By John Ubaldi, “Ubaldi Reports”

George Washington Carver once stated that “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom,” unfortunately for many American school children that freedom has them trapped in endless slavery of failing schools.

Far too long America children are forced to attend the failing government public educational system, where the U.S. spends around $800 billion a year from the federal, state and local levels on education and still the U.S. ranks at the bottom of most educational achievement measurements compared to other industrial countries.

Before the coronavirus pandemic shut down America’s public educational system, America’s school children didn’t fare all that well against children from other countries on educational statistical measurements.

Many educators and political leaders often tout how their policies help people of color, especially the black and Hispanic communities, but then why is it that 70% of these same children can’t do math or English to grade level.

These same folks who are strong advocates of public school’s send their own children to private schools, like California Governor Gavin Newsome whose children attend a prestigious private school, who were taught with in-person learning all the while six million Californian school children were forced to learn via zoom at home.

The effects of school closures have been disastrous with the National Center for Education Statistics reporting last month that 70% of U.S. public schools reporting an increase in students seeking mental health services since the start of the pandemic. The conservative think tank “Just Facts” reported that the mental stressors brought about by school closures will destroy seven times more years of life than lockdowns saved.

A study by the American Enterprise Institute also found that nearly 1.3 million students have left public schools since the pandemic began, and schools that stayed remote longer saw even more students leave. The World Bank reported last month that the school closures will cost this generation of students $21 trillion in earnings over their lifetimes, which is far more than the $17 trillion estimated in 2021.

So far the only ones fighting for the nation’s children are parents, but they have been fighting an uphill battle against the educational industrial complex and its multifaceted supporters who only care about their power base.

You even have the federal government utilizing the Department of Justice to go after parents who dare complain about the curriculum being taught; the DOJ then has them labeled as “Domestic Terrorist’s.”

One of the strongest advocates against parental involvement has been Randi Weingarten who as president of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of the AFL–CIO, and currently makes a salary of around $500,000 has been a vocal advocate of a woke progressive curriculum and anti-parents.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has worked closely and allowed the nation’s second-largest teachers union to help draft COVID-19 guidelines which led to extended school closures during the pandemic, even though science has stated otherwise.

The statement by George Washington Carver is even more relevant today with his with the statement that “Education is the key that unlocks the golden door to freedom,” but unfortunately one party the Democrats place an emphasis on woke progressive material in educational curriculum and Republicans place it as a second tier issue.

The focus on education should be the fundamentals of education by having the nation’s schools teach core subjects of math, English, reading, science and other essential subjects that will transform the U.S. economy.

My own father with only a grade school education understood this principle all too well and instructed his son’s that the surest way out of poverty is with a solid education, but the educational elites are more concerned in pushing there woke progressive educational curriculum and securing their own power base then helping America’s children.

I guess it’s more important for the educational elites if children can know more about the various pronouns of “they/them/their” white people are oppressors and brown children are always seen as victims and all manner of lies regarding “diversity, equity and inclusion,” have to be included.

Teresa Mull writing in Spector World that Education is the basis of culture and society. It is the springboard by which individuals and nations alike either soar to success or belly-flop into failure. If we are so consumed fighting over woke matters that don’t have any place in our education system, how can we expect to teach children what they actually need to know? Reading, writing, arithmetic, history, civics, and geography are brushed aside as youngsters are trained to be “culturally responsive” (what does that even mean?!) radicals who look for division everywhere.

It’s time as Glen Youngkin said after his victory in last year’s Virginia’s gubernatorial race:

The polls kept telling us that education was the seventh or eighth or ninth most important issue. Let me tell you, it is the top issue right now, and Republicans across the country can own this topic.