School Textbook Page Goes Viral Amidst Claims It Contains Political Indoctrination
A school's textbook is going viral for a controversial math problem that some claim is an example of school indoctrination.
When school districts, their leaders, and more importantly, teachers claim that they have no hidden agenda when it comes to educating your children, they may actually be telling the truth. As the battle between public education and parents intensifies, public education has decided that hiding their agenda is no longer required. They now prefer to push their agenda front and center. Take for instance a textbook page found in a Seattle high school that many claims are a perfect example of political school indoctrination.
The school indoctrination page comes courtesy of Katie Daviscourt’s Twitter feed. There she claims, “This is the best example of indoctrination in public schools that I have seen yet.” She then follows that up with, “I was STUNNED when I found out that this was a Math question.”
The public school indoctrination Daviscourt reveals is titled Unit 1 – The Mole: Final Assessment. The question first contains a very lengthy and highly politicized description, along with a photo, of “young people being pepper-sprayed” while practicing “non-violent resistance as they advocated for the DACA program.” For those who are unaware of what the DACA program is, DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This program is part of the United States immigration policy. What it does is allows for individuals who are in the U.S. unlawfully after being brought here as children to receive a two-year pause from deportation. During this time, these children, who are now adults, can become eligible for an employment authorization document, also known as a work permit.
After the lengthy backstory that also spoke down on authority (the police), a math question was finally presented to students. Unfortunately, the school indoctrination spoke loud and clear. The question read: Pepper spray has a concentration of capsaicin that is 0.040 mol/L. If you get shot in the eye with 0.010 L of pepper spray at a rally downtown, how many moles of capsaicin did you get hit with?
This math problem regarding school indoctrination comes from Chief Sealth International High School in Emerald City. As many know, Seattle was one of the cities that were under much duress in mid-2020 as riots and lawlessness took over the once proud and beautiful city. From those riots, the damage to the city was massive. Not only were buildings and property destroyed in the city’s infamous Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, but violence rose drastically during that time. This sharp increase in violence included four shootings, two homicides, numerous instances of sexual assault, and arson.
One year later, CHAZ is gone, but its effects linger. Businesses are slowly returning, but not at the speed city officials hoped for. Schools have also been slow to reopen. As they have slowly gained their footing, the above school indoctrination is what parents and students are greeted with.
Reaction to Daviscourt’s tweet regarding school indoctrination was quick and virtually one-sided. As parents continue to have issues with critical race theory and gender identity that is being taught in public schools across the country, many took to Twitter to voice their displeasure. Here are a few reactions.
The push for school choice to fight this type of school indoctrination is ongoing. More than half the states across the country now have either passed legislation or are working on bills that would allow for parents to have a bigger say in where their children should be educated. But not only is school choice a major issue for parents, so are the teachings of gender identity and CRT. As seen with school choice, legislators are pushing for bills to remove CRT from schools permanently. They are also trying to set age limits as to when gender identity should be discussed in schools.
These fights are not going away any time soon. Parents have had their fill with school indoctrination and everything else that goes with it and they are finally being heard. Was Chief Sealth High School within their rights to pose that form of a question? Or was it a matter of school indoctrination? As for now, the textbook remains in place at the school.
