“Government schools are indoctrination camps”
“Government/Public schools are (just) (woke) indoctrination camps/centers” is a common saying, usually by conservatives and libertarians.
“Should our schools be indoctrination centers for future independent servants of central controlled government?” was printed in The Signal (Santa Clarita, CA) on April 12, 1971. “Our schools have become indoctrination centers against all traditional values” was printed in the Berwyn (IL) Life on March 3, 1972. ” Libertarians in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties say they have won thousands of converts in recent years by proclaiming among other things that taxation is extortion and public schools are indoctrination camps” was printed in the San Francisco (CA) Examiner on October 31, 1984.
“Remember, public schools are indoctrination centers, NOT education centers” was posted on the newsgroup alt.revolution.counter on February 17, 1997. “our public schools are indoctrination centers for socialist rhetoric” was posted on Twitter by Patrick Mueller on September 4, 2009. “RT @GregWHoward: Lenin: Give me a child for four years, I’ll give you a communist. Our public schools are indoctrination centers” was posted on Twitter by Troy_Lake on December 9, 2009. “Government schools are indoctrination centers” was posted on Twitter by Random thoughts on March 8, 2011. “Government schools are indoctrination centers for the democrat party” was posted on Twitter by David NItz on October 6, 2015.
“Today’s schools: indoctrination camps” was written by syndicated columnist Cal Thomas in the Austin (TX) American-Statesman on September 5, 2001. “In my opinion, todays schools are indoctrination camps- pc doctrination camps” was posted on the newsgroup uk.education.teachers on April 16, 2003. “Limbaugh: Public Schools are ‘indoctrination camps’ with ‘legitimate liberal activists disguised as teachers.’ (media matters)” was posted on Twitter by Liberalista☮️ on December 15, 2011. “PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE INDOCTRINATION CAMPS!!!” was posted on Twitter by TEXAZZ TEA on January 30, 2013. “Been saying it for years. Government schools are just indoctrination camps for the young…” was posted on Twitter by r.Joseph on August 20, 2020. “Government schools are just indoctrination camps” was posted on Twitter by Cavalier on May 16, 2021.
“Woke” is often added. “woke dogma demands this, and schools are woke indoctrination centers” was posted on Twitter by #Don’tDenyRealityForNoOne on October 5, 2020. “Also conservatives: ‘Schools are woke indoctrination centers’” was posted on Twitter by Ian Miles Cheong on February 9, 2021. “At this point, public schools are just woke indoctrination camps whose sole purpose is to teach the next generation to hate God, America, freedom, hard work and the patriarchy” was posted on Twitter by brosb4 hoes on November 30, 2022. “Public schools are woke indoctrination centers” was posted on Twitter by JM on January 21, 2023. “Public schools are woke indoctrination camps” was posted on Twitter by Jim Kane on April 11, 2022. “Public schools are woke indoctrination camps” was posted on Twitter by Hans Karlsborn on October 4, 2022. “Government schools are woke indoctrination camps” was posted on Twitter by Catturd ™ on January 25, 2023.
Newspapers.com
12 April 1971, The Signal (Santa Clarita, CA), “Letters to the Editor,” pg. 10, col. 2:
Should our schools be indoctrination centers for future independent servants of central controlled government?
(...)
Guila A. Clausson
La Margue, Texas
Newspapers.com
3 March 1972, Berwyn (IL) Life, “Letter to the Editor: What’s happening with the U.S.?,” pg. 24, col. 5:
Our schools have become indoctrination centers against all traditional values.
(...)
WALTER OHLSON
3305 Wesley ave.
Newspapers.com
31 October 1984, San Francisco (CA) Examiner, “Libertarians claim their star is rising fast in independent Silicon Valley” by Walt Gibbs, pg. zC4, col. 1:
SAN MATEO—Libertarians in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties say they have won thousands of converts in recent years by proclaiming among other things that taxation is extortion and public schools are indoctrination camps.
Google Groups: pgh.opinion
Paul S Galvanek
Feb 5, 1997, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
Despite what the name implies OBE has nothing to do with objective standards and everything to do with further eliminating parental involvement in education and turning public schools into indoctrination centers of the left rather than education centers.
Google Groups: alt.revolution.counter
Clinton—the public education messiah
Daniel Benson
Feb 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
Remember, public schools are indoctrination centers, NOT education centers.
Google Groups: alt.religion.mormon
Mormons Are Christians?
J. Petrykowicz
May 3, 1997, 3:00:00 AM
(...)
Government schools are indoctrination centers for prytaneolatry and secular humanism. Get your children OUT of Caesar’s training centers. See http://www.sepschool.org.
