Posted on 04/10/2008 4:26:59 AM PDT by wintertime
One more example of how insipid liberalism keeps us prisoners to the most violent and anti-social among us.
Perhaps *free* money is the root of all evil.
susie
And this is the “socialization” that my home schooled kids are missing. Thank you Jesus!
This, to me, is the crux of the problem and this is the president of the union speaking here of the student:
“She asked for a meeting to discuss “strategies to help students who need some kind of support because obviously they’re crying out for help,” a request that led to the formation of the task force.”
Students who beat up teachers, brag about it, and those who cheer it, film it without helping, and post it on-line are not “crying out for help”. This is the left’s endemic denial of evil even when it is beating the crap out of them. So long as all the “adults” in this situation continue to delude themselves that the offender is just a victim of society striking out in justified anger, nothing will be done. You can install cameras (and I suspect the teachers would violently oppose that move as intrusive) or you can appoint task forces up the wazoo but until people get it into their heads that evil exists and that some people are just evil, they will not take the necessary steps to control such people before they get out of hand.
I would send the beater to juvenile hall. I would suspend every student I could identify in the video as cheering on the beater. I would give a taser to every teacher and let the students know in no uncertain terms that the teacher was authorized to use it for any threatening situation.
As writers have written, the veneer of civilization is very thin and it doesn’t take much to strip that veneer and reveal the barbarian inside. The British who prided themselves on a high degree of civilization discovered this quickly after they were taken prisoners of war during WW2. In survival situations, they lost their civilization quickly and it is happening more quickly now with much less provocation.
All youth need discipline and they are not getting it. They are being excused for the most egregious behavior and they are not idiots. They realize it is a way to get things for themselves besides working for them. This girl undoubtedly didn’t begin beating people in the classroom that day. There is no indication she just suddenly and unexpectedly flipped out. She and countless others are bombs waiting to explode given the slightest chance.
We have seen what happens in emergencies these days with looting and killing rampant. We saw what happened in New Orleans and in Los Angeles after the King virdict. It happens in nearly every situation where those who lose nearly everything they own must protect that little is left from looters. Our society condones and even sometimes encourages demonstrations which too often turn into riots. We applaud those who attack others on the Springer/Williams shows. We laugh at vicious insults per American Idol. We excuse violence by Greenpeace, Earth First, ELF, PETA and all the other “high-minded” causes. We think we can play with feral behavior as if it were a trained animal to perform only when we want it to do so and then go meekly back in the cage after it gets a tidbit of food.
The schools and government are absolutely incapable of tackling this problem. Parents are too often dysfunctional themselves. I have little faith that society at large has the stomach to enforce standards of behavior. So we will turn our homes and neighborhoods into little fortresses, install cameras, arm ourselves and become even more isolated in islands of civilization surrounded by the human jungle. I wish I could be more optimistic but it would take a serious top to bottom awakening and shaking off prevalent “philosophies” about human nature to do so and I don’t see that coming. 9-11 shook us up briefly. I’m not sure anything short of worldwide cataclysm could do so again.
Rant off. ;^}
Yes, you are right too. If we don’t earn it how can we appreciate it???
Thank you Jesus is right. Once again...it goes back to the home. I firmly believe that. Ya gotta teach your children before they leave home. I can’t imagine parents trying to change kids in high school. If they didn’t have the proper bringing up at home at an early age...how does one expect them to turn around over night? It won’t happen.
One thing is probably wrong with that theory -- nobody at home knows any more about those things than the little wild anot they begat does. What then??
Lol - exactly!
We have the KIPP schools in other cities (just as degenerate as Baltimore) that are doing a wonderful job with kids rescued from from toxic government schools.
I expect that the KIPP schools could find good kids in this horrific Baltimore high school.
There is no social problem that we face today that can’t be traced to a “liberal” policy as its cause.
Gov’t replacing the fathers in homes.
Parental authority being usurped, undermined by libs and abdicated by the parents.
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If churches cared more about their kids than the teachers sitting in the pews, **every** church in America would have a school.
Have you noticed? They don't!
No way, they'd ruin the bonefishing! Leave them in Baltimordor. Nothing worth seeing there.
No way, they'd ruin the bonefishing! Leave them in Baltimordor. Nothing worth seeing there.
This was our homeschool experience as well. It is easier to teach a child to read that many,many other things!
I'm so glad we are not the only ones to notice this! This being the case, it is really amazing how many kids leave the public screwl system unable to read. One of our 8 kids is very slow with all communication related academics. He has required a lot of extra patience and a lot of worry but he is certainly able to read. Plus he is excellent on the Baritone.
LOL.
It would take a massive revival back to our true Christian roots.
Unfortunately, we have people who call themselves Christian proclaiming and preaching the "Gospel of Oprah"!
I agree. I too am not very optimistic.
Maybe when she was 2. By the time you are a teen, if your folks haven't got you under control, the penal system eventually will.
Government schools have, and are now, teaching behavior, attitudes, and beliefs that are **destroying** homes and families.
Um...churches cannot compel people to send their kids to their schools. Where I live right now, the public schools aren’t bad. We rent an auditorium for church use each week, and are probably 2 years away from having a church building. However, since most people here are happy with the public schools, I doubt a church school would get many attendees.
Not all public schools are bad. I move around because I’m in the military, and I’ve seen some pee-poor schools, and some pretty good ones. Where their kids go to school, or homeschooling, is a PARENT choice, not a church one.
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