telling educators to make use of these Marxist Theories of education.

13/ Worse yet, the REL and IES admits there is no evidence that "Culturally Responsive Pedagogy" is an effective way of educating children. But they're implementing it anyway though, because their goal is not education: their goal is turning children into leftist activists.

14/ If that weren't bad enough, the Regional Library Program, run by the IES ran a series of blogs asking teachers to use Culturally Responsive Education as a tool to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by looking at "Social Justice issues"

15/ As Henry Giroux explains here, Paulo Freire's work is the thing that kicked of the movement of education scholarship toward neo-marxism, and critical theory. This entire field of neo-marxist scholarship is called "Critical Pedagogy."

16/ There is an agency called "The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics" within the Department of Education which produced a paper calling for the use of Critical Pedagogy to with the goal of making Hispanic Student believe they are oppressed in Schools.

17/ What I want you to see here is that with the Department of Education there is a strong strand of workers, activists, employees, teachers, writes, and so fourth who are making it their goal to use education as a vehicle for advancing various forms of radical leftist politics.

18/ The Department of Education is, in my view, beyond repair. It needs to be audited (both financialy, and to find out what the department actually did), shut down, and replaced by something like rigorous accreditation boards, state level agencies, or private sector agencies.

19/ I prefer to see an orderly shut down and audit of the finances and activities of the DOE as a transition to a much smaller, less active agency occurs. But let their be no doubt, the Department of Education needs to be shut down. /fin