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?
When a teacher and assistant principal at a Tennessee school stage a violent gunman attack on a classroom of sixth graders, which left them cowering under their desks, terrified, and begging for their lives, as a "prank," or "learning experience," it is past time to break up the government monopoly in childhood education and allow it to become a truly free market enterprise. The government school in which this not merely hare- brained, but evil, scenario played out will not suffer from the actions of their employees because the children of the community are mandated by law to attend. If something similar happened in a free market school, it would be out of business today, because parents could vote with their wallets and close the thing down.
When a Chicago teacher shows the R- rated film "Brokeback Mountain" to a class of 12- year- olds, complete with the disgusting 'cowboy' 'love' scenes intact, without notifying parents or requesting parental permission, it is way past time to shut down the government schools. (What on God's green earth does that movie have to do with reading, writing, or arithmetic? Does anyone need any more proof that promoting homo[s-x]uality, liberal social causes, and anything which denies God or His truth, is the real "hidden" agenda of the government schools?) In the mean time, get your children out of the cesspool, people.
We homeschool because the epidemic of teacher molestation of children entrusted to their care is at an all time high. Based on these figures for Tennessee, if the rest of the states in the nation were comparable, there would be two reports of teacher abuse every night including weekends for the entire year. If the media were covering this story, which it isn't.
While we are talking about appeasing the Islamic fundamentalists, Britain is more and more omitting the Holocaust from its history curriculum so as not to offend Holocaust deniers, who are all Islamic fundamentalists. They don't worry about offending Jews, because, like Christians, they don't strap bombs on and go about blowing up innocents. Um, Britain, could you please call the Burlington, New Jersey schools and clue them in on who the bad guys really are? They haven't figured it out yet.
A few weeks ago I mentioned that Why we homeschool news hadn't gone anywhere, but that it was so discouraging posting the same story every day: teachers having immoral [s-x]ual relations with the children we entrust to their care. World Net Daily has since posted The Big List; the news stories they have covered in which female teachers have seduced (mostly) teen boys (although some girls were victimized as well). The list just goes on ... and on ... and on ... and on. I paid attention to these news stories, and I was shocked at how many there were, looking at them all in one place like that.
The oldest teacher on the list is 41. Let's see, 2007 minues 41 years is 1966, just three years after we ousted God and the Bible from schools, and right smack in the middle of the feminist- led [s-x]ual revolution of the 60s and 70s. We are certainly reaping those "revolting" results today. Which is why we homeschool.
"Officials at Deerfield High School in Deerfield, Ill., have ordered their 14-year-old freshman class into a "gay" indoctrination seminar, after having them sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to tell their parents."
The seminar was put on by the Gay Straight Alliance, a group which actively pushes homo[s-x]uality in the public schools. Of course, this abuse is reported in World Net Daily. I didn't find a news report about it in the AP, the UPI, or the New York Times. Now, let's just pretend a "secret" indoctrination seminar was put on by, oh, Campus Crusade for Christ, after 14- year-olds were forced to sign a confidentiality agreement promising not to tell their parents. The screaming from the mainstream media would be deafening for weeks on end.
In case you were wondering what happened to why we homeschool news, it didn't go anywhere. I just got so sick of posting the same news story every day: teachers violating the innocence of our children. Only the names of the teachers and the school districts change. This crime is still happening daily; the news outlet which reports on it most consistently is World Net Daily. I am still on the lookout for more articles on the factors which drove my husband and I to consider homeschooling twenty years ago when my oldest was getting ready for kindergarten. I never thought I would say it, but today's adult predators in positions of trust and authority over our nation's children makes one long for the good old days of poor academic achievement and the crazy new new math, doesn't it?
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public-school handout urging young children in Virginia to attend a
"Pagan ritual" tomorrow to "celebrate Yule" is sparking objections from
concerned parents.
Because of a recent court ruling which forbade the school district from declining to pass out a flyer to its students from a Christian organization, the school then had to allow this flyer sent home with students from a pagan organization. This is why we homeschool.
But the story doesn't end there. The big hook the pagan organization is using is the Christmas traditions all children are familiar with -- such as Christmas trees, wreaths, and Santa -- and revealing the pagan origins and symbolism behind them.
The more I learn about the root of paganism in ancient history, and their holidays and symbolism, the more I lean toward the Puritan persuasion. The Puritans did not celebrate Christmas because of its pagan roots. My question to myself is: How can I honor Jesus Christ in all our Christmas celebrations and traditions? Or is Christmas as we know it so rooted in idol worship, in the grossest kind of rebellion against God, that it is impossible to honor Jesus through it?
09/28 Update: The gunman shot one of the student hostages before shooting and killing himself. The 16- year old student has died from her wounds. There is more to this story than meets the eye ... I will keep you all informed. We have friends in Bailey, I cannot imagine the grief these families are undergoing. Is your quiet, out- of- the- way town next for a tragedy like this? This is why we homeschool.
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Original post dated 09/27: A gunman entered a Bailey, Colorado high school today and took hostages. The hostage standoff has been resolved and the gunman has been killed. Bailey is a teeny mountain town in a rural, out- of- the way place; the last place in the country you would think would have something like this. We know some homeschooling families who live in Bailey. Their children were not subjected to this horrific event, because they homeschool.
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