Questionnaire a PC police trojan horse
Howie Carr Sunday, November 22, 2015
 ORWELLIAN: A 32-page questionnaire put out by Harvard has sparked a controversy at schools in Rowley who asked students to fill it out.
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At Triton Regional High School in Rowley, it’s 1984 — the novel, not the year.
The sniveling PC school ?administration is backing off now, but the 32-page questionnaire they were asking their middle and high school students to fill out last week is chilling. It’s downright totalitarian, and it’s put out by the Harvard School of Education, but I repeat myself.
The kids from the high and middle schools (the questionnaire included a box for 10-year-olds to check) were asked by the apparatchiks from the People’s Republic of Cambridge to rat out their parents for insufficient ?Political Correctness.
George Orwell’s Ministry of Love would have been ?impressed.
Here’s a typical question for the public-school kids of Rowley, Newbury and Salisbury:
“In the past year, my parents have: Done or said things that make me less trusting of people of other races or ethnicities.” Check the box: Never, Once, 2-3 times, 4-5 times, 6 or more times.”
At what point does Big Brother step in to mandate re-education at Diversity University? Somewhere between never and once would be my guess.
Of course the School of Education is Harvard with an asterisk, another Harvard Extension School. And yes, the Veritas taxi squad claims its survey is anonymous. But if it were so innocuous, why was the Triton ?superintendent forced to issue “unreserved apologies” to his students last week for urging them to rat out their parents as if they lived in Orwell’s Oceania?
How was he to know, Superintendent Christopher Farmer whined. After all, the Thought Police hailed from “Harvard’s highly regarded school of education.” Highly regarded by whom?
In true Orwellian fashion, the survey was entitled Making Caring Common. Yes, and war is peace. It was designed “to learn more about what it’s like to be a ?student at your school.”
Which must have been why the survey contains the word “race” 17 times, “racism” 10 and “racial.”
On page 12, they ask the kids, presumably including the 10-year-olds, whether they have ever witnessed any discrimination against students who are “lesbian, gay, bisexual or ?transgender.”
Here’s another “benign” question, as the superintendent described what he’d seen before the Stalinists goose-stepped into Essex County.
“How fair is it that some people and families in this country have large amounts of money, while other people and families have very little money?”
I object, Your Honor. Leading question.
On the next one, the kids are asked to agree or disagree: “If you work hard and make a lot of money as an adult, you have a responsibility to give some of it to people who have little ?money.”
Yes, you do. It’s called taxes. Which we pay, and they don’t.
“How fair do your parents think it is that some people in this country have a lot of ?money and others have just a little money?”
“Do your parents do anything to help people who have less money?”
Yes, I work. And they don’t, haven’t for generations in some cases. I do hope stating that ?undeniable fact isn’t considered hate speech.
If these Red Line Robespierres can barge into public schools with their Orwellian inquisitions, may the bitter-clinger community be allowed to add a few inquiries of our own to the next edition of Making Caring Common:
“How often do your parents talk to you about how the IRS has violated the civil rights of certain groups whose only ‘crime’ is wanting to uphold the US constitution?” Never, once….?
Some of the Harvard questions are hypotheticals, asking how different people should be treated if caught committing a crime. For instance, on page 32, “Diego and Juan” get caught stealing a car. Seven answers are listed as options, but not my preferred solution: “Deport Diego and Juan — ahora!”
Here are a couple of other ?hypothetical questions for the Harvards’ next survey.
“‘Elizabeth’ was going ?nowhere in her career until she decided she could get a free ride if she started ‘checking the box’ and falsely claiming to be a ?Native American? Should ‘Elizabeth’ be imprisoned, or at least shunned, for stealing a tenured pension from a real Indian?
“Some people in AmeriKKKa are in prison for not paying their taxes, but a deadbeat known as ‘Reverend Al’ refuses to settle his $4.5 million tab and hasn’t even been indicted, because he’s a racial arsonist who serves the cynical purposes of the ruling classes. Would you say this is somewhat fair, very fair, or not fair at all?”
They say you can always tell a Harvard man but you can’t tell him much. After reading Making Caring Common, I’d just like to tell them all to shut up. |
