Last week the US History teachers were teaching about Vietnam, and decided to make it more exciting for the students by inviting in some real Vietnam War veterans to speak to the students. I tell you, the students were really excited for this- they were talking in the classroom before the presentation about how it would be great to see some real heroes, about how it would be a great chance to learn real history and not the modified liberalized version they usually hear. So the students all crowded into the auditorium, full of excited chatter.
And then the speakers will come out to speak to the students. The opening line of the presentation was "We support the troops, but that doesn't mean we support war." It went downhill after there- the speakers were all anti-Vietnam war protesters and anti-Vietnam war veterans.
As the presentation went on, the background chatter and attentive looks on students faces slowly faded away, to be replaced by the usual blank vacant stare that students assume on being brainwashed by leftism. Their natural mental defenses took over, and they began to reject the version of events presented to them by shutting down their mind, the only defense that students who are forced to be there have. Unable to run away physically, their mind flees, and the life fades from their eyes, to be replaced by a glazed look of indifference. I myself went through this process listening to the presentation.
The speakers talked about how the Vietnam War was wrong, about how the nobility was in protesting it, and how students need to always end wars and agitate against any war that we are engaged in. They talked about how it was patriotic to be against America, about how it was right to be wrong, and about how the real heroes were not our troops engaged in battle, but those engaged in battle against our troops.
After the presentation, as students quietly shuffled out, waking up to talk about football or friends and put the bad memory of the liberal brainwashing behind them, I was furious. I approached the teachers who had organized the event to confront them about the speakers they had found, about the impact that it had on the students, and the obvious lack of balance- and found that the speakers who organized it were congratulating themselves with how it went. Their eyes had assumed the fevered cast of a convert who has heard their spiritual leader, and I knew that they would not understand my points, so I turned and left, to once more rejoin the students in the halls and talk of friends and football.
UPDATE: After reading this post, The Designated Conservative asks several important questions-
Who are we as taxpayers that we continue to subsidize a public school system that has failed so completely at responding to the changing needs of our children? Who are we as a nation that we allow such mediocrity and shallowness of thought to be passed on to our children in our public schools? Who are we as parents that we accept the indoctrination of our children by zealous partisans under the guise of education? Who are we as a conservative movement that we continue to meekly yield to the left the high ground of teaching the coming generation about the true principles upon which our country was founded? - that is life, liberty, freedom, and limited government. And who are we as a community that we accept such shoddy and outmoded teaching as described by A Conservative Teacher?
The hearts and minds of our children are indeed under assault every day, from television, to the internet, to school, and if you don't wake up to this fact, you may lose your child to the wasteland of tyranny. Keep reading my blog often for more updates from the world of education.
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