Nitro Book Controversy and Dr. Seal--Symptoms of a Bigger Problem

High School is not what is used to be, in culture, education, or social mores. Compare this to what you see today. Do the government schools produce academic men and women or juvenile delinquents with diplomas? Since self-esteem was emphasized self-respect has declined, and social anarchy has become the norm. Self-control, temperance, maturity, dignity, personal responsibility, and respect for authority (though some authorities must be disrespected on principle) are lost. Men and women dress alike since the unisex '60s revolution, and there is no shame in immodest dress or wild behavior, and no one may speak a word about it in criticism. The idol of Tolerance has trumped the righteousness of Truth, and the results are obvious. Yet taxpayers keep paying more, like slaves, to "help our children" (collectivism) and the State continues increasing funding for government schools which only increases output from the "education" factories. It should not be missed either that many political families send their own to private schools, while demanding support for the government schools.

Warning: Government and public education officials will be offended by you reading this, along with social engineers in the media. But remember everyone protects his own interest.

Government schooling and Elitist Bureaucrats.

Those who believe they can give their children real education and any sense of individualism or moral rectitude by sending them to the social grind mill of the government schools are deceiving themselves. Newspapers now openly report the most shameful and now common fact that teachers, particularly modern women, are preying on students for their perverse personal gratification, something that the law calls "statutory rape". Recently a story broke that students on an overnight field trip (an an unnecessary activity that begs for trouble to come) engaged in perverse acts in the bus. The "education" of children is thus "contributing to the delinquency of minors"--which is a crime! Now the Nitro book controversy is just another symptom of the corrupt and amoral public system that consumes the largest portion of state taxes (in West Virginia approx. $2 billion and 26 percent) and is managed by bureaucratic social engineers, like the arrogant "doctor", Dr. Seal, who recently insulted Lincoln County families and has justly been taken to task.

People would "value education" more if they actually got a real one rather than the elitist social indoctrination while teaching the parroted "official history" of the United States which is full of Yankee and socialist, politically-correct propaganda. Government cannot be expected to pay for something it does not want, and the intellectual, atheistic, historical, and social bias is obvious. Admittedly it is also difficult to teach the truth when government lies have covered the course of its historical actions, and propaganda will always fade as those truths become known though impugned as "historical revisionism" (actually the unrevising of original revisionism). Confusion abounds because of this and then the frustration of teaching and learning amidst controversy gives way to apathy and mere survival of what the law mandates. (That public schooling is mandatory by law should make everyone suspicious of its true purpose, knowing the government controls the education largely). Jay Leno frequently makes humor on the tragic fact that modern high schoolers, even adults, are stupid and ignorant. It is impossible to say that the government schools have nothing to do with this. It is also impossible to claim that parents are not responsible either.

There used to be a term called "spoiling" children (the word means "to ruin"), which means pandering and bribing them "go through the system" by every means to perform rather than teaching personal discipline and responsibility. "Team work" is substituted for individual responsibility that is a front for communistic "group think". Sports is exalted, academics diminished, for the same reason, to teach collectivism. Collectivism in turn teaches people to depend upon the State for their welfare, which in turn the modern government dishes to them in various forms, collected from the tax revenues of its serfs who work much of each year for the public welfare (i.e. communism).

Actually, this is all by design in a much larger picture. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlott Thomson Iserbyt (a free online e-book) should be looked at by all who are concerned about teaching their children rather than delegating and dumping them into the government school system in a fatalistic way thinking they will "turn out all right". Educators should also take a hard look, and the legislators who always cry for raises and additional taxation. It would be enlightening.

One reviewer writes this about the book:

As an educator for the past 28 years, and believing myself to be at least a little left of center politically, I found "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" to be the scariest thing I have ever read. Some will brand this book as conservative propaganda. But those of us in the teaching profession wonder aloud to each other and anyone else who will listen, what politicians are thinking about when they pass educational reform legislation. It would seem impossible to make some of the decisions that are being made without having deliberately set about to wreak (sic) the education system in America. If the facts laid out in this book are true (and the book is full of documentation) what is happening to education in Washington D.C. is worse than the Twin Towers tragedy and the attack on Pearl Harbor combined. The promotional material for this book says that it should be required reading for parents. I think it should be required reading for every educator or university student considering a career in education.

Home schooling was used to bring up most of the great men in colonial America, both statesman (not politicians) and pastors, who only went on to "higher education" for specific professions, such as law, theology, science, or such. The idea that everyone must go to college only waters down the purpose of higher education and indeed college has become a refuge for higher delinquency and mere social process which the accreditation of the state approves. It should not be missed either that the highest paid state or university employee in West Virginia is a football coach, proving where the state truly lays its highest rewards. (Sports fanatics are to blame then as well for misplaced and corrupting principles). Yes, the "love of money is the root of all sorts of evil", including the eroded purpose of higher education.

The real purpose behind the Promise Scholarship was to increase government revenues through legalizing the illegal gambling industry by pretended do-goodism (crying "our children"!), which West Virginians fell for. Why is everyone so naive, except that they have been negligent in their own personal responsibility to examine things?

Compare 19th Century Higher Education to todays in this letter from Professor Clyde Wilson of Univ. of South Carolina, which makes the modern party-University pale in comparison, and explains the relative ignorance and lack of modern statesman in society:

A 19th Century College Curriculum

"The college curriculum consisted chiefly of Latin, Greek, and pure mathematics, with smaller amounts of modern languages, chemistry, geology, physics, botany, zoology, metaphysics, logic, rhetoric, political economy, and constitutional and international law. More than half of a students time in four years was spent in languages ancient and modern; three-fifths in the languages and pure mathematics together. The intent of these studies was to develop the powers of reason, analysis, and perspective…" [Studying of Greek and Latin meant translating the old Greek and Latin classics, such as those by Thucydides, Herodotus, Plato, Cicero, Livy and Tacitus, into English - and sometimes back again. Thus they were learning history, politics, philosophy, poetry, science, and language all at once. Add this to all the minor subjects - with some overlap - above, and one can clearly see why they were so versatile, and why they were so able in whatever career they pursued. G.M]

Professor Clyde Wilson

I would challenge even the arrogant Dr. Seal's education against the above curriculum of real "higher education". Methinks he would flunk their tests from the 19th century with his 21st Century indoctrination, making him look like an ignorant hillbilly in a suit.

The government school system must be abandoned by every responsible parent who knows that they alone are morally responsible for the upbringing of their own children, who are their own offspring, not the State. It will be better for them, for the parents, and for society as a whole.

MEANWHILE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CONTINUE THEIR MANUFACTURING OF A PARTICULAR KIND OF GENERIC PEOPLE FOR THEIR AMORAL UTOPIAN SOCIETY, WHICH IS PROVOKING THE STUDENTS TO REBEL MORE AND MORE TO GET FREE FROM THE SOCIAL ENGINEERING THEY FEEL BEING FORCED UPON THEM (AND THEY HAVE EVERY MORAL RIGHT TO SECEDE FROM IT), WHILE PARENTS ARE TOLD TO COOPERATE WITH THE CORRUPT SYSTEM--WHILE THEY PAY FOR IT! IT IS THE STATE THAT INTERFERES BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN, BREAKING THE NATURAL AND GOD-GIVEN BOND THAT CAME ABOUT AT BIRTH, DESTROYING THE FAMILY SOCIALLY, IF NOT LITERALLY.