🧠 The Great Dumbing Down
How Public Schools Went from Teaching ABCs to Pushing DEI
📚 Back When Education Meant Something
In 1837, Horace Mann, the so-called “Father of American Public Education,” had a vision: every child—regardless of wealth—should receive a free, basic education. Not an indoctrination. Not an identity workshop. Just the essentials:
Reading
Writing
Arithmetic
Discipline
Civic virtue
This was the Common School Movement, and it reshaped the nation. Schools were public but locally controlled, rooted in the values of personal responsibility and moral clarity. Teachers were trained. Bibles were read. Classrooms were orderly.
The mission? Create self-governing, literate citizens who could preserve a free republic—not dismantle it.
🏫 Fast Forward: What Happened?
Public education today bears little resemblance to what Horace Mann built. Instead of fostering competence and character, our schools have become assembly lines for political activism:
Math scores are plummeting
Literacy is declining
Discipline is disappearing
Gender ideology and racial guilt are replacing grammar and logic
Teachers aren’t educators anymore—they’re ideological gatekeepers, delivering pre-approved narratives while basic skills fall by the wayside.
This isn’t progress. It’s sabotage.
🎯 Mann's Vision vs. Today’s Public Schools
Horace Mann’s Schools Modern Public Schools (2020s)
(1830s–1860s)
Focused on reading, writing, math Focused on DEI, gender identity, and revisionist history
Non-sectarian but morally grounded Amoral or overtly anti-traditional
Trained disciplined citizens Produce grievance-driven activists
Valued civic unity Promote cultural division
Emphasized truth and logic Emphasize feelings and relativism
Local control and accountability Top-down mandates and federal overreach
📉 Back to Basics—or Back to Collapse
We don’t need more buzzwords or bureaucrats. We need a chalkboard, a good teacher, and a student ready to learn.
Instead of Safe Spaces and Social-Emotional Learning, how about:
Sentence diagrams
Times tables
Civics tests
Phonics
Personal responsibility
Our kids are failing not because they aren’t smart, but because we’ve stopped teaching them how to think clearly and independently. We've replaced truth with therapy and replaced logic with labels.
🗳️ What We Must Do Now
Run for school board—or support someone who will
Demand transparency in curriculum and budgeting
Remove ideological programs from taxpayer-funded classrooms
Support classical education models focused on facts, not feelings
Restore reading, writing, and arithmetic to their rightful place
🚨 Final Word
When early Americans feared Satan would use ignorance to deceive, they passed the Old Deluder Satan Act (1647) to require public schools.
Today, Satan doesn’t need ignorance. He’s got curriculum coordinators.
If we don’t fight for our kids’ minds, someone else will own them.
#BackToBasics #HoraceMannNotKarlMarx #StopTheIndoctrination #TheDailyNoise