Posted on 01/18/2017 4:14:56 PM PST by bigbob
It is ok...4th graders would not pay attention anyway, and older kids can view it streaming on youtube
Are you accusing me of a thoughtcrime? How droll!
I have always been against government schooling. I have always taken the position that compulsory class time should be used for 3-Rs instruction. If you go back to the days when President Obama appeared on TV with a talk for all government-school children, I took the exact same position then.
Hide your kids.
“That is the role of their parents, not of compulsory school attendance. For one thing, as you may have noticed, it is impossible for a mass school facility to accommodate the varied expectations of families with different political views.”
“as I may have noticed”? Really? How condescending.
Maybe you should consider volunteering at your nearest ACLU office. This isn’t religion where families have different views and are responsible for their children’s religious education. This is American Civics. Public schools should cover all American events that are Constitutionally established; it’s not partisan. (Indoctrination and partisan activities are off limits, of course.)
In the ‘60s I had to endure endless wet-sloppy-kiss screeds about JFK’s inauguration and assassination in an American public school. Our family was anti-JFK but we understood that it was part of American history and added to our knowledge base.
American children learning about the American Constitution and traditions in American public schools is not a bad thing. We did it in school ‘50s and ‘60s and I don’t think we’re forever scarred. Tap-dancing around it turns out the snowflakes that are polluting our country now.
If families have a problem with that, then they need to relocate to a country where they’d be more comfortable. And God bless them, wherever they go.
I do not think television-watching in school is an effective way to teach American government. We have the Constitution and we have factual explanations of how elections and government work.
After she was done spouting her wymens lib vitriole, he calmly said, "at least he wasn't chasing boys. Please don't pull me from my duties again, unless he is hurt or actually does something wrong". He then pulled me out that day, and I got to hang out with my pop and his Vigilante squadron. He informed me there was a time and place for everything, and how school was my job just like the navy was his job, and to stay focused while at work. Then we had ice cream with his DivO and LCPO, watching them guffaw when he retold the story.
To this day, I will never for get the sputtering red face of that teacher. To her credit, she didn't hold it against me.
I love your dad! I am hoping real men will become more visible now that we are about to have a real man in the White House again.
You Betcha! This teacher even acknowledges that he showed BHO’s and GWB’s inaugarations in class. His ridiculous justification about to trying to keep the children from offensive language shows that he knows he needs an excuse to go against protocol. It’s just utter nonsense from beginning to end.
Another cool unflappable dad story, with lesson involved. When I was 15, I got drunk for the first time on Jack Daniels. I had stayed out really late (for me); it was past 0-dark-thirty and way past when I was supposed to be home. We had an early bed time family, everyone was asleep by ten. So when I got home (not knowing what time it was), I knew I was late, coz all the lights were off. Thinking in my adolescent drunk mind that I had caught a break, I presumed to carefully unlock the front door, creep in, and sneak under my covers, with my folks none the wiser. WRONG!
I turned around after painstakingly closing the door, and OH CRAP, there were my parents, who then turned on the light. Right away my father knew what was up with me, and after allowing my mom to wail about where had they gone wrong and what-not, took control of the situation by telling her that there is no use talking to me now, and sent me to bed explaining in his stern no-nonsense manner that we would be having a talk tomorrow. That was fine with me.
Stopping in the bathroom to splash water on my face and laugh at myself in the mirror making funny drunk faces, my mother continued wailing and laying in to me. Finally, with courage and idiocy that can only be garnered from a bottle, I shouted,"shut up, b**ch"(I know, pretty crappy huh). The world then stopped for the next few seconds, as silence permeated the entire house. The next thing I hear is my father's heavy footsteps coming down the hall. He opened the door, with no visible change of expression on his face, and said, "If you're gonna drink like a man, and talk like a man, you're gonna get punished like a man". That was the last thing I remember before waking up in the tub, with a grotesquely fattened lip.
Two lessons learned. One, don't disrespect your mother. That may sound obvious, but up to that point the worst thing I had ever done was sassed her a few times, I had never talked to her like a common street person. NUmber two, and the most important thing I learned about being a father, is that she is not just my mother, she is my father's wife. Your kids will grow up and leave, but your spouse is forever. As such, you must always be united, and my father taught me to defend all assaults against her, including those from my children, who I love deeply.
My pops is a great man, and I am a very fortunate son.
Great story! My dad was the same way in terms of controlling his emotions. I only saw him cry one time, and that was the night my brother was murdered at the age of 16. Even then, he only cried once when he and I were talking alone, never at the funeral or when my mom was around. He did have tears in his eyes when I got my first real job after he helped rescue me from a bad situation. I have hope for the human race that our traditions will not be usurped by those who would try to make men into girls.
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