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Take Back Education: The Reconquista needed to return classical, pro-Western values to the classroom
Are you a parent upset that your public school is not teaching or modeling American values to your children?
Are you a teacher who, after dedicating your heart and soul to educating the next generation of Americans, is treated like a replaceable cog in a bureaucratic machine concerned more about scores than students?
Are you an administrator who has tried to change the broken public school system from the inside only to be beaten down by the weight of conformity?
Then Take Back Education is a book for you!
In his second book, Joe Murray, constitutional lawyer turned educator, turns a spotlight on public education. Take Back Education details how our nation’s classrooms have become battlefields in the culture war for the heart and soul of the country. Murray details how cultural Marxists have spent the last century systematically removing all elements of Western values and American exceptionalism from the classroom and replaced them with policies that seek to institutionalize conformity. Here is a sample of the issues
Competition in the classroom
"We live in an age in which competition is viewed as a vice and children are being taught that competition puts unnecessary pressure on their lives, causing anxiety and, therefore, creating an uncomfortable existence. Losing is nerve-racking because nobody wants to be a loser, so this new age educational theory has opted to just ban losing in lieu of giving the students the ability to cope with losing. The world, however, needs losers - especially losers who learn from their mistakes."
Equity vs. Equality
"Starting in the mid-Twentieth Century, public education in America moved towards a strict conformity that was meant to put all stakeholders – teachers, students, and parents – on the same page. The mindset behind conformity was that education should not be premised on the concept of equality – that every stakeholder has the opportunity to succeed or fail – but on equity – that every stakeholder, regardless of status, race, gender, or ability – must reach the same outcome. Such a mindset slowly crept into each of America’s classrooms, albeit in different forms. ...
What proponents of equity don’t realize is that, in their pursuit of equity, they are sending a message that certain students – based upon their race, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation – can never succeed without their help. Equity, thus, creates a system of dependence in which the value of students “in need” is connected to the artificial environment created by the public school officials who get to decide which students are entitled to the benefits of equity. Rather than lifting these students up, equity seeks to pin them down and forever link their success to others."
Standards-Based Grading
"Standards-based grading is doomed to fail because it is a political endeavor meant to further inject an educational Marxism into public education by forcing all students into the cage of conformity ...
In the name of equity, those students who naturally achieve must sit idle as those who do not achieve receive the same result without putting in the same effort. This is not educational equity; it is educational socialism."
Take Back Education is the blueprint to restore the values that built the heart and soul of the nation - liberty and equality.
Are you a teacher who, after dedicating your heart and soul to educating the next generation of Americans, is treated like a replaceable cog in a bureaucratic machine concerned more about scores than students?
Are you an administrator who has tried to change the broken public school system from the inside only to be beaten down by the weight of conformity?
Then Take Back Education is a book for you!
In his second book, Joe Murray, constitutional lawyer turned educator, turns a spotlight on public education. Take Back Education details how our nation’s classrooms have become battlefields in the culture war for the heart and soul of the country. Murray details how cultural Marxists have spent the last century systematically removing all elements of Western values and American exceptionalism from the classroom and replaced them with policies that seek to institutionalize conformity. Here is a sample of the issues
Competition in the classroom
"We live in an age in which competition is viewed as a vice and children are being taught that competition puts unnecessary pressure on their lives, causing anxiety and, therefore, creating an uncomfortable existence. Losing is nerve-racking because nobody wants to be a loser, so this new age educational theory has opted to just ban losing in lieu of giving the students the ability to cope with losing. The world, however, needs losers - especially losers who learn from their mistakes."
Equity vs. Equality
"Starting in the mid-Twentieth Century, public education in America moved towards a strict conformity that was meant to put all stakeholders – teachers, students, and parents – on the same page. The mindset behind conformity was that education should not be premised on the concept of equality – that every stakeholder has the opportunity to succeed or fail – but on equity – that every stakeholder, regardless of status, race, gender, or ability – must reach the same outcome. Such a mindset slowly crept into each of America’s classrooms, albeit in different forms. ...
What proponents of equity don’t realize is that, in their pursuit of equity, they are sending a message that certain students – based upon their race, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation – can never succeed without their help. Equity, thus, creates a system of dependence in which the value of students “in need” is connected to the artificial environment created by the public school officials who get to decide which students are entitled to the benefits of equity. Rather than lifting these students up, equity seeks to pin them down and forever link their success to others."
Standards-Based Grading
"Standards-based grading is doomed to fail because it is a political endeavor meant to further inject an educational Marxism into public education by forcing all students into the cage of conformity ...
In the name of equity, those students who naturally achieve must sit idle as those who do not achieve receive the same result without putting in the same effort. This is not educational equity; it is educational socialism."
Take Back Education is the blueprint to restore the values that built the heart and soul of the nation - liberty and equality.
232 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2022
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Joseph Murray
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Other authors publishing under this name are:
Joseph Murray
Joseph Murray, born 1896
Joseph Murray, born 1958
Joseph Murray, born 1976
Joseph Murray, Esq., Advocate
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