A Sonnet For America

1.My fav of Shakespeare’s sonnets is number 65, which begins

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,

Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out

Against the wrackful siege of batt’ring days,

When rocks impregnable are not so stout,

Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?



Sadly, the beauty that Shakespeare had in mind could be compared to America, if one recognizes the ‘wrackful siege’ of communism and its apparatchiks in the education industry.




2. Howard Zinn’s Marxist A People’s History of the United States, Is on one of the most commonly used sources to teach American history. Zinn’s book has sold over 2.6 million copies .... I was disappointed to see that even some of the members of one of the home school groups to which I belonged used it, totally unaware of Zinn’s background.

3.This was in a post of mine from 2012:

"Not surprisingly, irrefutable evidence has emerged that the man who hated America for at least 70 of his 87 years was .....Hate-America Howie was — a Communist. We always knew that was the worldview of his heart. But now it turns out that he made it official. Hate-America Howie was a formal member of the Communist Party-USA.

Hate America Howie (HAH) taught a class on "Basic Marxism" at party headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., advising his "students" that the basic teachings of Marx and Lenin "were sound and should be adhered to by those present"; HAH was a pro-Castro activist and backed radical groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Progressive Labor Party, and Black Panther Party; supported a Communist victory in Vietnam, visiting the Communist regime in Hanoi (ala "Hanoi Jane" Fonda — who — BTW — paid tribute to Howie upon his departure); in 1962, while President John F. Kennedy warned the Soviets to back off or suffer the consequences, HAH — at his quisling best — publicly protested the U.S. demand for withdrawal of missiles from Cuba ("hence," according to Kincaid, "Zinn wanted the United States and its citizens to be vulnerable to a Soviet nuclear attack" — Attention, parlor pinks: Note this great nice guy humanitarian's wish for you and me was nearly 10 years after Stalin died); a video tribute to Zinn was posted by the pro-Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPW)"
Howard Zinn: Communist liar France, 1930's: A Fatal Flaw in Liberalism



4. “This Saturday teachers will gather at the Smithsonian (specifically the National Museum of the American Indian) for a continuing education class about Christopher Columbus. They will get lessons using Howard Zinn’s Marxist A People’s History of the United States, …” Stop Subsidizing Zinn’s Communist History of the United States




You still believe there is hope for America’s survival?

Zinn's history is unmitigated crap. The public education system needs to be repatriated by whatever means necessary.



Soooo.....when do you think that will happen?

Honestly it's doubtful that it will happen, unless the Americans get mad-dog mean enough to bury their domestic enemies.

Unfortunately, that sort of will has been "educated" out of the psyche of recent generations.

I think conservatives--true to form--begged out of the fight as soon as it began and now just wail and moan about the results. Again. True to form.

So much whining. So little action.



Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix
 
1.My fav of Shakespeare’s sonnets is number 65, which begins

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

But sad mortality o’er-sways their power,

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,

Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

O, how shall summer’s honey breath hold out

Against the wrackful siege of batt’ring days,

When rocks impregnable are not so stout,

Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?



Sadly, the beauty that Shakespeare had in mind could be compared to America, if one recognizes the ‘wrackful siege’ of communism and its apparatchiks in the education industry.




2. Howard Zinn’s Marxist A People’s History of the United States, Is on one of the most commonly used sources to teach American history. Zinn’s book has sold over 2.6 million copies .... I was disappointed to see that even some of the members of one of the home school groups to which I belonged used it, totally unaware of Zinn’s background.

3.This was in a post of mine from 2012:

"Not surprisingly, irrefutable evidence has emerged that the man who hated America for at least 70 of his 87 years was .....Hate-America Howie was — a Communist. We always knew that was the worldview of his heart. But now it turns out that he made it official. Hate-America Howie was a formal member of the Communist Party-USA.

