{"id":1407304,"date":"2022-03-29T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407304"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:00:43","slug":"whose-children-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whose-children-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Children Are They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhose-children-are-they%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1407304&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Children.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The creative team behind the documentary \u201cWhose Children Are They\u201d have been taking notes from the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Liberal documentaries are often unabashed op-eds, brimming with a singular perspective and burnished by deeply personal stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhose Children Are They?\u201d leans hard on both tactics, but the film brings something invigorating to the debate over education in the 21<\/span><span>st<\/span><span> century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, film darts from heartbreaking tales to hard news headlines to support the arguments in play. It\u2019s a devastating critique of public schools, and it couldn\u2019t come at a better time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It all starts with a comical scene from \u201cFerris Bueller\u2019s Day Off,\u201d but the tone quickly changes from giddy to grim. It\u2019s hard to escape what\u2019s happening in schools nationwide, whether you have young children or simply scour Twitter each day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Public schools, aided and abetted by teachers unions, have transformed the classroom into indoctrination hubs. Sound outrageous?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhose Children Are They?\u201d bombards us with too many examples to consider that rationale. We meet dozens of teachers, educators, students and parents, all with a personal stake in education today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film opens with a quick dissertation of Marxism and how what\u2019s happening in modern schools accurately mirrors what the socialist gurus crave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Children, Marx said, should belong to the state. Some parents, having lived through Communist oppression, recognize all too well what\u2019s happening nationwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMao is our real parent,\u201d A Chinese-American immigrant says of songs she was once forced to sing back in her native land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Cuban parent echoes that sentiment. Another parent warns our children \u201care an easy target\u201d to Marxists. And that\u2019s precisely how too many educators see their role, instead of teaching kids to be open minded, curious and smart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s no accident that, according to the film, 94 percent of teachers union spending steers to the Democratic party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film\u2019s two-hour running time may be much for some viewers. There\u2019s so much information to absorb, and the heart-rending stories leave audiences woozy. But that running time allows for a comprehensive snapshot, allowing the film to \u201cfollow the money\u201d and show how the administrative state balloons while hard-working teachers struggle for scraps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The unavoidable through line? The massive, corrupt and venal teachers unions, the bodies that coordinated with the CDC to keep children out of schools and, later, masked up despite the science. The system also lets lackluster teachers retain their jobs while the best and brightest talents often get pushed aside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And it\u2019s ground zero for the indoctrination campaigns, ranging from Critical Race Theory and hardcore sex education to grievance culture gone mad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film\u2019s timing couldn\u2019t be more fortuitious. The red wave in Virginia had deep roots in parents becoming fed up with a system gone mad. We\u2019ve just seen the last of school masking mandates, targeting a population under a microscopic threat from COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Viral videos of impassioned parents fighting the system flood the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhose Children Are They?\u201d will throw gasoline on a national, necessary fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The documentary veers from the bizarre \u2013 young band students playing music in mini-tents to avoid COVID-19 \u2013 to the outrageous. The latter involves the grotesquely sexual information trotted out for young children to process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film has a specific, and uniform, point of view, but few could claim it lacks diversity. We see a crush of smart, passionate people of color arguing against the new status quo. The assembled talking heads, regardless of skin color or heritage, are engaged and plainspoken. It\u2019s impossible not to connect with their stories and feel their pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And there\u2019s pain a plenty here, from frustrated teachers forced to push agendas in the classroom to parents aghast at what their children must endure beyond the three Rs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We even hear from some students, eloquent voices sharing the despair they faced during the lockdowns and aggressive masking rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In short order you\u2019ll be as angry as the voices assembled for the film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCOVID didn\u2019t break the public school system. It was already broken,\u201d says noted education expert Corey DeAngelis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The pandemic wrought havoc on most families, but the film suggests one silver lining emerged: Parents got a glimpse of what their children are learning, and many were shocked at what they discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Except too many teachers, and their unions, loathe transparency. It\u2019s hard to blame them when schools are actively pushing gender fluidity, radical racial lessons and more on unsuspecting kids. The elites know how the public at large will receive this information, so they do their best to keep it a secret.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Movies like \u201cWhose Children Are They?\u201d are opening the lid on said secrets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film may lack the sizzle of some mainstream documentaries, but it\u2019s handsomely assembled and offers a few robust sequences like a comic book detour sprung to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A limited series format may have suited the material better given the expansive details packed in every segment. It\u2019s at times draining to soak it all in, from progressive policies that make schools more dangerous to the farcical notion that impoverished white students must renounce their privilege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A brief segway into school shootings doesn\u2019t precisely fit the narrative in play, but hearing how anti-gun zealots turned a heroic student\u2019s memorial into a political event will turn anyone\u2019s stomach. That lad\u2019s parents recall the awful moment, teary eyed but resolute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chances are, John Oliver and the rest of the late night crew didn\u2019t get around to shredding those activists on their nightly shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The sexual material being introduced to children adds another horrifying chapter to a film overflowing with them. This isn\u2019t a case of overly protective parents recoiling at any form of sex education. The material in question is clearly meant for adults and has no place in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s often the teachers who are on the front lines of the indoctrination. They\u2019re meant to be transformed first, so they can then push the new narratives onto their children. Some embrace that assignment, witness the outlandish TikTok videos where they brag about saluting LGBTQ flags and cheer on sexually explicit lessons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The push for equity also comes under fire, showing how eliminating standards and advanced education tracks only hurts the students themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The viewer may feel like one of Mike Tyson\u2019s early, anonymous foes by the time the film\u2019s bullying segment roars into view. The confessions sound eerily familiar to the Cancel Culture scolds who punish anyone who doesn\u2019t agree with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhose Children Are They\u201d is like a cultural smart bomb dropping at just the right time. It\u2019s compelling, consistently so, and brings a measured tone that\u2019s hard to slam or destroy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=litOHblfPaA\">film<\/a> arrives with serious conservative credentials, but it has the power to cross the aisle and bring left-leaning parents into the fold \u2026 and fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creative team behind the documentary \u201cWhose Children Are They\u201d have been taking notes from the Left.Liberal documentaries are often unabashed op-eds, brimming with a singular perspective and burnished by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}