Did Public Schools Help Kill Terri?

Marshall Fritz, president of the Fresno-based Alliance for the Separation of School & State, told supporters today,

"From M.A.C.O.S. (Man, A Course of Study) in the 1960s and Values Clarification in the 1970s, to multi-culturalism and so-called 'tolerance' programs today, public schools have worked hard to convince children that there are no permanent moral truths.

"Some of these children are now judges, attorneys, and political leaders. Today, all the world can see those chickens came home to roost: American judges insist Terri Schiavo be starved to death in central Florida and while others prosecute a man in south Florida who didn't feed his cows."

Many ask, "How could we all feel so helpless even though we know it's just plain wrong to starve a person to death?" The answer is fairly easy to see, Fritz says, when you understand how moral relativism has dominated our universities, teacher training, and 92,000 government-run "public" schools. Fritz explains the six-step logic.

1. Today's "public school" educator has a "duty not to know what is right and wrong." They are allowed only private opinions and feelings.

2. If a "public school" administrator or teacher were ever to claim that he is certain that he knows the truth about a moral question, he would be attacked as intolerant, judgmental, full of hate, and unable to be a team player.

3. In our increasingly pluralistic society, schools would implode in a million lawsuits if educators ignored their duty to not know the truth about right and wrong.

4. The folly of not knowing right from wrong has left us with two generations who believe nobody can govern himself. After all, you need to know right from wrong to self-govern, and if the average guy doesn't know right from wrong, you can't expect him to govern himself any more than you'd trust a 3-year old to govern himself.

5. It follows that if a society cannot trust the individuals to govern themselves, then they need some person or agency to tell everybody what to do. We in America don't like the "strong-man" approach of a tyrant. We don't like the Stalins, Hitlers, and Saddam Husseins.

6. Hence we have opted for "judicial tyranny." The judges have spoken. Who are we, mere citizens, to judge their judgments?

The plain truth is that "public schooling" has so anti-educated two generations of Americans that we stood by helpless as our "justice system" went haywire and starved a helpless lady to death.

This editorial appears here on the web: http://www.earnedmedia.org/sepcon0331.htm

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For the past 30 years, our kids have been taught many subliminal "lessons" that result in what we are seeing today.

The most infamous is the simple "Life Boat Game":(as outlined by Phyllis Schlafly :

"Values Clarification is a book of 79 dilemmas for the teacher to present to the students. The most frequently used classroom dilemma is the "lifeboat game" (and its numerous variations, such as the fallout shelter). The student is told there are ten people in a sinking lifeboat and four must be thrown out to drown so that the other six may live. The student is vested with the authority to decide who lives and who dies. Shall it be the famous author, or the pregnant woman, or the rabbi, or the Hollywood dancer, or the policeman? Any answer is acceptable -- whatever each student feels comfortable with is OK, and the students can all choose different drowning targets because there are no right or wrong answers. No wrong answers, that is, except one. One mother told our Eagle Forum Parents Advisory Center that her child answered the question by saying, "Jesus brought another boat and nobody had to drown." That child got an F for giving an unacceptable answer. "

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(I had an organization back in the 80's that networked with others in the state and with Schlafly "Eagle Forum"...Indeed I was treated to an all expenses paid 3-day Eagle Forum Conference in DC, with a private tour of the White House, when Reagan was Pres. - and he was our speaker at the closing banquet.)

And There are the death and dying lessons - outlined, for example in this article:

"In 1988, the Atlantic Monthly published an investigative article entitled "Mortal Fears," which confirmed that death and dying courses are taught in "thousands of schools," often sneaked into health, social studies, literature or home economics courses without parents' knowledge. The article described how these courses require students to visit cemeteries and funeral homes, write their own epitaphs to be put on tombstones made out of construction paper, write obituaries, wills or suicide notes, decide how they would prefer to die, and plan their own funerals, body disposal and pallbearers. end quote*********

I remember when a friend of mine was astonished when her daughter had this course in the 7TH GRADE...up here in rural Maine.

People have been inured to death - to "there is no right or wrong - just whatever you feel like at the moment." There are no "values" as we think of them. Rather like the "runaway bride" - who couldn't simply call off or postpone the wedding - or take off, call her parents and let them know she wasn't dead - but planted a clump of hair where it would be found and threw her sweat shirt and pants where they'd be found - making it look like she'd been grabbed - and put her parents and family into the worst possible thing to face - the very real possibility their child was dead - her fiance under suspicion of murder on national TV - the expense of law enforcement and all the volunteers who searched etc etc - and then lies - and then says "I would hope people would understand" - that she needs some privacy now ----That is the high-th of Values Clarification training. That is the kind of thinking that can demand people like Terri should die.

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