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COMMENTARY • December 2005 |
Outrage: Public schools busing students to anti-Bush rally
By Katharine DeBrecht
CHRISTIAN EXAMINER- Opinion |
For years parents have been frustrated with the barrage of left-wing claptrap thrown at our children in public schools.
On Nov. 6 we saw yet another example. Teachers in 10 high schools in the Los Angeles area—schools that are among the lowest ranked in the nation when it comes to basic reading and math skills—bused more than 800 students to participate in an anti-Bush rally sponsored by a group calling itself “The World Can’t Wait—Drive out the Bush Regime.”
With the use of taxpayer dollars, staff, school police and youth relations personnel accompanied the students to the event on public school buses.
Instead of being in chemistry class, students waved protest signs; when they were tired, some went home for the day instead of back to class. Not only were these teachers and administrators ignoring their duty to teach children, but they also encouraged them to skip school to attend the rally.
Apparently using these children as political pawns was more important than English class. And we wonder why American children are ranked behind so many other nations in utterly every scholastic criterion that matters?
This is another blatant example of how liberals have taken over our public schools and turned them into hotbeds of left-wing activism. In just the past few weeks we have heard how a public school in Lexington, Mass. forces kindergartners to read pro-gay marriage books and how judges have banned the Pledge of Allegiance from schools in Sacramento, Calif.
Instead of teaching scientific method, students now learn environmental “junk science.”
Instead of learning of the glories of the Constitution, they’re told what horrible men our Founding Fathers were; instead of reading the classics, they learn about gay marriage and condom usage.
For the liberals who control the public schools, education has nothing whatsoever to do with preparing children to live in a complex and challenging world. Instead, it’s about turning them into “social justice” advocates—albeit ones so lacking in basic math, reading and critical-thinking skills, that many end up government dependents—all done courtesy of the taxpayer, who is receiving exactly nothing for their investment, except the questionable excitement of watching countries like China and India leap ahead of the United States in terms of innovation and scientific achievement.
Mr. Romer, you should have the decency to resign your post as superintendent of schools for the Los Angeles Unified School District, not only for allowing teachers and administrators to encourage children to become truants, but using taxpayer dollars to send these children to a biased rally.
Some schools in Kentucky have considered going to a four-day school week to save taxpayer dollars from high gasoline prices. In the interest of full disclosure, Mr. Romer, how about letting us see the costs for the buses, personnel and staff for this little field trip?
Katharine DeBrecht is mom, homemaker and author of “Help Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!”
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