Remember when school was just… school? When the mission was teaching kids how to read a book and understand American history, not how to question their own biology. Parents once sent their children off on the yellow bus with a baseline confidence that they were learning the basics needed to become capable, well-adjusted citizens. That trust seems like a relic from a bygone era.
Now, that confidence has been replaced by a gnawing suspicion that something is deeply wrong. We see the results all around us: a generation plagued by anxiety, unable to handle basic intellectual challenges, and shockingly ignorant of our nation’s heritage. The experts and bureaucrats, of course, have a Rolodex of excuses. They point to the shiny laptops they forced on every school and essentially say, “Oops, our bad.” As if it were just a multi-billion-dollar miscalculation.
A recent report, however, reveals the stunning scale of the failure, citing an expert who testified before the U.S. Senate.
From ‘The Post Millennial’:
“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them. Federal policy can restore balance by demanding evidence, protecting children’s developmental needs, and ensuring that innovation serves learning rather than attention capture.”
Look, the expert has a point. Anesthetizing children with screens all day is obviously a recipe for disaster. Spending an incredible $30 billion of taxpayer money to do it—only to discover that Gen Z is the first American generation to score worse on tests than their parents—is a monumental indictment of bureaucratic incompetence.
But if you think this is just about laptops, you haven’t been paying attention. The hardware was never the real threat. That $30 billion boondoggle is the perfect cover story, a high-tech smokescreen designed to hide the real cultural arson taking place in our schools.
More Than a Screen Deep
While parents were being told to worry about screen time, a far more corrosive revolution was gutting the curriculum. The foundational principles of a real education were stealthily replaced with the incoherent dogmas of woke ideology.
You can’t build a bridge with “social justice math.” You can’t understand the world by reading books exclusively about grievance and oppression. Yet that’s precisely the trade-off they made. They swapped out literature and history for Critical Race Theory and gender nonsense. They stopped teaching children how to think and started programming them on what to think. The decline in cognitive ability isn’t some great mystery; it’s the engineered outcome of a system that actively discourages independent thought.
Unions Protecting Ideology, Not Students
Let’s be clear. This ideological coup couldn’t have happened without the praetorian guard of the progressive left: the teachers’ unions. These are not professional organizations dedicated to educational excellence. They are political machines, pure and simple, and their primary product is activism.
They are the ones who fight to the death to keep parents out of the classroom. They are the ones who defend the most radical, anti-American curricula while viciously opposing any form of school choice that would allow families to escape their failing systems. They have made it their mission to protect the ideological agenda at all costs, even if it means sacrificing an entire generation’s future. The laptops just made it easier to stream their propaganda directly into every child’s mind.
The $30 billion is gone, and we can’t get it back. But the real crime wasn’t the wasted money. It was the betrayal. The plummeting test scores aren’t a bug in the system; they are the feature. The only way to fix this is to stop talking about screens and start ripping out the ideological poison that has infected our schools from the root.
Key Takeaways
- The government’s $30 billion tech experiment in schools was a catastrophic failure.
- Radical woke ideologies have replaced fundamental education, causing test scores to plummet.
- Teachers’ unions act as political enforcers, protecting ideology over student achievement.
- Parents must fight to reclaim our schools from this progressive takeover.
Sources: The Post Millennial
