Plotting Against You

They've got no plans to truly educate your kids

03/24/2025

Writing to you from Denver, Colorado.

“Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants.”

John Taylor Gatto was a public school teacher in New York City for nearly 30 years.

He saw the best of children and the absolute worst. However, although he dealt with many irritating situations as a teacher, he came to realize that the system (not the kids) was the problem.

Occasionally, when it could slip by the administration, he would give kids real-world assignments that had nothing to do with the mandatory curriculum.

It usually had to do with working a job and learning something new outside of school.

When the kids completed their “homework”, some would come back to school as better humans who were just that more prepared to face the actual world with confidence.

Of course, these assignments didn’t happen often and couldn’t continue for long.

Administration surely would have put an end to that.

As Gatto became more educated himself, his perspective expanded until he saw that the entire education system is set up in a way to create unthinking, incompetent, virtueless servants.

Here’s what he had to say in his acceptance speech for New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991:

I’ve taught public school for 26 years but I just can’t do it anymore. For years I asked the local school board and superintendent to let me teach a curriculum that doesn’t hurt kids, but they had other fish to fry. So I’m going to quit, I think.

I’ve come slowly to understand what it is I really teach: A curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect for privacy, indifference to quality, and utter dependency. I teach how to fit into a world I don’t want to live in.

I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true.

He went much further than that and I recommend you read the rest here.

John did get one thing wrong though…

He thought that if just enough people realized how rotten the system is that it could be reformed. Well, perhaps it’s easier to see this 30+ years later, but no, there isn’t a shot of that happening.

It Has Only Gotten Worse

The last two schools I went to (a private middle school for 3 years and a public high school for 2 months) were so bad that it caused me to research schools and school curriculums all across the country.

At the middle school a new class was created for us to learn - as they said - “leadership”.

What did they actually try to teach us about?

Cultural appropriation, racism, and preferred pronouns.

No, I’m not joking.

They showed us a Teen Vogue video on which Halloween costumes to avoid due to cultural appropriation. They sat us down in a circle (a school full of white kids and a few Asians) to talk about racism. Then, they sat us down in another circle months later to have the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) come and talk to us about bullying…but they had us go around and state out preferred pronouns.

Later on, just before COVID, our teachers separated us into a group of boys and a group of girls to accuse us boys (8th graders) of sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Yeah, you heard that right.

And, it all stemmed from the fact that one kid was acting like a balloon was his penis.

Absolutely insane.

Of course, that behavior from the teacher and the things they “taught” us all comes from one highly dangerous mental framework that is widespread.

I wrote much more about that absolute insanity a while back and you can check it out here:

Private School to Public School

In the middle of COVID I made the transition from that private middle school to a South High School in Denver.

The reason I was only there for 2 months?

Well, you can start with the fact that the principle and the English teacher were wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. When what could be a terrorist organization burns down large parts of the country its amazing to watch “educators” support it.

Within the span of just a few weeks I witnessed my math teacher spend the first part of the class talking about her favorite politicians. The science teacher was lecturing us on preferred pronouns. And, last but not least, that English teacher was getting us to read a feminist book.

You can read more about that here:

Deeper Dive

For almost a year after I left that school I put countless hours into finding out if what I had experienced at those two schools was a fluke.

It wasn’t.

Many public and private schools I looked into had clear signs of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) curriculum. From Texas, New York, Colorado, California, Florida, or Idaho…I found it everywhere, no matter if it was a “blue” or “red” state.

I even had students from conservative areas in Canada send me the DEI curriculum they had.

With a little bit of research anybody could dig into their kid’s school’s website and find evidence of indoctrination. Yet, the most shocking thing I ever discovered came when I tried to get the Denver Public Schools high school curriculum…

I contacted the school and school board one day to try to get the full curriculum. They only sent me a curriculum guide, which really was no help and did not contain the full curriculum.

After months of stalling on their end, they finally got back to tell me this:

They had no right to give me the curriculum because it was owned by a private company.

That’s right. You, as a parent, have no right to see exactly what your child is learning in the classroom. It’s hidden from you.

Abandonment, Not Reform

If you’re a grandparent or parent of a child in public or private school you HAVE to find the curriculum. If they won’t give it to you, then you need to find another way to educate your child.

They probably aren’t getting a good education anyway…

Even without the political indoctrination, the system of education has been twisted and shaped to produce a cog in the wheel, not an individual.

It’s been screwed for longer than you’d believe.

Reform isn’t possible and that’s clear from the simple fact that most parents just don’t give enough of a damn to think about what their child is actually learning for 8 hours a day. The prospect of getting just “enough” people to wake up is fantastical.

The only way out - where you can ensure that your child isn’t indoctrinated and gets a solid education - is by completely abandoning the system as a whole. That means homeschooling.

Parents have told me that homeschooling their children is unrealistic because they have a job.

That’s nothing but an excuse and it’s operating on the assumption that kids do in fact need to sit down and learn for 8 hours a day.

A kid can get an impressive homeschool education with just 2-4 hours of study a day. The rest of the day is spent learning how to act in the real world…not sit down and obey.

So, for the sake of your kids and their future:

Get them out of the system as fast as possible.

“Whatever education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your roadmap through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.”