I don't think that public school is dominated by leftists at all. I am sure there are many leftist collectives, both political and cultural, that would love to claim that spot, but it is already filled by something else: stone cold killers with Harvard and Yale MBAs who are driven by profit, not ideology. Public school has become a stream of financial capital, not cultural capital. Pearson alone made 6.3 billion dollars last year (slightly more than my teacher's pay of 42, 000). But I ain't mad at 'em. What did we think was going to happen when we added lucid hypercapitalists to a woozy socialist public school system? Thank you W for leaving no child behind and giving us metrics for business accountability. If school is a business, what does that make students: product, employee or cash itself? For more of my thoughts (and there are a lot of them) on this and other subjects, check out my blog- thisisthelionsden.com . Shameless self promotion- yes. Relevant to OP- most definitely. But hey, its Spring Break. Only a few papers to grade ...

You’re right the communist party usa changed its name to the progressive labor party in 1962 the left has had control of our educational system since at least 1950

I have 5 children go through a small rural school district of which I spent 12 years as School Board Director. I watched this happen there, so I can imagine in urban schools

They are indoctrinated the children to be socialist wimps. They are not teaching the boys to be men anymore. We need our boys to be men wars are not fought by a genderless society. It is like they want us to be taken over by

What do you propose as a solution to the problems you suggest?
Charter schools are having some success these days.

I like this article. "The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders." ~ John Taylor Gatto [intellectualtakeout.org]

I agree . Teachers should be teaching kid how to think not what to think

I can relate my children are being subjected to the progressive labor party ideology the only thing that i can do is show them a better way and hope that they can understand

The federalization of the schools is a major driver of this. Parts of the various states fight back as best they can, individual districts - but the overarching federal mandates continue to bog down the effectiveness and make the people who are right leaning or even just libertarian to get worn out and just walk away.

And I say this as the son of a former teacher, the brother of a new full time teacher (after 30 years out in business world, she chose to use her MBA to teach high school economics) - and as a part time college instructor myself... I see this happening all the time...

I concur.

What are some of the problems beyond what is "realized" by the public in public schools? You are dropping a large blanket accusation on the floor, jump straight to a second blanket accusation of a shadow sector of that populace and do not even bother to support your initial claim.
Are these ghosts supposed to scare me?

The Left is always well financed by those powers that seek a Globalist NWO, governed by "International Bankers and intellectuals", and promising "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" with them deciding who has which ability and which need. I don't think we can beat them. They have planned this for decades, centuries, and even longer, they have control of all Central Banks, and they are very, very smart--and somewhat lacking, I believe, in conscience. Complete Power is their goal, just like the Lenin quote on the dictatorship of the Proletariat--it is "nothing less than Power, backed by force, and limited by nothing--by no rule, and by no law."

Have you read "Seven Men Who Rule the World From the Grave" by Dr. David Breese? His section on John Dewey is worth the $10 for the Kindle version.

Public education and central planning in general is the problem. It always lowers quality, while raising the prices.

We saw this 20 years ago and homeschooled our 4 sons. They got a classical education and we saved them from leftist indoctrination.