Posted by
grad_1986 on Monday, December 05, 2011 7:17:07 PM
Many parents today list their home duties as: provider, leader, caregiver, cook, bargain-hunter, coach and occasionally disciplinarian. However today we must add to the TOP of our list : TEACHER. Over the past 50 years we assumed this was to be done by the schools. Some of us were able to afford private (church-based) schools for our children but many were not. We thought all the 60's radicals had some how vanished from the face of the earth, but instead they all went underground and hid in our childrens classrooms disguised as "well meaning teachers who have our childrens best interests at heart". These radicals also went into the universities and indoctrinated the indoctrinators. They have taught our children that America is "bad" or "evil" and NOT "exceptional" as we were brought up to learn.
But they do not have to have the final say. We need to turn off ESPN and turn on FOXNEWS and see what is going on in our world. We need to stop reading the "Harry Potter" to our children and start reading "The 5000 year leap" and "The Real George Washington" so they can know the REAL history of their country. We need to get off of Facebook and look up "Reagan speech" on YouTube to reacquaint our children with real leaders. We need to teach them the difference between Keynes and Hayek economic policies. We need to teach them that success is NOT failure and failure is NOT success.
Too many of us took the path of "just get them through the system" and "don't make waves". But that is exactly what the other side wants us to do.... NOTHING! "Leave the educating to US the professionals" is what we are often told. But today, many of those "professionals nothing more than idiots with diplomas. Do you know that the average high school teacher today was a C student when he or she was in school. The old adage "those who can't, teach those who can" still holds true. Show your kids all that is left out of their history books. People like, Wentworth Cheswell , a black man, was elected to New Hampshire colonial government in 1762 and was also rode the same night as Paul Revere to gather the people from the north to come and fight. Show them, Prince Estabrook, who was the first person shot by the british at Concord. He was a black man who was a member of the Lexington church (blacks and whites worshipped together) and cam to fight the british (half of those who showed up were also free black men). Show James Armastead (another black patriot) who George Washington credited with shaving 2 years off of the war. He allowed himself to be captured by the british and was a servant for General Corn-Wallace so as to spy on their plans. He later became a "double agent" and gave the british bad intelligence and gave George Washington good information. His bad information to the british made them drop off their soldiers in Yorktown where we were waiting and the French fleet to come in and blockade them. Show them that George Washington chose as the surveyor for the new capitol , Benjamin Bannergy ( a black man) who was highly qualified as one of the best mathematicias in the colonies (if Washington was a "racist", why did he chose Bannergy ?). We need to show them that is was Woodrow Wilson who "segragated the military and the government". We need to show that HE was a racist and not George Washington. We need to educate them on the meaning of the Constitution. We need to read to them "The Original Argument" so they see that the Constituion is meant to control the government and not the other way around. We need to show them that the "Articles of Confederation" show us that our founding fathers feared and oppressive government more than they feared anarchy. We need to teach them that with FREEDOM, WE ALL WIN. We may not agree with how each person uses that freedom, but we must all say to one another, " I will fight for your freedom as long as you fight for my freedom". An example of this is gay rights. I will fight for your freedom to be left alone and live your life your way, as long as you fight for my freedom to say I don't agree with your life-style and my religious belief it is wrong. Together we can stand against the opressive government who wishes to destroy both of us.
As Ronald Reagan once said, "We will preserve for our children this the best hope for mankind on earth or we will sentence them to take the final step into a 1000 years of darkness".
All of this means we must become educated ourselves. We must take the time to read and research what we believe as citizens. Maybe we too were in some way indoctrinated and we need to question even our own beliefs and ideas as well. Maybe we are afraid of confronting our childrens teacher and