A seemingly bright 16-year-old I’m acquainted with told me yesterday that his political science teacher has assured his students that, while they may have been muslims, the Boston Bombers acted out of anger at the United States and not because of some Islamic fervor. Sadly, this boy believes that. Worse, he’ll be going on to college in two years and will be subjected to more of the same. If the Russians took over our school system and indoctrinated our children, surely someone would object, even if only those of us from the last generation. We stand silent while it’s happening now, from within.
Given the boy’s source of information: high school teachers and Steven Colbert, it’s unlikely he’ll be learning what the mother of the murderers has to say on the subject:
“If they are going to kill him. I don’t care. My oldest son is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And, I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu Akbar!“
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they wouldn’t teach that at GCDS….
this story begs the question – are students in public school classes banned from having a discussion about what they are “taught”? In my day, the teacher would expound, then we would all talk about it, seriously talk, sometimes even argue with the teacher (with the goal of getting to understand other points of view). Seems to me today, kids are told the teacher’s point of view and there’s no room for opposition.
TNN, it would be interesting to sit in on a private school history class today. I would actually like to know if Islamic fervor is spoken about. I wonder if even in the private school realm, teachers are bringing this up.
It’s not that they’re banned, they’ve just had the capacity for independent thinking drilled out of them. I’m planning to address this later today, but basically, the use of labels like “racist”, “homophobic” “common sense”, “obvious”, etc. cuts off all discussion – who wants to be a racist or a homophobe or appear stupid in front of his peers by failing to grasp what his teacher says is obvious or just plain common sense?
Thus are automatons developed and shaped.
The older Tsarnaev brother was on welfare. He got angry when his payments were terminated in 2012, because his wife started working and earning too much.
The Tsarnaev parents supported the brothers for a while using welfare.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-24/guest-post-how-boston-bombing-already-being-exploited-introduce-tyranny
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
Funny how these radical Islamists have the same “fervor” in many European nations, too.
As many have said – these men were given a wealth of opportunities – not to mention financial support – in our nation. Hard to imagine a society more welcoming and helpful than ours. Nevertheless, they incomprehensibly judged that it somehow made sense to attempt to murder and maim as many as possible at a sporting event.
About as sick and twisted as you can get – although those who teach that it’s all OUR FAULT because we “anger” others are pretty goddamned messed up themselves. And – as you pointed out, Christopher – they are indoctrinating our children on top of us. Oy.
Radical Islam encourages violence. As long as we call it a Religion of Peace and pretend that these atrocities are workplace violence or lone wolf incidents, we invite more of it.
The world is full of losers, misfits, malcontents like these brothers and their mother, but only Islam gives sanction to their resentments and delusions, and encourages them to go postal.
Islam is a violent, totalitarian, misogynistic, intolerant world view masquerading as a religion.
There is also a Social Studies teacher at Eastern Middle School trying to push her liberal idealogy on her students. However, many of these students are pushing back with facts which is driving her to walk out her classroom.
What do you expect of a school system that approves the high school bands taking a jaunt to the Cuban communist paradise.
The social studies (heaven forfend the kiddies study history! – they might learn something other than reductionist socialist claptrap) faculty at the high school has been well left-of-center for at least 15 years, undoubtedly much longer. One of the primary US history texts since the 1990s has been Howard Zinn’s overtly anti-American A People’s HIstory of the United States.
Ironically, one of the few who encouraged real discussion was the open Marxist, Chris Kazanas, who I understand has retired.
Had I children of school age now, there is no way I would send them to the Greenwich Public Schools – If I couldn’t afford Brunswick/Greenwich Academy, GCDS, or Stanwich, I’d home school.
The only remotely decent programs at the high school are the solid athletics, music and drama.
The rest is politically correct horsesh*t, even (sadly) in much of the sciences.
Do you know that the situation is any better at the private schools you mention?
I would assume the teachers are equally leftist.
It is marginally better at the private schools mentioned, because they can hire teachers who have not been indoctrinated through the schools of education and there is a bit more parental accountability. Not to mention they can toss kids who won’t do any work out. But, as you point out, the faculties are often rather leftish as well. And, the fashion in what passes for the upper class here in Greenwich (most of which is striving upper middle class or with quite newish money) is to be quite liberal in all things except having one’s money taken away….
I would just add here that things seem to be going full circle, in the sense that it is looking more and more like the only way to protect your children from a bad mis-education is to privately educate them. Before the great 19th century public school movement, families with the means to do so had their children privately educated. As late as the late 19th century in England and on the Continent, private education was not unusual: my grandfather and his brothers were all privately educated by tutors in various subjects in the 1880s and early 1890s before they went to university.
Right.
I remember Kazanas by the way and, at least for a liberal, he was honest. I vaguely — this was 35 years ago — remember him talking about how a bunch of his cohorts got a flat tire while passing by a church. They spotted a Mercedes and swiped all four tires, leaving the fancy car beached on its rims… I forget the punchline of the story or whether he was bragging or repentant. But it least he exposed the students to the real world, warts and all.
The danger with many private schools — especially “Catholic” schools these days (the quotes are necessary, unfortunately) — is that they can engender a false sense of security in parents, who may assume that their children will not have the same leftist crap thrown at them as what is expected from public schools.
With public schools, parents (at least, those who actually care about this) are on their guard for blatant leftist indoctrination, while many have the mistaken belief that the kiddies are safe from this particular form of child abuse at private schools, where it is often more subtle (but not always, as indicated by a local “Catholic” high school’s library, which had a large sign draped across an entire wall with just one word: TOLERANCE).
Agreed – the process of turning out little progressives who would grow up to become teachers and spread the contagion in both public and private schools has been underway for two generations now.
the private schools tend to cater to students’ needs and (oftentimes) parents’ requests; parents tend to lean conservative vs the avg Greenwich resident if for no other reason than they are typically more affluent than avg
the schools are more flexible in almost every aspect, whether it is academic curriculum, extracurricular activities, administrative policy, school security, etc
so I think that it is incorrect to say that there isn’t much of a difference
Gee, CF, of course people would complain if the Russians took over the US education system because that would mean their children would be getting a pro-Christian education. Can’t have that…