This thread isn't about climate change. It also isn't about people who don't do anything about climate change. It's not even about 'woke', the right-wing boogeyman that isn't real and never happens and doesn't mean anything.
This thread is about Woke: the very real progressive ideology and epistemology, that is ahistorical, anti-science, an extremely bigoted. It's about how progressives don't disavow this ideology, but wear it proudly on their sleeve. It's about how some progressives package it as a grift, and sell it to other progressives who are too ideologically blinded to understand the mistakes they're making. It's about how these ideologically-blinded progressives are in our government, responsible for our childrens' education, spending our money to promote bankrupt and anti-social paradigms.
Stop trying to change the subject.
I don't think there is anything you can do as a parent except pull your kids out of government schools and homeschool them.
The benefit/cost calculus just isn't there for trying to change the system vs just educating your own kids.
Yesterday we had a meeting with the Dean, Associate Dean, and some faculty at the University's Engineering program. Our son was admitted to the University in what would have been his 7th grade year. He's in his third semester now getting straight A's and we're mapping out the strategy for finishing out his program at such a young age. It looks like he will graduate college before his cohorts graduate high school. He's not even high school age yet.
That was only possible because we homeschooled him.
Although we homeschooled, we follow the local schools closely - a lot more so than parents that actually warehouse their kids in those abysmal places.
They have a DEI committee that has spent two years now going through every class, every reading, every student activity, and every sport to make sure the woke agenda permeates every hour of school. DEI is front and center in their strategic plan. But graduating kids that can do math or write well - nope.
There is nothing effective we can do against the billions of dollars and all the government, media, and institutional horsepower behind it. Whereas every hour we have spent with our kids has produced irreplaceable value.
There is a wholesale flight from the government schools here. The local K-8 has gone from over 120 to around 30 now. They say it is more, but we sat outside the school on the day of the official count and there were 33. Three schools in town closed last year and one of them is now a homeschool administrative building. Homeschool is exploding.
I think you just have to let them win the Darwin Award. Let them go extinct.
