THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 49, March 9, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
BEHIND THE VENEER OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION, & TRADITIONAL EDUCATION: AMERICA'S TAX-SUPPORTED,
GOVERNMENT-OPERATED INSTITUTIONS OF ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION ARE STRONG ON LIBERAL LEFTIST,
ANTI-AMERICAN POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION, BUT WEAK ON TEACHING STUDENTS ENGLISH GRAMMAR & COMPOSITION,
READING SKILLS, SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, CIVICS, & THE OTHER BASICS OF A GOOD EDUCATION
FULL STORY:
Americans who love their country and its heritage have been outraged as they
learned of Jay Bennish, World Geography teacher at Overland High School, in Aurora, Colorado, who was recorded
by a student last month as he spewed an anti-American diatribe to his class.
But should anyone really be surprised? By no means is this an isolated
incident.
Public school students who have been immersed in similar venom are alarmingly easy to
spot. They are the Geography students who can fluently regurgitate the
wisdom of Cindy Sheehan, but who cannot find Oklahoma on a map.
They are the Mathematics students who can elaborate on the “failures” of
Reaganomics and the inherent superiority of Maoist fiscal policy, but who
cannot make change when working behind a cash register. And they are the
History students who can recite the lyrics of every Vietnam era protest song
and believe World War II was only about the internment of Japanese
Americans, but who have not a clue as to the historical significance of
George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
Amazingly, the Liberal education establishment that controls America's public schools has, over the past several
decades, brilliantly turned this deplorable situation into an ongoing
political and financial boon. As students’ academic scores continue to
tumble, the inevitable result of being taught such claptrap in lieu of
traditional education, educrats invariably respond with endless calls for
increased funding, ostensibly to “fix” the problem.
Throughout the nation, the annual “fix” to the education crisis is enormous
increases in budgetary allotments towards elementary and secondary education, with no commensurate
academic improvement.
Any responsible legislator who refuses to go along with this ruse is
publicly excoriated as being “anti-education” and “anti-child.” Few possess
the courage or principle to face such a firestorm. So, budgets continue to
bloat, staffing is increased, facilities undergo costly upgrades, and in the
end, the Leftist, anti-American political indoctrination in the public schools continues unabated.
Why, in the midst of such a program that bestows incentives for failure,
should the education establishment ever consider changing course? Indeed, on
the day that schools begin turning out brighter students who score better on
their SAT tests, the “education” lobby will lose its most powerful weapon
for pressuring legislative bodies and the general public to allow it even
greater access to the public trough.
It is beyond naive to hope that this abysmal cycle will somehow correct
itself, especially as long as the current situation keeps providing such a
reliable “win/win” for the political and cultural Left.
Nevertheless, it is primarily the parents of school-aged children who bear
ultimate responsibility for this dismal state of affairs. As is evident from
the public outrage and surprise over the Colorado episode, most Americans
remain unaware of the degree to which government schools have mutated into
something grotesquely distorted from their original purpose.
To this day, far too many parents staunchly believe that such abominable
events are not happening in their own communities, and that their own
children’s declining test scores will indeed be fixable if public school budgets
are expanded during the next legislative session. This situation cannot ever
be expected to change until the general American public becomes thoroughly aware of the
extent of the problem and commits to the difficult task of true educational
reform.
Unfortunately, from federal to local levels, the political system is
presently stacked against any such fix. Among the “highlights” of President George W.
Bush’s first term was a multi-billion dollar education bill, passed with the
collaboration of Massachusetts Liberal Leftist Democrat, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
Doggedly opposing true reform, Senator Kennedy was nonetheless able to funnel
unfathomable sums of money into the hands of a political lobby that will
ensure much of it returns to the campaign coffers of Liberal Democrats.
Meanwhile, he can cast himself as a patron saint of “education” and an
advocate of children, all with the public blessing of a Republican
President.
Only when Conservative officeholders muster the courage to face the
inevitable political fallout, will America have any hope of changing the
status quo. Until then, the Colorado situation will predictably recur on an
endless basis, its victims moving henceforth into society to conduct their
lives, and perhaps participate in government, philosophically undergirded by
such criminally fraudulent information.
And Liberal educrats will not stop there. Look for them to pursue an
ever-expanding reach. The Colorado student who secretly recorded his ranting
teacher on an MP3 player had obviously not been properly indoctrinated.
Thus can be explained the seeming disparity between the education
establishment’s inability to fulfill its traditional responsibilities, in
contrast to its craven aspirations for an ever greater role in rearing the
next generation.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Education & America's Schools
A Practical Guide to Homeschooling
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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