Remember back in the good old days, ten years ago when CCH was still fairly new on the internet, that our Why We Homeschool site of the month was almost always because the academics in public schools were so dreadful? How we can look upon those times with nostalgic longing! Today, the news is almost always, either that teachers are having [s-x] with students, or that the homo[s-x]ual agenda is being shoved down the kids' throats in the guise of "tolerance" curriculum.
Such it is today. In Alameda county in California, the school board just voted to include a mandatory "gay day" for next years' K-5 classes, in which special curriculum will teach children that it takes all kinds to make families, with no options for parents to excuse their children because of conflicting religious beliefs. Parents, take your children OUT while you still have the chance!
When it becomes widespread knowledge that students who graduate from public school have been indoctrinated into one worldview and one political viewpoint, rather than have been educated by history and absolute truths, having gone their whole lives without ever even hearing the other side, it is time to take our children back to educate them, and put an end to the indoctrination.
818 students have reported being physically abused by teachers, coaches, and other school authorities in Chicago's public schools. Uuumm, the former superintendent of Chicago's public schools is now your Education Secretary, America.
If everyone else thinks they're safe, because they are not in Massachusetts, this was the U.S. Supreme Court, not the Massachusetts Supreme Court, who allowed the local ruling to stand.
'Jesus was a Palestinian,' claims a history textbook in use in every state of the U.S. Jesus was in fact a Jew. Palestinians are ethnic Jordanians, from the territory once occupied by Moab and Ammon. Well, look on the bright side. At least Jesus is now being acknowledged as a historical figure instead of a myth. History books are the one of the worst for spreading factual errors. Science books are also full of inaccuracies. Add to that the dumbing down of English and Math texts, and it is no wonder Americans are exiting the public school system at record rates.
A high school photography teacher in Arizona has been placed on administrative leave. But students were exposed to his personal [p-orn] from his personal computer (which he had forgotten was hooked up to a classroom projector) for 20 minutes. Yuck.
In Texas a middle school principal threatened to kill his teachers, if test scores did not improve. Kill! He ended this ominous speech by saying, "You don't know how ruthless I can be." A teacher, who was included among the threatened group, notified the school board, who did nothing. The teacher has been reassigned as a form of punishment. So in this principal, we have all the actions of a tyrant, on a much smaller scale: threats, retaliation, revenge, ruthlessness, and no respect for others or the rule of law, but only that which will promote personal power and prestige. I guess it doesn't take much power to corrupt some. Unfortunately, it is not only the teachers who are hurt by arrogant, abusive, and power- mad bureaucrats: the 90% of children who attend public schools get the ultimate short end of the stick.
The NEA, National Education Association, is supposed to represent all its public- school teachers, regardless of gender, race, political persuasion, or religion. Isn't that the way unions are supposed to work? Now it is common knowledge that the NEA has and pushes an extreme left liberal agenda politically. They are not even close to moderate or "left of center," they are way on the pendulum's edge out there, promoting homo[s-x]ual issues from the first year children enter school (also here).
Now if a group has only one meeting a year promoting Women's Leadership (I am assuming it is one, because that is the meaning of the word "annual" - once per year) and they take that one opportunity to showcase a male abortionist, and a criminal at that, then what does that say about their philosophy of women and leadership? It doesn't really make sense. But it might make sense, if they link female leadership with female self- indulgence without restraint. Keeping abortion legal means the right to have unprotected [s-x] and the right to never have to be responsible for the result of that unprotected [s-x], or child, as most us in mainstream America think of it. Having the worst offending abortionist in the nation be your guest speaker just shows how far reaching and selfish they want the indulgence to be extended.
"Hey, if I change my mind at the last minute, because every decision I make is based on hormone- fueled whims instead of reason or logic, then that is my right, and if I want to have an abortion the day before I am due, then that is my right."
That the NEA hosted this event is telling. When asked about it, they said "it sometimes allows "likeminded groups" to use the building for a small fee or no charge at all." Wow. So George Tiller and the Feminist Majority Foundation are "likeminded" with the NEA. Says a lot, doesn't it?
Let's take our theory of female self- indulgence without restraint being a foundational belief of feminists, and thus the NEA, a step further. Every week you can read at World Net Daily the latest news story of mostly FEMALE teachers having [s-x] with students. The one from last week is here. They make great "Why We Homeschool" links, but I quit linking to them, because it is just so sick and discouraging that these kinds of news stories are a non- stop stream. It lends weight to our theory, though, doesn't it, that female self- indulgence without restraint is some kind of tenet that the NEA shares with groups like the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Three years ago, terrorists took over a school in Beslan, Russia, and humiliated, starved, injured and killed hundreds of children. Have American schools learned the lessons of Beslan? Yesterday, twelve towns in New Jersey closed their schools, and 14,000 students stayed home, after receiving a threat that those schools would be "blown out" at 11:30 am yesterday morning. But that didn't happen, the schools are open today, and those 14,000 children are back in class. If this is a real terrorist threat and not a prank, what is to stop the terrorists from blowing up the schools today instead of yesterday? Or one day in the coming weeks, without warning?
A few days ago, the sheriff's office in Marion County, Florida released the images of postcards the school board and several high schools had received threatening buildings blown up, because of "jihad." The school boards and high schools received them by 09-11, and the header on all the postcards read: "9-11? 10-10" Does that mean schools will be targeted for 09-11 type destruction on 10-10 (which falls on a Wednesday a few weeks from now)? They don't know.