Hate America Howie (HAH) taught a class on "Basic Marxism" at party headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., advising his "students" that the basic teachings of Marx and Lenin "were sound and should be adhered to by those present"; HAH was a pro-Castro activist and backed radical groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Progressive Labor Party, and Black Panther Party; supported a Communist victory in Vietnam, visiting the Communist regime in Hanoi (ala "Hanoi Jane" Fonda — who — BTW — paid tribute to Howie upon his departure); in 1962, while President John F. Kennedy warned the Soviets to back off or suffer the consequences, HAH — at his quisling best — publicly protested the U.S. demand for withdrawal of missiles from Cuba ("hence," according to Kincaid, "Zinn wanted the United States and its citizens to be vulnerable to a Soviet nuclear attack" — Attention, parlor pinks: Note this great nice guy humanitarian's wish for you and me was nearly 10 years after Stalin died); a video tribute to Zinn was posted by the pro-Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPW)"
Howard Zinn: Communist liar France, 1930's: A Fatal Flaw in Liberalism



4. “This Saturday teachers will gather at the Smithsonian (specifically the National Museum of the American Indian) for a continuing education class about Christopher Columbus. They will get lessons using Howard Zinn’s Marxist A People’s History of the United States, …” Stop Subsidizing Zinn’s Communist History of the United States




You still believe there is hope for America’s survival?

Zinn's history is unmitigated crap. The public education system needs to be repatriated by whatever means necessary.



Soooo.....when do you think that will happen?

Honestly it's doubtful that it will happen, unless the Americans get mad-dog mean enough to bury their domestic enemies.

Unfortunately, that sort of will has been "educated" out of the psyche of recent generations.

I think conservatives--true to form--begged out of the fight as soon as it began and now just wail and moan about the results. Again. True to form.

So much whining. So little action.



Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix

Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.
 
I was educated mostly with a strong emphasis on memorization of a wide variety of facts combined with Socratic debate.

One cannot think critically about a given subject unless there is actually something in one's head about which to critically think.
 
I was educated mostly with a strong emphasis on memorization of a wide variety of facts combined with Socratic debate.

One cannot think critically about a given subject unless there is actually something in one's head about which to critically think.

My kids both went to the same public district where I teach and Socratic Circle was a huge part of their schooling from middle school on
 
Zinn's history is unmitigated crap. The public education system needs to be repatriated by whatever means necessary.



Soooo.....when do you think that will happen?

Honestly it's doubtful that it will happen, unless the Americans get mad-dog mean enough to bury their domestic enemies.

Unfortunately, that sort of will has been "educated" out of the psyche of recent generations.

I think conservatives--true to form--begged out of the fight as soon as it began and now just wail and moan about the results. Again. True to form.

So much whining. So little action.



Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix

Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.



"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools are .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.


In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.
 
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I was educated mostly with a strong emphasis on memorization of a wide variety of facts combined with Socratic debate.

One cannot think critically about a given subject unless there is actually something in one's head about which to critically think.

Bravo!


The Left took over education, and they don't believe in knowledge-based standards.
They believe in education against oppression.


2. The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.


2a. In the new millennium, Massachusetts students have surged upward on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—“the nation’s report card,” as education scholars call it. On the 2005 NAEP tests, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and fourth- and eighth-grade math. It then repeated the feat in 2007. No state had ever scored first in both grades and both subjects in a single year—let alone for two consecutive test cycles. On another reliable test, the Trends in International Math and Science Studies, the state’s fourth-graders last year ranked second globally in science and third in math, while the eighth-graders tied for first in science and placed sixth in math. (States can volunteer, as Massachusetts did, to have their students compared with national averages.) The United States as a whole finished tenth.



3. In 2003, David Steiner and Susan Rozen published a study examining the curricula of 16 schools of education—14 of them among the top-ranked institutions in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report—and found that Pedagogy of the Oppressed was one of the most frequently assigned texts in their philosophy of education courses.This ed-school bestseller is, instead, a utopian political tract calling for the overthrow of capitalist hegemony and the creation of classless societies.
 
