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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Systematic Betrayal of Our Future

Maureen Steele
Last updated: March 24, 2025 7:59 pm
By Maureen Steele 6 Min Read
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Unveiling the deliberate erosion of American education: how critical thinking has been replaced with compliance, indoctrination, and a betrayal of our children’s future.
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From Critical Thinkers to Compliant Pawns: How America’s Education System Was HijackedCritical Thinking KilledWho Dominates the Textbook IndustryMajor Drop in Math StandardsWhat’s Next?

From Critical Thinkers to Compliant Pawns: How America’s Education System Was Hijacked


Once upon a time in America, education was about producing self-reliant, critical thinkers—children who could grow into adults capable of questioning authority, challenging injustice, and standing on their own two feet. 

Today? It’s about compliance, obedience, and ensuring that no one asks too many questions. The system has been hijacked, the curriculum gutted, and our children have been reduced to pawns in a machine designed not to enlighten, but to indoctrinate.

Critical Thinking Killed


They have killed critical thinking in our youth. There was a time when young Americans were taught logic, rhetoric, civics—how to think, how to reason, how to argue their points effectively. Today’s students, on the other hand, are handed bite-sized propaganda under the guise of “education.” They don’t learn how to think; they’re told what to think. They aren’t given the tools to challenge corrupt systems; they’re conditioned to submit to them.

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Civics? Gone. Instead of learning about the Constitution—the very document that protects their freedoms—kids today are spoon-fed a carefully curated narrative that paints America as irredeemable, its history as nothing but oppression, and its founding principles as outdated relics. This isn’t just negligence. It’s deliberate sabotage.

So, who decides what goes into textbooks? Who sets the curriculum that dictates what every public-school child in America learns? The answer isn’t parents. It’s not local communities. It’s a tangled web of bureaucrats, corporate interests, and globalist organizations with a vested interest in keeping the next generation ignorant and docile.

Who Dominates the Textbook Industry


Consider this: The textbook industry is dominated by a handful of mega-corporations, many of which have deep ties to powerful elites and special interests. People talk about the Rockefellers’ influence in education, and while direct ownership of publishing houses is murky, what is undeniable is that the elites have been shaping our educational system for over a century. From the Carnegie Foundation to the Ford Foundation, these powerful entities have poured billions into crafting an education system that benefits them—not the students.

Teachers, even the good ones, have their hands tied. The system has been rigged with red tape and ridiculous regulations. Tenure protects bad educators while forcing out the good ones. And let’s not even get started on the teachers’ unions, which are less about advocating for quality education and more about maintaining a corrupt, leftist power structure that shields incompetence and rewards indoctrination.

Think it’s all a conspiracy? Let’s talk numbers. Reading comprehension, math proficiency, and overall literacy rates in America have plummeted over the last several decades. In the 1800s, third-graders were reading and writing at what would be considered a college level today. That’s not an exaggeration—I’ve read some of their textbooks. Compare that to now, where we have high schoolers who can’t string together a coherent paragraph, let alone analyze the Federalist Papers.

Major Drop in Math Standards


Look at what’s happened to our standards. We went from teaching calculus to eighth graders to celebrating when they can do basic multiplication by the time they graduate. We’re raising a nation of functionally illiterate, historically ignorant, easily manipulated citizens. And this is by design. A dumbed-down population is far easier to control. If people can’t read or think critically, they won’t question authority, they won’t challenge unconstitutional laws, and they sure as hell won’t rise up against the ruling class.

But it’s not just about dumbing kids down academically. It’s about indoctrinating them. From kindergarten, they’re fed radical social theories, gender confusion, climate hysteria, and anti-American drivel, while being shielded from real history, real science, and real life skills. The classroom has become a battleground for ideological warfare, and our children are the collateral damage.

We used to send our kids to school to learn about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Now, they’re being taught that gender is fluid, America is evil, and that their parents are oppressive relics of an outdated society. Schools are not just failing our children—they are systematically programming them against us.

What’s Next?


So, what do we do? First, we stop complying. We stop handing over our kids to a system designed to brainwash them. We demand accountability, transparency, and the restoration of real education—one that teaches logic, debate, constitutional law, and financial literacy instead of feelings-based nonsense and political propaganda.

Parents, wake up. Stop giving your kids to the state. If you can homeschool, do it. If you can organize, do it. If you can fight for school choice, do it. This is our fight.

Because the battle for America’s future isn’t just in the halls of Congress or on the streets—it’s in the classroom. And if we don’t win this fight, we lose everything.

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