Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schools. Show all posts

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Flowers, Books, and Meritocracy in Communist Schools

My Second Grade Class
I found a rare book in my home library collection with personal significance. The pages are all yellowed and fragile enough that, if not handled with care, it will disintegrate. The published date is 1966, more than half a century ago.

At the end of second grade, school year 1966-67, my overall class average out of 30 students was very good. I was 8 years old and my average qualified for second place. My parents were blue collar workers (the proletariat) and always emphasized the importance of education; it was their pride and joy that their only child would do well in school. 

As was the case in the communist run schools of that time, each year four students with the highest overall averages received a bouquet of flowers, a certificate signed by the teacher and the principal, with first, second, third place, honorable mention, and a book to inspire students further in their studies.

The ceremony was always held outdoors on a sunny day. The black and white photograph shows the four of us on stage, dressed to the nines in pioneer uniforms with the red communist scarf, receiving the certificates, the books, and the flowers.

My book was titled "Illustrious Figures of Antiquity," and it cost 8.50 lei in 1966-67 when it was published which, at the forced exchange rate of that time, of $1 per 12 lei, it would have cost 75 cents.

I was not able to fully understand the book's content until the 8th grade, of course. I was not a genius to comprehend the historical figures of antiquity and their contributions to science, philosophy, art, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. However, the point I am trying to make is that education and meritocracy were important at any grade level, during the era when the socialist man was being fashioned by the schools into the communist man.

Meritocracy and good performance in school were rewarded and recognized each year. Nobody would have dumbed down education or have taken away awards from good students in order to pacify weak students. There was no such thing as diversity and equity of outcomes. If you performed well, you were rewarded for your hard work and success. If your performance was weak, you did not receive certificates of participation.

Re-reading the book now, ever so carefully, I see all the dialectic materialism influence (communist), author’s views permeating through the historical record and its analysis.

Obviously, the author was a communist party card carrying member and apparatchik in good standing, otherwise his book would have never been approved for publication or even seen the light of day. Only authors approved by the censors of the communist party would have had their books published. The rest would just distribute their writings in pamphlet form in the underground.

The published world today is very much dominated by leftist communist influence, with bookstores overflowing with books written by the darlings of the radical left, and very few conservative authors see their books in print unless they are famous and publishing houses see an immediate profit motive. Most conservative authors are forced to form their own publishing houses or self-publish.

The larger point to be made here is that education, after weeding through the communist party indoctrination, was quite good when compared to the western education then and especially now, with noted exceptions of the manufactured history, which justified the communist party platform.

 

Friday, April 22, 2022

Advanced Cultural Marxism in America

We already live in an advanced cultural Marxist society even though half of the country is still lulled in the false sense that we are still a Constitutional Republic. We have archived documents in museums that state that we are, but we have lost this Constitutional Republic bit by bit over the last 40 years to judicial activists on the bench, corrupt politicians elected by ignorant citizens, legal aliens, and illegal aliens who do not speak English nor know the history of the United States.

The political class at the helm of our country for almost five decades have made and passed laws to benefit themselves, their quest for power, their Wall Street rich donors, socialist billionaires, corporate powerbrokers, the NGOs lobbyists with deep pockets, donating to their political campaigns, the technocrat radical left who runs this country from their keyboards and blue screens, staffed by third world geeks who do not care about the “democracy” they espouse because they come from countries where democracy does not exist, just naked socialism, corruption, oppression, and crime.

People whisper to their friends that they do not like what is going on, but they are too afraid to speak out or question anything for fear of losing their jobs, licenses, public shaming and ridicule. Cultural communism is here, it has taken over our country, but people are threatened and shamed into silence, submission, and compliance.

Our western culture is being torn apart by its own people, half of whom do not realize that they are doing the bidding of the global communists who have been salivating for decades to take over the only superpower still in the way of globalism, the United States of America.

To reach this point, globalists have painstakingly cultivated and brainwashed the educators in this country, public-school teachers and the academia, to deride and fundamentally destroy our culture and history and to inculcate into American students’ feelings of hatred for their country, their families, and our American culture.

The globalists, with the help of American teachers, have transformed young generations into pliable communist drones by giving them grants, free college tuition, writing and printing their College of Education curricula, donating huge sums of money to foundations in the most influential colleges in the U.S. and educating young foreigners and American young people as social activists, hard core communists who will stop at nothing to destroy their own country and culture and dismantling this nation.

