The Leftist Agenda of Our Schools

During Day 1 of the Eagle Forum, we watched a screening of Indoctrinate U, a short film about the leftist agenda of our public institutions of higher education. It covered the bias found in the classroom regardless of subject, although Women's Studies and Sociology departments were among the worst offenders. Next, a group of men searched various campuses for a "men's studies" department and examined the ways in which Title IX hurts men. Finally, students spoke out about the banning of the American flag at schools.

The creators of the video used mostly anecdotal and subjective "evidence" to back up these claims. It resonated with people who had had experiences similar to those documented in the film, but not with me. As a good sociologist, I recognize it as the beginning of a case study on some universities, but deny the generalizability of the results.

I wish it had done a better job covering the effect of Title IX on male athletics, and non-mainstream athletics in general. They did not mention the word "football" at all, which factors into the funding of athletics under Title IX.

I also wanted to hear more about the claims that schools do not allow the US flag to be displayed. The film focused on post-9/11, which gets a nice visceral reaction from people, but the whole idea that at any point in time, students at a public school are told that they cannot display the flag of their country, there is something terribly twisted. Conservatives do not get the monopoly on patriotism.