Public School Control Now!

Specific Answers ^ | February 16, 2018 | Gary North

[Sopater]

October 2, 2006 Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania 6 3 West Nickel Mines School shooting

I do remember that... tragic.

[Sopater]

October 2, 2006 Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania 6 3 West Nickel Mines School shooting

However, I would expect that Mr. Mines was the product of the public school system... just a guess...

[Truthoverpower]

I’m in the midst of school control
I take on about 10 bureaucrats at a time
They back off
Tried to paint my kid as a bully
I bullied them in return
They backed off
I ask questions like
What are the kids learning in mathematics?
Take no shit. Don’t sign anything. Don’t accept any counseling crap
That’s how you survive

[Sopater]

... I mean Mr. Roberts.

[so_real]

That's fine. Let the liberal teachers who think that guns are icky explain to the parents that their children aren't worth defending in the classroom. The outrage that generates will produce two results : 1) professional armed guards will be hired at tax payer expense, 2) icky teachers will be retired in order to absorb part of that tax burden. I'm good with that outcome.

[Sergio]

Civilization is a thin veneer at best. Humanity's normal state is brutish and violent where might makes right and only the strong and cunning survive.

So what is happening? Why are we as a people devolving?

In my opinion it is a lack of morality. I know it sounds old fashioned but it is morality that teaches to have empathy to those less fortunate, to help those in need, to protect the weak, to realize what is right and what is wrong, to seek to do the former and to avoid doing the latter.

As opposed to the what-ever-you-want, what-ever-feels-good, me-first-every-one-else-last, mentality that seems to abound these days, and not just in our youth.

Morality is what puts a leash on our built-in, uncivilized impulses and allows society to flourish.

People with a moral code tend not to be bullies or murderers. It is no coincidence that the more we distance ourselves from morality, the more these types of events happen.

I'll get off my soap box now.

[Sergio]

Excellent points.

[1Old Pro]

Cameras in every classroom, with audio recording so we can watch what goes on.

[moehoward]

Good points about private and charter schools being void of such problems. But “closing public schools” ain’t gonna happen. Ever.

You want to stop school shootings. Harden the target, it’s that simple.

[Sopater]

...ain’t gonna happen. Ever.

I agree. I think that the point of the article was to simply turn the absurdity of calling for more gun control back on those who cherish the public school system.

[moehoward]

Enough facts have come out now that any call for more gun control can be dismissed as well. Had authorities done their jobs Cruz would not have been able to pass a background check. 29 Police calls !?!? If the real number is half that it’s too many.

[abclily]

Good job for our National Guard.

[metmom]

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[metmom]

Technology allows people to get an education in the safety of their own home. Why put them at risk during travel (see fatal bus acciedents), social bullying, violations of trust when teachers are romping with the students, and of course the violence.

It will greatly affect the health of this country as communicable diseases will not spread like wildfire in crowded, unsanitary conditions.

[metmom]

The sad part of the Florida school shootings is the government had ample warnings this kid was dangerous but ignored them. I.E. the polices same to his house over 36 times.

The government is being incompetent, as usual.

[metmom]

Cameras in every classroom, with audio recording so we can watch what goes on.

Just like in prison?

Is that what it's going to take for the kids to be safe?

And if that's what it takes, WHY on God's green earth, would any parent in their right mind send their child to a public school?

[Aevery_Freeman]

Parents, please remove your precious fish from the government barrel!

[upchuck]

Wonder if Betsy DeVos read this? Wonder what her thoughts are? Where is she, anyway?

[SecAmndmt]

The reason why we are losing our free republic, is that in a forum called freerepublic, we only have 38 responses in a thread critical of socialist government schooling. Public schooling is the cornerstone of socialist indoctrination, and yet most of the fools here support it. Ignorant, foolish freepers! What will it take some here to get their heads out of their back sides?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Public schools are dangerous…especially those of over 1000 students.

I believe it was in Tom Peter’s In Search of Excellence that I read that, “Bad things start to happen when you get more than 500 to 1000 people in the same place.”

Because no one - including the people "in charge” - knows everyone.