There is absolutely no doubt the emotional impact of schools being closed, and the social disconnect created upon children, is severely damaging to their spiritual and mental health [STATS HERE]. Last week with the help of John Spiropoulos we posted a ground report on the Women of Watts rally.
John has produced three more spots (video’s below), each profiling different parents or grandparents at the rally. In addition John provided the footage to the Women of Watts to help them spread the word and raise money. John’s goal was to increase awareness, make these stories more than a 15 second soundbite, and to allow people to tell their story.
To understand just how devastating the outcomes are upon our nation’s children, consider this emotional plea from Leo Terrell. His tears are actually tears of strength, not weakness, because Terrell knows what horrific outcomes will manifest if we do not immediately make returning to school a priority for our kids.
In my personal opinion this emotional and education crisis is purposeful to the efforts of the far-left. If they can destroy the emotional and intellectual functioning of a generation through the exploitation of COVID, their efforts to fundamentally change the U.S. will be enhanced by creating weaker citizens who are more dependent on outside solutions to their struggles.
COVID today is a problem, but the COVID consequences in the subsequent years will surface as the fabric of a tenuous society becomes even more fractured around class/income lines. The creation of a dependency (slave) class, is a fundamental objective of the Fabian Socialist worldview. Elites who make decisions for those who cannot be self sufficient is always the goal of the communist utopia.
Think ‘big picture’ and you can see how this pebble in our societal shoe today will become an extremely destructive boulder on the backs of the American way of life in the years ahead. Do not view this current situation as a small problem; they are doing this by specific design. STAND and fight. /SD
The CDC reports a Dramatic Increase in Mental Health Issues among children. November 13, 2020) The proportion of child mental health visits to Emergency Rooms dramatically increased from March through October 2020 over the same period in 2019.
- The share of mental health-related hospital emergency department visits rose 24% for children 5-11 compared to the same time period the previous year
- The share of mental health-related hospital emergency department visits increased 31% for adolescents age 12 to 17 compared to the same time period the previous year.
- While there were in increases for both males and females, female cases were far higher than male cases.
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At a Women of Watts rally in mid-March Cassandra Jones, a nurse and mother of two, says her daughters are falling behind because of virtual education. She wants the LA Public Schools open now for live, in-class instruction.
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Parent groups in Los Angeles have been staging protests, demanding that the city’s public schools be re-opened for live in-class instruction. This report spotlights a rally in Watts featuring Berdadelle Watson whose son is a senior in high school.
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John Spiropoulos provides supportive information: This article reports on a survey of emotional distress among young people. “More Young People Are Depressed During the Pandemic. But They May Be Using Social Media to Cope.” Here’s where to read the full study.
There’s more evidence of emotional distress in this nationwide survey of students. Here are some of the findings:
- 64 percent of students overall reported experiencing distractions at home that interfered with schoolwork, and half said feelings of stress, depression and anxiety made online learning difficult.
- Female students and those who identify another way were more likely to report depression, stress and anxiety as obstacles to learning than male students.
- Feeling depressed, stressed, or anxious has risen to the number one obstacle to learning. Hispanic or Latinx, multiracial, and Black or African American students faced more obstacles on average than did white or Asian students.
You can find the full survey results here.
The Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reports an increase in suicidal behavior during the COVID-19 closures than in 2019. Here is a link to the study cited in the AAP report. While the pandemic increased depression and thoughts of suicide, teen suicides have been on the upswing several years according to this report titled Youth Suicide: The Other Public Health Crisis.
Each suicide is a tragedy. There is a story behind each one and, hopefully, a lesson to be learned.
- The Washington Post reports “one in 4 young adults have struggled with suicidal thoughts since the coronavirus hit, CDC says. “I could see the storm coming,” says a father from Richland,Washington.
- When we adults look at young people, we think they have everything to live for. That certainly would be the case for Dylan Buckner, an 18 year old star high school quarterback in suburban Chicago. But he suffered from depression before the pandemic hit. Then things got worse. Here’s the a report from NBC News Chicago.
- One school superintendent in California upon hearing of a suicide of a student in his district said “One of my biggest worries I had with the shelter-in-place order, was the social-emotional effect it’s going to have on so many people. In particular, my job is to really worry about students and their parents.” Unfortunately, the worst happened.
If school districts had refused to pay teachers for staying home these kids would have been back to school last September!
Unions and government are married to each other. They are both swamp creatures.
Just PARASITES! Serve no useful function. Thugs.
Paying the socialist teachers to be socialist operatives…
demonRATS exist to murder and destroy humans.
But but but that would have choked the NEA unions’ contributions to Dem campaigns! No way that’s gonna be allowed.