Seventy years of brainwashing in our American schools are finally paying off for the communist globalists. Colleges like Columbia, with refugees from the Frankfurter School in Germany, have been churning out American communist educators for seven decades and their descendants are the teachers in your children’s schools today.

Nothing is left to chance. It is all planned, highly synchronized and harmonized across the globe by the same corporate fascists and political technocrats. Equality, equity, fairness, social justice, BLM violence, Antifa violence, attacks on white people from the supine main stream media, getting their precise and identical orders from the Democrat Party machine, envy, violence, racism against white people, ridiculous and unfounded accusations of white privilege, demonizing the rich, the successful, the smart, demonizing our history, setting races against each other, young against the old, it was planned long ago to destroy society from within.

The struggle of the last two years, social distancing, lockdowns, rules, destroying small businesses, the middle class, protecting large corporations, was not a struggle against Covid-19 virus but a struggle to protect the virus of communism and allowing it to explode to better transform our republic into the planned cultural Marxism. Law-abiding individuals sheepishly complied. By the time people woke up to the ruse, it was already too late. There is no going back, and nothing is reversible. There is no new norm – it is the communist globalist norm run by the United Nations and planned in the boardrooms of organizations like the World Economic Forum.

Educators have been focusing on teaching American students not “how to think” but “what to think” since the early 1980s. A U.S. Department of Education publication dated June 1983, “Computers in Education: Realizing the Potential,” deplored the students’ old-fashion values, attitudes, and beliefs: “Recent studies in science education have revealed that students approach learning with many prior conceptions on their life experiences, which can be obstacles to learning. We need to understand why students’ conceptions persevere so strongly and how they can best be modified.”

Honest subject matter teachers who did not wish to become “facilitators of political and social indoctrination” were viewed as stumbling blocks and “they needed to be retrained to focus on individual needs rather than on content areas” in order to further “the Skinnerian International Curriculum, necessary for the United States’ participation in a socialist one-world government scheduled for the early years of the twenty-first century.” (Charlotte T. Iserbyt)

The radical transformation of America that Obama spoke about five days before his inauguration was facilitated by the “radical transformation of America’s classrooms from places of traditional cognitive/academic learning, where intellectual and academic freedom flourish, into experimental laboratories for psychological (attitude and value) change, using modern technology (the computer for individualized instruction and for administrative management systems) in conjunction with the totalitarian theories of Professor B. F. Skinner and other less well-known social engineers.” As he famously said, “Operant conditioning shapes behavior as a sculptor shapes a lump of clay.” (Charlotte T. Iserbyt)

Generations of children have been Skinner’s lumps of clay whose behavior and minds have been shaped by the Department of Education “educators” into citizens who hate their own country, their flag, their borders, their language, their history, and their culture.

These children are the American adults today who fly the Ukrainian flag in support of a country they do not know anything about, whose history they do not understand, but are determined to defend its borders, language, and culture from afar while they are content with their own American culture being destroyed from within.

These educators have been poisoning the minds of American children for decades that competition is selfish, and students should be taught collectivism, not individualism.

The Common Core curriculum has further dumbed down the educational system across the nation with its infamous common core math to make most students incompetent in STEM fields. The lockdowns of the last two years have exacerbated the lack of teaching and learning in public schools under the guise of fear of a deadly virus.

Victor Davis Hansen wrote so aptly in How America Became La La Land, that “America of the last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, partly the poet Homer’s Land of the Lotus Eaters. Nothing is working. And no one in control seems to care.”

There are a few good teachers left, active and retired, who do care, but their voices are drowned out by the army of Socialist Democrats marching to the band of the Department of Education indoctrination agenda to turn America’s students into global citizens beholden to the globalist master plan of the U.N. and the World Economic Forum.

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Vaccine Passports to Participate in Society?


Many doctors and scientists with long bona fides have been suppressed by the media in general, the main stream, as well as the social media dominated by four giants; if they diverge from the controlled narrative of taking a vaccine at all costs, they will be excluded forcibly and entirely from society.

France has taken the draconian medical measures further, by hiring police to demand vaccination papers from café goers on the streets of Paris. Australia and New Zealand are under some sort of Orwellian medical martial law.