Soooo.....when do you think that will happen?

Honestly it's doubtful that it will happen, unless the Americans get mad-dog mean enough to bury their domestic enemies.

Unfortunately, that sort of will has been "educated" out of the psyche of recent generations.

I think conservatives--true to form--begged out of the fight as soon as it began and now just wail and moan about the results. Again. True to form.

So much whining. So little action.



Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix

Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.



"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.

In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.

You're telling me what I am and what I do? Specific examples? Well I'm a music teacher who knows the Supreme Court rulings on religion in the schools cold, and that's why every December we STILL sing Silent Night. As an entire school. That's just one example, dear. Do not dare to tell me what I am and what I do, and do not dare to tell me what EVERY public school sea to shining sea is like. Perhaps you conceded the fight, but I did not, and do not to this day. And I do all this NOT belonging to the union.

So really
 
Honestly it's doubtful that it will happen, unless the Americans get mad-dog mean enough to bury their domestic enemies.

Unfortunately, that sort of will has been "educated" out of the psyche of recent generations.

I think conservatives--true to form--begged out of the fight as soon as it began and now just wail and moan about the results. Again. True to form.

So much whining. So little action.



Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix

Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.



"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.

In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.

You're telling me what I am and what I do? Specific examples? Well I'm a music teacher who knows the Supreme Court rulings on religion in the schools cold, and that's why every December we STILL sing Silent Night. As an entire school. That's just one example, dear. Do not dare to tell me what I am and what I do, and do not dare to tell me what EVERY public school sea to shining sea is like. Perhaps you conceded the fight, but I did not, and do not to this day. And I do all this NOT belonging to the union.

So really



Looks like I put a burr under your saddle.

Good.


You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???

No?
Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that FDR placed a KKKer on the Court, and he wrote that.
Perhaps you are a government school grad yourself.
Are you?

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



Please respond.
 
5. You, the taxpayers, are paying for the Marxist indoctrination of our children.

The Stepford Students

Like a programmed choir, the Stepfords detest capitalism; see moral equivalence between victims and perpetrators of terror; are alarmed by spurious climate change data; are convinced that racism and oppression are systemic in America; believe that open borders and sanctuary for illegal immigrants are the only moral choices; and all those who challenge or debate these issues are deplorable. Only group identity matters.

When a more conservative professor challenges their assumptions or invites another conservative to the campus, the Stepfords revolt, and, obtunded by their hypocrisy deny the basic freedoms of speech and assembly to anyone outside Stepford groupthink.

The Stepfords are smug and evoke Marxist theories without a clue about the millions of innocents that communism dislocated, tortured and executed. In fact, they find convoluted ways to attribute all evils to America and Donald Trump. And they are convinced that meritocracy is another form of racism because successful people are beneficiaries of 'white privilege.'​

American Thinker
September 8, 2019
By Ruth King
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/the_stepford_students.html#ixzz5z09AZZ7W
 
I think conservatives--true to form--begged out of the fight as soon as it began and now just wail and moan about the results. Again. True to form.

So much whining. So little action.



Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix

Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.



"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.

In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.

You're telling me what I am and what I do? Specific examples? Well I'm a music teacher who knows the Supreme Court rulings on religion in the schools cold, and that's why every December we STILL sing Silent Night. As an entire school. That's just one example, dear. Do not dare to tell me what I am and what I do, and do not dare to tell me what EVERY public school sea to shining sea is like. Perhaps you conceded the fight, but I did not, and do not to this day. And I do all this NOT belonging to the union.

So really



Looks like I put a burr under your saddle.

Good.


You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???

No?
Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that FDR placed a KKKer on the Court, and he wrote that.
Perhaps you are a government school grad yourself.
Are you?

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



Please respond.

Here were your questions:

You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???