This is such a scam. My kids have been in school FT since August and no teachers, students, staff are dropping dead or even getting particularly sick. There have been “positive” COVID tests but nobody is even sick when positive. Only one person – a 28 year old teacher reported flu like symptoms with their COVID.
My kids attend parochial school – Catholic schools all over the country have been open since August and no great outbreaks or anything else.
Doesn’t Gavin Newsom send his kids to private schools while keeping the public schools shut-down in CA?
Same here in my suburb of Cleveland. Kids have attended our local Catholic school since August without one incidence of COVID. No teachers or students have gotten it. They attend Mass once a week together, have gym, eat lunch in the cafeteria, and are ready to complete the school year at the end of May. The public schools that refuse to have kids return to school owe parents a check for their taxes as well as compensation for pain and suffering!
Similar feelings. I humbly submit we stop calling them public schools and start calling them government schools or union schools. Highlight the difference by highlighting the problem.
Neal Boortz named them government schools over a decade ago. Rightly so.
Very interesting comment Silentmenagerie.
I am torn on this issue because from what I have seen amongst the public schools many of them seem to do a lot more damage than they do good.
So I wonder if these parents who are so organized and working so hard to re-open these government schools could not be actually helping their children by organizing and starting their own type of private schooling.
It seems that these kids are suffering more from some kind of socialization than they are education.
The Amish community near us have their own schools and their children thrive.
We have several private schools here also and the kids are fine as to the covid problem and the schools are also open.
Parents are possible too programed as to having the government solve all of their problems.
The teacher’s unions have poisoned the entire school system
It is broken beyond repair
Kids need to be out of the public school system. It’s working against them
The Mennonites used to offer a very affordable, positive homeschool curriculum that could be bought through Rod&Staff Publications
Or Democrat Party schools.
Correct, The Catholic schools here in WNY have been open full time since Sept. including the Catholic H Schools. No huge outbreaks or illnesses. Same with a private school for the Deaf. They are open 4 days and have been since Sept. There have been a few positive cases but no complete shutdowns there either. Students can learn remotely and there are some resident students who stay at the school full time M-F. Andy Cuomo left the private schools alone because he had to. The differences in the public and private schools are amazing to see.
Closing the schools, especially the inner city schools, hurts those poor students much more than covid does. What they have lost is immeasurable. Cuomo still has not given the word to open fully and the public teacher’s unions around the state keep putting up roadblocks also. Sad for those kids left out.
The schools work against the kids when they are open
The public school system is so broken thanks to unions
There’s no fixing it
The unions represent a voting bloc for the powerful.
They also use the schools to indoctrinate and keep children from learning
The churches need to open schools and save the poor from the prison if public school
Many of the churches have been corrupted but some must still be encouraged to open schools
May children have been in school also since August and they and all the students are fine. It’s public school, we want to take them out when they get to 5th grade, for Christian academies.
Some asinine policies such as mask wearing still going on. I refuse to wear it when I pick them up. The school finally opened the playground for students which is a plus I guess.
I’m glad to hear you”ll be sending them to other schools at fifth grade
The public school system has been corrupted by the unions
It is far worse than people understand
There are many public schools teachers in anntiffa
It is that bad
43 nations are participating in the Great Barrington Declaration.
Signatures
As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.concerned citizens
767,699
medical & public health scientists
13,838
medical practitioners
42,062
FTA: Knut Witkowski was referring to this declaration that was supposedly signed by more than 1 million medical professionals. https://gbdeclaration.org/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/truth-about-lockdowns/
MaineCoon,
I posted the link below to the Great Barrington Declaration.
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I AM A SIGNER.
Genesis 3:19. By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread:
I tell everyone I see that there are going to be catastrophic consequences as a result of everyone sitting around on their asses. Such as No education, No new families, Business collapsing, Wall Street crashing, Famine.
In my opinion, this is the goal.
Yes. Great Reset — socialism/communism…rely on a totalitarian gubmint.
I have a small house in another country. I will be retiring there,
using my roof to grow veggies, chickens, dwarf fruit trees, etc. Can share with poor neighbors as well. The lockdowns DEVASTATED them. And their govt DOES NOT CARE.
ACTUALLY, it’s POPULATION CONTROL,in disguise. Kinda like Cuomo, etc al, and all those expensive seniors on Medicaid, eating up that budget that could be spent bribing cronies.
Exactly…..we’re seeing Obama’s “death panels” being played out.
But they don’t believe you, do they? That is what I am finding.
In Los Angeles and LA County, and, still, throughout CA, many government offices remain closed, with no in-person services provided. The state literally closed up shop a year ago and went home.
Single party rule is crushing California.
And watch taxes go up.
And NT ONE govt employee, paid for by taxpayers, has lost even ONE PAYCHECK OR BENEFIT, AND…. They have no shame, no empathy, no compassion, no integrity, nothing. The lowest caliber of employee on this earth…
Gov’t employees.
