This article describes an outraged father, who was arrested and put in jail for having spoken longer than two minutes at a school board meeting.
He was upset because the school had assigned a novel to his daughter which had a graphic sex depiction. In other words, the school did what schools have been doing to students and parents for the last 50 years.
SIECUS began in 1964. The Right wing has been fighting SIECUS for 50 years. Wiki has an article on this.
The schools constantly push the limits of parental acceptance, especially with regard to anything related to sex. Anybody involved in the battle against the public schools over the last 50 years is well aware of all this.
The vast majority of parents do not know and do not care. They just want to watch TV.
The school board meeting had only a few parents.
What astounds me, and which ought to astound everybody else, is that parents still seem to be surprised when this happens. The memo was sent at least 50 years ago, and there are parents who were not alive at the time, who did not get the memo.
Nothing changes. Nothing will change. The budgets will be passed. The teachers' union will call the shots. Parents won't.
This man was upset, and he continued to speak, because other parents had accused him of being a book-burner. When he tried to defend himself, the lady with the gavel said he had to be quiet, and if he didn't, he would be arrested. He said he would have to be arrested. So, that is what a policeman did. He was put in jail.
Fortunately, there is a YouTube video posted on this event. It has had almost a million hits.
Hooray for YouTube videos.
These parents simply will not do what has to be done. They will not pull their kids out of the public schools. They will not put their children into a homeschool program. They will continue to send their kids to school at the local indoctrination centers, and there is nothing that the school could do which will drive out more than about 5% of the parents. We have learned this since 1964 . . . or earlier.
The Ron Paul Curriculum costs $1.37 a day per student -- less, if a family has more than one student enrolled. (Three children: 91 cents/day).
But parents think their children can get through the public schools intact. Billy Bob and Jenny Sue will know what to do. No problem.
Then they will go to college, at maybe $100,000 a piece. No problem. It would cost $14,000 or less through distance learning. "What? And deprive my kids of the on-campus college experience?"
The problem is not the public schools. They are exactly what educators have said they must be. The problem is parents who do not care.
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