Education or Indoctrination? How America’s Schools Broke Our Kids—and Our Future
10 Things Killing America | Part 2
Our schools aren’t failing by accident—they’re broken by design. Instead of teaching our kids how to think, they’re being programmed to repeat. The basics? Forgotten. The agenda? Forced down their throats. We’re raising generations who can’t balance a checkbook but can name every identity on a rainbow flag. Welcome to the collapse of education — and this is just the start.
The Death of Education — And Why It’s Our Fault
You sent your kid to school thinking they’d learn how to live—not just how to feel.
You imagined classrooms where they’d be taught real skills, tough truths, and how to think for themselves.
What you got instead? Indoctrination dressed up as education.
Schools used to be about preparing kids for the real world.
Now? They’re factories pumping out fragile, outraged, and obedient little parrots who can’t manage their own money but can explain “systemic oppression” like pros.
This isn’t an accident. It’s a goddamn crisis—and it’s killing America.
Over the next few weeks, I’m tearing apart the lies, exposing the BS, and showing you exactly how we got here—and what the hell we can do about it.
Ready for some truth? Good. Because nobody else is going to say it like this.
— Ivana
Schools Used to Teach—Now They Program
Once upon a time—not even that long ago—school was where you went to prepare for the real world.
You learned to read, write, calculate, reason.
You were expected to show up, think for yourself, and be ready to build something—your life, your future, your country.
That’s over.
Today’s schools don’t teach. They program.
Our kids are no longer educated.
They’re conditioned.
They're not walking out of classrooms with knowledge—they're walking out with scripts.
Scripts built by bureaucrats.
Approved by activists.
Funded by unions.
Sanitized by tech overlords.
And forced on children too young to even know they’re being fed bullshit.
Critical thinking? Replaced with critical theory.
Logic? Replaced with ideology.
Skills? Replaced with slogans.
Ask a high school senior how to file taxes. Crickets.
Ask them their pronouns and the entire room lights up with applause.
Your kid can’t read cursive, doesn’t know how interest rates work, and has zero clue how the economy functions—but they’ve been taught that climate change will end the world in 12 years, men can get pregnant, and words are violence.
We’re not raising adults.
We’re producing parrots.
Obedient. Emotional. Easily manipulated.
Perfect little foot soldiers for whatever narrative is trending.
And don’t even try to question it.
Parents who dare push back get labeled dangerous extremists.
“Trust the experts,” they say.
You mean the same ones who let reading scores collapse while pushing gender identity theory in kindergarten?
Right.
What we’ve created is a system where students are taught to:
Memorize the narrative
Never challenge authority
Hate the past, resent the present, and fear the future
And this isn’t a glitch in the system—it is the system.
This is what happens when you hand the classroom over to unions, federal bureaucrats, and people who think every child is either a victim or an oppressor based on what they look like.
When schools focus more on indoctrinating kids with “anti-racism,” gender politics, and environmental hysteria than teaching them how to think, work, solve problems, or speak truth—you don’t get progress.
You get collapse.
Look around.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that we’ve got 20-somethings screaming in the streets, unable to debate a single point without having a mental breakdown?
This is the first generation raised to feel safe instead of be strong.
A generation taught to chase victimhood, not victory.
To seek comfort, not courage.
To cancel, not confront.
And the worst part?
Most of them don’t even know they’ve been brainwashed.
They think they’re informed.
They think they’re enlightened.
They think regurgitating TikTok talking points is intelligence.
It’s not.
It’s indoctrination with a wifi connection.
And unless parents, teachers with balls, and everyday Americans stand up, speak out, and tear this system down to its rotten roots, we’re fucked.
Because a nation that doesn’t teach its kids to think…
Will one day be ruled by people who can’t.
Stats Don’t Lie, But Schools Do
We live in an era where information is everywhere, yet our schools have somehow turned into factories of ignorance. And the numbers prove it—loud and ugly.
Only 13% of eighth graders can pass a basic U.S. history test.
Let that sink in.
Almost nine out of ten American kids can’t tell you why the Declaration of Independence mattered, who fought in the Civil War, or what checks and balances really mean. They don’t understand the foundations of their own country—the ideals, struggles, sacrifices—that built the America they live in.
