Posted on 01/20/2014 11:00:32 AM PST by Kaslin
Y’know, when I was a wee lad growing up in West Texas, public schools weren’t all that bad. We started our day off with the pledge of allegiance, said prayers during football games, actually studied our nation’s founding docs, sang patriotic songs, and we celebrated the true meaning of both Christmas and Easter.
In addition to that pro-American bliss, nearly everyone and their dog graduated. It’s true. Dogs were actually graduating from school back then. I know. Weird, eh?
Indeed, out of our large graduating class there was only one drop out and that was my childhood buddy who left school to join the Banditos’ motorcycle gang. He had a tattoo before tats became hip and groovy, ubiquitous and virulently narcissistic. (Speaking of tattoos: Girls … if you’re going to get a cute butterfly inked into your shoulder, you must make the general public a promise that you will not gain 600lbs later in life and have that blue moth morph into a massive, faded condor that we all have to stare at. If that’s too much to ask, then please cease to wear tube-tops so we don’t have to gawk at that muted, colored vulture on your enormous back. Deal? Deal. Anyway, back to the good old days …)
When our parents dumped us off at school, they weren’t riddled with fear that our schoolmarms were going to morph us into domestic terrorists who think Che Guevera is the bomb. Our folks also knew that sexed-up teachers wouldn’t teach kinky weirdness to their twelve-year-olds. No, if their kids were going to learn about sex it would be done in the traditional way via their older brothers and their Playboy magazine stash in the alley behind the house.
Today, as far as public schools are concerned, it’s a veritable loaded-dice roll regarding how your kids will come out after spending eight hours a day with our “educators“. More than likely, Dad, unless you’re Bill Ayers, Khalid Sheik Mohammed or Russell Brand, you’re not going to be too pleased with what the public schools do with your kids’ noggins.
This week, a story surfaced about the father of a thirteen-year-old girl who got righteously ticked when his daughter showed him a pic of what the loons were lacing his dear daughter’s curriculum with. Check it out:
The father of a 13 year-old girl who was upset by a classroom poster that listed sex acts was shocked to hear that the poster is part of her school’s health and science curriculum.
As local Fox News affiliate in Kansas, fox4kc.com, reported Tuesday, Mark Ellis said his daughter, a student at Hocker Grove Middle school in the Shawnee Mission School District, was “shocked” by what she saw on a poster on a classroom wall in school. Ellis said his daughter took a picture of the poster and showed her parents.
Originally, Ellis assumed the poster to be a student prank, until he called the school and discovered it was part of the curriculum.
Why would you put it in front of 13 year-old students? He asked.
The poster, entitled, “How Do People Express Their Sexual Feelings?” lists sex acts such as: Oral Sex, Sexual Fantasy, Caressing, Anal Sex, Dancing, Hugging, Touching Each Other’s Genitals, Kissing, Grinding, and Masturbation.
Ellis said after being told by the school principal the poster was “teaching material,” he is now concerned about what his daughter is being taught in school.
I’ve got two words for that poster being put out by a public school to 13-year-olds: they are “holy” and “guacamole”.
Man, when I was thirteen I had no real idea what sex was. I thought it consisted of my mom and dad wrestling with their shirts off. At least that’s what it looked like when they didn’t lock the door that one Friday night that, try as I may, I’ll never forget.
Sure, as a young pubescent boy I was attracted to girls. But we did normal things back then to show our interest in the opposite sex like: pull the girl’s hair, or jump a tall ramp on our Huffy while they watched, or suck milk through straws shoved up our nostrils. Y’know … something to show our prowess. It was cave man stuff.
Now, certainly the aforementioned wasn’t pretty or too suave, but it never came into to our minds that if we wanted to show we had feelings for a fair lass we should do it via anal sex. But that’s what is being taught at frickin’ Hocker Grove Middle School.
Good Lord, parents. You gotta take reins of your kids’ brains and bodies and rip them out of the hands of these bastions of banality, communism and overt sexualization.
Do it now, before it’s too late.
What passes for education in public schools is nothing short of child abuse.
And they have no respect for the parents at all.