Never since Dr. Josef Mengele criminal “experiments” on humans in Auschwitz’s concentration camp have people been experimented on without their consent and full disclosure of the procedure, its goal, and its chemical content.

What makes this global vaccination a politically controlled action forced on societies more insidious is the fact that there are successful treatments for Covid-19 with FDA approved drugs whereas the vaccines are experimental and quite rushed mRNA treatments approved only for emergency use, unlike any other vaccines previously developed over decades that went through thorough and lengthy trials over many years. The long-term effect of this experimentation is not known and the short-term effects are adding up.

Dr. Dan Stark, a family medicine practicing physician, addressed the Mt. Vernon, Indiana, Community School Corporation on August 7, 2021, over the futility of mask mandates and Covid-19 protocols.

He explained that “everything being recommended by the CDC and the State Board of Health is actually contrary to all the rules of science” and are “counterfactual.” Dr. Dan Stock's Presentation to the Mt. Vernon School Board in Indiana Over The Futility of Mask Mandates and Covid-19 Protocols (hancockcountypatriots.blogspot.com)

Citing literature from CDC and NIH sponsored studies, that he included in a flash drive which he presented to the board prior to his speech, he explained that the coronavirus and all other respiratory viruses are spread by aerosol particles which are “small enough to go through every mask.”

Respiratory viruses, he said, target weakened immune systems in winter, and cause “symptomatic disease because they cannot be filtered out and they have animal reservoirs.”

“No one can make this virus go away. The CDC has managed to convince everybody that we can handle this like we did smallpox where we could make a virus go away.” But the smallpox only infected humans, it had no animal reservoirs, he said.

Dr. Stark stated that the corona virus cannot disappear just like humans could not eradicate influenza, the common cold, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) which causes serious illness in young children, adenoviral respiratory syndromes, or any other virus that has animal reservoirs.

Dr. Stark asked the pointed question, “why is this vaccine that is supposedly so effective having a breakout in the middle of summer when respiratory viral syndromes don’t do that” and the levels of vitamin D are the highest?

According to him, every coronavirus study done on animals after the SARS outbreak and on respiratory syncytial virus, resulted in a condition called “antibody mediated viral enhancement.”

A respiratory virus “which has a low pathogenicity rate caused the immune system to actually fight the virus wrong and let the virus become worse than it would with native infection.” How is that possible? “If the antibody’s binding process goes wrong, it may facilitate the virus’ entry into the host cell instead of preventing it.” He added, “Seventy-five percent of people who had Covid-19 positive symptom cases in Barnstable, Massachusetts outbreak were fully vaccinated.”

To illustrate that you cannot stop the spread, Dr. Stark described the 2014 outbreak of mumps in the National Hockey League. Those unvaccinated or with unknown vaccine status came down with mumps. A good argument for vaccination, however, half of those who came down with mumps had no contact with unvaccinated or unknown vaccine status individuals, which means that they got infected from the vaccinated individuals.

Dr. Stark explained that his Covid-19 infected patients who were treated with Vitamin D, Ivermectin, and zinc, improved and did not necessitate hospitalization. People who had levels of 25 hydroxy Vitamin D higher than 55 had a much lower risk of contracting Covid-19.

Studies show that people who have recovered from Covid-19, said Dr. Stark, “got no benefit from vaccination at all, no reduction in symptoms, no reduction in hospitalization, and suffered two to four times the rate of side effects if they were subsequently vaccinated.”

Parents and all citizens should demand answers to important questions:

-          Should governments and school boards continue to make policies to mask up our children and vaccinate them, demand vaccine passports from humans in order to allow them to participate in society, 20 months after the disease has spread around the globe?

-          How long must we do this and what kind of irreversible damage are we doing to our children and to the population at large in the long-run?

-          Whatever happened to real science and herd immunity instead of science for political gain and control?

-          How accurate are the tests to detect exposure to the Covid-19 virus?

-          Why continue to lockdown healthy populations when lockdowns are for the sick?

-          Why bribe and force the population into submission if it is so good?

-          Why the heavy non-stop advertising and the shutting down of any scientific discussion except from the government?

