Italics are mine Frank Trejo – Yesterday’s News Today
Dennis Prager wrote the following. He is a nationally syndicated columnist. He also has a conservative talk-radio show in the A.M. Monday thru Friday:
A speech every U.S. high school principal should give:
If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place. To the students and faculty of our high school:
I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people. I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against our country. First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.
The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity, your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race-and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values, e pluribus unum, “from many, one.” And this school will be guided by America’s value. This includes all after-school clubs.
I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become vogue. Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism, an unhealthy preoccupation with the self, while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interesting in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.
Second, I am interested is whether English is your native language. My only interest in term of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America’s citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market.
We will learn other languages here, it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English, but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.
Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning’s elevated status. This means among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. There will be a formal dress code at this school.
Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school’s property, whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can’t speak without using the F-word, you can’t speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as “Nigger,” even when used by one black student to address another black, or “bitch,” even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.
Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way, the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago, by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.
Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately lucky, to be alive and to be an American.
Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you. . .end of article.
Several years ago, the President of the United States and Mrs. Clinton; joined by the Vice-President and Mrs. Gore were attending an event being entertained by the despicable Robin Williams. In his monologue he used the F-word several times and even pointed it out to some of the young sitting in the front row. The camera zoomed and captured all four “esteemed guests” laughing up a storm at the vulgarity of the half-pint.
Years farther back I took my grandson to see the movie E.T. In one of the scenes, taking place in the Kitchen, as mom was preparing breakfast for the kids at the table, she walked by the table and one of the kids reached out and grabbed her behind. The audience, of course, was filled with families. That scene drew laughter for a few seconds. I didn’t think that particular scene had any social value. But the social-engineers in Hollywood and TV land haven’t stopped polluting the minds of the young. The entertainment world is awash with anti-family, anti-religion, and anti-Americanism. Remember a few years back someone referred to television as a “wasteland?”
This type of counter-cultural-revolution has been going on for a very long time. It started with the hippies in the ‘60s, communist led social upheaval. The Clintons and Gores were of that era. Most children born to those in the 60’s and forward on have been raised without core values. The generation I come from still possessed the decency and respect to and from others. Schools promoted what Mr. Prager writes about in this article.
In Sept. 1992, in a landmark children’s rights case a court in Florida permitted a 12 year-old to “divorce” his parents. Ending the rights of the natural mother and permitted to be adopted by foster parents as he wished. For the first time family rights ended on the basis of a legal action brought by a child. Who was responsible for this situation – Hippies? Schools? Movies? Television?
The fact is, what I’ve told many in the past – children do not belong to parents – they are under the jurisdiction of government. A marriage license is a privilege granted by the State. Anything resulting from the privilege belongs to the State. All a child has to do is dial 911 and accuse parents of abuse. The judge in the case I’d bet any amount of money is a communist. This are the type of judges President Pinocchio will be appointing to the Supreme Court. One is in already and Kagan is next. I worry for my country.
Socialism is responsible for the destruction of the individual. Academia has been teaching collectivism (I read that to mean social and economic control) which is the first step towards communism. This is why it was important for the communists to control education in America. The union leadership (not the members) and the ACLU are predominant communists. They are the ones that have done the most damage to the education of our people. And yet, they operate as respected entities – like ACORN was.
It would take quite an effort, almost a revolution by parents, to implement a policy such as what Mr. Prager is advocating. I believe it is too late. The will of the American people has been destroyed. Why do you think a communist was able to win the presidency of our country? Why do you think criminals in Congress commit unconstitutional acts and there is no accountability? Why do you suppose the media uses the First Amendment to misinform and mislead the American people so dastardly? Why do you suppose our young are sent all over the world, if not to enrich the arms merchants who contribute billions in campaign funds to the criminals in government? Why do you suppose Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, players in the financial crisis are still allowed to exist and already has cost us $145,000,000,000 and not over – just beginning? They have been a cash-cow for the criminals in Congress – that’s why. Why are contributions to politicians not considered bribes – because the Supreme Court says so? Why is the Supreme Court derelict in its separation of powers duty? Why does it allow the other two branches to commit so many constitutional violations? People just don’t care anymore.
We were, and are being raped of hundreds of billions everyday and the make-up of our constitutional system is being thrashed by an uncontrolled Congress and White House. Billions for education – for what?
Changing the face of the House and Senate this Nov. is not a guarantee. This is why I recently called for the Republicans in Congress to shut down the government. What they are doing is aiding and abetting a criminal Congress which they are a part of. This will bring it to the attention of those in our society that may still be able to reason and hopefully wake-up to the fact of the imminent danger we are of losing our freedom and liberties. You parents should copy what Mr. Prager has written and send it to your children’s principle. Delete my commentary it may scare the socialists and the school janitor in the school. . . .I love you, America
I AM SORRY I HAVE ONLY ONE BAT TO SWING FOR MY COUNTRY
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