They're Out to Get the Children!

They are out to get the children. No, not the zombies. The progressives. It’s a simple matter of math. As long as the progressives have not yet managed to replace our ‘two-party system’ with a one-party tyranny, they have to manage to get 51% in some election to even have their guy in Congress. 

But progressives have one major obstacle in gaining future votes: they have much more fully embraced ‘birth control mentality’ and abortion culture than the conservatives. As a result, conservatives have larger families. Progressives may not have children at all. Global warming, you know? Children are a form of pollution, like carbon. Progressives may pride themselves on being more environmentally friendly, but by giving up children they are giving up the chance at having a captive audience in their home to recruit to the cause. 

And so they turn to the public schools, and, through laws and lawsuits, they exercise some controls over private Catholic, Lutheran and other Christian schools as well. Overwhelmingly, people who want to become public school teachers are required to join a liberal teachers union that uses union dues from members to support progressive political candidates. In the states where teachers do have a legal alternative to joining the union, they are certainly not told about that fact routinely and it is not made easy. In some cases, they have to pay union dues anyway. 

Teachers’ unions provide access to the teachers for indoctrination purposes, if they haven’t already been indoctrinated enough by their schools and colleges. The result? In stories throughout the nation, for decades now, we hear that children who express support for Republicans are viciously bullied— by the teachers as well as other students. While children who express progressive views, even contradictory stupid ones, are praised.

Biased rules of ‘diversity’ support help promote the progressive atmosphere. Kids who come out as LGBT-whatever are rewarded by having ‘Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs.’ Christian kids don’t get to form ‘hateful’ Man-Woman Marriage Support Clubs, they are lucky if they are not forbidden to wear crucifixes or crosses to school. Because they are haters, see?

Many years ago, I was a teacher in a Lutheran school. Because the parents had to pay tuition, every single parent thought he was in charge. One parent would want zero homework for the younger kids, another wanted more homework for these same kids. Some parents wanted Lutheran religious instruction, others wanted generic Protestants. We as teachers had to try to make everyone happy.

Progressive public school teachers don’t think like that. I’ve heard of a case where the teacher inspected a child’s lunch from home, deemed it nutritionally inferior, and forced the child to pay for an (institutionalized processed food) school lunch. Because teachers have more rights than parents in that area, in progressive teachers minds. Parents are the problem. 

More recently there are cases where teachers have ‘diagnosed’ a child as ‘transgender’ and demanded that the parents take the child to a pro-gender-transition ‘therapist’ or be prosecuted for child abuse. 

In California there was several years ago a requirement that all schools teach ‘LGBT history,’ which I suppose means that to California kids Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickenson are Gay now. Whether Abraham and Emily like it or not. Children need LGBT history whether it’s true or not!

Once children get fully indoctrinated by progressive schools, we know what party they are going to be casting their first ballots for. Some of these young voters will, in time and with exposure to the real world, become mentally free to consider both sides of some issues. But in the meantime they will be voting the way progressive teachers have programmed them to.

I think that we conservatives should not just lie down and take it. A few families homeschooling is not enough. Why are there not funds in every single American city and town, so that every family who wants to send a child to a conservative Christian school can get a scholarship to do so? We can’t wait for school voucher programs to magically appear and magically be fair even to ‘hateful’ conservative schools. As long as Big Government holds the purse strings to schools and school vouchers, education of children will be a political football. And I hate football. We need to opt out— not just for our own kids if we are lucky enough to be in two-parent families, but for other kids as well. Government schooling is becoming an increasing threat to the democratic process. Let’s seek alternatives.