Posted on 02/17/2018 8:45:37 PM PST by TBP
Kelly Guthrie Raley was named “Teacher of the Year” at her Florida school, Eustis Middle School, for the 2017-2018 school year last month, according to Fox News. But now she’s being recognized for her cultural commentary following the tragic Florida school shooting.
In a Facebook post that’s gone mega-viral, Ms. Raley analyzes American culture at-large and how it contributed to Wednesday’s shootings and other previous mass shootings.
What did she say? Raley did not hold anything back. She wrote:
Until we, as a country, are willing to get serious and talk about mental health issues, lack of available care for the mental health issues, lack of discipline in the home, horrendous lack of parental support when the schools are trying to control horrible behavior at school (oh no! Not MY KID. What did YOU do to cause my kid to react that way?), lack of moral values, and yes, I’ll say it-violent video games that take away all sensitivity to ANY compassion for others’ lives, as well as reality TV that makes it commonplace for people to constantly scream up in each others’ faces and not value any other person but themselves, we will have a gun problem in school. Our kids don’t understand the permanency of death anymore!!! The middle school teacher then told parents they need to “STEP UP,” explaining that much of the cultural problem begins at home.
“My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my a** out. My parents invaded my life,” Raley wrote.
“They knew where I was ALL the time. They made me have a curfew. They made me wake them up when I got home. They made me respect their rules. They had full control of their house, and at any time could and would go through every inch of my bedroom, backpack, pockets, anything!” she explained.
“Parents: it’s time to STEP UP! Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend,” Raley charged.
Raley wanted to emphasize that her post had nothing to do with the conversation about guns or gun control. She wrote: This post wasn’t about gun control. This was me, loving the crap out of people and wanting the best for them. This was about my school babies and knowing that God created each one for greatness, and just wanting them to reach their futures. It’s about 20 years ago this year I started my teaching career. Violence was not this bad 20 years ago. Lack of compassion wasn’t this bad 20 years ago. And God knows 20 years ago that I wasn’t afraid daily to call a parent because I KNEW that 9 out of 10 would cuss me out, tell me to go to Hell, call the news on me, call the school board on me, or post all over FaceBook about me because I called to let them know what their child chose to do at school…because they are a NORMAL kid!!!!!
She’s right - it’s the culture... that’s what we need to fix.
Bookmark.
Right. The culture and the family. Both of which liberals have been working for years to destroy.
She’s old school and due to liberal mental disease, parents lost sight in what she stated perfectly:
“Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend,” Raley charged”
Bingo.
Retarded Liberals want the govt to be your god, parent and leader. That’s why they keep pushing this homo and transfaggot nonsense everyday.
Wow! She’s caring, smart and articulate.
Unfortunately, Satan, whom Jesus names as the prince of this world, has injected his culture into this world through his minions (leftists, communists, mohammedans, sexual deviants, etc.). It will take a wholesale turning to Jesus to change things, if they are even changeable (may be sliding down the chute to Armageddon so no reversal will happen until He returns).
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I think it’s far more accurate to ask “When are we going to have a serious talk about liberalism and it’s destructive effect on our country and our culture?”.
Example of the fine young adults in our midst:
https://www.facebook.com/pattymayotv/videos/1985254904824022/
I agree with this teacher 100%. After being in a school every school from 1952 to 2003 as a student, teacher, professor and administrator K through graduate school. Society has changed, population diversity has changed, family makeup has changed. Somethings you can’t get back.
It's the culture, all right. It's the culture that thinks mental/behavioral problems can be solved with the "magic bullet" of psychoactive drugs that were not invented until about 1960, and multiplying logarithmically until now--drugs that change the brain completely, are absolutely addictive, and produce extremely violent behavior.
There were no school shooting massacres until these drugs became the norm, delivered to yo by your general practicioner who had little or no idea of their effects. You just tell him what you think you need, a;nd he prescribes it for you, based on a TV or magazine advertisement as to its benefits.
Our main drug problem is not heroin or cocaine. It is with chemicals synthesized like designer clothes: SSRIs, antidepressants, antipsychotics, etc. The culture is rife with them, and they produce terroristic lack of personal control and illogical assessment of consequences of behavior.
For one of the major contributors, look to the military formularies, and what they are flooding the combat troopers with.
i keep seeing video games blamed for mass shootings- has anyone connected any of the shooters with playing video games yet?
I have argued for years (even on this forum) that children need to be exposed to death early in life. The damage done by a sense on invincibility is greater than the damage from any phobia they might not be able to shake.
America’s drug problem would be a small fraction of what it has become if children saw the bodies of friends and family who overdose or have an accident because they were inebriated.
Bkmk
Great teacher.
Look. There are still parents who care and are involved in their teens’ lives. But there are too many who have abdicated. And while she is a teacher I would have ordered from Central Casting, remember that many teachers are more concerned with leftist dogma and inappropriate behavior.
There are a lot of angles to this sad, highly preventable school shooting. Her comments deserve to go viral. Glad they did.
this country truly turned esoterically dark and violent in 1972...the abortion ruling literally devalued human life over night.
If you are unable to ascertain that leftist judges threw the mentally incapacitated out of institutions and into the streets in the nineteen seventies then you need to have a serious talk with someone who remembers. And if you think that shielding the young from exposure to death isn't quintessential liberalism then that's another talk someone needs to have with you.
The lady is articulating conservatism (and accurately targeting specific liberal policies) very well. Sometimes surgical precision is more effective than a general diatribe.
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