Social Guilt Mongers
The unfortunate case of Mr. Bob Barber, whose life was ended by the actions of Mr. Chauncey Sterling, has brought to the top of the froth the usual apologizers and social guilt mongers. As always their question is: How did we fail Mr. Sterling? What should we do different in the future? What can we change? This is for them and those who always say: “It’s for the children, spend more money on public schools.”
Well for the past 40 years we’ve done everything the apologizers and guilt mongers have recommended and the results are in. Crime is not decreased, like we were told it would be if we spent billions on schools. Children are not better behaved because they are treated kindly in schools. It seems that the exact opposite of what we were sold as taxpayers has occurred.
When children were punished in schools, when teachers had control of their classrooms, when parents listened to the teacher first and the child last, children respected the system, and adults.
The purpose, the sole purpose, of the system is to teach children to become responsible adults. Left to their own devices they will mimic the children in “The Lord of the Flies.” Yet today when we see children act as the ones in “The Lord of the Flies” we ask ourselves how and why. What did we do wrong? What we did wrong was to follow the dictates of those who imagine things would be better … if only.
Start with the lawyers, the ubiquitous lawyers. They, in coordination with the “I’m OK, You’re OK” crowd, took the schools systems to court over punishment and now the teachers can’t spank the children or touch them or do anything to them except give them a referral slip. Well that will impress the power of the adults on the children. For punishment we give the recalcitrant children a few days off – that’ll teach them to misbehave. The very ones who need a spanking, to learn to obey are taught that misbehaving gets them a few days off from the class. Now that’s teaching how to participate in society. If you’re bad you get to go play.
Then there is the lack of class superlatives. No one can be the best at anything anymore. We wouldn’t want little Johnny thinking someone is better in math than he is. No, he’s flunking but don’t tell him so. Don’t embarrass him by comparing him to Suzie who makes straight A’s.
Then we took away all the classes with hands on education. Auto mechanics, shop, agriculture. Who is supposed to repair the refrigerators, HVAC systems, automobiles, computers, lawnmowers, roads, plumbing and electrical systems? With everyone going to college to learn ART History, one can only suppose they’ll web search a mechanic. Right. But Chauncey Sterling needed a trade to learn, not pre-college courses for places he was never going to go.
And the list goes on. We spent billions on new buildings while forgetting the purpose of education: the child. The child who is at the mercy of adults to teach him how to act and how to make a life for himself in our society. We have failed the children by pretending each of them capable of NC State. They are not. They need to be taught the rules at an early age and taught a skill that will serve them.
Instead, the apologizers and the social guilt mongers, having contributed so heavily to the problem we have now, continue to look elsewhere, to ask for more money for more projects which have no hope of success and every chance of increasing the problem. I suggest instead of looking elsewhere they look at what they have wrought and question the results of their successes.
I suggest they look in the mirror and credit themselves and their misguided policies with the children who lack discipline and respect and have no skills. Whose lives are now forfeit and who, knowing no better, take others with them.
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