Tim Walz's indoctrination criticized

Catrin Wigfall of the Center for the American Experiment is highly critical of Minnesota's new Social Studies standards. She's reporting that some of the Minnesota Department of Education's paid experts are highly critical of the new standards, too.

Wigfall reports "In fact, expert reviewers paid by the Minnesota Department of Education to confirm whether the standards and benchmarks are clear and objective explicitly told MDE they are not, according to documents American Experiment obtained through a public data request."

Further, Wigfall reports "Three of the four expert reviewers, with years of experience related to social studies subject matter, criticized the standards and benchmarks. Reviewers highlighted not only political bias but numerous examples of broad and imprecise wording, problems of clarity, definition and contextual problems, and immeasurability."

Finally, it's being reported "one reviewer concluded that 'compared with dozens of other standards, and tested in a number of different ways, these proposed standards rank very low, much worse than average. They need a lot of revision before they could be called even barely adequate.'"

Catrin Wigfall explains what's at stake with this indoctrination:

This is what's most disturbing:

A "rigorous empirical test confirms that these benchmarks have a decidedly leftward slant, and they have essentially ‘marginalized’ valid moral concerns of the political right," wrote the reviewer. "Is this the ‘seeking of consensus’ that is desired in a set of educational standards? And please remember, I am writing as one who favors most of the ideas of the political left, but who also has devoted a career to the belief that the only way a democracy survives is by trying to find a mutually agreed foundation in provable facts and tested theories upon which to base our political discussions."

This isn't education. It's indoctrination. What's worst is that it's intentional. This isn't just happening. It's the product of the Walz/MDE system.

Indicting Tim Walz and Minnesota Department of Education

American Experiment first sounded the alarm about the ideological and practical problems with these standards back in December of 2021. Since then, tens of thousands of Minnesotans have voiced their opposition to the standards, mostly based on the reasons articulated above. Gov. Tim Walz and his Department of Education have stubbornly ignored all of this feedback, and it looks like they will now ignore the expert reviewers they hired and paid for with your money. The burden of these one-sided, divisive, and unmeasurable standards now falls on teachers and students across the state.

Is it Gov. Walz's goal to divide Minnesota? Is it to remake Minnesota in the Marxists' warped image? At this point, I'm betting that it's Gov. Walz's goal to make Minnesota into something it hasn't ever been. If the MDE ignored "tens of thousands of Minnesotans" who've "voiced their opposition to the standards," why shouldn't we think that Gov. Walz sees Minnesota as an imperfect, deeply flawed state?