At the end of the day, contrary to what we are told from the science of the left, real science (scientia, Latin for “knowledge) is never settled, is not a consensus, but a continuous search for truth, improvement, better ways and new ideas. Science builds on previous knowledge and organizes new knowledge in a factual and well-tested way.

 

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Socialist Democrats and their Illegal Alien Brethren

On a print from 1886 of the Statue of Liberty someone wrote, “There is room in America and brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development. But those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws are aliens and enemies forever.”

Times have changed fundamentally since 1886. Liberty is comatose and may never come out of its induced final slumber. Liberal Americans and the socialist Democrats of today are fighting the rest of the country to remove our borders, to disarm law enforcement, to pay for illegal aliens’ free healthcare, education, housing, voting rights, and every other benefit American citizens have.
Millennials devoid of common sense and their radical socialist representatives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) are openly calling for transforming our country into a Venezuela. It seems surreal that American citizens would want to live in the Twilight Zone of globalism or in a bad zombie apocalypse movie they so enjoy.

Of course socialist Democrats want open borders; millions of new illegal alien voters will help garner more representatives in the U.S. House and thus control it in perpetuity, with no Republican opposition, a type of California populated by 435 individuals who pretend to serve “we the people,” while silencing 52% of the U.S. population.

USA Today reported that “half of the 600,000 residents aided by NYC Care are undocumented immigrants” and New York City will spend “up to $100 million per year to expand health care coverage to people without health insurance including immigrants in the U.S. illegally.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/new-york-city-care-comprehensive-health-care-plan-concerns/2522924002/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=amp&utm_campaign=speakable&fbclid=IwAR0O71yHlujHVPQbUUg-eynNX0u7P_LAU1EYn3A9lZsE3eBuuYfUpT_YWNA

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the federal government expenditures on illegal aliens is almost $46 billion a year, the state and local governments spend approximately $89 billion a year, for a total of roughly $135 billion annually. Illegal aliens pay $15.5 billion in federal taxes, $3.5 billion in state and local taxes, totaling $19 billion.  FAIR estimates that the total economic impact of illegal immigration is a burden of $116 billion annually, money that should be spent on veterans and American low income families.

A one-time cost of $5 billion to build the southern border wall is a small sum when compared with such a huge yearly expense to maintain and provide for illegal aliens. President Reagan had promised this wall when he amnestied 3 million illegal aliens in 1986. But Congress never appropriated sufficient money for its construction. https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers?fbclid=IwAR1QGopbIjMDBSTj5dhRkQvA4p_NtIihUKGx4om8DXpLFoOy5K_45uNx6vE

Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made some bizarre statements on MSNBC. “Every day immigrants commit crimes at a far lower rate than everyday Americans” and illegals on the border “are acting more American than any person who seeks to keep them out will ever be.”

The fact that we need a border wall is most vividly described by Americans who live in the vicinity of the border with Mexico.  A resident of El Indio, Texas, living half a mile from the border wrote about “15 men who pulled a gun on my husband and had a 13 year-old Mexican girl they had kidnapped from Guerrerro. She had blood all over her and had urinated on herself. My husband was able to, with the help of the Border Patrol agents in a helicopter who passed over, get the gun from the Honduran man; they rushed the poor girl to the emergency room for help – she had been in fact kidnapped and gang raped by these men. We are kind people and believe in helping others in need but there have been three attacks on my husband on our ranch in the last three months.”

Schumer and Pelosi talk about “Trump’s manufactured drama with the border.” Adding more security at the border crossing will not help because illegals “are not coming through the borders, they are coming through mesquite and brush,” she added.

A wall will stop most illegal crossers even though some may dig under or escalate it. The Border Patrol needs help, the American ranchers need help, and Americans must feel safe in their own sovereign country.

If walls are “not effective and are socially unjust,” as the Democrats claim, why are rich people and most of Washington, D.C., surrounded by protective walls and barriers? If walls are not effective, why are there walls around prisons? Why do we have billions of dollars of privacy and noise cancelation walls around neighborhoods close to the highway?

