Posted on 05/19/2022 10:20:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a little public school on Capitol Hill, kindergartners are banned from campus nearly every single week. School policy on the matter is simple: If a child in a class tests positive for Covid, every unvaccinated child in that child’s class must quarantine at home for 10 days — or return “early” if their parents produce a negative test on the morning of the sixth day.
With less than one-third of children aged 11 and younger vaccinated, the policy casts a wide net. And with Centers for Disease Control information showing Covid infections currently higher among vaccinated children than unvaccinated children, those children allowed by the policy to remain in school provide a rolling drumbeat of asymptomatic classroom positives.
The result? Mass de facto suspensions rolling through grades, with children across the city missing five, 10, or more days of school this spring already. Quarantine letters are sent home sometimes multiple times a week. Working and single parents count themselves lucky if their child was already kicked out of class the day the next positive pops.
These policies aren’t confined to Washington, D.C., either. In leftist school districts across the country, the same draconian rules keep children already robbed of years of education and social interaction from ever hoping to catch up.
Amazingly, the Centers for Disease Control supports these policies. In fact, they wrote them. Why? All in the name of keeping children “healthy” (or, rather, the teachers who demanded them happy).
Today, the CDC recommends keeping kids masked and away from their peers because of a disease that doesn’t threaten them. Indeed, one of the earliest things we learned — more than two years ago — is the disease doesn’t threaten children. Still, the CDC and its adherents keep kids under tighter lockdowns than adults anywhere in the country hold themselves to. All in the name of health.
So what does the word “healthy” even mean today? Increasingly, it means whatever those in power want it to. Take a look at this year’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition:
The image is supposed to be bold; to generate conversation. How? A catalog traditionally dedicated to celebrating extremely fit women is instead celebrating an obese woman; is instead promoting what the woke left claims is a “healthier” body image.
Celebrating “plus-sized” models is all the rage these days. Companies that don’t get in on the fad are themselves shamed for having “fat shamed” — a term to used keep our increasingly unhealthy citizenry comfortable in their own unhealthiness.
Regardless of whether you think “fat is beautiful,” it’s not healthy. The “brave” discussion Sports Illustrated generated isn’t about that, though. While plenty of writers and reporters were eager to condemn philosopher Jordan Peterson’s misdirected criticism of the model, far fewer were eager to mention the deadly side effects of gross obesity; among them, diabetes, heart disease and — interestingly enough — the dreaded Covid.
For years now we’ve known that, far from “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Covid is rather a pandemic of the fat, who have suffered far higher fatality rates per infection.
But even while fear of Covid keeps our kids out of school for sometimes years at a time to protect “their health,” those same health concerns are quickly ejected in the name of what progressives recharacterize as “body positivity.” The word “healthy” doesn’t enter the media conversation, except to hang its wreath on the “body image” debate.
It’s strange, but old rules don’t apply when words are deployed in the service of the woke left.
“Sexual health,” for example, is used to justify all sorts of perversions in the classroom.
“Mental health” is used to justify feeding hormone suppressants to vulnerable children.
“Reproductive health” is used to justify abortion.
The list goes on, and “health” is just one among many other words (“science,” “gender,” “disinformation,” “protest,” etc.) so casually twisted in the service of the woke left.
The modern American left has made great use of this tactic: taking broadly accepted words and norms, then twisting them to mean a very different thing from what they once meant. It’s a current tactic for sure, but it’s hardly a new one. The word heresy has long been used to describe a fatally incorrect interpretation of religion, but the word itself comes to us from the ancient Greek word, “hairesis” — meaning “to take, or choose.”
What made the old heresies so alluring to the unsuspecting faithful is that they didn’t simply expunge whole ideas — or even whole-cloth invent new ones. Rather, they took, or chose, certain ideas or beliefs from their hosts, elevating or subverting them in such a way as to subtly — but substantively — change the original philosophy into something sneakily different: into a heresy.
Children’s social and intellectual health, for example, have been sacrificed on the altar of teacher’s paranoia.
Americans’ physical health has been sacrificed to alleged emotional health.
School kids’ mental health and moral wellbeing have been sacrificed to adults’ perversions.
Teenagers’ futures have been sacrificed to gender ideology.
