Have You Heard About the Movement to Make Our Children Innocent Again?

According to Rebecca Phillips, there is an inscription written on the wall of the Library of Congress in Washington stating: “the foundation of every state is the education of its youth” (quoting Diogenes). Phillips also wrote that America’s Founding Fathers agreed with the Greeks and Romans in their belief that “education meant instilling virtue as well as information. 

Things have changed in America since the nation was founded. “Now, education is progressive indoctrination.” However, “Education of the youth is still the foundation of a state, so what happens when the moral foundation of education itself begins to shift decisively toward a political extreme?” Another change may be coming. Phillips shared the following information.

On Thursday, the House decided in a narrow 214-212 vote to pass Trump’s rescission package to cut taxpayer funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. These media conglomerates have a decidedly left-wing bias, having supported cultural Marxist themes, drag shows, and blatant relativism. Perhaps PBS is more strongly associated in the minds of some Americans with cultural classics for young people such as “Cat in the Hat,” “Sesame Street,” or “Martha Speaks.” True, PBS did have a strong educational content in the early years, but by the turn of this century it took a turn for the woke.

In 2022, PBS was forced to cancel the longest running animated children’s show in the network’s history, “Arthur,” after backlash over their 2019 episode featuring a homosexual wedding and a 2020 episode discussing George Floyd’s death. Previously, when “Arthur” had tried to promote LGBTQ+ narratives, the episodes were removed under pressure from President George W. Bush’s Department of Education. But since Bush departed office, producers shamelessly have aired leftist propagandized shows. And they’re funded by American taxpayers.

In 2017, Bustle, the online women’s magazine with an audience of over 100 million monthly readers, said unashamedly that, “these progressive children’s shows prove that you don’t need to have an over 18 target audience to create work that challenges assumptions abut gender, race, and politics … that’s the beauty of these shows … this is education via stealth” [emphasis added]. They said the quiet part out loud, which gives me the chills, and not in a good way.

In line with this approach, Sesame Street ran an episode called “Family Day” with gay couple Dave and Frank in 2021, and in 2022, Elmo encouraged children to get the COVID shot, as part of PBS’s “the ABCs of the COVID Vaccine” learning initiative.

Sesame Street hosted outspoken homosexuals in recent years, such as Ellen DeGeneres and rapper Lil Nas X. Even PBS’ bipartisan literacy initiatives launched during the Reagan administration are now focused on “racial literacy.” PBS’ movie “Real Boy” features a transgender teenager who struggles with sobriety. The perfect viewing for a Friday family movie night! Lest we forget, these programs are aimed at children, who should not be over racialized or sexualized if the goal is to educate, not indoctrinate.

Phillips continued her article by explaining that “NPR’s programming over the past decade is rife with woke propaganda” and sharing some examples. She ended her article this way:

Feeling edified? Well, hopefully taxpayers across the political spectrum who value education won’t have to fund programs like this for much longer, as 214 House members concluded Thursday afternoon on the House floor: Federal funds do not belong in the pockets of woke media conglomerates. Education of youth is the foundation of a state, and elected officials are beginning to take that seriously.