The proper business of schools, as delegated by parents and other taxpayers, is the teaching and learning of beneficial knowledge and skills.  But teacher unions, especially the National Education Association (NEA) and its state and local chapters, have long had other ideas....

"We will need to recognize that the so-called 'basic skills, which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one quarter of the school day.  The remaining time will be devoted to what is truly fundamental and basic." (Catherine Barrett, National Education Association [teacher union] President, 1972.)

 

So what educational essentials were to be considered as "truly fundamental and basic"? 

The NEA ANSWER:  "[S]chools are becoming 'clinics' whose purpose is to provide individualized psychosocial 'treatment' for the student, thus increasing his value both to himself and to society." (“Forecast for the ’70s,” Today’s Education [NEA's newsletter], January 1969).  They meant — and still mean —their version of society.

It's happening today, with everything from LGBTQ grooming of kindergarteners, to 4th/5th grade "PRISM Clubs," to "Gender-Sexuality Alliances" in middle and high schools, to depraved pornography in high school libraries (and increasingly in middle-school libraries) because "kids need to see themselves" there.  

So schools, which have been delegated by parents and other taxpayers with teaching and children's learning of beneficial knowledge and skills, have instead usurped parental authority and family values.

 

SRVUSD now has its very own "Wellness Centers," allegedly to "focus on social emotional learning."  But one wonders:  to what extent have the schools become the CAUSE of mental illness in the young people the District. To what degree has SRVUSD behavior diminished the natural resilience and optimism and joie de vivre of youth?
 

 

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