Once more, shots ring out in a school. Teachers and students are maimed and killed and the hue and cry from the usual crowd goes up calling for “common sense” gun control.
What is most unfortunate is that “1984” has morphed from a novel into a “how-to” manual by TPTB. And schools have morphed from educational institutions into indoctrination centers and, in too many instances, soft targets and killing fields.
We hear more and more talk about heeding the “red flags” shown by those rampaging, hurting and killing. “More gun control”, they cry. “Better mental health programs”, they demand.
In truth, the red flags are the result of a well-planned and well-executed agenda that started with John Dewey, (whose legacy is Columbia college), over 100 years ago. These events are the logical result of that agenda.
Of course there are some good teachers in the public schools. I would wager that there are likely some in every school, but its a lottery and a stacked deck. The Federal government use to fund a minuscule part of the local school district’s budget and the local school board use to make virtually every decision respecting who, what, and how the children of the district would be educated. Now the Federal government has the public schools by the short hairs because they now fund so much that the threat of withholding funds or the threat of enforcing the expansive non-discrimination laws of this nation often controls what is taught or what bathroom can be used by whom.
Additionally, the teachers unions of this nation have an inordinate amount of influence in our public schools. The NEA and the AFT are the biggest unions and they are strictly socialist, leftist in their agendas that they consistently and persistently and prove it by their massive support of liberal Democrat politicians who become the union’s representatives bought and paid for by the union’s money.
Moreover, the continuing influence of Thomas Dewey and his Teacher’s College, Columbia have completely coopted the public education system of this country for decades. Dewey was “Humanist of the Year” so named by the American Humanist Association and his entire educational philosophy was formed to reshape American education into the leftist cabal it has become. Common Core is only the most recent iteration of Dewey’s agenda.
Children who come from homes where traditional values are taught are considered at a disadvantage and need to be re-educated to dismiss those traditional (read racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc.) values and be taught to formulate their own values (heavily influenced by their liberal teachers following a “progressive” curriculum.)
Is it too late? Possibly, but it could be that the only salvation is either private schools or home schooling.
Why are we not teaching our kids to value life, and that it’s not replaceable? They need to know that there is no reset button in the real world.
I understand that it is difficult to afford to pay for your child’s education twice (once with your public school tax dollars and again with tuition or home schooling expenses), but its a matter of priorities. Tell me what will make a bigger impact on your children’s lives besides how they are raised and educated? How important is it to have a child who really knows how to think for himself or herself? To have a child that comes from a world view that honors traditional values and beliefs? Parents need to ensure that their children grow up with their heads on straight.
If this doesn’t increasingly happen, expect to see more and more of the Antifa, BLM, Occupy foolishness happening and perhaps even your own children becoming one of these thugs. … or worse, one of the shooters.
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