Newspapers.com
5 September 2001, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, pg. A15, col. 3:
Cal Thomas
Today’s schools: indoctrination camps
Google Groups: austin.general
DC SUCKS…..Re: Your Turn
CK
Aug 3, 2002, 9:58:59 AM
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All schools are indoctrination centers. The difference between a private one and a public one is that the parents get to choose what ideology will be the focus of the indoctrination.
Google Groups: uk.education.teachers
Papal Degree Mill Quality Canard
alice whiterabbit
Apr 16, 2003, 2:38:34 PM
(...)
In my opinion, todays schools are indoctrination camps- pc doctrination camps.
Twitter
shouldbenapping
@shbenapping
just read post that says schools are indoctrination centers for leftist thought http://tinyurl.com/cwns8t
11:01 PM · Feb 5, 2009
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Patrick Mueller
@pmuellr
“our public schools are indoctrination centers for socialist rhetoric” - http://is.gd/2SakP
7:02 AM · Sep 4, 2009
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Dawn Popp #blacklivesmatter (always)
@dawnpopp
I give up. It’s impossible to have a rational debate w/ someone who thinks public schools are “indoctrination centers.”
12:26 PM · Sep 6, 2009
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Troy_Lake
@Troy_Lake
RT @GregWHoward: Lenin: Give me a child for four years, I’ll give you a communist. Our public schools are indoctrination centers
7:40 PM · Dec 9, 2009
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Random thoughts
@abirenews
@cspanwj - Government schools are indoctrination centers - ask the parents what they think by “pooling” their kids supplies with others!
8:55 AM · Mar 8, 2011
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Liberalista☮️
@Liberalista
Wait. What?
Limbaugh: Public Schools are “indoctrination camps” with “legitimate liberal activists disguised as teachers.” (media matters)
4:10 PM · Dec 15, 2011
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TEXAZZ TEA
@dwstude
Replying to @FreedomWorks@FreedomWorks
PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE INDOCTRINATION CAMPS!!!
7:02 PM · Jan 30, 2013
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Leslie
@Libertarian_ish
Replying to @welshman007
@welshman007 Government schools are indoctrination centers where future serfs learn to fear freedom.
4:08 PM · Jul 9, 2013
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SkankBones
@skankbones
”@TimGamble: #School Bans 6th Grader’s #9/11 Tribute T-Shirt… http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/09/11/school-bans-orangevale-sixth-graders-sept-11-tribute-t-shirt-calls-it-dress-code-violation/ Public Schools are INDOCTRINATION CAMPS.”
4:06 PM · Sep 12, 2014
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David NItz
@Dcnitz
Replying to @stewartcink
@stewartcink your kids need at the very least school choice. Government schools are indoctrination centers for the democrat party
9:24 PM · Oct 8, 2015
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🇺🇸𝙹𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎 𝚂𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚢🇺🇸
@JesseASweeney
Replying to @ksorbs
@ksorbs schools are just indoctrination camps for liberal brainwashing now
8:27 PM · Nov 6, 2015
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CrypticDRO
@Astrophilic__
Replying to @blessingabeng_
You See! Schools Are Just indoctrination Camps Where U Dump ur Kids For Brain wash
@Ms_Einsteinette @duirconcepts @ebuka_akara
2:24 AM · Dec 28, 2015
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thaRev
@AtheistEnigma
Public schools are just indoctrination camps for children!! #tyranny #freedom #Progressive
9:53 PM · Jun 7, 2017
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Florida Trucker Frank
@FlaTruckerFrank
Replying to @rocciabella
Government schools are indoctrination centers. Road are paid for by taxes of individuals & built by private companies.
6:54 AM · Sep 9, 2017
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Maria Bonanno
@MariaBonanno9
Replying to @daniejaye and @PoliticalShort
US public schools are indoctrination camps
4:17 PM · Sep 15, 2017
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NewDarkAges
@liberty11814
Replying to @CollinRight @CollinRugg and @PrepperSilver
The fact he is so ignorant about US history,Constitution etc while being given national platform to continue being a thug & bully only proves US public schools are just indoctrination centers.The hyperinflated GPAs they hand out has little value,unrelated to actual knowledge.
1:07 AM · Mar 31, 2018
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Protect children and animalsⓋ formerly Teresa 🇷🇺
@StudentOfDrA
Replying to @MichaelCoudrey @MikeTokes and 9 others
Why is the STATE (schools are just indoctrination camps of the state) involving itself in anyone’s life?? We are living in a Communist country. Why aren’t people in the street protesting the Communist rule? Americans are gone. Absolutely gone.
