Law Professor warns of socialist indoctrination in our public schools

Published: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 9:15 am
By: John Steed ( More Entries )

Professor William Jacobsen, who teaches at Cornell University Law School, was on the Laura Ingraham show on Fox News with a new warning on the socialist menace. He warns that the "Democratic Socialists of America" and other socialists are working to embed their radical ideology in our public schools to indoctrinate our children.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/conservative-law-professor-leftist-indoctrination-schools-dsa-is/

The path here is threatening. The teachers union are eaten up with far left ideology. The textbook companies have a long history of pandering to the left, although it is more often the soft left so far. Many curriculum decisions are made at the state level by political appointees. Even in conservative states like Iowa and Alaska, these appointees have come under fire recently for giving a green light to a curriculum heavily slanted to the left. It can be even worse when Democrat governors such as the one in North Carolina, stack our state board of education with leftwing appointees. One remembers just a few years ago, when the two GOP members (the Lt. Governor and State Treasurer) fought a long, hard, and very public fight against the Democrat political appointees on the board over the a very "woke" but ultimately adopted new Social Studies curriculum.

Local elected school boards have the ultimate authority on public school curriculum, which is why we need strong people there to stop indoctrination of students. Beaufort County went backwards in that regard in the last GOP primary.

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Conservative Voter said:

( August 2nd, 2026 @ 10:10 am )

Conservatives have a lot of work we need to do in the 2028 GOP primary. Liberal school board members T. W. Allen and Carolyn Walker NEED TO GO!

Steven P. Rader said:

( August 1st, 2026 @ 9:32 am )

Van Zant, you are particularly well informed.

The conservatives elected to the school board in 2022 got some important policy changes made on the curriculum adoption process. The new written policy, proposed by board member Donald Shreve, gave the board a lot more oversight over the process, something it should have had all along. It is, after all, the elected board member who have the ultimate say over what curriculum is adopted.

During the adoption process on the new science curriculum, the teachers evaluation committee, supported by their central office staff coordinator tried to do an end run around that new process and present the board with a single "take it or leave it" option instead of the minimum of three options required by the new policy. The central office staff involved in that has since been replaced.

In dealing with that curriculum, the board informally used some new policies that produced a greater degree of information for the board from that teachers evaluation committee. It also became apparent that having cost information on curriculum proposals available early in the process to everyone would improve the process.

I put revision of the written policy on curriculum development on the board agenda for discussion, and verbally presented a series of suggested improvements in the formal process, based on our experience with the adoption of the science curriculum. I went through each of a series of proposals and got no objections to any of them from other board members, so I stated I would draw them up in a formal policy amendment and present them for adoption. When I presented them, I ran into a buzz saw of organized opposition, led by board member Carolyn Walker. They objected to making any change whatsoever. They did not want to rethink just a point or two. They wanted no changes at all.

Adoption of the curriculum is one of the most important policy decisions entrusted by statute to elected school board members, and one that members should take seriously. We need strong policies that maximize the board's responsibility and give it the best information to make its decision. Without appropriate written policies on the procedures in curriculum adoption, that responsibility may not properly be fulfilled.

If some of the more liberal board members had any issues with my proposals, those should have been discussed openly at the first meeting this subject was on the agenda. I put it on the agenda then to try to get a consensus, which from all appearances had been achieved. If any of the proposals had received pushback, I would have presented two policy proposals, one with those that had consensus, and one where there was some division. From the responses, all of the issues had consensus so that was the way I presented it in a formal amendment.

Van Zant said:

( July 31st, 2026 @ 10:13 pm )

Someone, tell me if I've got this right. Several conservatives went on the Beaufort County School Board back in 2022. They persistently worked on becoming more active in curriculum matters by strengthening policy and were joined by two more conservatives in 24 and 25. Long story short, they were led on over time and everything culminated just lately when Mr. Rader brought some prepared proposals and was backed by Mr. Hickman. Supposedly, the two had verbal commitments by the majority in a previous meeting and just needed to prepare and formalize in a future meeting. Last month they did just that and were completely shot down by the Board. I'm told that several members stated that they didn't want any say on curriculum matters and that it should be left to the experts (staff).

So, we've got eight Republicans on this board and only about two or maybe three are conservative?

Conservative Voter said:

( July 31st, 2026 @ 9:28 pm )

Replacing two conservative board members with two ex-teachers who are members of the liberal teachers union will be a disaster on our Board of Education. They will undoubtedly rubberstamp what the education establishment dictates on curriculum. The most active liberals on our school board are nominal "Republicans", Carolyn Walker and T.W. Allen.

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