First. You realize the Declaration of Independence mentions a "Creator" and the entire nation was based on the idea of freedom from a STATE religion. And yes, with a firm reliance on the Christian God, which I deeply appreciate and regret that we have strayed from. And yes I know and correct people all the time that there is absolutely no mention of "separation of church and state" in any government documents.

But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?

Why am I required to respond to what college professors do and say? The college system is for the most part a nuthouse of Leftism and I'll give you that. I think you live in NYC and I'll give you that THAT school system is also a nuthouse of Leftism. But then look at the population from which the school system comes. A bunch of liberals.

The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher by imagining the second grade teacher down the pew from you on Sunday morning in Anytown, Montana is just exactly like the rabid Leftist women's studies professor at the college in Boulder Colorado or the high school teacher in NYC.

I mean c'mon. Why must we have so little imagination?
 
Conservatives brought this nation to fruition......so where do you get that 'true to form' nonsense????



Today the Progressives own and operate the school system at every level.



What is your 'true to form' response to this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix

Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.



"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.

In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.

You're telling me what I am and what I do? Specific examples? Well I'm a music teacher who knows the Supreme Court rulings on religion in the schools cold, and that's why every December we STILL sing Silent Night. As an entire school. That's just one example, dear. Do not dare to tell me what I am and what I do, and do not dare to tell me what EVERY public school sea to shining sea is like. Perhaps you conceded the fight, but I did not, and do not to this day. And I do all this NOT belonging to the union.

So really



Looks like I put a burr under your saddle.

Good.


You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???

No?
Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that FDR placed a KKKer on the Court, and he wrote that.
Perhaps you are a government school grad yourself.
Are you?

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



Please respond.

Here were your questions:

You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???


First. You realize the Declaration of Independence mentions a "Creator" and the entire nation was based on the idea of freedom from a STATE religion. And yes, with a firm reliance on the Christian God, which I deeply appreciate and regret that we have strayed from. And yes I know and correct people all the time that there is absolutely no mention of "separation of church and state" in any government documents.

But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?

Why am I required to respond to what college professors do and say? The college system is for the most part a nuthouse of Leftism and I'll give you that. I think you live in NYC and I'll give you that THAT school system is also a nuthouse of Leftism. But then look at the population from which the school system comes. A bunch of liberals.

The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher by imagining the second grade teacher down the pew from you on Sunday morning in Anytown, Montana is just exactly like the rabid Leftist women's studies professor at the college in Boulder Colorado or the high school teacher in NYC.

I mean c'mon. Why must we have so little imagination?


1. There are four references to ‘Divine’ in D of I…
1)in first paragraph ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,’ 2) next paragraph ‘endowed by their Creator,” 3) Supreme Judge of the world, and 4) ‘divine’ Providence, last paragraph.

This is important because our historic documents memorialize a government based on individuals born with inalienable rights, by, in various references, by the Divine, or Nature’s God, or their Creator, or the Supreme Judge, or divine Providence.

2. "But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?"
You began this tête-à-tête by bragging what a great conservative you are, and others are less because they are not employed by the system.
It was an error on your part, and you needed the take-down, and I was happy to do so.

3. Had you simply posted that you were one of the conservatives doing your part, this would not have been necessary.

4." The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher ..."
I sense a bit of projection here.
I have always made the attacks on the system and those who control it.
If you are upset about working in and for the system, find other work.
Don't demand credit for doing so.

5. I believe I have noted several times that I have friends who teach in the system, and are conservative.
We generally agree on the reality.

6. And, no....you didn't answer either of these questions"

Are you a product of the government schools?


What is your response to this:


"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



7. As you began by pounding your chest as to what a great conservative you are....could you name several books that have informed your conservative views....?

Or, would you like me to name some you might find educational?
 
Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done, conservatives sit around and moan and groan and cry and whine. Often completely incoherently. This is what I often hear from conservatives:

"I hated school growing up, it was a terrible experience"

And then in the very next breath, some variation of:

"And also school should be JUST like it has always been, these new methods and materials suck"

True to form is: the nature of conservatism is to sit around and b!tch and moan about something forever rather than ACT. There are notable exceptions, as you have mentioned. But the sitting around we have almost lost our nation.