But all the Los Angeles and LA County and CA employees sent home all got paid is my guess! Why would any of them hurry back to work?
And I blame those school teachers who have taken the money and not done their job. They all need to be fired. And then find some “old-fashioned” teachers who want to teach real history, real civics and real science. It’s time parents stood up to this tyranny if they care about their children. Whatever it takes.
They are OUR EMPLOYEES, NOT OUR MASTERS. Damn better make surevth at they understand that, with force to back it up.
People fire them by taking kids out of the public school system
The unions gave ruined the schools
If people did that
They’d lose their power
Trust me, no one should have these people bear any kids
Let’s do data:
One of the local districts —
https://www.hisd.com/Page/8787
Statewide schools —
https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/schools/texas-education-agency/
Scroll down on that page. There are links to more numbers if you want to better see trends and granularity.
School kids and teachers in Texas are not on their way to extinction. Thank you very much.
Concerning public schools…
“Everyday all across this nation Conservatives willingly give up their children to their enemy”
You nailed it. The “schools” are commie indoctrination, and they are THEIR skools, not yours. Those “teachers” hold parents and the kids in utter contempt, plus most of them, although convinced of their own moral and intellectual superiority, are abysmally ignorant and petty. Ugh. Homeschooling was the best thing I ever did, and am so sorry I ever had my kids in them. Go private, coop or homeschool. Easier now than ever before. Too much “social media”, communism, and atheism is behind a lot of this teen suicide, etc.
“Those “teachers” hold parents and the kids in utter contempt, plus most of them, although convinced of their own moral and intellectual superiority, are abysmally ignorant and petty. Ugh.“
There is one silver lining. These smug self-righteous teachers are assisting in their own demise.
As this progresses, it becomes clear that there are better ways of maximizing on-line strategies with lower paid class room managers. It is inevitable and COVD is just speeding it along. The kids will have global access to excellent teachers who can actually teach. No more warehousing kids with one-size fits. The current crisis will usher in a plethora of new ways of learning. It is actually very exciting.
Not saying what is happening now is not a travesty, just that I think long term many good things will come out of this… one of which will be the end of lame, uneducated teachers.
Many public school teachers are in anttifffa
Amen, don’t send kids back to these awful Schools. Lets take advantage of the situation.
This is what I do not understand “plane of the ecliptic”.
So many of these schools are down right awful.
Why in the world would parents want to send the kids back.
Are the parents tired of having them around all day?
These parents on the video and the leaders of the community speaking use the stats of the depression and the suicides of the teens deprived of school?
But are these kids upset because they can not get to their math and science classes?
Really, I remember back to those days and I have teen grand kids and most of them get upset when they can not get out of the house and socialize with their friends.
I think the kids are missing socialization not education.
Kids are missing getting out and about just like all of the adults are because of the covid lockdown.
And now it has become useful to some one to use this.
Many of these government schools are horrible and should be shut down for ever.
But now they are being promoted as the saving of the depressed kids.
The saving of America’s Future.
I am not buying it.
Yes and amen. Government education is one of ten planks of Communist Manifesto.
>You nailed it.
Forgot to give credit where credit is due. That is a quote by Michael Malice
These are the same children that will be indoctrinated at another point in time to protest inequities.
Who is standing in the way of education but a leftist government and leftist unions? Who sealed the fate of these children? Who caused the inequities?
The left absolutely ruins, demoralizes, and crushes anything & everything it touches.
Not all of us Dzufast.
“We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.” ― Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
I am a veteran of the classroom. Many diseases came through in my time. AIDS, Hep B, Ebola, all kinds of flu, polio, TB, none of which shut down the schools. The party that professes to “care” so much for the children doesn’t seem to listen to the science when it doesn’t fit their narrative. Children are beginning to play more outdoors since there is no school to attend (virtual is a placeholder at best–those who are successful at virtual education are the self-motivated, upper level functioning students with ample resources available at home. I dare say the majority of teachers had a grand total of 3 hours or less on how to teach remotely. If the kids can “get it” at home by working on canned programs that some teachers are posting online, then those teachers just proved that they have NO WORTH in the educational system.
I realize some teachers are over-anxious about associating with kids who may have been exposed to CoVid. They may also have been exposed to Ebola, dysentary or many other strains of flu.
We have gone from the Greatest Generation to the Laziest Generation. Much of the transformation is due to no fault of their own. When government pays people for doing nothing, they expect to continue doing nothing! I have even heard complaints that the people who stay at home doing nothing should be paid $15/hour. THAT is the height of stupidity! How about $.15/hour? Much more reasonable. Do any of these people realize that you can’t borrow your way into prosperity and that the government can tax no more than 100%. Who will work if the tax rate for those who work is ridiculous and the benefits for the whiners who sit on their brains all day are better?