How is this even possible? Because history has been rewritten, watered down, or outright erased to fit a narrative that serves certain agendas rather than educating minds. Schools have swapped patriotism for guilt trips, nuance for outrage, and complexity for slogans.
This isn’t just a failure—it’s a betrayal.
The Death of Free Speech on Campus
Move past middle school and the situation doesn’t get better.
A staggering 60% of college students say they support speech censorship. Imagine that: the place where ideas should clash, collide, and evolve has become a bubble of fragile feelings and intellectual safe spaces.
When more than half the student population thinks it’s okay to silence opposing opinions, you’ve lost the very foundation of what a university is supposed to be—a marketplace of ideas.
Why? Because critical thinking has been replaced by groupthink.
Dissent is no longer tolerated; instead, it’s demonized.
And it’s not just speech. It’s an entire worldview being forced on young adults—identity politics, victim culture, and moral absolutism—with little room for debate or nuance.
The Real-Life Skills They’re Not Teaching
While they’re busy policing words and feelings, what about the practical skills that actually matter?
Here’s the cold truth: most high schools don’t require classes in personal finance, taxes, budgeting, or basic contract literacy.
What does that mean?
Your kid graduates clueless about managing money, understanding debt, or even how to read a lease or a job contract.
Do you know how many adults struggle because they never learned these skills? Millions. Student loan debt explodes, credit card bills pile up, and bankruptcy rates rise.
Meanwhile, kids are being taught how to identify microaggressions and recite complex gender theories—but not how to file a tax return or negotiate a salary.
The Emotional Toll of Ideological Overload
The damage isn’t only intellectual; it’s emotional and psychological.
Schools have become echo chambers of victimhood where every discomfort is a crisis, and every disagreement is an attack. This environment breeds anxiety, fragility, and polarization. Young people learn to see themselves as perpetual victims or oppressors, and that’s it.
They graduate not ready for real-world challenges, but prepared to collapse under the slightest pressure.
So What Are We Paying For?
Taxpayers foot the bill for this disaster.
Billions spent annually on a system that’s churning out ignorant, fragile adults who can’t think critically or manage their lives.
And who’s responsible?
Administrators who protect their jobs, teachers unions more interested in ideology than results, policymakers who pander to special interests, and a society too distracted to demand better.
The Wake-Up Call
We have two choices: continue down this path and watch an entire generation stumble blindly into adulthood—or fight back.
Demand a curriculum that teaches real history—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Insist on financial literacy and practical skills that prepare kids for life, not indoctrination.
Push for environments where free speech is protected, not punished.
Support teachers who encourage independent thought instead of obedience.
Indoctrination 101
Welcome to the modern American classroom—where education has been hijacked by ideology and turned into a factory of conformity and control.
This isn’t the place where young minds sharpen their tools to understand reality. No, today’s schools are laboratories for social engineering, disguised behind colorful posters and buzzwords like diversity, equity, and inclusion. But underneath, it’s indoctrination dressed as education.
Activists, Not Teachers
Remember when teachers taught math? History? Science? When they gave you facts, theories, and the tools to question everything? That’s a fading memory.
Now, the math teacher is less about numbers and more about preaching woke dogma. The blackboard becomes a pulpit for activist sermons—systemic racism, white privilege, gender politics—presented as undeniable truths.
And forget solving for x—you’re being tested on your allyship.
History classes don’t focus on dates or historical cause and effect anymore. Instead, students get a condensed syllabus of America’s crimes—colonialism, slavery, and oppression—taught with such one-sided venom that the narrative boils down to “America = evil.” Nuance? Complexity? Forget it.
Questioning? Not Allowed.
Here’s the cruelest irony: schools used to be temples of critical thinking and debate. Now, questioning the curriculum is practically forbidden.
Ask a tough question about why something is taught this way?
You’re met with hostility.
Express a different viewpoint?
You’re labeled a threat.
Challenge the accepted ideology?
You’re ostracized or disciplined.
In some schools, teachers encourage students to report peers who disagree, creating a culture of fear and surveillance.