There is a limit how many illegal invaders a country can absorb before it is no longer a nation but a socialist hellhole where the invaders vote for their free fair share of our confiscated stuff. As the progressive Mayor De Blasio said in his State of the City address, “Brothers and sisters, there’s plenty of money in the world. There’s plenty of money in this city. It’s just in the wrong hands.” Socialists are very fond of redistributing other people’s money and wealth but not their own. https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/de-blasio-theres-plenty-of-money-in-nyc-its-just-in-the-wrong-hands/

Liberals have asked me why a foreigner like me is against immigration. Illegal aliens are “undocumented Americans” but I, a legal American, am still a “foreigner.”

One problem with that question is that I am a naturalized American who assimilated into this country and learned the language which is something illegal aliens are not likely to do as they reject our language and our culture vehemently, they only want our welfare. They know very little about our country’s history and civics, vote illegally, and thus negatively affect the transformation of our nation into the third world corrupt dictatorship they’ve fled. 

These illegal economic migrants are illiterate, can’t read or write in their own dialects, and are therefore no asset to America, they are not making it better with their presence; they are a drag on society. They depress wages and it costs our society too much money to care for them from cradle to grave. Once here, the chain migration explodes, each new addition becomes a ward of the state and of the taxpayers who must work more in order to pay for them. It is in essence a form of slavery for the American people to support illegals who never assimilate.

The second problem with that question is that I am not against immigration; this country is a melting pot of legal immigrants from all over the world who helped make this country great. Illegal immigration is breaking the law.

Millions of legal immigrants have waited patiently in quarantine at Ellis Island before they were admitted to this country. Being healthy and willing to contribute without the benefit of generous welfare was important for the health of the nation. But now liberals have decided that unvetted, criminal, dangerous, and sick individuals from around the world should come freely into our country infecting our children in schools and the population at large with diseases that had been previously eradicated in this country.

Illegals who manage to get across the border, flood ERs when they get sick, using the system as their primary care doctor since doctors in private practice do not treat people without insurance. Fearing deportation, many with serious illnesses such as TB, do not seek continued treatment and develop drug resistant forms of TB. Their unvaccinated children infect American children in schools, sometimes with strange illnesses that have never been seen in this country but that are endemic in Central America.

By law, illegals must be treated for free and translators must be provided, while veterans beg VA hospitals for their proper and prompt treatment, including care for cancers developed while in service to our country. One case in point, Johnny, was sent back and forth to two VA hospitals, miles away from his rural home, never received proper treatment for his prostate cancer and, once it spread to the rest of his body, one VA hospital offered care, but it was too late. Johnny passed away a few months ago.

According to the Washington Times, at least 50 people who arrive at the southern border each day need urgent medical care, including those with cases of pneumonia, tuberculosis, flu, parasites, and even pregnant women close to giving birth. These people had left their homes sick in hopes that smuggling organizations will bring them in less than a week to our southern border, dropping them off in western Texas and New Mexico, in areas less affected by the flow of illegals pouring into the U.S.

Washington Times cites the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, that “The faster trip also makes it easier for sick people to come, and provides ‘confidence for parents to bring younger children as well.’” He also explains that those who came, “needed help, were ill when they arrived at the border.” If they die in custody, the Border Patrol is blamed for mishandling their care. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/31/number-sick-kids-soars-border/?fbclid=IwAR0duxXqe3jYdhg8g82QByxurBX8Du2Zv-ZC9zhYEk4P_O3jZvsYlyEB1cg

I am against ILLEGAL immigration. There is nothing wrong with being called an “alien.” I was once a legal alien myself. But illegal aliens have become a protected class sent to the head of the line by progressivism and politicians in this country. Four million LEGAL aliens are awaiting patiently the dispensation of their legal immigration files at the end of the line because the lawmakers, the courts, governors, mayors, and cops in sanctuary cities and states refuse to enforce the immigration laws currently on the books.

President Trump is the solitary wall that is protecting this country in so many ways from a full-blown communist takeover. He has managed to slow down the tide but the march to Sharia Law continues with the election of two Muslim representatives who have made it clear already that they are not necessarily representing their American constituents but the interests of various foreign cultures, imaginary countries, and theocracies.

 

 

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Illegal Aliens from Failed Socialist Economies or War Refugees?

As our government is insanely arranging flights at taxpayer expense for Honduran children so that they don’t have to make a dangerous trek across Mexico  and pay coyotes $5,000 to invade our country illegally, their president is smiling, making no excuses for his inept and corrupt administration or the fact that this “refugee” airlift will encourage a continuous flow of illegal immigration to grow the ranks of Democrat voters in the U.S., moving large numbers of Hondurans and displacing American citizens.

