Posted on 04/19/2006 4:34:47 AM PDT by Khankrumthebulgar
Posted: April 18, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah � 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
It's official now.
No matter how you measure it, boys are failing in schools across America.
That was the shocking report from the Voice of America last week.
"In classrooms across the U.S., there is a new trend that worries educators," it said. "In every category and demographic group, boys are falling behind in school."
Was it shocking to you? It wasn't so shocking to me.
I've seen this trend up-close and personal � even though I am the father of five girls, none of whom will ever again set foot in a government-controlled classroom.
I even wrote about this trend in my latest book, "Taking America Back."
About 20 years ago, what we call "public education" in this country was taken over by activists who, among other things, declared war on the male sex.
That's when you began seeing so many boys "medicated" because they were "hyperactive." That's when you began seeing boys, who previously excelled over girls in school, falling below the fairer sex in achievement.
Now there are many, many things wrong with the schools in America. In my opinion, they are beyond redemption. The only thing a conscientious parent can do now is to make other arrangements for the education of their children. Any compromise with the evil of government schools will only shortchange your kids. That's my opinion.
But what's happening to the kids in government schools is still going to haunt all of us � even those who choose wisely to pull their kids out and school them at home or privately.
We are breeding monsters in the government schools. We are breeding time bombs. We are breeding social problems that will plague the country for 100 years if we last that long.
And right at the top of those problems is what we are doing to boys.
A generation ago, the social activists decided there was really no difference between boys and girls. All of the observable distinctions were the result, they said, of social conditioning. If we just treated the sexes the same, the differences between them would disappear over time.
It was sheer ignorance, hubris and malevolence � trying to change human nature through social conditioning.
Any parent knows just how different boys and girls are. You don't need a Ph.D. to see it. You just need common sense. You just need the innate wisdom God gave each of us when He created us � man and woman.
Boys are being drugged in the classroom today for no other crime and no other illness than being boys.
Boys are more active than girls. They do not take well to sitting for hours at a desk and listening to instruction from a usually female teacher. They need to get up and run around. Failure to acknowledge this simple fact has resulted in the over-medication of millions of boys over the last 30 years.
It's a crime. Just one of many perpetrated by the education wardens of America.
I don't expect the education establishment suddenly to "get it." But I do expect American parents to comprehend the abominations to which they are subjecting their children when they turn them over to state control.
Nothing can redeem this monster � not all the PTA meetings in the world. Don't think you can change it or reform it through parental involvement. The only way to fix it is to withdraw from it, refuse to participate in it, boycott it.
It's time to save your kids from the humiliation and degradation.
If enough of us do that, then maybe the hopelessly corrupt government schools will simply implode of their own dead weight.
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Exactly right. I've been telling people this for years.
4CJ, this is why we were so greatly concerned when your daughter[s] were all over some boy who didn't have the same view of the gospel they [she] did, or said he didn't believe in God. Undoubtedly, other girls chastised him as well, which greatly worries me, as he won't forget.
For, no doubt he now believes he is a victim of an unjust, unfair system which favors females...
Boys are being drugged in the classroom today for no other crime and no other illness than being boys.
I wonder if he's been to this site.?
What could be more effective in the War On America than the feminization of its men? It's already well along in development, aided and abetted by the Lesbian Feminist movement which is only once removed from a Bowl Movement.
Our F-22 Raptors are of no use in this war. We need to adjust our focus and, while not neglecting the F-22, focus in on the war that is destroying America from within.
Well, I can't totally agree with this article, being the mother of an eight year old boy with ADHD. Please don't tell me he doesn't have it. I'm a speech-langauge pathologist, I've worked with many, many children. I also have 2 other sons. I invite you to come to my house when my 8 year old is not medicated. I'm tired of hearing that we shouldn't medicate. The brain is an organ just like your liver, kidneys, pancreas...If your son had diabetes, would you not treat it?????
So what would have happened to him 50 years ago, besides getting a better education?
I certainly remember kids like him in my grade school. I remember they were labeled 'bad'. Nobody helped them live up to their potential. What happened to women in labor 100 years ago? Should we not use modern medicine? Read the studies. Unmedicated ADHD children are 10 times more likeily to drop out of school... would you like to have him on government assistance instead?
