This is EXACTLY why I decided to post this when I couldn't find it here in a search. She has covered much of the same ground that I have covered over the last few years and I thought did a pretty good job of summing things up. This is SO hard to detail in a short period of time. We either winding up sounding like some paranoid nut-case or some right-wing fundamentalist even though we can PROVE beyond a shadow of a doubt that what we are saying is true and factual. I have gotten to the point that when I am speaking somewhere that I take along a trunk full of GOVERNMENT documents and booklets and transcripts in case I need them for back-up. I have found that people don't WANT to know what's really happening as long as their color TV and new car are safe! Sad, isn't it?
All you do is create a cover story that is actually very close to the real story, even with the same sources and much of the truth. That way anyone investigating the real story also stumbles on the cover.
But you make sure the cover has a totally insane element - such as the involvement of giant squids from Mars - and you give it to a really paranoid but loud nutcase to spread - while supplying him with proof that he finds incontrovertible. Then you make sure the nutcase gets a lot of coverage.
When a real journalist (if there are any left) starts to cover this, he stumbles on the nutcase first. At that point he either gives up in disgusts or includes the nutcase as part of his story. Either way the truth is ignored or discreditted by being associated with the gerbil who is going on about Octopi from Mars.
It's an old trick. And it always works.
Yes, it is very sad. The problem is two-fold. People are almost afraid to really look at how far things have drifted, because that pulls on their conscience and requires action to preserve our heritage. That is the lazy factor.
But there is also a problem with perspective and focus. Most people simply do not know many people as devious as many in Education, today. They simply are not able to understand why anyone would deliberately misguide children entrusted to their schools. Because most people are not ideological, themselves, the idea of people committed to an ideological thought pattern is foreign to them, and difficult to grasp. What we must do is find ways to make those thought processes that mislead the teachers, themselves, from their own school days on, more understandable to normal (non-ideological) parents. My essay on the Myth Makers--linked above--is one effort to explain the phenomenon. Those I analyze and attack there, are all accepted gurus in American Educationalist circles, with thought patterns typical of a lot of others.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site