OPINION:
While school boards around the U.S. are removing names such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison from public schools, rather than struggle to find “appropriate” descriptors they deem inoffensive to all special-interest groups, they might want to be honest about what these buildings have actually become. A groundswell of such action would simplify the task for these sheep-like public servants and clarify for parents across the country the stark contrast between public and private, charter and parochial schools.
One suggestion: Let’s have the schools all renamed Social (or Socialist) Indoctrination Centers (SIC), for that is what they have become. Instead of teaching those traditional, boring subjects including language, spelling, math, science and gender-segregated physical education, they can push ahead with indoctrination of anti-republic topics to distort and diminish the history of the United States.
Multiple research studies have found that 20% to 60% of high-school graduates are unable to read, write successfully handle complex problem solving or communicate beyond an eighth-grade level. It is painfully obvious these young adults are ill-equipped to be successful in life. Thus, with low self-esteem fully developed, in the minds of these young victims they are ripe for the counter-productive ministrations of ideologues, career politicians and school administrators whose first purpose in life is career assurance and the ever-growing, raw power of central planners.
No longer do they want individuals to become confident, self-sufficient and successful in a career choice and life path. Having replaced educational achievement with herd-like ignorance, they seek to subvert future generations by dulling their curiosity and ambition. Their latest gambit to rename public schools is a crossroads to determine future prospects for America’s youth. Who can be against anything but the best for them?
H. LEE LAPOLE
Loveland, Ohio
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