"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.

In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.

You're telling me what I am and what I do? Specific examples? Well I'm a music teacher who knows the Supreme Court rulings on religion in the schools cold, and that's why every December we STILL sing Silent Night. As an entire school. That's just one example, dear. Do not dare to tell me what I am and what I do, and do not dare to tell me what EVERY public school sea to shining sea is like. Perhaps you conceded the fight, but I did not, and do not to this day. And I do all this NOT belonging to the union.

So really



Looks like I put a burr under your saddle.

Good.


You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???

No?
Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that FDR placed a KKKer on the Court, and he wrote that.
Perhaps you are a government school grad yourself.
Are you?

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



Please respond.

Here were your questions:

You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???


First. You realize the Declaration of Independence mentions a "Creator" and the entire nation was based on the idea of freedom from a STATE religion. And yes, with a firm reliance on the Christian God, which I deeply appreciate and regret that we have strayed from. And yes I know and correct people all the time that there is absolutely no mention of "separation of church and state" in any government documents.

But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?

Why am I required to respond to what college professors do and say? The college system is for the most part a nuthouse of Leftism and I'll give you that. I think you live in NYC and I'll give you that THAT school system is also a nuthouse of Leftism. But then look at the population from which the school system comes. A bunch of liberals.

The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher by imagining the second grade teacher down the pew from you on Sunday morning in Anytown, Montana is just exactly like the rabid Leftist women's studies professor at the college in Boulder Colorado or the high school teacher in NYC.

I mean c'mon. Why must we have so little imagination?


1. There are four references to ‘Divine’ in D of I…
1)in first paragraph ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,’ 2) next paragraph ‘endowed by their Creator,” 3) Supreme Judge of the world, and 4) ‘divine’ Providence, last paragraph.

This is important because our historic documents memorialize a government based on individuals born with inalienable rights, by, in various references, by the Divine, or Nature’s God, or their Creator, or the Supreme Judge, or divine Providence.

2. "But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?"
You began this tête-à-tête by bragging what a great conservative you are, and others are less because they are not employed by the system.
It was an error on your part, and you needed the take-down, and I was happy to do so.

3. Had you simply posted that you were one of the conservatives doing your part, this would not have been necessary.

4." The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher ..."
I sense a bit of projection here.
I have always made the attacks on the system and those who control it.
If you are upset about working in and for the system, find other work.
Don't demand credit for doing so.

5. I believe I have noted several times that I have friends who teach in the system, and are conservative.
We generally agree on the reality.

6. And, no....you didn't answer either of these questions"

Are you a product of the government schools?


What is your response to this:


"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



7. As you began by pounding your chest as to what a great conservative you are....could you name several books that have informed your conservative views....?

Or, would you like me to name some you might find educational?

I'm not going to go chasing down every single one of your rabbit trails, nor do I have to. I will only ask this: are you in NYC? Do you assume all public schools from Alaska to Hawaii to CA to New Mexico to Montana to Alabama to Maine are just like the ones in NYC?

Why would you assume this?
 
"Right. And rather than go INTO the schools as I have done, and actually risk something as I have done,"

Quite the bit of virtue-signaling there.

And, of course you accept a pay-check for going in....what is the conservatism you instill in students?

Please....some examples.


And, you've slandered every one who voice the truth about exactly what the schools .....with the exception of 'SweetSue,' of course.....and missed the millions of us who put our money where our mouths are.....and home school, remove our children from the maw of the beast.

In truth, you are a servant of the Democrats who own the schools at every level, and you will teach what they tell you to. You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix




You need see today's OP here: Advances in Bigotry

You may use it in your classroom.