The lives of children have been sacrificed to the independence of their mothers.
Again and again, one aspect of human life is taken, or chosen, for aggrandizement or debasement to the detriment of the whole truth.
It’s an old trick, and a dangerous one, but the cure has remained the same. The woke left is intent to wield words as weapons, using our own good things against us. Don’t buy it; don’t adopts the definitions, or use the phrases they demand.
The cure to heresy is now as it was then: simple truth. Don’t be afraid to use it; it will serve you well.
Home School
Anyone who relies on urban public schools controlled by teachers unions (ie. poor blacks/minorities) in 5-10 years will be bitching about racism in "the system" and wondering why their kids are doing so poorly.
The likes of Stacy Abrams, Chuck Schumer and Ayana Pressley will be there inflame their anger.
That's practically a redundancy.
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good GOD! looks like a whale washed up on the beach and got tangled up in some girls Bikini!
Far too many people are far too large.
And they expect the rest of us to pay for their Knee/Hip replacements and numerous medications.
Re: “urban public schools “
This isn’t just about urban schools. All schools are enrolled in this madness of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse. If you doubt this just go to Metmom’s “Another Reason to Homeschool” ping list and go through the list of government school perversions and abuses.
All children should be removed immediately for their safety. And....Yes, I seriously do mean **all**.
Just a few years ago, schools were weighing and measuring children and sending their BMI score home to their parents with recommendations that the child adjust their eating habits. They did this with children who were perfectly healthy and in no way overweight. Now they have gone completely in the other direction by encouraging children to stay or become overweight while promoting it as body “positivity”.
Not to beat a dead horse or anything like that but WHY THE HELL ARE THESE CHILDREN STILL ENROLLED IN PUBLIC SCHOOL!?!?!?!?!?
With what is being taught in schools today, staying home is a good thing.
A fat population will keep Big Pharma rich.
Follow the money.
Not everyone has the money to send their kids to private
schools, and not every one can home school
Home schooling can be very challenging and difficult and for many parents requires both sacrifice and creativity—including getting neighbors and friends and relatives to help.
Parents need to put their kids first—and do what they need to do.
We have a lot of home schooling in this area even when both parents have full time jobs—they are true heros and heroines in my eyes.
A friend and co-worker was with his 2nd wife 33 years -she was sexy-on-the-edge-of-plump-and 15 years younger-they had a couple of kids and over the years she gained more and more weight. I doubt he has ever gained a spare pound at all-when we went out to eat with them or did barbecue at home, MrT5 and I both noticed that her appetite was almost unbelievable for a woman about 5’4”-she ate like a lumberjack...
My co-worker asked me to try to get her into healthy eating, etc since I’m into organic/paleo diet, workout, etc-I was unsuccessful-she got really pissed, accused me, him, and even a doc of sabotaging her emotional health by fat shaming, and “lying” about extra weight being unhealthy.
She developed heart issues last year, and was told to lose at least 100 lbs so she could have heart surgery before everything-including asthma-got her into a death spiral-she weighed over 300 by then. She got vaxxed for the Wuhan virus-and had scheduled the needed surgery, but hadn’t lost weight, so postponed-several months later, she suddenly dropped dead while just sneezing with allergies-literally-CPR nothing else helped-they said cause of death was heart failure/morbid obesity. That is a really high price for a mentally healthy positive body image-she was 56...
So many kids are homeschooled out here that the number of school buses have been cut the last 2 years-a lot of the kids go to work with a parent as part of their home schooling-but that is because most people out here own a small home-based/on-or-near-property business-but this is out in the country-might not work so well in a city...
They pervert everything.
After all, their guy Satan is the Father of Lies.
If one lives in the country and there is a community of neighbors or if one lives in the city, especially in suburbs, home schooling is quite possible. One surely has neighbors who homeschool and there is almost certainly an informal or formal organizations of homeschoolers in town. Tasks are shared and there is mutual aid. Wife and I began to homeschool when she had been a public school teacher for several years and I had minimum wage jobs. It can be done. Single moms do it, usually in cooperation with others.
I am not optimistic about private or even parochial schools. Each must be vetted carefully. Many are just as “woke” as the public schools.
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