Sunday, May 11, 2008

Education or Indoctrination?

Consider these two recent stories from WorldNetDaily.com:

"3rd-graders asked to help classmate in gender change"

A Pennsylvania elementary school has angered parents by giving them one-day's notice of planned counseling sessions with 100 third-grade students to explain that one of their male classmates would soon begin wearing girls' clothing and taking a female name and to ask that they accept him as a girl and not make unkind remarks.

"Propaganda-driven kids attack think tank"

Students at a California public school have written a series of letters to Chicago's Heartland Institute, which works to discover and develop free-market solutions to society's problems, attacking its members for "destroying our planet" by refusing to endorse the politics of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film.

Read them both, then ask yourself – are these children, along with millions of others in public schools throughout the country, being educated, or are they being indoctrinated?

The 3rd graders are being trained to accept as perfectly normal a troubled male classmate who has decided, with the full support of his PINOs (Parents In Name Only), to assume a girl's name and dress and act like a girl.

The letters that the 6th grade children wrote to the Heartland Institute are available online. These are 11 year olds who write like 7 or 8 year olds. Not only are they not being taught to think, but they are not even being taught to express themselves in a logical and coherent manner.

The children in both of these classes are being crippled for life.

Is it any wonder that more and more children are being withdrawn from the clutches of the public schools and educated elsewhere? Even at the cost of enormous personal sacrifice, more and more parents are electing to send their children to private or church-affiliated schools, or to school them at home.

How did the public education system get into such sad shape? Who permitted it? For the answer, look in the mirror. We all did when we abrogated our responsibilities as adult citizens and allowed the agenda-driven ideologues to take over.

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."

~~~~~ William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

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