You're telling me what I am and what I do? Specific examples? Well I'm a music teacher who knows the Supreme Court rulings on religion in the schools cold, and that's why every December we STILL sing Silent Night. As an entire school. That's just one example, dear. Do not dare to tell me what I am and what I do, and do not dare to tell me what EVERY public school sea to shining sea is like. Perhaps you conceded the fight, but I did not, and do not to this day. And I do all this NOT belonging to the union.

So really



Looks like I put a burr under your saddle.

Good.


You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???

No?
Perhaps you are not aware of the fact that FDR placed a KKKer on the Court, and he wrote that.
Perhaps you are a government school grad yourself.
Are you?

And, I have taught this in some classes I volunteered to teach for my home school groups.....at no salary.



Is there a reason you ignored this?

"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



Please respond.

Here were your questions:

You will not teach that America is based on religion, on morality, on unalienable rights derived from God.
That is the central thesis of conservatism.

And it says so clearly in the Declaration of Independence.

And have you taught that the Supreme Court has no basis for 'separation of church and state???


First. You realize the Declaration of Independence mentions a "Creator" and the entire nation was based on the idea of freedom from a STATE religion. And yes, with a firm reliance on the Christian God, which I deeply appreciate and regret that we have strayed from. And yes I know and correct people all the time that there is absolutely no mention of "separation of church and state" in any government documents.

But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?

Why am I required to respond to what college professors do and say? The college system is for the most part a nuthouse of Leftism and I'll give you that. I think you live in NYC and I'll give you that THAT school system is also a nuthouse of Leftism. But then look at the population from which the school system comes. A bunch of liberals.

The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher by imagining the second grade teacher down the pew from you on Sunday morning in Anytown, Montana is just exactly like the rabid Leftist women's studies professor at the college in Boulder Colorado or the high school teacher in NYC.

I mean c'mon. Why must we have so little imagination?


1. There are four references to ‘Divine’ in D of I…
1)in first paragraph ‘Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,’ 2) next paragraph ‘endowed by their Creator,” 3) Supreme Judge of the world, and 4) ‘divine’ Providence, last paragraph.

This is important because our historic documents memorialize a government based on individuals born with inalienable rights, by, in various references, by the Divine, or Nature’s God, or their Creator, or the Supreme Judge, or divine Providence.

2. "But why in the world would I teach any of this as a music teacher...did you miss that?"
You began this tête-à-tête by bragging what a great conservative you are, and others are less because they are not employed by the system.
It was an error on your part, and you needed the take-down, and I was happy to do so.

3. Had you simply posted that you were one of the conservatives doing your part, this would not have been necessary.

4." The problem comes when conservatives lambaste every single public school system and teacher ..."
I sense a bit of projection here.
I have always made the attacks on the system and those who control it.
If you are upset about working in and for the system, find other work.
Don't demand credit for doing so.

5. I believe I have noted several times that I have friends who teach in the system, and are conservative.
We generally agree on the reality.

6. And, no....you didn't answer either of these questions"

Are you a product of the government schools?


What is your response to this:


"Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer"
Poll: 73 percent of Republican students have withheld political views in class for fear their grades would suffer | The College Fix



7. As you began by pounding your chest as to what a great conservative you are....could you name several books that have informed your conservative views....?

Or, would you like me to name some you might find educational?

I'm not going to go chasing down every single one of your rabbit trails, nor do I have to. I will only ask this: are you in NYC? Do you assume all public schools from Alaska to Hawaii to CA to New Mexico to Montana to Alabama to Maine are just like the ones in NYC?

Why would you assume this?


Here's why:

1. "Third-Grade Teacher Has Students Write ‘Get Well’ Cards To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal A third-grade teacher at a public school in New Jersey is under fire after she encouraged her students to write letters to notorious convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, who recently fell ill in prison.

Marylin Zuniga teaches language arts and social studies at Forest Street School in Orange, N.J."

