flapjack, first of all, I believe the single most important challenge we face as a society is the improvement of our public education institutions.
I believe that in order to promote decent values, faith, honor, duty, country, integrity, and all the other cultural principles we've strayed from as a society, we must start with a fair and balanced education experience for our children.
The NEA doesn't care about teaching our children time honored values, they only care about their power. They are the barrier to a return to the kind of sociological underpinnings we most admired from our past. In the past, parents and the school system worked in a sort of harmonious way instilling the kind of values we admired as a society. Today, the NEA largely works in opposition to those values.
The NEA promotes a secularist anti-judeo-christian agenda in which they believe teaching morality and ethics to young children makes about as much sense as teaching morality to dogs and cats. After all, if people are nothing but sophisticate animals, then blaming a human for behavior is inappropriate. What is good for one person, is not necessarily good for the other. What is right is not absolute, but only relative to the situation or to how you feel. Character? Who's to dictate what makes good character? Morality? Who's morality, from where does it come?
The loudest voices from the NEA are raised not over failing educational standards and results, but over whether the Bible (even a posting of the ten commandments) should be permitted in public schools. This out of focus alignment with our values is having a terrible effect on those children who lack a moral compass to steer their life by. |
