Today is the day that I have chosen to get some "stuff" off my chest. It has been getting worse and worse and more intense and I need to share my thoughts before I implode! I am thinking that I am not the only person in our Great Country of the United States of America that has these thoughts. If I am, then we are in more trouble than even I realize.
It has been creeping up on us a little bit at a time, similar to a pot of frogs in water, with the water very slowly getting the temperature gently increased until it is too late to do anything about and they are all cooked!
Recently several things have come to my attention and I am starting to realize that we are getting the heat turned up and very few if any are feeling it! I am referring to our rights that have been guaranteed by our Constitution. For example, just recently a federal judge Carlton Reeves, had ordered the marching band of Brandon High School in Mississippi to remove the old standard hymn "How Great Thou Art from its half-time show. Much to everyone's surprise, the spectators started singing it a cappella and everyone enjoyed it.
We have become a nation without a national pride focus. We used to have it, but now, because of very poor leadership (using that term very loosely) in both the federal and state government, we have become a nation of whiners! We have become a nation that looks for the Federal Government to support us. Instead, the government has decided to take over the planning our OWN lives by mandating what will be taught in the school systems (I'll get to that in a minute). We have a very large number that are not raising a family that is self supporting, We have a Federal government now that is out of control of it's ability to monitor the uncountable number of programs that were originally designed to help those that are absolutely incapable of taking care of themselves through mental or physical challenges. That is NOT supposed to be a federal function. They are NOT authorized (except for their own self rules) to be doing that. Remember the title of our Country? There is that word STATES in it. It is the Individual States responsibility to provide (if voted on by the people) to provide the assistance that the People of the particular State decide. Our education system has run amok! There are many challenges that have developed in educating our children on who we as a country are, how we were founded, who we are, what our value system is, how to get along with each other, how to develop PRIDE in our selves, and the list goes on. But it is craziness that has filtered down by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to teach a certain way, certain subjects, etc. that is not right. For example: Common Core. I know of no parent that likes it. I have not heard a positive comment on Common Core subjects from NO ONE except a handful of politicians. When we allow the government to take the responsibility of education away from the lowest level of education, and are able to force stupidity, irresponsibility, and foolishness to be "taught" to our children, our children are on the loosing end of the stick! They are not learning our history as a country. They are not learning how to get along with others, because it is being forced on them to accept values that are not of our heritage. They are not of Christian values that are at the center of what our Great Country has been built upon! It is a value system that protects each other from harmful physical and mental abuse. I am reading of more and more instances of people being tormented by others in our schools from both fellow students AND management, professors, that are demanding, yes demanding that the students think like the instructor, and agree with the instructor or are ridiculed and are failed in the class. I am referring to higher education and the far liberal leaning instructors, we have all seen instances on the news, of the harassment of students who's value system will not allow them to conform to outrageous subjects/assignments.
Our education system broken, except for the many instructors that are trying to keep the standard high and the students well trained in the basics of self thinking, high community values, how to treat each other, how to be self supporting, i.e. learning a skill and supporting subjects that will allow the student to eventually support him/her self. We need to support their efforts with the proper funds to buy books (each student gets a book per subject) no more sharing one book per classroom! This is my biggest challenge right now. I found out that kids in Jr. High School do not have the proper books to do their studies with! IF you can't take "the" (one and only book in the class room) home to do homework, what kind of quality is the instruction! Horrible is a word that comes to mind. Common core is bugging most of the teachers (whom a lot of them can't understand it either). With a long and not understandable style of maneuvering to get the right answers which defies all common sense reasoning and the answer is so easy to chart out the "old" way, why insist on the New Way? I'll tell you. Because somewhere, someone of "influence" and power is getting a fat wallet/bank account for approving it!
Enough for now. If you can come up with any logical answers and a path to regain sanity, we can talk about it and see if there are any honest government officials left that can make it happen.
Cheers,
Gary
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