Third-Grade Teacher Has Students Write ‘Get Well’ Cards To Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal



2. - School's Nation of Islam Handout Paints Founding Fathers as Racists


"School's Nation of Islam Handout Paints Founding Fathers as Racists
The mother of an eight-year-old wants to know why a Tennessee school teacher gave her child a handout from the Nation of Islam that portrayed the presidents on Mount Rushmore as being racists.

Sommer Bauer tells me her son was given The Nation of Islam handout at Harold McCormick Elementary School in Elizabethton. The handout asked “What does it take to be on Mount Rushmore?"

The handout then explains that George Washington hailed from Virginia, a “prime breeder of black people.” Of Theodore Roosevelt, it was alleged he called Africans “ape-like.” There were also disparaging remarks made of Thomas Jefferson (he enslaved 200 Africans) and Abraham Lincoln.

The teacher also told Sommer that her son was not supposed to take the Nation of Islam handout home. It was supposed to stay in the classroom. That bit of news caused her great alarm.


“The fact that students were cautioned against allowing their parents to see anything is deeply troubling,” West told me. “The only reasonable explanation is they don’t want parents to know what it is their children are learning.”


So what’s the bottom line?

“We had a teacher who apparently never looked at something, never read something, before it was distributed to a class of third graders,” West said. “In addition, she warned the students not to take it home.”

That does seem a bit odd.

I’ve interviewed Sommer at least a half dozen times. Her story has remained consistent. The teacher gave Sommer two explanations for what happened in the classroom. The superintendent gave me a third.

I find it hard to believe an 8-year-old boy would steal a handout from a teacher’s desk, bring it home and then concoct an elaborate tale to cover up the crime."



3. "...many parents of children in public schools are deeply concerned, wondering if they should keep their kids in public school or just get out now.

For these parents, the transgender agenda is the game-changer. Under pressure from transgender activists, progressive politicians, teacher unions, and the education establishment, and despite parents’ opposition, America’s public schools are capitulating to ideologues and implementing the radical transgender agenda with full force.


...regardless of biological sex, .... Activists want every child, from kindergarten on, to learn that “sex” is something “assigned at birth” rather than a biological reality. They want children to think that individuals get to choose their own “gender identity” (not limited to male or female), and that everyone else must affirm that “gender identity” as true.


...nothing that parents (or teachers) can do to prevent the schools from imposing policies designed to indoctrinate children with gender ideology.

....“political scientists and foreign policy experts have used the term deep state for years to describe individuals and institutions who exercise power independent of—and sometimes over—civilian political leaders.” In public education, the “deep state” describes a coalition of various groups – including teachers’ unions, progressive advocacy groups, major corporations, and philanthropists --that work together to promote the progressive worldview..."
America’s Public Education System: The Ultimate Deep State




4. The National Education Association approved a new "business item" expressing support for abortion access during its annual conference in Houston.

"[T]he NEA will include an assertion of our defense of a person's right to control their own body, especially for women, youth, and sexually marginalized people," the resolution states. "The NEA vigorously opposes all attacks on the right to choose and stands on the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade."

The NEA is the largest teachers' union in the U.S. with more than 3 million members. It collected nearly $400 million from American educators in 2018, according to federal labor filings. The union is also one of the most politically active in the country, spending $70 million on politics and lobbying in 2017 and 2018. Nearly all of the union's political action committee spending went to Democrats during the midterm cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.


NEA's 2019 adopted New Business Items (NBIs) reveal what savvy teachers have known for decades: state and national teachers' unions are essentially the political action committee of the Far-Left,"
Largest U.S. Teachers' Union Endorses Abortion




5. the 20-minute video being shown in American classrooms entitled The

Story of Stuff; a catchy title to appeal to grade school kids. This piece of anti-capitalist propaganda was

put together by Greenpeace member Annie Leonard.







Please don't make me have to educate you again.
 
Imagine....you send your child to school to be educated....