Why not a million dollars an hour? Why not? If $15 an hr is so doable, why not as much as they want?
The only solution, the only possible solution to our enormous national debt is hyper-inflation. Why are the super-rich so greedy? When a $billion is the equivalent of a $million, no worries, they’ll have the $billions.
They hold out long enough, and virtual will replace them…especially when the counties discover they can subscribe to recorded lectures and on-demand, real-time labs for additional tutelage.
Ever watch the movie Star Wars? Yeah, they made one cut that anyone can watch at any time. Why is it different for math, English, history, etc., if accompanying tutoring is available to help those unable to incorporate the lesson without live assistance?
Same textbook can be used year after year. Well, so can a video. Live assistance could be scheduled or on-demand to support. None of that need be sourced from the home district. Therefore, why the need for a million teachers if 100,000 can handle the virtual load from anywhere in the world?
These people are so stupid, they don’t realize that they are diminishing their value day by day.
This type of inflated, low-value endeavor, is guaranteed to prove itself out of the market. It did with autos (in MX now), appliances (MX), air conditioners (MX), medical devices (MX), etc. ?
I know that globalist corp greed moved manufacturing offshore, but what about the unions?
The counties won’t do that because government employees protect government employees
It’ s an excuse for continuously raising taxes
“It’s for the kids” but the kids get nothing
Taxes in their hands equals power
The very rich realized long ago that government unions are easily controlled voting blocs for them
They are also using these schools for indoctrination
The power of this voting bloc is immense
The only way to stop this is alternatives that are not government connected
Get schools out of these poisonous schools
One has to ask what is the end game for the global communists in keeping public schools closed? Aren’t K-12 their indoctrination centers? Having the kids home with their parents or in front of a computer screen is pretty risky for their brainwashing endeavors.
Then the other head-scratching issue is private schools are open and have been open since September. So the globalist commies are somehow engaged in weeding out the undesirables(let the public school kids kill themselves, less for us to deal with in social problems), and only the well-educated elites will remain. Of course, the private schools are pushing CRT and the left’s agenda as much as the public’s which ensures they will have their bleeding heart self-loathing privileged whites funding them in the future.
I’m not a fan of our entire education system so I see this as an opportunity for parents and children to reconnect and say ‘no’ to government schools. Even if you are a single working parent, you can educate your kid. Sure, it’s a lot of work but keeping them out of the godless hate-filled classrooms is well worth it. Like this one woman said, she got her 17-year old to go on hikes, bike rides, etc. Every parent can do that. It’s not rocket science to learn about science on nature walks, weather, the atmosphere, the earth’s crust, the periodic table. Or Geography . Read a book a week. Outsource algebra and calculus to a tutor.
The only think that is outrageous is the fact that teachers are still getting paid and we are paying taxes for closed schools.
Re: Parents at home being able to watch what is going on online during school…. in Maine, I received this from our local republican hq a couple of days ago:
*****PROHIBITING Parents from listening to online instruction!!!
LD 864 – An Act To Protect Teachers’ Privacy While Delivering Remote Instruction PUBLIC HEARING IS MARCH 31ST AT 1:00 P.M.
SUMMARY: SPONSORED BY WALDO COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE JAN DODGE AND SENATOR CHIP CURRY!! EMAIL THEM YOUR THOUGHTS!
This bill prohibits an unauthorized person from accessing, viewing, listening to, disrupting or otherwise participating in remote instruction for elementary or secondary school students and provides that a student may access the remote instruction only for the purpose intended by the instructor. This bill also prohibits a person from making any audio, video or digital recording of a real-time transmission of remote instruction and prohibits a person from photographing, recording, copying, distributing or retransmitting a recorded session of remote instruction or any part thereof without the express written consent of the public or private school. This bill provides that a violation of these provisions is a civil violation for which a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $500 may be adjudged.
EMAIL: Representative Jan Dodge: [email protected]
Senator Chip Curry: [email protected]
TESTIFY: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/
They are indoctrinating kids. Union teachers are not good people
If people haven’t figured out that the public school is completely corrupt, they need to understand
People needs to start education campaigns
To get the kids out of public school and educate parents as to Alternatives
I agree completely, and am generally NOT a fan of the “do it for the children” causes for two reasons:
First of all, children are very resilient and don’t have to provide for themselves. With some parental love and creativity, kids will be happy – whether in school, or not. On the other hand, adults who have been financially and medically broken are often unable to bounce back. I personally know of several people who suffered mental breaks or committed suicide.
Secondly, every time we must “do it for the children” it ends up benefiting the teachers’ unions and liberal social/environmental programs, at taxpayer expense. Always. The schools in my area are pushing for ridiculous building remodeling, more funding for “programs” and teacher pay hikes – all in the name of Covid.