The Rise of Emotional Censorship
Education is no longer about intellectual challenge; it’s about emotional comfort.
“Trigger warnings” precede lessons, “safe spaces” are everywhere, and students are trained to prioritize feelings over facts.
This leads to a chilling effect—any opinion that makes someone uncomfortable is shut down before it’s even voiced.
But life isn’t safe. Real adults have to grapple with uncomfortable truths and conflicting ideas every day.
What does this produce?
A generation of students who feel deeply but think shallowly.
We’re raising kids to be fragile and tribal, not strong and independent.
The Ugly Truth Beneath the Surface
This isn’t an accident or a side effect. It’s a strategy. A deliberate effort to reshape society by controlling the narrative fed to children from a young age.
By rewriting history, policing language, and punishing dissent, schools aim to manufacture compliant citizens who won’t challenge the status quo.
The consequences are terrifying: a populace divided, incapable of honest dialogue, and quick to censor any opposition.
But Here’s the Thing…
We can’t afford to stay silent.
Education isn’t just about school—it’s the foundation of freedom and democracy.
If we let this indoctrination stand, we’re giving up on thinking altogether.
So What Now?
We demand education that encourages debate, embraces complexity, and teaches real skills.
We fight for teachers who value truth over ideology and empower students to think independently.
We expose the indoctrination and call it out for what it is.
Because the future depends on whether our kids grow up as free thinkers or programmed puppets.
We’re Raising Emotional Invalids
What the hell happened to resilience? To grit? To mental toughness?
Today’s youth are trapped in a cultural bubble where discomfort is demonized—a place where the slightest disagreement triggers what can only be described as emotional collapse. It’s not just that kids can’t handle criticism—they’ve been taught not to handle it.
They’re being systematically conditioned to equate discomfort with violence.
The Meltdown Epidemic: Facts You Can’t Ignore
The stats are staggering and terrifying:
The CDC reports that suicide is now the second leading cause of death among teens, a direct symptom of rising anxiety and depression.
A 2023 study in the Journal of American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry found a 40% increase in anxiety disorders among youth since 2010.
Nearly 70% of high school students report feeling persistently sad or hopeless—and emotional fragility is skyrocketing.
These aren’t coincidences. They’re the product of a culture that treats discomfort like trauma and failure like a crime.
Indoctrination or Education?
For decades, education meant preparing kids for life: building critical thinking, emotional strength, and the ability to handle conflict.
Now? It’s about avoiding any conflict, any discomfort, any challenge.
Schools have become places where emotional safety trumps intellectual rigor. Classrooms are sanitized zones of ideological conformity where:
Tough questions are discouraged.
Debate is framed as microaggression.
Trigger warnings precede any material that might cause “emotional harm.”
Emotional Immaturity Is Not Innocence
This infantilization does more damage than good.
When every opposing view is labeled dangerous, when emotional regulation is replaced with outbursts or avoidance, kids never develop the resilience to deal with real life’s messiness.
They grow up expecting the world to coddle them, validate them endlessly, and protect them from truth.
The Culture of Victimhood
This leads to an entire generation trapped in victimhood narratives:
Everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed.
Accountability is replaced with blame.
Personal responsibility is outsourced to group identity and feelings.
The result? Fragile egos that crumble under the weight of any challenge, and outrage mobs ready to cancel anyone who disagrees.
Mental Health or Manufactured Fragility?
The rise in anxiety and depression isn’t just a mental health problem—it’s a symptom of social engineering gone wrong.
When kids are taught:
To prioritize feelings over facts,
To seek validation rather than truth,
To avoid discomfort instead of confronting it—
they develop emotional dependency, not independence.
The Real Danger: Unprepared Adults
And what happens when these kids leave school?
They enter a workplace where hard truths and tough feedback are daily.
They face political and social realities that are complex and often uncomfortable.
They encounter economic challenges that demand adaptability and grit.
Without emotional resilience, they struggle, burn out, or retreat into echo chambers that reinforce their fragility.
Emotional Invalids = Societal Risk
We’re not just talking about individuals. This fragility threatens the fabric of society itself:
A democracy needs citizens who can debate, disagree, and tolerate opposing views.