A correspondent named Robert proposed a solution that the main stream media is not willing to discuss. He suggested that the illegal immigrant children now baptized “refugees” of war by the United Nations be reunited with their parents and guardians who should then be immediately arrested for child abuse and endangerment. Such parents should be placed on a watch list and never allowed to enter the United States, never be issued a visa, and never be permitted to apply for permanent residence or American citizenship.

Illegal alien “children” have been shuttled and resettled in our cities around the country for months now without the knowledge or vote of the local population. As Eleanor Holmes Norton, the representative for the District of Columbia, said, “you don’t have a right to know what is going on in government.” http://washingtonexaminer.com/eleanor-holmes-norton-says-you-dont-have-a-right-to-know-whats-going-on-in-government/article/2551313

I would like to think that, when it comes to taxpayer funds and communicable diseases, some of which are incurable, and to the safety of our neighborhoods from MS-13 gangs walking across the border without questions asked, the citizens of the United States who are footing the bill and suffering, have a right to know.

The citizens of Suitland, Maryland should have known the whereabouts of illegal aliens dumped close to their neighborhood since six MS-13 illegal aliens stabbed to death Amos Jones, a homeless man. http://weaselzippers.us/194474-six-ms13-illegal-aliens-murder-homeless-man-in-maryland/

Sending the 1,000 National Guardsmen to the southern border may help corral  the flood of illegal aliens, transport them, and do surveillance. However, on Newsmax TV, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said, “They can’t actually arrest anybody. They can detain illegal immigrants temporarily if they find them, but only the Border Patrol can arrest people.” Unfortunately, the Border Patrol agents have been reassigned to diaper duty, bottle feedings, lice baths, “making sandwiches and filling out paperwork instead of trying to keep illegal immigrants and smugglers out.” http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/Rick-Perry-Mark-Krikorian-border-legal/2014/07/23/id/584499#ixzz38TxlbSbn 

Butler County Sherriff Richard Jones was complaining about the flood of illegal aliens who are committing crimes and bringing drugs into his county.  A teenaged illegal alien molested an elderly lady and an 8-year old girl. Violence is on the rise even though his Ohio county is so far away from the border with Mexico.  Butler County spends “eight to ten million dollars each month on welfare programs, which he called ‘free stuff,’ and said that’s ‘some of the reason that they come here.’” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/25/heres-what-happened-after-an-ohio-sheriff-sent-a-bill-to-the-mexican-president-for-the-illegals-in-his-jail/

New Jersey residents were so upset about the 1504 illegal alien children dumped in their state that they are organizing protests in Trenton, Morristown, and Middletown on October 24-25. http://theeconomicguardian.com/wp/?page_id=328

Boston organized the largest rally on Beacon Hill “against Obama’s illegal aliens.”  Buzzpo.com reported 10,000 people who protested the dumping of illegal aliens in their city.  And they are not children, most of them are teenagers, 15  or older. http://buzzpo.com/10000-rally-boston-obamas-illegal-aliens/

According to the Justice Department’s Immigration Courts, 46 percent of illegal immigrant “children” do not show up for their court hearings, an estimated 46,000 out of the 100,000 who were apprehended in the last two years. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140722-migrant-children-are-no-shows-at-dallas-immigration-hearings.ece

Alipac is reporting that schools are bracing for the impact the enrollment of at least 30,340 illegal children will have on their communities and the education of their own children.  Bringing down averages and overwhelming poor schools are just the tip of the iceberg. Some cannot count to ten, are really sick with tuberculosis, have not been vaccinated,  can’t turn on a computer because  they’ve never seen one, are home sick, have been abused or molested during the trek across Mexico, and do not speak English or Spanish, they speak Mam, a Mayan dialect spoken in Chiapas, Mexico, and parts of Guatemala. http://www.alipac.us/f12/us-schools-brace-flood-central-american-immigrant-students-308182/

The Daily Caller reported that Texas received 4,280 students, Virginia 2,234, Maryland 2,205, North Carolina 1,191, and New Jersey 1,504. Fairfax County, Virginia enrolled this year 5,192 Central American students, 22 percent more since 2011. Few speak English and perform several  years below grade level. Some students are old enough to be in college.

