Posted on 10/24/2006 7:51:08 AM PDT by Coleus
I remember going to the zoo in second grade and a museum in fourth grade. The school trip to a play in sixth grade was pretty good and so was that class trip to a circus the same year. The class visit to a court was very interesting and educational as well a few years later. For many of us, school trips were a chance to do something different, get out of the classroom and perhaps even have lots of fun while learning something new.
Although we did not think about it at the time, looking back it is obvious that if a school or class takes the time to take students on a school trip somewhere, that school is making a statement about the importance, relevance and appropriateness of that place or activity. After all, going to the zoo, a museum, a play, the circus or a court are all certainly activities involving places and experiences brimming with educational and life lessons. Likewise, any school that takes its students to participate or witness street drug sales would be hard-pressed to justify how such an activity would benefit its students.
Well, trips to zoos, museums, plays, the circus or courts are boring in these days of liberal education. Why take the children entrusted to you to these places when you can drag them to an abortion mill and get some blatant liberal propaganda, bias and brain-washing with a required assignment afterward?
Escorting Students to the Left
Jason Gordon, a social science teacher at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, took over a dozen teens to a local Planned Parenthood facility where they spend several hours in the place even wearing bright orange vests worn by pro-abort “escorts” who assist women into the facility on their way to legalized murder. Gordon explained, “We’re looking at activism throughout history, pretty well centered in American activism, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women’s movement, the environmental movement…” As I understand the term, activism refers to intentional action in support or opposition of some argument. Often, this action aims to bring about social or political change regarding what is often a controversial social or political debate.
My two and a half decades in education tell me that “looking at” some social or political situation involves looking at both sides in order to gather a sense of the various arguments on each side. That is, of course, if you really want to educate rather than brainwash. Imagine, for example, if some teacher tried to argue that she was helping students “look at” the illegal immigration issue by working as interns in The Minute Man Project! I am sure liberals would hesitate for a full three seconds before going wild against that educator. Obviously, Mr. Gordon’s little class trip was nothing but a blatant liberal propaganda indoctrination dressed as an educational trip. Obviously, Mr. Gordon was not interested in teaching as much as pushing or, to use a common abortion euphemism, “escorting” his students to the left on the abortion issue.
Ignore the Right, Please
Gordon did not let his students hear pro-life protestors outside the facility who were intentionally trying to bring about social and political change in opposition of pro-abortion arguments. Hey, isn’t that just like saying Gordon did not let his students hear pro-life activists? I guess “looking at activism” does not include looking at activism the liberal teacher does not agree with. I mean, you wouldn’t actually want students to think about both sides of the issue and make their own decisions. That would be giving them, you know, a “choice”. In an imbecilic attempt to explain his pathetically blatant bias, Gordon spewed that he did not want his class to actually become involved in any activism, just to “look at” it.
I guess practically becoming an honorary abortion escort is not becoming “involved” in any kind of social statement. I suppose that spending hours at an abortion facility is not really becoming “involved” in what that facility is all about.
Brilliant Educators at Work
Mr. Gordon says that he is for “choice” and proclaims “I don’t impose anything on the kids.” If taking kids to an abortion mill, having them spend hours there, having them even try the garb of abortion escorts and not letting them hear the other side of the argument is all about free choice and not about imposing, then I have a bridge you might want to buy. Gordon only has a BA, but it is from Yale, so I guess that is like having a Master’s from other places. Considering that most high school teachers I know have at least a Master’s degree, I find it humorous that the supposed teacher of high school kids is a whole four years educationally beyond them. He teaches courses about Castro’s communism and the politics of drugs where I am sure he provides the same kind of unbiased instruction as he does here.
His headmaster, John Brown, happens to also be the head of that same social science department. When questioned about Gordon’s school trip he explained that he had no problem with this blatant liberal indoctrination. I guess he would have had a problem if Gordon had his students spend a few hours with pro-lifers or try waving some of their banners. You see spending hours with people fighting against abortion is participating in unwarranted activism but doing the same with people fighting for abortion is perfectly acceptable.