You said it
Nothing good can ever come of what the schools are doing to our children.
Breakfast Club it wasn't.
We even had a dog graduate with us but then again, that golden retriever graduated with the class every year it was alive - it was the school's adopted mascot, a stray taken in by one of the janitors around 1977, and it had the freedom to wander the halls and classrooms at will - something that would never be allowed today because some kid's mother would complain about her kid having some dog allergy or whatnot.
Anyway, whether you choose to send your kids to public school or private school, the responsibility for teaching your kids resides with you, the parent. From what I'm hearing, private schools might be better structured academically but they are still infested with the same politically correct nonsense as the public schools. Even in private school, you will have to deal with peanut butter bans, books about "two mommies" and a complete ban on all things Christmas - unless maybe you happen to be enrolled in a parochial Catholic school.
While truly offensive, the sex poster pales in comparison to the LGBT tolerance day lecture at Tufts that taught students the alleged pleasure of fisting and advised young people to be prepared to experiment by carrying a supply of condoms, when you go to the park to look for like minded partners.
I have to wonder if that Tufts LGBT confab is still taking place for local high school students.
Even the suburban school districts are lousy. But doughy suburban house fraus don’t send their kids to actually learn useful skills. They send them there to play sports and be in clubs. If any actual learning happens that’s just a bonus. If that government institution wasn’t soaking up 10 to 12 hours a day of their spawns’ time they might have to do a little hands on parenting and spend some quality time with the little bastards, and we can’t have that, can we? Hard to blame those parents. I mean have you met any of the kids they whelped out? Those miscreants are horrible people. They whine and pout and just want to play with their phones.
Unfortunately, most parents cannot afford private school and because they were public skule educated themselves, they are not literate enough to home school.
I used to think giving vouchers to kids in bad schools so they could go to private schools was the answer. Not anymore. Most of the kids in bad schools are troublemakers. In my experience, surrounding bad students with good students doesn’t make the bad student better. Just the opposite. The bad student/troublemaker makes the good students bad. Like a barrel of apples. Drop a rotten apple in the barrel and it’s not long before the whole barrel is rotten. Flooding private schools with bad students in the hope they will change will destroy private schools.
Everyone in our family, including the elders, learned that when one of the cousins married a public school teacher. She made it very clear that any disagreement with her whatsoever, even by her very respectable long-suffering parents-in-law, was not only wrong, it was immoral. When they died, the family broke up rather than continue to put up with her.
I’m not sure a dedicated parent would do any worse than most public schools these days. What do kids learn anyway in many public achools, between the leftist, pervert indoctrination and the schools’ inability to discipline disruptive, trouble-making students?
I agree. I have totally changed my mind about vouchers after considering the matter more and reading about some of the potential ramifications. I believe that that’s why the elite on the left have opposed them all along, but they of course would never put it in those terms.
I hated public school.
My kids are in a non-denominational, private Christian school. It’s not cheap but it’s an old-school education. Reading, writing, arithmetic, civics, religion, phys ed, etc. it’s not cheap but it’s worth it.
I send my daughter to private school also. I was lucky enough to find a Christian school affiliated with a church and I only have to pay about $7500 per year for tuition. They work hard to keep the tuition affordable but several of my daughter’s friends still have had to drop out for financial reasons.
Not all public schools are bad, some of them are still doing a decent job for the most part. Here in S.C. Indiana they even still walk the 3rd grade kids to a church every week during school day for a non-secular religion class. Those who don’t want to can opt out and stay in the classroom. They also still say a prayer before lunch here, but they call it anything but that of course. The kindergarten teacher all my kids had still does it before snack time as well. A big reason I moved to a rural part of the state to get away from all of this that I read here about other public school districts and what they have to put up with.
Of course we have the lowlife idiots like everywhere else, but for the most part it isn’t tolerated when they disturb the kids who are there to learn like other places. They also don’t, or at least I haven’t seen any sign of it, pull that liberal crap about gays or global warming or any of the other big issues. This poster mentioned in the article? That teacher would have been run out of this town tarred and feathered if they tried that here, good grief half the town would have shown up with pitchforks if that was in our local paper I think.
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