Schools as a Stomping Ground for Indoctrination [China]

Bitter Winter ^ | 1/8/19 | Piao Junying

[marshmallow]

The Chinese government is going after elementary and high schools to teach students that atheism, not religion, is the best belief system.

The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, is indoctrinating the young minds, starting a movement to boycott religion on school campuses, using the typical means of threats and intimidation to achieve its ultimate goal of eradicating religion. Bitter Winter received witness accounts about the growing anti-religion attitude in schools across provinces in China.

In order to stop students from participating in religion, the Education Department of Heping district, in Shenyang city of the northeastern province of Liaoning, issued an edict at the end of October 2018 that prohibited the teaching of religion on school campuses under its jurisdiction – while also preventing students from having religious beliefs. Instead, the CCP would like educators to use flag-raising ceremonies and themed lessons aimed at strengthening students’ ideologies toward Party lines.

Teachers in a school in Liaoning’s Yingkou city received a WeChat message from their superiors asking to confirm if there are students in their classes that hold religious beliefs. “If there are, please communicate with the student’s parents to confirm that the student is indeed religious,” the message read. The teachers were further instructed to inform the parents of religious students that the school would report this information to authorities.

In northwest China, a school headmaster in the Anning district of Lanzhou city, Gansu Province’s capital, speaking at a student inauguration publicizing the spirit of the 19th CCP National Congress, demanded that teachers have the students in their classes vow their love for the Party and country.

[Zhang Fei]

The Communist Party has no problem with religion - they just want the hoi polloi worshiping the current Son of Heaven Chinese president. Xi Jinping is probably asking Kim Jong-un for tips on how to get the average Chinese to think of him as the golfer who gets 18 holes in one in a couple of hours on the links.