Education's Great Divide: My Time in the Trenches

American Thinker ^ | 12/09/2012 | Glenn Fairman

[wintertime]

On perhaps my saddest day of teaching, I was witness to an assembly presented to juniors and seniors at La Puente High School under color of "AIDS Awareness." Within the 45-minute series of very cleverly devised humorous skits and demonstrations, I beheld the barbaric demolition of the underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian West before my very eyes. Along with provocative descriptions of male-on-male coitus and the disparagement "twisted and perverse" directed at anyone who found fault with the emancipated vision of a sexual free-for-all was a single demonstration that elicited only wild applause and profound laughter amongst the audience.

A mid-twenties young woman, in showing how the transmission of AIDS would be nipped in the bud by condoms, unwrapped a condom, placed it in her mouth, and proceeded to insert a cucumber -- using her lips to unroll the condom around the circumference of the vegetable. She then brought students of both sexes on stage and had them perform the same activity -- some with a strange adeptness and others rather clumsily.

I looked around the auditorium to see if a teacher or administrator would stop this, but those in attendance were laughing as hard as the students.

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[cherry]

if you said anything, or got up, or turned around, the other kids would endlessly make fun of you as a square, a geek, a nerd, a creep, or a holier than thou.....its very difficult standing up to this crap....

it might be a good thing to have a massive depression with the loss of tv and cable could be raised innocent and polite and happy again..

[verga]

This article speaks for itself. Where are the so-called "good" teachers?

Why didn't the author say or do something? Seems as if he has the courage to write this up after wards but not during the event. He doesn't have a leg to stand. Like many on these lists all talk and no action.

[verga]

Gee! And...Some wonder why I will not have a government teacher for a friend.

We don't wonder we are just glad/ relieved to hear this.

[verga]

I wonder where all those people were who are trying to reform the system from within. Seems to me that that would have been a good time to take a stand.

Instead of writing the article why didn't the author do something?

[verga]

This link does a great job of explaining the mentality.

http://www.gleamingedge.com/mirrors/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html

[Hope for the Republic]

This article speaks for itself. Where are the so-called "good" teachers?

You claimed to have been a charge Nurse in a psychiatric ward/ hospital for period of time. I am certain that you have heard of the Milgram experiment: (http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/milgram.htm)

"The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act." –Stanley Milgram, 1974

Having led men in combat I can attest to the validity of this statement.

[wintertime]

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Wintertime

[wintertime]

Hm?.....Interesting point.

Parents then need to know the situations that children are coping with in their schools and elsewhere.

Maybe this article needs to “go viral” so parents can know what is going on.

[verga]

wintertime was asked a direct question which he refused to answer: Why didn't the author say or do something?

Please answer the question and there will be no need to ping you.

I have noticed a propensity for his desire stifle opposition by refusing to answer these very simple questions.

[Hope for the Republic]

I know that you really hate verga, but he posted a link to an article that really explains the mentality.

http://www.gleamingedge.com/mirrors/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html

Basically there are three types of people: Sheep (80%), Sheepdogs (10%), Wolves (10%) While I don't know him personally, I did know his company commander and he had deep respect for vergas's leadership.

[wintertime]

You have just called me a hater. Your post makes this discussion personal about the state of my heart.

Please do not ping me or send me private mail for the remainder of this thread, however, feel complete free to comment in any way you like about my posts. Mention me by name if you wish, but please do not ping me.

Respectfully,
Wintertime

[Max in Utah]

BFL

[verga]

wintertime has a literacy issue. Others and myself have tried to explain the difference to him between saying that some has an emotion and that some one is the emotion. I have told him that there is a difference between being a bigot and making bigoted comments but he just doesn't understand. It is either that or he will use any excuse not to address an issue.

[Chode]

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