Education: How to fix it

Our schools have been co-opted by the Left and literacy is no longer the mission of education.

Alaska’s education system has failed our children. Alaska is 47th and our 4th grade is abject failure (50th). How can this be with all the money spent?

Why in the face of this failure is the teachers’ unions pushing an LGBTQ and openly communist agenda to turn Alaska’s schools into perversion factories and communist indoctrination centers?

The attempt to remake society through our schools needs to end.

I propose the following solution to end this purposeful and ongoing failure of our state education system. Bar the school districts from taking federal funding. The money is not needed and does not provide tools or teachers for the classrooms.

It is the federal Dept. of Education (DoEd) funding that imposes over 66% of the classroom regulation and policy that stops good teachers from teaching literacy. It is the DoEd funding that brings with it the failed paradigms reflected in Common Core, CRT, 1619, “feelings” over competition and physical fitness, and now, through the NEA, the most divisive attack on the family, the LGBTQ agenda. An agenda that raised its ugly head again at Colony High School.

The liberal siren call of easy money is hard for the school superintendent and school board to resist.

Now, you know why homeschooling works. Little or no federal interference.

Parents and the school board should be in charge of curriculum, budget, and goals, not the union, and not the federal or state governments. Alaska business should influence the curriculum by informing the school board and parents about the basic education and skills an employee should have.

NEA should be barred from any influence in the classroom and restricted to wages, benefits and working conditions. NEA’s PACs should be barred from contributing to Alaska’s politicians and voter initiatives. The individual teacher is not restricted from supporting or voting for whom they please.

Most of the legislators who have been in office more than one term will not buck the system. Education funding is sacrosanct, untouchable, no accountability required on the part of the school district or the teachers’ unions. So, “Rome” continues to “burn”.

Rep. DeLena Johnson has voted consistently to let our education system fail.

Vocational schools need to be encouraged. We are failing to ensure that an aging work force will be replaced. Skilled labor is hard to come by these days.

Given the increasing “extra-deaths” in the working age groups, this situation will get worse. This will have severe repercussions for the economy and national defense in the coming decade.

Literacy should be the primary mission of education, not anti-American political and anti-family sexual indoctrination.

The Constitution, our government system, our traditions, history, law and culture free from communist distortion should be taught from elementary school through high school to give the student a firm foundation of the country and governmental system that is our Republic. No state tuition loan for college should issue without this academic requirement being met.

No state funds should issue to the U of A if there is one woke CRT, 1619 or other communist inspired, racist, divisive class as a requirement for a degree or as an elective.

Competition and mandatory physical fitness are standards that must be restored to our school curriculum. Physical fitness is necessary to a healthy lifestyle and for the national defense.

Life is about hard work, learning, proving your worth and competing with others for a job or in business. Literacy, character, integrity and patriotism are the foundation for making a responsible, productive citizen. These attributes need to be encouraged, not disparaged.

For too many children, the school is the only safe place available to them.

Unfortunately, MSSD has now joined with Anchorage, Fairbanks and other school districts in making Alaska’s children less safe with school staff promoting the LGBTQ agenda without parental knowledge or consent.

Children lack maturity and judgment to make life altering decisions. They are easily influenced by adults they trust.

Our schools are no longer safe.

Until DoEd funding is barred, I recommend that you homeschool your kids.

We can thank our legislators and governor for their lack of moral courage for allowing this cancer into our schools. FL’s governor stopped the LGBTQ and communist agenda cold.

We need an Alaska Governor DeSantis and legislators who will do the hard things.

I will do the hard things and stand up and be heard in Juneau to protect our children.

Lawrence D. Wood (Larry) is a Republican candidate for Representative for HD25 with four grandkids and four great-grand kids in MSSD.