Like you, I believe most kids would be better off at private schools, or home. It is an opportunity.
One interesting fact about private schools is they are not attended by just the wealthy.
Many of those sending their children to private schools are average income families who have put their children’s education as a very high priority.
They live a way as to manage to “afford” to pay for the school fees.
It is possible we have done it.
My kids are doing it and they are not wealthy.
The media and the entertainment industry loves to make things seem as they are not.
As you say Flova even single parents some how manage to do it, I know several single working mothers who do it now.
But the whole wide world would like to discourage people from accomplishing many things before we even get started.
It is outrageous that we are paying teachers for closed schools.
It is very sad that these parents seem to think that they must cry and beg these schools to re-open.
That their only option to solve their problem is to publicly tear up instead of demand action or just get the job done themselves
I can not imagine what their children must be thinking.
I thank the Lord every day for my strong parents example.
People are also starting co-ops
And trustworthy church must open schools
Some if these teachers are political lobbyists
Some are even anntiffa
They are getting paid to be political operatives for the very rich
One bit of collateral impact the demo-commies had not anticipated is that in State and local municipal areas where the Republicans have a reasonable chance to hold power, it is now open-up or loose your spot at the trough during the 2021 Primaries.
Abbot in Texas still has further to go.
My daughter in Arkansas reports their Governor is even going further than Florida by adding fully open is the requirements, even for private businesses. This happened after President Trump agreed to appear with Sarah Sander at a Primary Rally.
This is the biggest reason for the abandonment of the incumbents in the Gulags of CA, NY. MI, WI and ILL.
union teachers:
never has so much been owned by so few to so many.
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WE have to save ourselves, our elected officials and the unelected bureaucrats do NOT CARE. They are the enemy. Welcome to 1860.
The causes of the War for Southern Indepebdence were rooted in the imposition of unreasonable tariffs from the North, to benefit the urban monied classes at the expense of the working/agriculturural classses in the South.
No appeal to Congress would change this, or move the heart, or inspire a desire for true “union”. The Noth wanted dominance, not fairness, not equality. And it was the Federalist North against the Anti-federalist South.
The players are the same entitled, monied, aristocratic (in their eyes) classes vs. the stupid, deplorable classes. Slavery was AN issue, but not THE issue. Certainly immoral, but on its way out.
And here we are… Again.
My wife receives updates from a medical journal. Guess what is coming next? The mental health pandemic.
I’m so tired of career politicians on both sides self righteously destroying lives while crying they are saving lives.
They are all sick…sick to the core of their souls. Money and power alone motivate these tyrants.
DD
It saddens me to say that after having had stents put in after a “mild” heart attack, and being eternally grateful, to I must admit, excellent service received by the medical folk all round, I now find myself dialing back that “eternal”gratitude drastically – not because I have doubt in their medical skills, but as the supposed “carers” of our society, they unfortunately have shown us all that at the end of the day they suffer the same “ailments” as the rest of us – greed, deception, outright lying, and every other ‘evil” that besets the rest of us. Perhaps this should not surprise us – they are after all “only” human – but somehow I always figured they represented the “higher” stuff in us, like honor, trust, etc etc – the hard stuff.
Medical education is like everything else: dumbed down, standards lowered, run by communist change agents. A fried relays getting a job application from an RN with a Master’s degree. He has a 4 yr degree in Psychology, spent one yr in school and sat for boards, and is now a Master’s prepared RN! This guy never cared for a patient in his life! But an RN with a degree and 30 yrs experience can’t just test out to be a nurse practitioner. What a joke. Healthcare is run by crats and suits.
Unfortunately I am learning that the medical establishment is just as corrupt as the “regular” establishment. I have been reading books written by doctors who say exactly that. Doctors are not the same as they were 30-40 years ago. Now they are part of a cabal who is in on the scam.
I saw this firsthand when President Trump came out for HCQ for Covid. The establishment went nuts and all of a sudden a study emerged from the Lancet debunking what Trump had said. I read the study – three words caught my attention “touted by Trump.” What legitimate study would include those words in an official study? None. I sent a letter to the editor about this and received an email stating that the newspaper goes by science and the Lancet is beyond reproach. The very next day, the Lancet withdrew the study proving I was right. I sent another email to the editor gloating about this and stating that I was correct in everything I said.
It’s not only the doctors, it’s Big Pharma, studies done by Big Pharma pushing Big Pharma. And the doctors have to kowtow to the party line or they are ostracized or fired.
Two people behind that fraudulent study work for brigham and womens hospital in boston
One is a medical director in the heart department
Two on the study are foreign nationals
They lied
It is that simple
They did it for the political interests of the wealthy
But they still have their positions
Could you imagine being treated by corrupt individuals like that?
