Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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Lex, thanks for the pingback on this!
The interview at the end was particularly galling. She claimed to have said, “That’s good.” and gone on. That is not what I heard.
This is exactly why I drive a 14 year-old car and send my kids to private school. Whenever I think of all the things I could buy with what I spend on their schooling, I see stuff like this and am convinced it is money well spent.
The teacher was only doing this for the Greater Good.
Didn’t want to, but felt like she owed it to the kids.
She needs to be fired. Now that the pendulum has passed to the far left may I call her a racist?
She needs to look up the definition of browbeat.
It sounds like she was trying to do a social studies or civics lesson, but she was so painfully biased in her teaching that almost appeared staged.
Those teachers are the kind that give public schools a bad rap.
Kind of like we used to say in the P-3 world, one aw sh*t just killed 10 attaboys.
Sickening.
Reminds me too much of this short story by James Clavell. Only we don’t have to wait for someone to re-educate us, we’re doing it to ourselves.
http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm
We homeschool.
Videos such as this reinforce what was a difficult decision.
My grandson got out of public schools three years ago, thank God.
Both my children went through public school. The “re-education camp” took place at the dinner table EVERY NIGHT…
Small progress, and it addresses only the symptoms, not the illness, but still:
Fayetteville Reporter has a piece that the Superintendent has been made aware of the video and is looking into it. Also, “… schools Superintendent Bill Harrison took an unusual step Friday of making his own YouTube video, in which he reads a statement saying he was “shocked” and “disturbed” by what he saw. He promises to take “appropriate action” following an investigation.”
He also called the [military] parent of the student in the video and apologized. Sounds like an honorable, sane man. A reminder that as bad as our public school system can be (at its worst), there are still a majority of teachers and administrators working to do the right thing.
They are underminded by the likes of Diatha D. Harris.
Perfect example of why it’s better for ballots to be secret.