Posted on 08/31/2018 2:06:59 PM PDT by huckfillary
Students at an Ohio middle school were asked to decide who they would leave behind if the world was about to end, using age, religion and other descriptions as markers for their decisions.
The assignment sparked widespread uproar.
“Whom to Leave Behind” asked students at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls to choose eight out of 12 people to put into a space ship and take to a different planet because the world was ending, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Choices included a homosexual pro athlete, a militant African-American medical student and a female movie star who was a victim of sexual assault. [Source: Fox News online]
Government-run schools do not exist to teach children how to think. They exist to teach children WHAT to think. And this ridiculous exercise serves as yet another example.
The purpose of the exercise is clear: To shame and moralize students who give the “wrong” answer.
A reader of mine wrote me the following:
Notice that the criteria for who gets ‘left behind’ doesn’t include a single word about the moral stature, virtues, or values of the individuals. Just what color they are, what their jobs are, or what their victim status is. Hm…Should we take the Papuan vegan lesbian who was recently raped?
Eloquently put!
That’s my main objection, too. Why are the distinguishing attributes of the people you’re asked to save demographic variables over which the person has no control? Who cares what the race, sexual orientation or sexual abuse status of the potential victims are?
Why rig the question in this way? If you’re going to ask the question at all, why not ask students what qualities they’d look for in deciding who to save? And if you’re going to rig the question, why not do so with rational and universal values rather than ones only important to leftist twits who inhabit Manhattan and San Francisco?
The question actually is rather sick. It implies that life is a zero-sum game where sooner or later, somebody will have to be sacrificed. That’s the leftist, “liberal”, collectivist and Communistic outlook on life. They have nothing to offer us. Only despair — from which they will conveniently rescue us, provided we give them unlimited funds and power.
Notice how there’s no room for another point-of-view–the uplifiting, individualistic and rational one that would put qualities such as character, intelligence and integrity on a much higher plane than sexual orientation and race.
We’ve got to get rid of government-run schools. At least in a free market for education, parents and students would have alternatives to this diabolical trash.
We’re destroying our civilization by indoctrinating the vast majority of kids in schools with the idiotic, shallow and illogical values and standards of progressives.
I say this in the most atheistic spirit imaginable: God help us all.
The Artful Dilettante
ARTH Ping!
I had almost the exact same question in my college orientation (a long time ago). We didn’t take it very seriously.
Yes, actually, it does. The sodomite and the racist are people of low character, lacking in virtue.
And the homosexual was a mathematician.
I’d say take eight who could procreate.
Truthful words. A real school designed to teach children to think would have asked, "List the names of eight people to ride in a space ship... Include a brief reason for picking each person."
Also see this post on pitiful Common Core.
Anybody have Betsy DeVoss’ email address? She REALLY needs to read this.
If those are the choices, I’d rather die here than to go off with a bunch of degenerates.
Unfortunately, while that makes the most sense under traditional civilized societies, the self-loathing false “humanists” don’t think like that.
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