FEASTING ON SLOP!

Why do kids sit in classrooms day after day in the gear of 'useless'? Where are their minds? What are they thinking? Most important of all,WHY are they sitting there so bored in a seeming semi-conscious state or bouncing,tapping,shaking in their seats? Where does their sense of entitlement come from? They appear no different than crack-heads coming out of a stupor and the popular phrase "stuck on stupid" is an apt description!

Are teens learning this behavior at home? Or has it just evolved over the years as part of our country's precipitous moral decline? We, as a nation, are not just falling, we have already fallen and we can't seem to get up. I personally don't know but 2 or 3 young people that I would even think could run for mayor of a city much less a national office! That is scary - especially when I think of the lives of my grandchilden. But I do know the answer (albeit controversial) to all of this craziess.

The reason for all of this malaise in teenagers and young adults is their source of food. Where are they grazing? Where are they feeding?#1. They continuously feed on methane gas produced by the ingredients in diet drinks. The eat and drink literally buckets of sugar each week, very few vegetables, and steroids, hormones,antibiotics,
and chemicals that permeate meats, processed foods, and fast food fare! So, to start off with, they are physically unhealthy - I don't care how many times a week they run or workout, the common teenage American diet stinks. #2. They are emaciated and skeletal, freakishly so, in their spiritual gleanings. Their meager fare, if any, is a simple verse or two and a "help me" prayer or two. And forget church, its too boring, in their opinion, to even bother listening to. So they are also spiritually malnourished.

Ah, their beautiful, intelligent minds! Really? What do they feed on but the slop of worldly indifference and their parents can't really define or explain what worldly indifference even means. Teens and adults feed hourly at the slop trough of movies, music, and media (through T.V., I-pods, I-phones, Androids, X-boxes, Wii's, PS's, DS's and DA's) Three strikes and you're OUT! Add to all of this poor nutrition for body, soul, and spirit, the fact of dumber than dirt education in most school systems, public and private, nationwide, and you have the makings of a catastrophe! Hence the rapid decline and near extinction of a nation.

Now, who do I complain to with this disturbing, controversial reason for our plight? A corrupt government? The local police? Why I can't even complain to the parents of these media crack-like-heads! Why? Because they are setting the example. They are pulled up and elbow deep at the same slop trough as their kids, eating away like there is no tomorrow. And there just might be a "no tomorrow" scenario sooner than we all think.

Now these are just generalizations and I don't mean to imply that every kid falls into this 3 generation-old mold, but the implications are MASSIVE and the delusional are multitudinous. How can so many be so clueless as to the deception they are swallowing? We have been blinded, hardened and smooth-talked for so long that we just accept as normal all of this mayhem.And it's not really so 'long'. America is only 236 years old! We just want to be left alone, be our own authority, and live our own lives as best we can.Selfish lot that we are, we don't even consider that moral decay and disrespect will just keep on spiralling downward, picking up speed thus making life unbearable for our children's children and their children. But we are more concerned with life now aren't we?

Do you have any examples (historical or present)of life getting better, of morality and decency improving over time? No, we don't even think of things like that because we are so wrapped up in nursing our own desires, always panting after more. Look around and compare. We are as far as dark is from light in living the way our Creator instructed us to live. Our whole lifestyle is a joke when held up to the light of Scripture! We are worse than the Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians in idol worship! They sacrificed their children to their man-made gods - we sacrifice our children to the god of self-interest! No matter - because we don't have the sense to raise children anymore and train them in right ways of living - we don't even know the right ways. They are all melded together with worldly ways and we can't tell them apart because we have accepted dung in place of gold!

We have been hood-winked, lulled and numbed into believing this lifestyle is A-OKAY! We adapt! We jump through hoops to 'conform', be accepted, to climb that social ladder! We inhale it! We love the chase! It's titillating, intoxicating - devil be damned! Our biggest hero is our football teams! Isn't that what Sundays, wait, Saturdays,wait, Fridays,oh,and Mondays are for?

We have evolved into something very sad. I return full-circle to my description in the first paragraph -scroll back up and read it again - staggering numbers of dysfunctional children in dysfunctional families, all thinking they are ENTITLED to anything they want. It is now, at this stage, an inbred attitude that is constantly renewed at the places they feed in the most - MUSIC, MOVIES, and MEDIA! They lust after and desire to feast upon the slop that pours forth, fountains of filth. They are addicted to the slop that is destroying their lives and their future. Movies, Music, and Media - a much larger and fiercer enemy than drugs or Taliban or terrorists. America is destroying herself!

2 MILLION + and Counting!

More and more parents are waking up to the moral and academic disaster in their school systems and more and more schools are waking up to the fact that they are losing $10,000+ per year for every student that they lose! The President of the United States has his child in a private upscale school and most of the congressmen and senators either have their children homeschooled or in small private schools.