When did medicating kids start, 2000 years ago? Or maybe those kids were OK. Maybe it started 200 years ago, but no, wait, they were OK. Maybe it started when mother's selfishnesses took priority over her kids. That started what, maybe 20 years ago?
ADHDAHDA LMNOP is fake. You use it as an excuse, and so do government schools.
Only the kids can shut down these government conditioning camps.
I predict that they will.
I've been a stay at home mom since before he was born. He attends private school... they have no idea that he has it. Because I don't feel it is any of their business to know. Anything else?
I kind of figured I would get silence. Until you've walked a mile in our shoes, save the judegment.
and yes... we treat skin! Ever heard of dermatologists? My other sone has psoriasis, maybe I shouldn't treat that either.
You are all over the place. Maybe you have LMNOP yourself.
I was one of the bad kids. Hated school, could not sit still, drifted off, threw spit balls, pencils, sometimes chairs. Today I make over 200 k a year, making spitballs such as artificial hearts.
Nobody helped me live up to my potential, either. Nobody needed to. The cream always rises to the top, and so did I.
Giving labor is hardly comparable to drugging little boys' minds. Giving coaca leaves is. 300 years ago, Columbians started chewing on them. It mellowed them all out. Where is Columbia now? Oh yeah, a cesspool.
Should we not use modern medicine? Once again, are you sure you don't have the LMNOP thing youself?
I have read the studies, excuse woman. Your tiredness means you should lose weight, and go run with your LMNOP boy more often.
As for droupout rates, it seems to me that medicated drooling boy idiots would be more likely to stay in governemnt schools these days. As compared to true boys who would get out of this medicated indoctrination plan as soon as they could.
If I were entering middle school today, government school system, I'd likely shoot myself. Besides, it is not like government school boy graduates go on to college or anything, compared to 20 years ago. Must be the drool pile that slips them up.
And when the drooling medicated ones go on to college, they continue to drop out. But they are no longer on LMNOP meds. Delayed failure, drooling and not tossing pencils, for years. Only to get off thir meds, and drop out anyway.
The failure is in our castrating government school system.
I had at least 1/3 male teachers growing up; what are the stats today?
I played recess, tackling other boys, getting dirty, throwing balls at each other, roughousing, falling off the monkey bars. We pointed fingers at each other and said bang. We had pocket knives. We wittled wood with them. Still here I am. Do they even have monkey bars today? Or now are they yoga pads?
Finally, it is not drop out boys that go on government assistance. It is the girls with kids and no husbands. See, they don't need them, because boys are bad. Drug them or throw rocks at them.
In the future, please put your government educated brainwashed spin cycle on hold.
My driver is here.
So you think your kid has LMNOP and the school does not think so? Which is the more likely situation to set off LMNOP--stuck in a wooden chair for hours at a time, being read mediocrity, or at home with his mome, free to run around the house anytime he wants?
So you think he has it, and the school thinks he doesn't.
Nice job, mom. Keep him drugged, if it makes your life easier.
And what about the coca leaves? Got an answer for that? No?
So you are equating the function of the brain with the function of the pancreas or liver? Just does it up, and things are cool?
Remember, it is not a body housing a soul. It is a soul using a body.
Drugs eventually wear off. How much has the soul grown while drugged and drooling all those years?
Kudos to you. You did well. And I am sincerely happy for you. Others don't do so well. As a parent, I want to make sure he has the best possible opoortunity. Is he drooling? Heck no, I would never allow that. He's one of the stars on his soccer team. He has tons of energy still. More so than my other sons... but when not medicated he is dangerous to himself and others.
I'm not happy with the public schools either, which is why my children are in private school. And as parents, we are truly the only advocates our children have.
I'm sorry that you feel you must try to diagnos me online, or say I am over weight (which by the way, I am not).... these comments only make you look far less than what I believe your education to be.
Have a nice day.
Thank you. Because I'm a therapist, I was able to recognize early on that something was not right. He had multiple evaluations and was seen by an excellent specialist, developmental pediatrician. The school knows something is not quite 'right', but haven't been able to put their finger on it. :) I don't want him labeled, because there are so many people out there that think like others here do.. judgemental.
ADHD is herediatary. My husband suspected for years he had it. They tested him as well as my son. And guess what? My husand also did well, thankfully. But he still wishes it hadn't been so hard.
And the fact that even temporary use of most of those drugs will prevent the boy from ever being able to join the military...
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