8:51 PM · Apr 23, 2018
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Feline AdvoCat
@FelineAdvoCat
Replying to @sunrisemvmt and @SenFeinstein
Many know that public schools are just indoctrination camps. Fear-mongering kids, telling them they’ll be dead in 10 yrs. Stay classy Libs.
8:05 PM · Feb 22, 2019
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Alex
@AlexanderGarin2
Replying to @BernieSanders
Government schools are just indoctrination centers. We need to get rid of the department of education and let the free market work it out. More government is not the answer!!!
2:10 AM · Feb 28, 2019
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Laissez-faire enthusiast🏴⚡
@stephenituruka
Replying to @eutychus_kimani
Schools are just indoctrination camps for the government to manufacture workers who are smart enough to pay taxes but not live a life of freedom.
1:14 PM · Nov 8, 2019
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Xedd Bastard
@BastardXedd
Replying to @Myown2feetz @JohnHall2946 and 2 others
I taught myself far more than I was offered in school, by going to libraries and researching things online. Government schools are just indoctrination centers. They teach you enough to run the machines, but not enough to question your “superiors”.
5:40 PM · Apr 8, 2020
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Crow
@Y2J_AZ
Replying to @Astro_Fash
Public schools are just indoctrination camps.
1:28 PM · Jun 5, 2020
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r.Joseph
@traveler430
Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
Been saying it for years. Government schools are just indoctrination camps for the young…
12:56 AM · Aug 20, 2020
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Bombay Boy
@abombayboy
Schools are just indoctrination camps
You’re not sending kids there to be educated
You’re sending them there to get brainwashed
6:50 PM · Sep 19, 2020
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#Don’tDenyRealityForNoOne
@pazja07
Replying to @Debateisgood1 @clarryhj and @WomensPrize
woke dogma demands this, and schools are woke indoctrination centers.
12:19 PM · Oct 5, 2020
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Sarah Jane 🦄
@pinktastic615
Replying to @BethB715 and @NoMoSocialism75
Public schools are just indoctrination camps.
5:46 PM · Jan 18, 2021
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Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
Conservatives: “we need to reopen schools”
Also conservatives: “Schools are woke indoctrination centers.”
10:54 AM · Feb 9, 2021
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Cavalier
@Cavalie99100243
Replying to @jsolomonReports
Government schools are just indoctrination camps. Luckily my kids went to private institutions. I’d rather work two full time jobs than put my family through that garbage.
12:13 AM · May 16, 2021
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Samizdata
@RichardDaleFitz
Replying to @mikesatz
Government schools are just indoctrination camps. They no longer educate, just brainwash.
9:04 PM · Jan 31, 2022
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Jim Kane
@JimKane20455052
Replying to @SaveJersey and @GScharfenberger
Public schools are woke indoctrination camps.
3:45 PM · Apr 11, 2022
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Jim Kane
@JimKane20455052
Replying to @libsoftiktok and @SantaClaraUSD
Public Schools are woke indoctrination camps. Its past time for school choice.
9:50 PM · May 8, 2022
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Richard Wilkinson
@wilkinsoncape
Replying to @StoneClaws
Schools are woke indoctrination camps.
10:49 AM · Sep 14, 2022
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Hans Karlsborn
@HKarlsborn
Replying to @jasonpaisley and @DeAngelisCorey
Public schools are woke indoctrination camps; everything is better than that
7:09 AM · Oct 4, 2022
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kissmyasstwatter
@mcpat64
Replying to @benshapiro
Public schools are just indoctrination camps….climate change, lgbt, all the other bullshit
6:27 PM · Oct 7, 2022
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brosb4 hoes 🇺🇸 🇵🇭
@dohardshit
Replying to @mixtorious1 @libsoftiktok and @UCSanDiego
At this point, public schools are just woke indoctrination camps whose sole purpose is to teach the next generation to hate God, America, freedom, hard work and the patriarchy.
12:12 AM · Nov 30, 2022
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TossOff
@angryChiGuy
Replying to @josephjconnor
public schools are woke indoctrination centers ruining critical thinking skills and helpinv to destroy family units. if u can afford it, go private.
8:07 AM · Dec 13, 2022
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JM🇺🇸
@macleodmouth123
Replying to @JohnMcG26274034 and @DeAngelisCorey
Public schools are woke indoctrination centers. Maybe you want your kids submerged in that swamp all day, but I want my kids to be taught academic excellence, not equity and victimhood.
8:27 AM · Jan 21, 2023
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Catturd ™
@catturd2
Government schools are woke indoctrination camps.
12:15 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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SKeeton
@slkeeton
Replying to @SpeakerMcCarthy
Government schools are woke indoctrination camps.
12:29 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Michael
@fulredy
Replying to @catturd2
Public schools are woke indoctrination camps.
1:12 PM · Jan 25, 2023