Our local schools, both parochial and public are sliding into moral depravity, teaching kids that it is okay to live together without being married or that it is okay to be gay, how to wear condoms, how to access drugs, how to party, and how to curse! You can't go anywhere anymore and hear clean language on a playground or in a coffee shop, even in elementary schools. When do schools have time for academics with all their pep rallies, clubs, and extra-curricular activities? Oh, and I forgot teachers who let their kids sleep in class because they(kids) had such a rough night.

It all boils down to parental responsibility. Who has to answer to God for the way children are raised, language in the home, and how children are educated? Only the parents will be held accountable. If God has blessed you with children, then they are your responsibility. The sad truth is that our culture thinks that things like football, rubbing elbows with drugheads, foul-mouthed, and alcoholic children, teach social skills! When more people turn out for football games across this country on weekends than turn out for church, our country is in serious trouble. But, we know that, don't we?

As parents we have to decide what is important; what is our duty before God; what are the things God considers important for our children to know. He is the One we have to bow before one day and answer to, for every idle word and our handling of every responsibility placed in our hands. I think children are the highest calling and the most precious of all gifts. Yes,our children, legally have to go to school until the age of 18, but that doesn't mean that we throw them in with wolves or place them in a place where they can't even hear the teacher because of all the chaos or a place that has poor academic standards.

It is time to ask ourselves, what are my children really learning in the school they attend? Are they just learning to climb the social ladder, stepping on others as they climb? Are they getting the academic knowledge worthy of what I am paying? What are the important things that God wants them to know? What is more needful for them in these days of moral decay, the ways of God or the ways of the world? Which will help them survive and live a decent, moral life?

NOT JUST PUBLIC SCHOOL!

YOUTH are losing more and more of their memory everyday! They constantly take their brain(cell phone) out and play with it. Why? All of their information is in their cell phone so no need for memory. Ask them a question (names, numbers, facts, directions) and they don't think, they grab their smart phones! Coming soon - Teachers allowing students to phone check their facts while taking tests!

Any wonder why we are becoming a 'duh' society? Any wonder why academics, spelling, vocabulary, cursive writing and grammar has gone down the tubes? (not is going - has already gone)

Because of our hedonistic, sexually transmitted stupidity, fun-seeking moral morass, our educational plunge downward, and now even our credit rating, the whole world watches and smiles as America slides farther and farther away from God and the principles she was founded on.

JESUS LAND

You ask,"Why is it that young people can spend a weekend on retreat in Jesus land, realize that they are living wrongly and going in the wrong direction, then come home and in two weeks or less be headed back in the same wrong direction?"

Because you're environment lacks Jeesoxygen! You begin to slowly wilt and come down off of the high you felt in the company of so many like-minded teens. You are no longer with like-minded people hearing the praises of Jesus on everyone's lips. Maybe on no one's lips. You begin to slowly wilt and feel like you're going to die from loneliness.

Then all of a sudden satan shoots you a fresh, fake breeze of old times and because you are smothering you suck in his lie and go running back to familiarity. You are back in your fake comfort zone.

You only fall backward into familiarity because you don't take the time to consistently and diligently arm yourself for battle, to actively make God your familiarity, your home, your mate, your everything.

You dont study God. Yoou don't learn His heart, His mind, His will. You study movies, music, food, English, and Science, but you don't study Happiness! You don't study Love, you don't study Peace, you don't study Joy, Beauty, Gentleness, Self-Discipline, Security, or Service. Jesus is ALL of these things!

satan says vampires, X-Men, warlocks and sitcoms are more interesting things to waste your time on. (Harry Potter has held ten years of your interest) Do you sit for two hours and study Jesus' personality, His countenance? satan says that a cell phone and Facebook is the way to self-confidence and that sex and alcohol will give you the ultimate high!

It is so much easier to believe his lies that to resist his lies. But the truth is that the road with Jesus is full of purpose, it is fruitful and productive, it feeds you well and fulfills you (as you saw on retreat)and in the end it has a wonderful resting place.

satan's road is full of thorns, pain, and drama, it bears no fruit, sucks you dry, tosses you about and then you finally open your eyes and see that his road is a dead end with no escape.

So get in the ZONE! The Jesus Zone where He fills every minute with something new and exciting, where He whispers directions for each day right in your ear and fills you with excitement and anticipation for each new day. Drink continually from His fountain of living water!!

Life with God is sooooo simmmmmmmple! His burden is soooo liiiight! His love is soooo amaaazing! If you can't see the bigger picture, the overall whole, because your environment is suffocating you, then rise above. Take the han of Jesus and let Him lift you out of the muck so yu can see the big picture. Your current environment then only looks like a small blemish when compared to the overall beauty of God's special plan for your life!

Stop drowning! Grab the Hand of the Man who loves you more than you can even imagine and He'll walk you through kicking down all the walls that are thrown up against you. Sit back and trust. Watch the miracles He will perform for you on just a little seed of faith.

