They were the first group to come to mind that is fundamentally built on harm

Yes it is! And there is so much evidence to show it so don't give up.
People like:
Carol dweck(mindset)
Jo boaler(limitless mind/mathematical mindsets)
Susan d. Blum(ungrading)

Have all shown that change is more than possible it is happening, locally, classroom by classroom. We can make change!

This is the kind of thing you have to consider:
If it has always been funded by business moguls looking to make better workers, is it in any way surprising we ended up with those same people funding it in formal control?
People are finally beginning to see this, change can and has to happen.

This isn't just some strange period, it has been like this since the beginning. The United States based its model of education off of the Prussian model which is literally built to make obedient workers with less critical thinking. Of course this was heavily funded by the oil lobby.

Getting in trouble as a history teacher for saying something you are told not to usually means you are doing something right! Censorship is the enemy of all educators, but we have to persist. If we don't stay and fight all that's left will be people who don't speak up and that's a scary thought

That is true, when learning basics the cue system should be equally weighted in importance, but as you grow the pictures stifle the creative process in your brain of imagining a world on your own which is never a good thing.

Yes it is part of my multimodal point from before all three aspects of the cueing system should have equivalent weight

Yess I agree

While being a popular model of education it has faced a lot of backlash over the years for being restrictive/oversimplifying and a lack of inclusion of how multimodal learning using all of vark at once universally works better than the supposed individual "learning types"

Context clues are very important past elementary school to work through things and figure out the meaning without it being explained to you, but understanding of phonics is also important. The issue isn't the teaching of one or the other it is the lack of both multimodal learning is very important.

This is totally a thing that will/is happening the main problem we face in it right now is that AI doesn't do the best job of getting facts right all the time(look up "why AI telling you to put glue on your pizza" for a fun rabbit hole) so human involvement is still needed for each individual video.

Do you have a way to access the article that doesn't require a subscription? It looks like I need one to read it

Yes people have begun to see povertys effect on education, but it is so Important to consider things like cultural and social changes. It goes past language as well when you bring in things like strain theory and the groups that push you into(like gangs) that treat learning as a negative. Thoughts?

While many are like this it is important to avoid treating them as a monolith! I know many devout Christian teachers that believe in the sciences. Not all Christians are bad, not all people from any group are bad(unless the entire point of ur group is evil i.e. Nazis)

Yeah I agree, the standard strategy among schools is working it into the history curriculum through things like civil rights, genocide, and eugenics in schools with more modern pedagogy. Which is a nice medium I think, the only issue is a lot of schools don't teach those things because politics.