The public doesn’t know
Look up the backgrounds of the four involved in that scam
Exactly. The medical establishment has been corrupted. There are very few private practice doctors in America anymore, less than 30%. Most work for medical establishments like Promedica who dictate how they practice medicine….or else.
No worries! The pharmaceutical companies will have dozens of pills on the market to treat all of it!
Adolescent females are having far more mental health problems than males.
That’s been evident for some time. Look at the makeup of the emotionally disturbed people who take to the streets for Antifa and BLM: it’s middle-class white women with bizarre leftist educations, educations that can’t be corrected or reversed.
Frankly, young men will amuse themselves with sports or pornography, drinking beer or chasing girls. (Dennis Prager says the only thing saving some young people from leftist brainwashing in college is that they’re drunk most of the time). But young women need more: a truly challenging career, or family, or religion. The Left wants the last two (at least) denied to them.
Gavin Newsom is sending his child to private school, while keeping the public schools closed. That is not just mundane hypocrisy, that is the Left’s plan for America. No more upward mobility. Neo-feudalism. A small ruling class governing an ignorant mass, made submissive by a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
The Nancy Pelosis and Gavin Newsoms are amazed they are getting away with this. That’s why the razor wire around the Capitol. That’s why the talk of reparations to blacks. Why oh why do black Americans put up with such abuse and indifference from the Party they support so faithfully?
#obamagate
I never thought that I’d like Leo Terrell. For years I turned the channel when I’d see him on a news show.
He’s been making a lot of sense in the last few years though. He tells it like it is.
I have come to truly love Leo. I believe that he had a spiritual renovation, not a political one. It manifests in the political, but the true root is much deeper. I believe his heart has been captured by Jesus Christ.
Now he sees with new eyes, and it’s energizing him and breaking him, all at the same time.
Even the doctors are coming in force, from the Great Barrington Declaration…
https://gbdeclaration.org/
If more people were sense able and though thru life issues they would come to better conclusions. Having God in your life makes a difference because you are free to think on what is really important more than just you. Having a family and thinking of their welfare makes a differences to kids. Children need guidance,love, and affection along with a structure for a balance life. Covid made it worst and they planned on the out come. We know that children are basically not affected with covid yet they continue to push that lie!
I wish we could know the actual number of deaths from COVID – after deducting those who died with covid (as determined by an accurate test). And then I wonder how many of those deaths could have been prevented by drugs we already had such as hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, etc. that the government irrationally banned. In other words – if not for the politicalization of COVID how many really would have died from the disease? I’m thinking if we knew this then it would have been much more difficult for the left to sell us the lockdown which I suspect is the lefts attempt to beat us into The Great Reset. In fact some politicians have actually said that COVID makes it easier to transition to The Great Reset. Justin Trudeau is one of them.
Looking at data mainly derived from European countries (not sure how available or accurate US data is) (possibly State would be a better attempt), it is apparent from the overall excess mortality – that is mortalities that appear above the “baseline” of known deaths per year (measured over decades), and adjusted for population growth, and age, there is NO dramatic increase in ANY of the countries measured – in fact there are years previous that are higher. I would venture that although we are keeping people alive for longer due to drug advances, in general our populations are becoming more and more unhealthy at an alarming rate. If it weren’t for the advances in drug and medical, we’d be dying like flies.
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” —Perth, Scotland, 28 May 1948, in Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948(London: Cassell, 1950), 347.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” —House of Commons, 22 October 1945.
Yesterday I read The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille. He went there for his reasearch and he depicts a country of people with no incentive. No matter what they do…or don’t do…they make $20/month. Well…except for those at the top – they got rich.
Loosely spoken, from Wikipedia:
A generation is reported to be a time frame of when children are born, grow up, become young ‘adults’ and start to have children…about 20-30 years
IMHO, this is by design. The generation of young, college kids, took a huge hit during the Transformational (sarc/, years from 2008-2016). A lot of college kids had to drop out for lack of funds. Many families lost their homes and there were no jobs for the parents or the kids/young adults.
Now, the younger generation has been targeted. We have roughly two generations of American children-teens and young adults, that have been left to flounder. 2017-2021 offered hope. Honest hope and I hate that word hope but there is no other descriptive for it…people were moving forward economically. The future was looking bright. We know that in spite of all attempts to bring our POTUS down, the current situation was bright.
The well heeled will continue on as if nothing has happened but the average family and their children? Not so much.
With the indoctrination in the classroom, their future is dismal. Depressing, as the statistics show. Dismal for all of us (middle class, in varying age groups), unless something changes—as these kids who have been used, approach their so called productive years.
Will they get jobs, based on high school Zoom learning? Will they be allowed to go to college or trade school? Our ‘collective’ future is no longer bright.
