Another reason to abolish liberal arts teaching courses, as if we needed one

“It’s more likely the sword is meant to pair with the shield, for one complete military metaphor. Military coats of arms often include a sword above the shield — and that does not symbolize a sword threatening the family's crest on the shield. …. Critics of this seal and flag have no understanding of heraldry.”

Massachusetts sixth-graders get woke, demand new state flag that won’t offend redskins

On Thursday, the Amherst, Mass., school system announced that it had been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for sixth-grade activism projects. In particular, the SPLC rewarded class projects protesting the state flag for being "violent" to Native Americans, supporting reforestation, and advocating for the Green New Deal.

The $10,000 grant will build on an earlier grant for the previous school year, which enabled Fort River Elementary School to expand "the scope of student work, moving beyond writing and advocacy into a third phase when students worked with Organizers in Residence to organize for change on various issues."

Students worked on three projects: "Change the imagery on the state flag they considered violent and denigrating to Native Americans; Prevent deforestation in Massachusetts, and increase local planting through the Trillion Tree Initiative; and Support the Green New Deal."

"Massachusetts is a peaceful state, and the Commonwealth’s current flag is not allowing us to put our best foot forward. The 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower is coming in 2020, and we want this flag change to reflect our history by honoring Native Americans," [the students] wrote.

Massachusetts is “a peaceful state”? Tell it to Lexington.

I don’t particularly care if the remnants of our woodland Indian tribes are still sulking over their lost pumpkin fields and lima beans; my ancestors did the bulk of the necessary work to ensure we didn’t have to go back to where we’d come from, and if there’s more still to be done, then today’s generation can attend to it. What I do object to is the brainwashing of school children as is going on in public schools across the country. And that process to form little activists begins as soon as the state gets its hands on the unsuspecting kids, as early as First Grade, where we’re seeing the introduction of the concept of “micro-aggressions”, so that the young sponges can start understanding and feeling guilty of or put-upon, depending, by racism, sexism, and “structural inequality”.

It’s probably too soon to ask that we shut down the liberal arts divisions of our colleges and universities entirely, but a good start could be made toward restoring the nation if we stopped siccing earnest young proselytizers on our children.

That’d be just one small step for a teachers college, but a giant leap for mankind.