Tearing off the scab

“In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church, it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.”
― John Taylor Gatto

As of today, North Carolina schools will be closed for at least the next two weeks due to coronavirus concerns, per order from Gov. Roy Cooper. You heard that right, the Church of Secular Theocracy won’t have their mandatory worship services for a while, folks. Predictably, the PC congregants are losing their minds.

Parents: “Whose going to watch my children if I can’t get off work (presuming the people asking this question even have jobs)? Who’s going to feed them? I don’t know how to be a teacher (say the moms and dads who taught their children to walk and talk, use utensils, be potty-trained, dress themselves, and brush their own teeth). Plus, do I even want to be with my kids for two weeks straight … or more? They already drive me crazy!”

The brilliant minds at the satirical Babylon Bee nailed it when they ran this story below. It accounts the “worry, fear, and shock” that some parents are experiencing at the mere thought of public schools not doing the parenting.

Then you have the grandparents who are guardians of their children’s children. In fact, the NC State Health Director was initially not recommending school closure specifically because “40% of kids in the state get childcare from their grandparents,” which could potentially put “thousands of older North Carolinians at higher risk.” As always, school policy caters to those deemed “economically disadvantaged,” and the rest of us pay for it, literally and figuratively.

Educrats: “Who’s going to ‘educate’ the kids? Who’s going to prep them for the (subsidy-generating) end-of-year standardized testing? Who’s going to feed the ‘poor’ students? We must address these pressing ‘equity issues!'”

In fact, it was the “free and reduced-price lunches” that caused so much hand-wringing and a delay in school cancellation in Seattle, where 19 of the first 22 American coronavirus deaths occurred. Sure, we can expose the kids to a hazardous novel virus, but deny them “access” to an unhealthy meal at the taxpayers’ expense? Never!!

https://youtu.be/PynXYF0x1QY

“Schools are a critical lifeline for many students, especially children from low-income homes,” remarks Education Lab (which is not surprisingly funded by a grant from the left-wing Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). “Families rely on schools for hot meals – sometimes three a day – care before and after school, and in some cases, basic medical care from school nurses or medical professionals at clinics on school grounds.” Sad.

In other words, schools are warm and cuddly just like family … well, at least until that racist coronavirus came onto the scene. We shouldn’t be surprised that this social-justice sociopathy is born of the same school district that claims math is used to “disenfranchise people and communities of color.”

In New Orleans, a whopping 84% of government-school students qualify for “free and reduced-price lunches.” That’s a whole lotta soy-filled processed food to dish out to a population of kids who tend to be overweight yet somehow still “don’t get enough to eat.” After all, researchers say that people with hypertension and/or other factors which hasten high-blood pressure (read: being overweight) are more prone to complications if they contract coronavirus.

Back in NC, Forsyth County plans to have school “cafeteria sites” open for breakfast and lunch as to provide “access” to meals. What’s the point of social distancing if you’re still sending kids into a public setting? Doesn’t sound much like “student and staff health and safety [are] priority one.”

This is similar to Guilford County‘s original “hybrid” plan of keeping schools open for 25% of the “vulnerable” student body who are reported to have no home internet and/or live in group homes and shelters. They are “at risk of losing support if the schools closed.”

Do these progressives really think spending a quarter million dollars on hand sanitizer, soap, and cleaning solutions is going to protect children, or $3 million on tablets and iPads is going to educate a population of students who have no parental oversight? These are the kids who supposedly have caregivers who can’t even pour them a bowl of cereal, remember? Me thinks they’re more concerned about creating future big-gubmint voters than they are truly nourishing mind and body.

The superintendent actually said that bus drivers and food service workers “are a parent of our children” … and “would not go without pay.” Sounds to me like the educrats want to incur the full administrative costs of keeping classrooms, busing, and meals going for only a quarter of students in order to keep up the sham that is government schooling and the undermining of the family. And if people’s lives are put at risk, so be it. They’ve got make-work issues and indoctrination schedules to deal with, y’all!

Although some restaurants are stepping up to offer foods to the kiddos, the NC Department of Public Instruction “received waiver approval from the US Department of Agriculture” to “serve meals through the National School Lunch Program’s Seamless Summer Option or the Summer Food Service Program ‘in a noncongregate setting.'” Translation: More fatty “free” meals to students whose caregiver already gets an EBT card? Sure! But social distancing? Nah.

“This is a lesson for all us about making sure we invest in the infrastructure,” lectures the Guilford superintendent in true educrat-ese. That’s just s a fancy way of saying “Oh, we will get our money come hell or high water … or deadly virus. Oh, we will have your children as a captive audience for a progressive programming.” The 25% plan really equals day care at $50,000+ per teacher, who should have been ecstatic by the hybrid plan since it would’ve given them the small class sizes they claim would ensure learning to take place.

“God bless the teachers,” wrote one homeschool mom I know. I say, curse the wretched system that puts kids in danger on a daily basis, spiritually, mentally, and physically. And don’t forget that these are the very same hypocrites who are more than willing to shut the classroom doors (and “access” to “healthy meals” and “technology”) when they push students to skip school in order to attend an anti-gun rally.

I was chatting with a neighbor who is a high-up admin for our county schools, and even she remarked, “Maybe people could feed their kids if they didn’t buy $300 shoes.” Yep. It’s all such a ruse.

Moreover, the perpetual day-care aspect of modern schooling promotes the destruction of the nuclear family. It “kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents,” explained John Taylor Gatto, the two-time New York teacher of the year whom I’ve cited many times before.

“No large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of ‘school’ to include family as the main engine of education,” Gatto wrote in “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.”

He continued, “If we use schooling to break children away from parents – and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose of Massachusetts schools in 1850 – we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now.”

I pray the school closures last in perpetuity, not because I want people to suffer, but because I want families to thrive. I pray parents realize the gift that is being the main teacher in their child’s life, and that they realize just how capable they really are for that God-given role. I pray that parents and children cherish this time with one another.

I pray that working women who are forced back into their homes stay home. I pray that single moms find a stable “father” (hopefully the bio dad) to help rear their children. I pray that parents step up to the plate and allow their kids’ grandparents to be grandparents, not the main caregiver of their child. I pray people see this as an opportunity to chart a different course.

“Those who send their children to public schools registered their displeasure at the government for not doing its main job of indoctrinating their children, even temporarily,” the Babylon Bee quipped. But they have a point, considering that last night Joe Biden said in the Dem debate, “12 years of public school is not enough for the 21st century. We need 16 years.”

“How will students learn in spite of public school closures?” ask the masses. Rather, the question should be, “What will your children learn precisely because of school closures.” It’s a golden opportunity to reconnect, and quality learning materials are literally at your fingertips. Cut out the middle man. You got this.

I think this viral, political, and social crisis will make abundantly clear the festering infection that is government “education.” Let’s tear off the scab. It may hurt at first, but it really is the healthy thing to do. I promise, it’ll be a good time.

Be sure to check out “America’s sickness, part 1,” my followup about the other nasty scabs I think will be ripped off as a result of the coronavirus.