Conclusion
Anyone who can still doubt that our educational establishment is blatantly pushing radical liberal ideology on our students should look to New Hope. Anyone who is still foolish enough to believe that education as defined by the hordes of liberals brainwashing our kids with their view of things is not merely brainwashing our future generations to the left should look to New Hope. Anyone who still buys the line that the NEA and educational leaders are all about the so-called choice they claim to hold so dear should look to New Hope.
If Gordon, Brown and all of the hypocrites with chalk really wanted choice for their students, they would provide them with all sides of an issue. If these frauds really wanted students to see reality they would have them watch actual abortions so they could witness first-hand what liberal choice is all about. Maybe they could help carry the baby body parts to the trash. Perhaps they could watch an abandoned abortion baby unlucky enough to be born alive kick and twist until she or he died from the terrible lung burns. Perhaps they could even help the abortionist stick his scissors into the partially delivered baby’s skull while discussing how all of this was necessary for the health and safety of the mother.
If these so-called educators and others of their ilk do not take that extra educational step while visiting Planned Parenthood, perhaps it is because their brand of choice is not about choice at all. Perhaps it is because their brand of choice is more about rationalized selfishness, arrogance and cowardice, and who wants to do a homework assignment about that. Mr. Brown, Gordon’s boss and supporter, happens to teach a course called Is This Genocide. Maybe he and Gordon can answer that question with their field trips to Planned Parenthood where future high school students are expelled from their future.
About the Writer: Gabriel Garnica, Esq., is an educator, licensed attorney, and resident of Long Island, New York. As a conservative Latino college professor working in New York City, Mr. Garnica feels that his picture is found in the dictionary under the term "exception." He can be contacted at gbgmyarticles@yahoo.com.
It's a private school.
Sobering.
Typical liberal indoctrination though.
This is a private school, not a public school Public schools still have trips to things like art museums...or did until some mom complained that her kid saw a naked statue.
Private schools may do as they choose.
It's a private school. >>>
it sure is, and would you want a school to take your kids to an abortion mill? to a horror chamber where children are slaughtered.
This is a private school, not a public school >>>
it sure is, and would you want a school to take your kids to an abortion mill? to a horror chamber where children are slaughtered.
Well, once you pay their $33,000 a year tuition, you can have a voice in that.
"it sure is, and would you want a school to take your kids to an abortion mill? to a horror chamber where children are slaughtered."
I would not, but it is still a private school. Parents can pull their kids if they don't like what the school is doing.
BTW, one of the field trips I went on in grammar school, in the 6th grade, was to a slaughterhouse, where we got to see the entire process. Very educational.
We homeschool very inexpensively. That and the teacher ALWAYS has the children's best interest at heart. :)
"We homeschool very inexpensively. That and the teacher ALWAYS has the children's best interest at heart. :)"
No I would not. Nor would I like liberals given a precedent to investigate my private school for taking students on field trips to pray outside abortion mills.
In the 8th grade, we went to the Arizona State Prison and Pinal County Courthouse. The explicit message was: "Mess up your life and end up here." Very effective, I still remember one guy in an exercise yard looking up at us on the wall and leering suggestively. As most of us would today be labeled "minority", it would not stand the tests of political correctness.
"And your soul wasn't damned for going."
Well, I've been studying Christianity all my life, and I don't think that the act of going to a Planned Parenthood office on a school trip damns anyone's soul.
I think the field trip was not a good idea, but it's a private school, and they can do as they wish. If your goal was to demonstrate that schools are evil, you did not succeed. A single teacher at a private school took a small group of students to a Planned Parenthood clinic.
That's it. Nobody's damned, and you haven't demonstrated anything about any other school in the country.
A field trip to a prison. Very good idea, indeed. That should be mandatory.
Actually, what I noticed is that the school is noticeably cheaper than the school I went to, for grades 9-12.
If the parents of these children A-OK with the abortion mill field trip, (and reading about the school, I suspect that they are) you shouldn't interfere with how a private business operates. A tax-funded school would be different.
I think if abortion mills had been around, we might have gone to one--but with so much discussion before and after that the pros and cons would have been thoroughly hashed to death, ad nauseam sometimes.
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