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Just How Bad Are Our Schools?
 
by Joseph Farah (*)
 
from The Washington Times, Sept. 10, 2007
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Everyone is having a good belly laugh at the expense of
Lauren Caitlin Upton, the contestant in the Miss Teen USA
Pageant who imploded in a painful display of verbal and
intellectual chaos in response to a question about
geographically challenged Americans.
 
While everyone is fixated on her bumbling, no one has
taken time to answer the question the way it needs to be
answered.
 
“Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t
locate the U.S. on a world map.  Why do you think this is?”
 
How would a product of the government school system to
blame for this travesty be expected to diagnose the problem?
 
No, it’s not a map shortage, as Upton surmised.
 
It’s not a problem in South Africa or Iraq, as she hinted.
 
In effect, the contestant herself illustrated the problem --
personified it.  And it’s not limited to geographic illiteracy. 
It is a crisis of ignorance afflicting generations of younger
Americans.
 
Unfortunately, it is not a laughing matter.
 
I wouldn’t be surprised if Miss Upton is among the top
10 percent of 18-year-old Americans in general education
and communication skills.  That’s a scary thought.
 
Miss Upton completed her government schooling and
received high grades -- a 3.5 GPA.  An honor student,
she completed all the qualifications and did so admirably. 
She didn’t finish at the bottom of the class or even in
the middle.  She finished at the top.
 
Was her inability to answer the question coherently just
the result of a temporary mental meltdown?  Or do you
suspect, as I do, that few if any of her classmates
would have been able to do much better?
 
Geography?  I doubt Miss Upton and her classmates are
even familiar with the word, let alone the subject.  It was
dropped by government schools decades ago.  Why? 
Because knowledge of geography can easily be measured,
it is important, it can equip students to think for themselves,
it is essential for good citizenship.  Government schools
don’t like teaching it for all of those reasons.
 
I’m convinced the purpose of government schooling is to
dumb down the populace and turn them into serfs and
subjects rather than citizens capable of reason and equipped
with a sense of morality.
 
Why can’t so many Americans pick out the United States
on a map of the world?  Why can’t Miss Upton and her
friends answer the question?
 
This is what they’ve been programmed to do -- or not
to do.
 
What’s the solution?
 
It certainly isn’t stay in school.
 
It certainly isn’t more of the same.  It certainly isn’t
spending more taxpayer dollars on the problem.
 
The solution is obvious, though only a few million
Americans have figured it out.  The solution is to drop out. 
It’s time for parents to wake up and do what is in the
best interest of their kids -- pull them out of these horrible
institutions of non-learning.
 
Think about what does go on inside those hollow halls.
 
=>  Kids are taught techniques of aberrant sexual behavior.
 
=>  They are taught in a million ways that God is irrelevant
to their education.
 
=>  The are taught pseudo-science cloaked in the “good
citizenship” of environmentalism.
 
=>  And they are intentionally denied the basic tools of
self-government -- knowledge of history, geography, and
good reading and learning habits.
 
In days gone by, we would convince each other the way to
respond to the problems we see in American society is to
“get involved.”  We would persuade our family members,
friends and neighbors to vote, join the PTA, to work on
behalf of some politician, to give money to a political
campaign.
 
The bad news is those methods don’t work anymore. 
We’re in such an advanced state of cultural and political
decay that our efforts will only leave us disenchanted,
discouraged and demoralized.  The good news is there’s
perhaps an easier way to achieve our objectives.  We
need to do what the Russians did when they ended 70
years of Soviet oppression.  We need to just say no.
 
Saying no means pulling your kids out of those
brainwashing hubs.  Imagine what would happen if several
hundred thousand parents did that this year -- joining the
growing millions who have already made that choice.  Not
only will you bring direct benefits to your kids --
protecting them and providing them with the chance for a
real education -- but you will also be dropping out of the
system, becoming part of the solution rather than part of
the problem.
 
Homeschooling is the best option.  The next best choice
is a worthy private institution.  The important thing is getting
your kids out of the grip of these government institutions
of non-learning.  Stop pretending.  It will be the best choice
you ever made for your children.
 
There are a thousand reasons for this decision.  Think of the
recently concluded Miss Teen USA Pageant as 1,001.
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The Washington Times National Weekly Edition
(ISSN 1076-562X) is published weekly at 3600 New York Ave.,
N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002 © 2007 News World
Communications, Inc., 3600 New York Ave., N.E., Washington,
D.C. 2000.  Subscription price $59.95 per year. 
Internet Web Site: http://www.washingtontimes.com/
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(*) Joseph Farah is a nationally syndicated columnist, Editor and
CEO of WorldNetDaily.com.
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