A workforce needs employees who can handle pressure, solve problems, and adapt.
Communities need people who can manage conflict without melting down or calling for censorship.
Instead, we get emotional invalids trained to see dissent as violence and complexity as a threat.
The Path Forward: Reclaiming Resilience
This crisis demands a revolution in how we raise and educate kids:
Teach emotional regulation and coping skills, not avoidance.
Emphasize critical thinking over ideological conformity.
Encourage debate, discomfort, and even failure as necessary parts of growth.
Because if we don’t, we’re not just raising a generation of anxious kids—we’re raising a generation that won’t survive reality.
Fix It or Watch It Burn
This wasn’t carelessness. This was calculated.
What’s happening in our schools isn’t an accident. It’s a strategy.
They don’t want kids who can reason. They want kids who submit. Kids who follow rules they never got to question. Kids who believe that feelings are facts and truth is offensive.
They don’t want independent thinkers. They want emotional hostages — quick to comply, terrified to dissent.
Let’s be blunt:
Our education system has become a soft prison for the mind.
Ask a student why inflation matters or how a mortgage works — blank stares.
Ask them their pronouns or who’s oppressed today — suddenly they’re scholars.
This isn’t education. This is engineered fragility.
And don’t think it’s a fluke. The numbers scream it loud and clear:
Over 60% of college students support restrictions on free speech if it’s “offensive.”
Only 22% of high school seniors are proficient in civics.
Barely 1 in 3 Americans can name all three branches of government.
But a staggering number can tell you why “everything is problematic.”
They aren’t preparing kids for the real world. They’re grooming them for managed decline.
Teach them to fear disagreement. Punish curiosity. Reward compliance. That’s the formula.
And while kids spiral into anxiety, debt, and dysfunction — the institutions pat themselves on the back for being “inclusive.” For raising kids who cry on cue but can’t function without Wi-Fi and a trigger warning.
We are raising a generation that’s emotionally coddled and intellectually starved.
This is the hill. And we’re still pretending it’s a molehill.
You want a better future?
Stop outsourcing your child’s mind to the same machine that’s gutting the country from the inside out.
Pull them out. Speak up. Stop apologizing.
Because the longer we stay polite, the more ground we lose.
And make no mistake — they are playing the long game.
They’re not after your kid’s grades. They’re after their compass.
Their spine. Their ability to question, challenge, build, lead.
If we don’t rip this rot out by the roots, we’ll end up with a nation full of walking slogans — people who can chant what they were told but can’t think their way out of a paper bag.
You think this ends well? It doesn’t.
Fix it now — or explain to your grandchildren why you watched it all burn and said nothing.
You wanted education. You got indoctrination.
You wanted preparation for life. You got preparation for victimhood.
So, what’s it going to be?
Fix the damn system—or watch it burn.
🔥 Up Next: The Media Machine — Propaganda with Ads
The media isn’t just reporting news anymore — it’s selling you a story, packed with propaganda and wrapped in ads.
They don’t want you thinking. They want you scrolling, clicking, consuming — hooked on outrage and distraction.
Next post, we’ll expose how every headline, every commercial, every “breaking news” moment is designed to keep you distracted, divided, and buying into their agenda.
Next Tuesday. Don’t sleep on this.
We sent our 4 to parochial schools. The oldest two went through HS graduation with no issues other than the "normal" teenage BS. Incredibly well balanced young adults. The younger two were pulled out at 13 and 10, respectively, due to a complete drop in values and enforcement of expectations. Home schooled them through their GED's. Both are now quite accomplished young adults with, what we feel, is a great appreciation for the way they want to be successful in their lives, versus what they're seeing in many of their peers. It's not just public education that's failing our youngsters.
It seems teachers colleges produced for several generations propagandists rather then curriculum pedagogues. No wonder that teachers union is a bastion of left wing excesses.
Colleges that award teaching diplomas must be reformed from activists factories into real teachers prep institution first and foremost.
Also changing badly skewed Females (78%) to males ratio (4:1) between teachers needs to be corrected - hiring male veterans might be first step there.