You may have heard about the Freedom Center's K-12 Code of Ethics.
The K-12 Code seeks to stop school indoctrination by, as it states, having teachers teach, "students how to think, not telling them what to think."
It would prevent teachers from being able to "endorse, support, or oppose any candidate or nominee for public office", "Endorse, support, or oppose any pending, proposed, or enacted legislation", "Introduce into class any controversial subject matter that is not germane to the topic of the course being taught" and "Advocate for any side of a controversial issue, defined as an issue that is a point in electoral party platforms at the national, state or local level."
When you read the following story, think about the K-12 Code of Ethics and why we need it.
A 7th Grade social studies teacher tasked with teaching his students about Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, recently gave his students an assignment to write a letter to Congress supporting gun control.
Blue Lives Matter obtained a copy of the assignment.
The assignment “topic” was listed as “You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have stricter gun laws to help prevent another school shooting from taking place.”
“For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States. Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences. Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter,” read the assignment given out by social studies teacher Corey Sanders to his students at Hampton Middle School.
There are three things going on here.
1. Students are being drafted for agitating on one side of a complex and controversial issue. The teacher could have asked students to write letters to legislators laying out their point of view on the 2nd Amendment, pro or con. Instead he turned them into his own private gun control lobbyists whose purpose is to "pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws".
2. The topic wasn't even remotely germane to the class which was about "Asia, Africa, and the Middle East."
3. This isn't education. It's indoctrination. Students aren't being shown how to argue both sides, but are being guided into repeating political slogans. And the First Amendment also applies in the classroom.
Stories like these are why the K-12 Code is so important. Find out more about the Freedom Center's campaign and see more stories about school indoctrination in the vital new pamphlet (co-authored by Sara Dogan and Peter Collier), Leftist Indoctrination In Our K-12 Public Schools.