"A new law signed by Gavin Newsom bans schools from suspending disruptive kids

It is will soon be illegal in California for both public and charter schools to suspend disruptive students from kindergarten through eighth grade

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed into law Senate Bill 419, which permanently prohibits willful defiance suspensions in grades four and five. It also bans such suspensions in grades six through eight for five years.

The law goes into effect July 1, 2020."

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234912107.html




Liberalism writ large.
 
"With most services, you get to shop around, but rarely can you do that with government-run schools.

Philadelphia mom Elaine Wells was upset to learn that there were fights every day in the school her son attended. So she walked him over to another school.

"We went to go enroll and we were told, 'He can't go here!' That was my wake up call," Wells tell me in my latest video.

...politicians stack the odds against kids who want to escape government-run schools.



Charter students spend more time in school -- from 8 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m., and they have to take Latin.

"Why?" I asked Boys' Latin co-founder David Hardy. "Nobody speaks Latin."

"We picked Latin because it was hard," he answered. "Life is hard. In order to be prepared, you have to work hard. We want to get that into the psyche of our students."

It works. Boys' Latin students do better on most state tests than kids in government-run schools. Hardy says, "We've sent more black boys to college than any high school in Pennsylvania."

But people who work in government monopolies don't like experiments that show there's a better way to do things.



So why aren't more charters approved?

"It would mean a whole lot less union jobs," Hardy says. "The unions are not going to be for that."

It's not just unions. Education bureaucrats love working in a monopoly where they are basically guaranteed jobs. Bad charter schools close, but government-run schools almost never do -- no matter how badly they treat kids."
Better Schools
 
The NEA sucks. That's why I don't belong.

We can tell anecdotes all day. Those don't paint a complete picture. Strangely conservatives understand this when it comes to, say, law enforcement, but totally buy in when it comes to teachers. Then, one stupid Leftist teacher in second grade means that EVERY SECOND GRADE TEACHER IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN!!!

Really? That's airtight logic right there
 
The NEA sucks. That's why I don't belong.

We can tell anecdotes all day. Those don't paint a complete picture. Strangely conservatives understand this when it comes to, say, law enforcement, but totally buy in when it comes to teachers. Then, one stupid Leftist teacher in second grade means that EVERY SECOND GRADE TEACHER IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN!!!

Really? That's airtight logic right there



What is wrong with you???


Everything I said, I've been able to document.



You, on the other hand, "Then, one stupid Leftist teacher in second grade means that EVERY SECOND GRADE TEACHER IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN!!!"...

....when I have said several times that I have friends who are teachers, who are conservative.


1. You never answered when I asked if you are a government school grad.

2. You never stated what conservative views you've passed on to your students.

3. You've claimed that you deserve credit for teaching in the system....but I have seen no basis for any credit.

4. You have been unable to refute anything I've posted.

5. I don't know what is wrong with you....but I bet it's really hard to pronounce.
 
The NEA sucks. That's why I don't belong.

We can tell anecdotes all day. Those don't paint a complete picture. Strangely conservatives understand this when it comes to, say, law enforcement, but totally buy in when it comes to teachers. Then, one stupid Leftist teacher in second grade means that EVERY SECOND GRADE TEACHER IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN!!!

Really? That's airtight logic right there



What is wrong with you???


Everything I said, I've been able to document.



You, on the other hand, "Then, one stupid Leftist teacher in second grade means that EVERY SECOND GRADE TEACHER IS INDOCTRINATING OUR CHILDREN!!!"...

....when I have said several times that I have friends who are teachers, who are conservative.


1. You never answered when I asked if you are a government school grad.

2. You never stated what conservative views you've passed on to your students.

3. You've claimed that you deserve credit for teaching in the system....but I have seen no basis for any credit.

4. You have been unable to refute anything I've posted.

5. I don't know what is wrong with you....but I bet it's really hard to pronounce.

There is simply no sense in arguing with you about this. Conservatives are with education like Leftists are with cops. I can't argue with you about it; you're insensible.
 

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