I had my first dose of Marxist cognitive dissonance, a slap in the face that something just was not right, in January 1970. I grew up in a fairly upper-middle class area of Atlanta where I was the "poor kid;" my parents chose to overextend their finances so I could go to a top public school. Our public high school was excellent, and with 70% Jewish students also highly competitive. I scored in the 1400's on the SAT, and my score was the 15th highest in the class.

In any event, the Atlanta school system was trying to correct the sins of the past, and since bussing was a non-starter for economic & political reasons, they decided to transfer teachers instead. Of course this came on the heels of the long-tenured superintendent being removed and replaced by a POC with deep roots in Democrat politics.

(As an aside, back then the school principal was the one who hired and fired teachers and staff. After the administrative change, the principal no longer had any power over school personnel, which resulted in mass resignations and retirements, replaced by...yeah, you know.)

So arriving after Christmas break, we found the rumors were correct. Many of our favorite teachers, I mean Real Teachers, not the low-achievement NEA clones of today, were gone and their replacements were all black. Even the football coach, a 25-year veteran with numerous state championships at our school, was gone to a ghetto school.

I felt badly for the new teachers. It was like replacing a fine filet with C-Rations. Our new creative writing teacher, who replaced a Naomi Wolfe clone, could not even spell or use proper grammar. Literally every kid in the class had a far higher IQ than she did. We had kids writing near Shakespearean prose, and she was stuck just past Dick & Jane. It was sad, and this teacher rarely even understood the veiled barbs some kids tossed her way. Really sad. The school had to drop Calculus because there was no one to teach it. Ditto chemistry.

That is when I knew society was cooked. I knew that the kids where these teacher muffins came from were doomed. I also saw how those kids that were in lower classes were screwed, how they would not achieve to the same level us seniors did. I understood "privilege" in a base sort of way, like luck.

I also understood how this entire episode was social engineering, concepts we learned in economics classes in HS, more geared toward taxation but manifested in teacher transfers.

It should come to no surprise the following quarters the school lost 25% of the students, and the 4-5 local private schools exploded, not to mention the excellent teachers who got transferred out found vastly better institutions to shape young minds.

The teacher transfer accomplished nothing. Our school became a joke. The other schools did not improve. The school district had a sharp teacher deficit they never resolved except by scraping the bottom of the barrel of teacher colleges.

Now look at Atlanta schools three generations later, and see what the definition of s#!thole education is.

These people destroy every institution and mind they touch. Look at kids today! Yet the same theories that destroyed minds 50 years ago are the same theories employed today.

Back in The day, if you got caught passing notes in class, you earned detention. Today, you can slug a teacher, or a tranny can rape a girl in the girl's restroom and almost nothing happens.

And still we wonder "what happened?" WE let this happen.

Just a personal anecdote to show this s#!t has been creeping into every pore of the skin of what was American Culture.