We should encourage Hillsdale’s curriculum

I had to laugh at Lisa Schurr’s “My View” opinion in the April 20 Observer. The title says it all: “Hillsdale dogma should not dominate schools.” An addendum to that should read: “But my dogma should dominate schools.” After all, that’s what she’s saying.

As a proud financial contributor to Hillsdale College and recipient of its monthly periodical, “Imprimis,” I can attest that Schurr has no knowledge of Hillsdale’s philosophy of education, promoting America and freedom of the individual. I guess if you don’t proselytize CRT and the "1619 Project" as fact, then you aren’t teaching our school children the truth about America. Nonsense.

America was very much founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs as a governing way of life and was defended by our Founders with all of their properties, wealth and lives pledged before, during and after the American Revolution toward freedom from British oppression.

Power is never given: It is taken. And take we did.

Given the three precepts presented at the beginning of Schurr’s article, it’s obvious she doesn’t have a clue about protecting the children from unionized teachers and administrators gone astray. “Modern, scientific and fact-based standards for educational curriculum” means what exactly? Brainwashing young children to reject their bodies as born; pushing reading materials way beyond their young minds’ comprehension; rejecting America as the savior of the world during two world wars and countless incidences of aggression against us and our allies?

Let’s talk about teacher unions. By definition, unions are nothing but legalized price-fixing organizations, which if manifested by businesses colluding among each other in pricing, would be subject to federal legal action and fines. But who cares? They exist for the benefit of the children! More nonsense.

The question looms large: Who is looking after the interests of the consumer, the children? It wasn’t until the massive shutdown of this great country by the Democrats during the pandemic and the consequential home schooling that parents were exposed to the self-serving, philosophically repugnant curriculum of current teaching doctrine. “Hey, let’s teach masturbation to kindergarteners; develop new sexes; invent new pronouns; reject all that is taught at the freedom loving and proud American institution of greater learning, Hillsdale College, which receives no government funding of any kind from any governments.

Parents rebelled and were consequently labeled as “domestic terrorists” by the Department of Justice for the act of protecting their children from teacher tyranny — a lesson learned from the Soviet Union about the destruction of the nuclear family.

Hillsdale College offers many online classes provided by world-class instructors, such as Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a great many others too numerous to mention. That is the direction our school children should be encouraged to follow: Freedom of the individual to explore, to learn, to question and to challenge.

May America never succumb to the death wished by Schurr and her misstated “health and well-being of all students” when the health and well-being are narrowly defined by her dogmas. Open discussion and inquiry rule but not in her world.

America the great. The proven savior of the free world. Live on!

— Milan V. Adrian, Longboat Key