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Don’t get me wrong for I “praise” Walter Williams. Of all commentators he is by far the most intelligent and accurate in his statements. To my knowledge I have never disagreed with anything he ever said or wrote.

However, something drastically changed in our social world over the past 40 years and the name of that change: Discipline.

Women burned their bras and shouted the song “We Are Women, Hear Me Roar” and within 10 years made the Rockwell America simply go “poof!” Women were held down too long doing what women had done since the dawning of time.....raising their children and preparing them for the “real world.” To hold their head up level with their female friends and neighbors who abandoned the children in the pursuit of a socially acceptable job, they too abandoned their children to daycare centers.

That is where children were introduced to their first “teachers.” Daycare centers were not set up to teach discipline..they were set up to make money. When the government started to pay for daycare the business exploded in growth and popularity. Now, moms of all stripes could simply dump their children off, go to work, have fun, or simply leave the upbringing of their children up to minimum wage employees who worked there. Discipline simply disappeared from the American scene. Don’t believe it? Go to a restaurant and listen to undisciplined children acting like wild animals and when they hear the most hated word of all...NO...they start screaming and crying until...guess what...the parents give in.

Well now, the little beasts are in school and their 1st grade teachers have already learned what would happen to them if they even attempted to discipline the child in any manner other than one of the most painful, horrible and blood curdling punishments ever invented...TIME OUT! Boy, that really worked didn’t it?

“Aren’t we being a little too harsh on Johnny (or Mary)” was the cry from the women of America...for any punishment, minor or major. Finally we have come to the point that no one ( other than white males that are expected to be responsible for everything) is responsible for anything they do.

This infectious disease was carried from daycare into the public school system and became the beginnings of the cancer that has brought our civilization down to the lowest point in history. Many, many young teachers picked up on the “no one at fault) drive and pushed it too. Administrators got the heat too from both liberal teachers and parents and caved in to their every whim. Teachers who were responsible and still believed in discipline (I mean real discipline...not time outs) were set upon by he liberal ones and had one of two choices; 1, go with them and 2, quit. If they did not go along to get along their careers were finished and advancement up the line would never happen.

No matter how well you have raised and taught your children, you still turn their minds off, drop them off to “school” and subject them not only 6 hours of politically slanted propaganda, but to ghetto animals who run uncontrolled throughout the school day. THIS IS FOR 5 DAYS A WEEK. You get the for only 2 days a week.

Peer pressure to conform to the “norm” at school is by way of both the teachers and fellow students. When they get home they still receive it by the games they play and what is on TV. With the invention of the cell phone the days of actual physical contact with society is almost at an end and the need to act and be accepted by today’s society (if you want to call it a society) is beyond comprehension.

We have gone from dumping little Johnny off at daycare to dropping them off at the public school system so they can raise them. From there they go to higher education (an oxymoron) to learn important things like women’s studies, the sciences like what makes snail crap stick to the slimy trail, and to other “studies” like political science, how monkeys masturbate, and other very important studies that in most cases the taxpayer will end up with the bill one way or the other.

It all comes down to exposure to teachers who can’t, won’t (or are not allowed to) apply discipline for it either will get them in trouble with management or the law or simply because they believe in “free range children” and don’t want to interfere with their thought processes.

Granted, there are many, many fine teachers out there but they cower under their desks, afraid of management, their peers, parents and the contorted laws we have without even attempting to even try to fight this ever advancing disease that is destroying our society. It’s best to simply “go along to get along” and that seems to be the battle cry of today’s teachers.

With each passing year it gets worse and seemingly will never get better.