Those, even in your own family that seem unsupportive, even mocking and blowing off your faith by saying, "Oh, I went through a "religious" period too. It will pass. You'll grow up," are only telling you that they lost. They tried and failed. They weren't strong enough to hold on to Jesus' hand and were soon formed into the image of the world - they morphed from being created in God's image to being remolded into the image of this world.

Here are the things you need as an indispensible minimum: You should study with a tremendous devotion to Christ,with an ever-present awareness of Him. You should acquire a considerable knowledge of His life and personality. You should nurture a strong desire to increase in knowledge of Jesus and His Church and to study the doctrines of His Church and the reasons for Her teachings. Your roots will grow deep as a result of your diligence. When satan attack you will be within the strong, spiritual fortress that you and Jesus have built together. Start building! Time is of the essence! Hurry! His arms are stretched out toward you.

LEAP Results Are In Again

Please tell me how public school teachers can teach nothing but the Leap Test all year long and have such dismal results. You would think with such test concentration that nearly all the kids would pass the test and be able to function at grade level. Where is our money going? One third of our state's kids will be going to summer school and trying again or, worse yet, they will be moving on to a new grade without being proficient in their last grade. Somebody needs to kill Goliath! Most of the kids can't even write anymore. No requirement to write in cursive. No requirement to put coherent sentences together. The standard is so low that homeschooled sixth graders can easily pass the GEE!

I wish someone would fund a scientific study of the difference in brain synapses of kids who are constantly engrossed in commercial-broken television programming, video games and movies compared with those of healthy individuals who are not entangled with media! There must be a difference! Of course finding enough kids to participate in a random sample who are not glutted with media and simple minded public school classes would be hard to find.

EXODUS EXODUS EXODUS I still say. If you love them, get them out of public school. If you're not walking the halls daily of your child's public school then you have no idea what you're child is facing. The pressures to conform to evil are huge and the education is worse than second rate. It is pitiful. Children today would be better off with grandma than in public school. Internet and educational video school is much better and more coherent than public school. So let the Leaps begin - again and again and again on its roller coaster, parent placating ride. LIES, the central purpose and profession of state and federal boards of education.

HOMO SCHOOLS

Want your kids to think same-sex relationships are 'normal'? Then keep them in public school. The following has already been distributed!

"Homosexual activists are making significant inroads in US schools, as a booklet titled, "Just the Facts about Sexual Orientation and Youth," is set to be distributed to all 16,000 school districts in the country.

The 24-page booklet by the National Education Association and American Psychological Association, tells students that homosexuality is a "normal expression of human sexuality".

"What’s so scary and dogmatic about this report is that it communicates that religious-based viewpoints are harmful, and even dangerous," said Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action.

The booklet particularly targets the idea that homosexuality is a condition that can be changed. It instructs educators, "Schools should be careful to avoid discussions of transformational ministry in their curriculum."

Brian Raum, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said that the talk of "inclusivity" in schools by homosexual groups is a veiled threat.

"What they’re trying to do is create a fear factor here," he said. "There’s nothing in the Constitution that would prohibit a teacher from presenting to a student all of the programs that are available, without endorsing or promoting any particular one."

The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, (NARTH) says that although "the aim of gay-affirmative counselling programs is humanitarian", the problem is that they do "much more" than discouraging scapegoating.

"In reality, they promote a particular worldview," present students with a set of "truth-claims that students are expected to adopt," and insist on conformity to these.

"These programs promote the value systems of a particular social group and denigrate the views of another, while at the same time, distorting science."


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AMERICA THE BORED!

By Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority, a new report shows.
Instructors tend to be more focused on their own faculty research than teaching younger students, who in turn are more tuned in to their social lives, according to the report, based on a book titled Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Findings are based on transcripts and surveys of more than 3,000 full-time traditional-age students on 29 campuses nationwide, along with their results on the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test that gauges students' critical thinking, analytic reasoning and writing skills.

After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.

Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows.

"These are really kind of shocking, disturbing numbers," says New York University professor Richard Arum, lead author of the book, published by the University of Chicago Press.

He noted that students in the study, on average, earned a 3.2 grade-point average. "Students are able to navigate through the system quite well with little effort," Arum said.


COLLEGE: Can students learn as well on iPads, e-books?

The Department of Education and Congress in recent years have looked for ways to hold colleges and universities accountable for student learning, but researchers say that federal intervention would be counterproductive.

"We can hope that the (new research) encourages rather than discourages college faculty to learn more about what works in terms of fostering higher levels of student learning," said George Kuh of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University.

Charles Blaich, director of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, used by 130 private colleges to improve education quality, said he thinks colleges are aware of the shortcomings but are trying to improve.

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that schools are blind to this," he said.

Other details in the research:

•35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone. Yet, despite an "ever-growing emphasis" on study groups and collaborative projects, students who study in groups tend to have lower gains in learning.

•50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages; 32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.