{"id":239160,"date":"2021-07-21T06:54:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239160"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:58:06","slug":"do-students-in-the-u-s-have-a-constitutional-right-not-to-be-captive-audiences-to-left-wing-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=239160","title":{"rendered":"Do Students in the U.S. Have a Constitutional Right NOT to Be \u2018Captive Audiences\u2019 to Left-Wing Ideology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Robert Bridge \u2013 Strategic Culture July 19, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>There\u2019s a war on for the hearts and minds of children across the U.S. and the battlefield has become the very schools that millions of Americans are required to send their kids for a state-run education. But just as everyone has a constitutional right to speak their mind, members of the audience should never be forced to listen against their will.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the everyday worries over the physical safety of our children are concerns over their mental wellbeing, a subject that at one time could be largely taken for granted. No more. It\u2019s no secret that many schools are subjecting children to lessons on transgender and alternative sexual lifestyles, as well as the racist ideology of critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>For millions of Americans on both sides of the political divide, these teachings are ideological heresies that have absolutely no place in the classroom. And make no mistake, people are no longer passively accepting the agenda. In school board meetings around the country, furious parents are speaking out against their children being indoctrinated with the latest madness to escape from the liberal laboratory of social engineering. Yet such teachings are already entrenched into the curriculum and will not go away without a major struggle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The scene in Loudon County has completely devolved as public comments have been shut off and the school board meeting has been declared an unlawful assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Two have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fight against Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/suiG1AcB6A\">pic.twitter.com\/suiG1AcB6A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kambree (@KamVTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamVTV\/status\/1407492961601044493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That much was made clear earlier this month when the National Education Association (NEA), the nation\u2019s largest teachers union, voted to support the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), which postulates that the United States is plagued by \u201csystemic racism\u201d and that white people enjoy advantages in life due to their inborn \u201cprivilege.\u201d That diabolical and divisive concept, which promises to tear America apart at the seams, is being prepared for export to all 50 states and 14,000 local school districts.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here is a question few are asking: are the constitutional rights of American students being trampled upon in the face of these radical Marxist lectures? The question becomes even more pertinent when it is realized that, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cdn.yougov.com\/1oyiu6tamw\/econTabReport.pdf\">YouGov poll<\/a>, 58% of Americans are adamantly opposed to the teachings of CRT, with just 38% saying they supported it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&amp;context=scholar\"><strong>CUA Law Scholarship Repository<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Roger C. Hartley, a professor at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, published a legal treatise that perfectly captures the dilemma of our days, entitled, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&amp;context=scholar\">Freedom not to Listen: A Constitutional Analysis of Compulsory Indoctrination Through Workplace Captive Audience Meetings<\/a>.\u2019 I would encourage everyone to read this liberally footnoted document. Although it is primarily concerned with workers not being \u201cforce-fed the employer\u2019s religious and political ideology at the workplace,\u201d Hartley also includes discussion on unwanted indoctrination inside of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past several decades have clarified much regarding the freedom not to listen,\u201d Hartley writes at a time when the first ideological inroads were being cut into the classroom. \u201cIt derives from the freedom of thought, which assures every person the associated freedom to acquire knowledge, <em>i<\/em>ncluding the freedom to decide what knowledge to acquire-which viewpoints to entertain and which to avoid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marketplace of ideas permits no forced orthodoxy,\u201d Hartley continues. \u201cThis freedom to filter intellectual input into one\u2019s consciousness supports <em>a constitutionally recognized liberty interest in not being coerced into listening\u201d<\/em> [italics added].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis freedom not to listen trumps the speaker\u2019s right to speak, however, only when the listener cannot avoid the objectionable speech through reasonable efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The nation&#39;s largest teachers union has approved a plan to promote critical race theory in all 50 states and 14,000 local school districts.<\/p>\n<p>The argument that &quot;critical race theory isn&#39;t in K-12 schools&quot; is officially dead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BMRDoAK0sA\">pic.twitter.com\/BMRDoAK0sA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1411473898491678720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In other words, any listener who is considered part of a \u201ccaptive audience\u201d is a listener whose constitutional rights are being violated. And who more than our children, compelled as they are to receive a compulsory education courtesy of the state, comprise the greatest number of captive audiences?<\/p>\n<p>Hartley says that the way to determine whether one is a captive audience is whether avoiding unwelcome speech is \u201cimpractical\u201d \u2013 not impossible. For example, oftentimes it will not be practical to quit one\u2019s present employment over the question of indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>In the legal case,<em> Bethel School Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser (1986),<\/em> the Court concluded that students attending a mandatory high school assembly constituted a \u201ccaptive audience.\u201d The Court proceeded to rule against a student whose speech to the assembly contained sexual innuendos, ruling that school officials \u201c[should] protect children-especially in a captive audience-from exposure to sexually explicit, indecent, or lewd speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on that decision, the climate inside of the classroom is now siding with those who are desirous of propagating the most explicit material imaginable, even to preschool children. Public libraries, meanwhile, have taken to hosting \u2018Drag Queen Story Hour\u2019 for impressionable youth.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley then proceeds to make the more principle-based argument against preaching to the captive crowd: \u201cIt makes no sense to conclude that centuries of struggle to secure the freedom of the mind from coercion should\u2026 come to nothing more than the right to make a choice between subjecting oneself to forced indoctrination of what may well be a reviled point of view or quitting one\u2019s employment and sacrificing years of investment in a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While countess corporate employees are receiving their fair share of \u201cworkplace indoctrination\u201d \u2013 as recently revealed at <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/366132\">Coca-Cola<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/raytheon-adopts-critical-race-theory\">Raytheon<\/a> \u2013 that pales in comparison to the amount of indoctrination students are receiving on a daily basis inside of their classrooms. A classical education anchored on historical precedence stretching back thousands of years has been largely vanquished in favor of teaching social justice claptrap that prepares students for a turbulent life of activism and sexual deviancy but little else. Even mathematics, the most subjective of disciplines, has been tainted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2017\/04\/racist-math-education\/524199\/\">allegations<\/a> of racism and \u2018white privilege.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that no student should be required to sit through lessons that they and their parents find ideologically repulsive. But what are their options? After all, it is no less practical for an employee to change his job than for a student to change his school, or start homeschooling, which few can afford.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it would appear that the U.S. public school system and the courts must be prepared to work on behalf of children who are not comfortable listening to lectures that cut against their personal ideological grain. Students subjected to sexually explicit material, or uncritical race-based theories should be permitted to politely excuse themselves from such controversial studies without the threat of academic punishment hanging over their heads. The U.S. Constitution and First Amendment demand it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2021\/07\/19\/do-students-in-us-have-constitutional-right-not-captive-audiences-left-wing-ideology\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around America furious parents are speaking out against their children being indoctrinated with the latest madness: Critical Race Theory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239177,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239160\/revisions\/239177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}