Public - Parochial (Part 2)

On the Highway to Heaven headed the wrong way! Did we miss the sign that said "repent and turn"? If Jesus thought the people of His day were spiritual babies, fit only for bottle feeding and not yet ready for real meat; what must He think of us in today's culture? The people of His time were educated, smart, tough, stalwart, hard workers, strong and courageous! The kids and parents of today have taken on the "Great American Posture" of looking down - screen-watching, all kinds of them! It should be termed the wussification of America; pumped up and functioning on chemicals (excuse me, I meant 'meds', legal, of course)so that they are walking hormones! Instead of ink pens we have inked skin; we're tanned by light bulbs rather than good ole sunshine and outdoor work. We even have the audacity, knowing all the screen hopping that we, ourselves, and our children are exposed to, to wonder why kids don't listen in school anymore much less listen to their parents. If they don't listen at home they are not going to listen at school. To the parents of children with deficient learning accomplishments and interests please consider first their home life. If there are no major flaws there, then try removing them from our notoriously, fundamentally flawed school system. We have seen change over the last few years, but it is not positive change. It is not a healing change. We now live in a fundamentally flawed and perverse environment perpetrated by all kinds of media. The next step in improving your child's educational possibilities is to smash (or sell) your television set. How much do you love them? More than yourself? Then get rid of the elephant in the room - the mouth of perversity that is trashing our paradise. Then you can begin to repair the damage, teaching children self-respect, self-discipline, self-reliance and responsibility. It will be much easier because you have smashed the mouth of idiocy and the psycho-babble of self-esteem! I would ask the perpetrators and participants fretting over children's self-esteem; how's that working out for you? Telling children how cutsie wootsie they are, never allowing them to fail and reducing even the chance for consequences for bad behavior is not going to help children become successful students or adults. This mentality only contributes to the teenage wasteland (literally) that traditional schools have become. If you haven't noticed, America has already become "fundamentally changed" forever!