Leo Terrell a black man who really cares about black children their mental health, their education and their well being as opposed to the faux concern for inner city black children like race hustlers like Sharpton, Jackson and Democrats! How real and moving was Leo’s angst for the children! Godspeed Leo Terrell!
I have come to love that man. I believe his change of heart was not just political. I think he came to Christ, and now everything is different for him.
I would like to know how many teachers in the teachers unions are Antifa/BLM.
Many
Not just in portland oregon
Look up the mansfield teacher who is a member on turtleboysports
They have extensive reporting
Public schools are dangerous for kids
“In my personal opinion this emotional and education crisis is purposeful to the efforts of the far-left. “
BINGO! And the leftist teachers’ unions are collaborators. De-certify them and abolish the Department of Education.
Our youngest was homeschooled and now goes to a private college, holds a 4.0 and is an outstanding young lady. She was raised just like our other children to love your country but always question our governments motives.
Homeschooling was at first difficult for her (5th grade) but she pushed through it and is a very socially active individual. She stands with all of us but knows the waters she treads.
For those that can do this, do it. Keep your kids involved in outside activities but let them be free of the indoctrination.
https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/
Sundance is spot on! The Democrats use a crisis then create another crisis from that crisis then they use that crisis to create another crisis etc! Democrats the creators of crises and the solvers of none! Godspeed Sundance!
Democrats are a rolling train wreck.
Each manufactured crisis requires a tax payer funded fix … i.e. $1.9Trillion COVID Stimulus.?
Exactly Amen and Amen!!!!! The first tax payer funding didn’t work but next one will! Only that never happens!
No citizen who legally votes should ever again approve any “bond” for schools. “Bonds” just go for teacher pay raises and voters need to hold teachers who won’t teach accountable. As a former teacher I am appalled at what the union bosses have done to teachers and especially kids.
The administrators make a quarter of a million a year
The system is not just damaged
It is completely broken
People need to pull kids out if it
Keeping kids in is throwing them to the wealthy use took over the unions to get a voting bloc and indoctrination machine
“Bonds” used to be used for new school construction, not day to day expenses. And TAXPAYERS GOT TO VOTE ON THEM.
NOW, its all mixed up…Money from property taxes, from sales tax, from the feds…And STILL, it’s never enough!
Every effort is being made to exclude taxpayers and citizens from the decisions made. Our sole role is to PAY.
My mom w a s a Special Ed teacher, retired in 1985. She HATED what fed funding and unions did to education. Said that it ruined education.
The more a society is traumatized, the socialist it becomes — 0bama learned that from Stalin, Mandela, and Merkel…
We are Stalin’s plucked chicken.
This may end up being the biggest damage to kids, than all the other deadly affects of the WooHan bio weapon.
Leftists Communist slavers could care less. What teachers don’t understand, they are useful idiots to the slavers as well.
If not a faithful slave, then better off dead.
The problem is , our government schools, have been abusing our children for 5 decades.
It insures the slavers stay ahead of the peasants.
To solve the problem?
Stop being a peasant!
You ask how?
The Democrats are doing this for a large group of Americans right now.
The rest of us who depend on this government for anything?
You get what you asked for.
The lockdowns are for controlling We the People and not for controlling the China virus. Here in NH our Republican governor extended his mask mandate (unconstitutional decree) for 21 more days. This after telling us a year ago the lock down were to ‘flatten the curve’ to prevent an overflow of patients at hospitals which never materialized. Now it appears the policy is in place until there are no illnesses statewide. Sadly the population has bought into the China virus as a real plague so they pressure other citizens into mask compliance. This WILL NOT end until those who wish to recover their rights stand up together and say ENOUGH. History shows that dictators never willing give up power and only when the people dispose of them does tyranny end.
You probably already HAVE the right. Most state constitutions specify that a governor-declared emergency may only exist for 30 days, and can’t be extended without a vote of the legislature.
Has your legisture specifically authorized this, by a vote? If not, why aren’t you making their lives a living hell? !
actually, public schools are why the country is degenerating.
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
– Muhammad Ali
From the book…
“Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as our own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. … Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows—to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labour in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him stronger and the mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
― Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
The art of literary genius is no longer admired. This kind of writing is what happened before we dumbed down education and God was still part of the curriculum.
DD
Then be part of the re-education, copy this and spread it about.
We all need to plant the seeds.
Paragraphs? Unreadable as is.
Enough of the memes, the rants, and the clever essays.
We must identify precisely what is now our reality.
Fascism.
American Fascism.
From the Left.
Meanness. Cruelty. Threats. Accusations. Public shaming.
All “dressed up” in “progressivism,” “New Age Enlightenment,” etc.
It’s not about economics, equality, morality, or social justice.
These are simply vulnerabilities to be exploited.
They want control.
And they want to kill God Almighty.
