School Daze

School Daze

Reading, writing, and arithmetic have long been passe’ in America’s schools, their place supplanted by political correctness, the inculcation of self esteem, and a quest for diversity and societal innovations. After all, who needs learning when more pressing indoctrination is involved?

Some examples of schools, school administrations, and teachers who have gone off the deep end:

GAY HISTORY: California, the vanguard of change in America, is considering mandating the teaching of “gay history” in its schools, making that study the equivalent of already mandated studies of “contributions to the state and nation of women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, entrepreneurs, Asian Americans, European Americans, American Indians and labor.” (http://tiny.cc/dgz6h)

Precisely what contributions the teaching of “gay history” is expected to make for Californian kids is unclear. How best to utilize gerbils? The proper use of sex toys? How not to get caught in public? Who knows?

Ostensibly, the proposed legislation is intended to soothe the psyches and mitigate bullying of gay kids but, if anything, the mass of straight kids will rebel against the forced study and acceptance of homosexuality.

California can mandate all it wants. Californian kids will still tell the state to shove it.

FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: Teacher unions have gotten a lot of press lately, principally in Wisconsin where they trashed the state Capitol building in Madison in their protest campaign against Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts to rein in their and other public unions’ exorbitant salaries and bennies. California teachers have now out-radicalized their Wisconsin counterparts.

The California Federation of Teachers (CFT) has passed a resolution advocating freedom for a convicted cop-killer on the basis that, “the continued unjust incarceration of Mumia Abu-Jamal represents a threat to the civil rights of all people. . ."
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