Are Our Schools Keeping Secrets from Parents?
I don’t know a single person stupid enough to believe that schools keep the curricula secret from parents. You’re more than welcome to walk into your kids’ school, meet their teachers and administrators, leaf through the textbooks, join the PTA, and attend parents’ night. You’ll learn immediately that there is no plot to brainwash your kids.
I happen to tutor, and so I know precisely what’s taught at our local public high school, but that level of involvement isn’t necessary.
Now, I’m not promising that you’ll be in love with everything you find. Our 12th grade U.S. history textbook features a chapter on the late political activist Howard Zinn, so if you’re a Fox News acolyte, you may find this distasteful. But it’s there in black and white; it’s anything but a secret.
What do you think is going to happen when, in a few months, consumer prices haven’t fallen? Answer: Fox News and the MAGA crowd will drop the topic like a hot rock, and pretend that Trump never promised to lower the prices of gasoline, eggs, etc.
America’s political sensibilities are moving to the right, along with many other countries like Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, and that’s sad, but it’s a choice that the people of the United States are free to make.
What we need to learn from the content of the meme here is that the majority of American voters simply don’t care that their leader is a convicted felon, and that he committed treason against our country.
Most decent people support this. But guess what? Overall, in the United States right now, it’s a minority position.
One thing we can observe about Aristotle’s writings from our modern standpoint is that we got a whole bunch of stuff wrong, and the quote at left is a good example.
The position of many of today’s self-described “patriots” is offered at left. Apparently, the United States has reached a point at which we have to make a choice between:
If you’re having trouble defining exactly what’s going wrong in the United States right now, you are to be forgiven. Yet, the words at left may be of service.
The meme here came from a reader, whom I advise: If you have liars, haters, cheaters and disloyal people in your life, you don’t need prayers, and you don’t need a new year. You need a new life. Be brave. Seek it out.