The administration is calling the regime’s  290,000 illegal aliens immigrants even though immigrant is a term reserved for legal immigrants. http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/05/border-meltdown-obama-delivering-290000-illegals-to-u-s-homes/

It is painfully obvious to anyone why cartels and terrorists are allowed to invade America  - and they do not discriminate between political views, they steal, rob, and murder anybody with impunity. Are the millions of extra Democrat votes worth the loss of our country to ethnic displacement and replacement?

Will Canada, U.S., and Mexico be the new North American Union without borders, with its own currency, the Amero, replacing the deliberately destroyed dollar?

 

Monday, February 11, 2013

Elitism and Arrogance

A few years ago, I was taking a small group of students on a ten day trip to Italy.  Fascinated by its rich history and archeological sites, the most inquisitive of my talented students were ready to try their language skills. Since our group was small, the tour organizer decided to merge us with another group in order to fill a large bus. It was simple economics; the cost would have been lower for everyone.

To my amazement and unpleasant surprise, the planned merger with a group from Boston was rejected by the school director who specifically asked in a lengthy letter that his students not be forced to ride across northern Italy with Mississippi students. The Bostonians were “elite students accompanied by highly trained and educated faculty and did not want their enlightening experience to be spoiled by country folk who were barely literate and did not wear shoes.” I was surprised that the tour operator actually shared the letter from the Boston school. Perhaps she was incensed by the tone as well. They were requesting a different bus, despite the additional $15,000 cost. In the end, we were paired with a nice group from Florida.

I was familiar with the arrogance of people from other parts of the country who felt superior and disdained Mississippians. I had encountered the self-importance numerous times at various conferences. As soon as pompous colleagues found out that we represented a Mississippi university, they automatically deducted IQ points from our intelligence and tried to avoid us at all costs. Rude remarks were made such as, “Oh, you’ve come a long way,” meant figuratively, to which I would respond, “Yes, we’ve flown a great distance to be here.”

Recently, a Virginia state Senator, to whom I offered help with education issues, said to me, “None of these people are going to take you seriously with 30 years of teaching experience in Mississippi!”

I’ve lived so long in the south, I consider myself a proud Mississippian, and it is my adopted state. Many outstanding scientists, innovators, artists, actors, musicians, writers, and famous TV personalities hailed from Mississippi. There is something about the soil, the simpler life, the down to earth goodness that breeds talent, kindness, generosity, and ingenuity. Southerners are hardy people who seldom complain – they roll up their sleeves when asked to rise to any occasion. They actually love their neighbors and help each other in times of dire need. Nobody feels so superior that they cannot share a ride with someone else.

The two groups stayed in the same hotels and followed the same tour with the same Italian guide. At some point, I knew that I would have the chance to speak to the director from Boston. I got my opportunity in Venice when we were boarding the water taxis for Piazza di San Marco.

I had explored the credentials of the school, the director, and the faculty member accompanying them and I was not particularly impressed. Our entire faculty in Mississippi held Ph.D. degrees in their respective fields. Our students, with ACT scores of 32-36 and a couple of perfect SAT scores, had consistently won national recognition in mathematics, science, and language competitions. But they were modest, happy, and salt of the earth children who adapted well in any situation.

The director introduced himself. We shook hands and I described our school. Before we parted, I informed him that we were better trained, educated, and did not mind riding with them on the bus, that his ignorance, prejudice, and superiority airs made him look foolish, petty, and wasteful. I don’t think I changed his opinion; he was the typical product of an expensive liberal elite education that makes them feel superior to the rest of the world.

I was so proud of my Mississippi students! They asked intelligent questions and gave good answers during the tour. The Bostonians avoided us like the plague and barely acknowledged our existence at breakfast time with a hello. It was painfully evident that northern elitism bred contempt for their fellow man although their rhetoric sounded so humanitarian and giving.

I’d like to tell those with prejudices about the south that we do wear nice shoes except on the beach or on a velvety field of grass, enjoying the sunshine. Although it was mid-March, I walked with my daughter and a few students to the beach in Lido and we took our shoes off – we wanted to feel the sand and the Adriatic Sea. It was still cold for sun-bathing but perfect for momentary feelings of joy to let the cold waves bathe our naked feet.