It's a valid concern, but I think it's worth pointing out: education systems might not necessarily transmit values all that much.
It's become an article of faith in the current political moment that public schools drive children's values in a big way, but I'm not sure that's as powerful an effect as people think. Look how quickly the post-Soviet world moved away from the ideologies that generations were raised in; how many gay, trans, etc kids continue to exist in red parts of the country, in spite of all judgement--hell, just look how many kids don't do their algebra homework. Schools largely exist downstream of culture; they interact with it and mediate it to some degree, but I don't think they really create much of it.
Is it? Not that I don't believe you, I just haven't seen evidence for it, and in fact anecdotally I've seen largely the opposite. Maybe we're comparing slightly different things.
So feel kind of worried they could mainstream their ideas in a generation through control of red state and red county education systems.
It's a valid concern, but I think it's worth pointing out: education systems might not necessarily transmit values all that much.
It's become an article of faith in the current political moment that public schools drive children's values in a big way, but I'm not sure that's as powerful an effect as people think. Look how quickly the post-Soviet world moved away from the ideologies that generations were raised in; how many gay, trans, etc kids continue to exist in red parts of the country, in spite of all judgement--hell, just look how many kids don't do their algebra homework. Schools largely exist downstream of culture; they interact with it and mediate it to some degree, but I don't think they really create much of it.
Being gay or trans isnтАЩt a value set though. The relationship between education and ideology is pretty well established
Is it? Not that I don't believe you, I just haven't seen evidence for it, and in fact anecdotally I've seen largely the opposite. Maybe we're comparing slightly different things.