But the military has discovered videotape in Afghanistan in which al Qaeda terrorists practice the takeover of an American school. The military has found the floor plans of schools in Virginia, Texas, and New Jersey in the possession of captured terrorists in Iraq. And there are more indicators that school children are the terrorists' next target.
With our ridiculous open borders, it is only a matter of time. That is why we homeschool.
Saudi propaganda, that is ... we all know it is rife in places like Pakistan and the Gaza Strip. But in American K - 12 public schools? You betcha. National Review Online has the full expose of Saudi- funded Middle East curriculum currently in use in K - 12 schools in which:
the religion of Islam is promoted ... in schools;
American policy in the Muslim world is sharply criticized;
Islamic principles are memorized;
the life of Mohammed and historic spread of Islam (by the sword) is celebrated;
prayers at mosques are acted out;
students watch newscasts to pinpoint cases in which Muslims are stereotyped as violent;
study materials induce teachers to embrace Islamic religious beliefs;
and more. Where is the ACLU, you ask? Good question. I wondered that too. Their latest case involves a painting of Jesus in a Louisiana courthouse, in which these words are displayed under the painting:
To Know Peace, Obey These Laws
The ACLU is fighting to have the portrait and words removed, because "the words in the Establishment Clause mean that no government entity can promote or endorse one religion over others." However, courthouses are usually frequented by adults of their own volition, who (hopefully) can choose to disregard whatever they see with which they disagree. Public schools, on the other hand, are usually frequented by impressionable children who are mandated to attend. And the last time I looked, public schools were government entities. But since the Islamic indoctrination is going on there with nary a peep out of these stalwart champions of civil liberties, I have to assume the truth is, the ACLU are anti- God, the God of the Bible, the Creator of heaven and earth. Allah they have no problem with.
Hey, I wonder how many "civil liberties" the ACLU will have left to champion if they succeed in defeating the God of the Bible in American life, and in replacing Him with Allah and Mohammed? But they probably don't spend too much time dwelling on that.
A few weeks ago I blogged about the incident at Boulder High School in Colorado, in which an assembly speaker encouraged students to have [s-x] and do drugs since they were going to anyway. It turns out that the superintendent of the school district needed to break three school district policies to have these high school students attend this seminar, but promised that attendance at future seminars of the same kind will continue. Then Bill O'Reilly of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor highlighted the incident; and now the local paper has made a story out of the harrassment which has ensued for local school officials since being spotlighted on the "conservative" national show. How about a story on how promiscuous [s-x] and drug use ruins the lives of high school students? How about a story on the school district policies that were broken: why they were in place, what safeguards they afford students and school employees, and what ramifications parents and taxpayers might look for in a school district whose superintendent breaks his own policies? Just for starters.
I was at a family picnic last weekend, in which on one side of the family, some of the younger generation, who were first time parents, were having a heated discussion on the advantages and detriments of homeschooling. In the detriment camp, the number one argument against, as I am sure you can guess, was the big socialization fallacy. The belief that the only way an eight- year- old can be properly socialized is by spending six to eight hours a day with thirty other eight- year- olds. I remarked to my husband that all eight- year- olds, are, by definition, fools, and the last thing a fool needs if the object is to someday bring him out of foolishness into maturity, is to spend all his time with thirty others who are as foolish as he is.
If you need proof that not only eight- year- olds are inherently foolish, but ten- and twelve- and fourteen- year olds as well, consider the problem of school bullying. Boys can often withstand a spate of bullying; it helps that God has wired them with testosterone and muscles and a protect and defend instinct. But what do girls do when they become the object of a bully's hatred?
When I was in elementary school, there was a boy in my class who took great delight in bullying me. He threatened me constantly when out of earshot of teachers, followed me everywhere, shadowed me home from school, and generally made my life a living nightmare. I was pleading with God to help me, and one day when my parents found out why I had developed a sudden reluctance to attend school, all bullying incidents immediately ceased. Mystified, I chalked it up to answered prayer; only when I was an adult did I discover that my Dad had asked my older brother if he knew who said bully was, and my brother subsequently made it his mission in life to locate and deter said bully. The bullying stopped after a single encounter on the playground with my brother, in which said bully limped home bruised and bloodied. Thank you, God, for older brothers.
But what if the girl has no support at home as I was blessed to have? What if two girls make it their mission in life to abuse you non- stop, so that one day after a year of abuse you decide to come home and end your life? What if everyone in your school wore "I hate Olivia" bracelets, and you were Olivia?
Schools say they have a zero tolerance policy for bullying and violence, but I have never -- NEVER -- seen a school protect a victim of determined bullies. Others say that to remove the victim from the bully is to overprotect him. I say, some fools are malicious evildoers, and it is the parents' normal responsibility to protect their children from them. And children can take karate and self- defense classes after homeschool, to build their confidence in a safe environment; they do not need to be terrorized in order to be socialized.
Today's school news makes me wish for the good old days of global warming indoctrination in high schools; that at least is not as egregious as what happened at Boulder High School in my home state of Colorado. A speaker at an assembly told students as young as 14 to go do drugs and have [s-x], "men with men, women with women, whatever combination you would like." His defense of his remarks is that students are going to do it anyway. It has been nearly 45 years since the Scriptures were removed from public schools, so even 45- year- old assembly speakers may have had no exposure to true right and wrong.
A high school student in Ontario has had his teachers in four different classes show him Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth." The classes were: world history, economics, world issues, and environment. Okay, I can see world issues and environment, if the teachers also showed a film presenting evidence for the other side of the debate, the we- are- not- all- going- to- die- by- global- warming side. Of course, that didn't happen, which is a significant problem in itself, revealing the nature of modern government "indoctrination" (not education). But world history? Economics?
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