For years history has shown us that people commit to slavery and control out of FEAR, that is the reality.
When people commit to Strength and no longer except the Fear and choose not to indulge in the gas-lighting then the emperor has no cloths. This is why the passage above is still relevant today.
Our reality today is what we make of it. I choose strength and freedom and I’m willing to be punished for this even die if necessary. I’m not trying to be a hero here, I’m just doing what is morally right.
Yes!
Amen!
Bannon War Room…………………..several weeks ago……….
https://pandemic.warroom.org/2021/03/17/episode-805-lets-roll-open-the-schools-not-the-border/
Interview of Women of Watts founder and spokesperson.
In 1971 Sergio Leone wrote and directed Duck, You Sucker (aka A Fistful Of Dynamite, aka Once Upon A Revolution).
The film was set in 1913 Mexico during a revolution not unlike what we are witnessing, albeit without the carnage yet.
The two principal characters where a Mexican bandit, Juan Miranda and John Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert (played by Rod Steiger) dynamite a bank and instead of finding gold or currency, find the bank was being used to hold political prisoners, making Miranda a folk hero. The quote from the movie of Miranda from the movie on Rotten Tomatoes:
Juan Miranda: I know what I am talking about when I am talking about the revolutions. The people who read the books go to the people who can’t read the books, the poor people, and say, “We have to have a change.” So, the poor people make the change, ah? And then, the people who read the books, they all sit around the big polished tables, and they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat, eh? But what has happened to the poor people? They’re dead! That’s your revolution. Shhh… So, please, don’t tell me about revolutions! And what happens afterwards? The same fucking thing starts all over again!
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Mallory also had a quote that while not listed went something like this: Before I discovered dynamite, I believed in many things. Now, I only believe in dynamite.
Found in the bin…. 🙁
What is the difference between 3 feet and 6 feet?
Multiple studies coming out as early as last June indicate that 3 feet along with wearing a mask dropped the infection rate dramatically.
These studies are known by our federal government yet conveniently ignored in favor of 6 feet of social distancing.
So again ask yourself what would have been the differences in 3 feet versus 6 and once you realize the answer it becomes obviously clear they used COVID as a political tool and weapon.
Good question. The following, in my opinion is the real reason and has zero to with medicine.
There is a branch of Human Factors engineering called Anthropometrics, or in English human body related measurements. Typically many space and measurements are specified to accommodate 95% of males and by golly the RADIUS of the cylindrical space describing seating arrangements in many settings just happen to be 3 feet or 1 meter.
Now think of a way to start reducing the panic, induced by the perpetrators of the sham-demic and media, related to opening: Schools, Restaurants, Air Lines, etc. but still requiring a mask.
Must part with Sundance on this aspect. We need to use the closed school momentum to end once and for all “public” “education” and set up a voucher system for any option but public schools. Why should we cheer for the reopening of the very institution that has brought us to this point?
Loving and concerned parents will in fact see that their kids receive an education. We did on lower enlisted pay for 4 kids. I refuse to see the point in trying to get the indoctrination centers reopened for any reason.
You make a good point, much of which I agree with, but there are millions who need the public schools regardless of how much they may suck. Not every teacher and every class is a loser.
Many parents lack the bandwidth or skills to teach their children. These kids need to be in school.
Embrace how this crisis will allow families to push for vouchers and other positive learning environments while still supporting those who desperately need public support educating their children now.
“Not every teacher and every class is a loser.” True for sure but the system is entirely broken across most of our land; it is corrupt and destroying our future with woke BS and communist indoctrination.
“Many parents lack the bandwidth or skills to teach their children.” A few do for sure but more folks can homeschool than you realize. If you start from the beginning you can do a lot to fix your own lousy public school education as my lovely bride has done.
“These kids need to be in school.” They need to be educated more so than they need to be in a school.
This is the opportunity, and I believe it is happening, to bring about real change. Teacher unions are the absolute target we need to fix on and destroy.
I agree that this is the opportunity to bring about real change. It is kind of these sjw teachers (and their unions) to assist in educating the public as to how bad public education has become over the last few decades.
The public schools are broken beyond repair
The unions have poisoned them
Teachers who are unwilling to do what the unions wants are driven out
There are many low cost alternatives
Online academies
Co ops
Participation by grandparents
Groups of parents collaborating to hire tutors
Churches opening schools
And more
The unions will never allow vouchers
I have had first hand experience and exposure to this problem. Over the past four years, I have been mentoring a first generation Haitian -American student. His goals are to go to college and become a physician-scientist and spend his adult career finding a cure for anemia. He himself is anemic and the disease is prevalent among the Haitian population. He scored a 1530 on his SAT, a 35 on his ACT and has a 4.0 GPA. His cultural background is traditional and his outlook is positive.
During the college admissions process, the usual grind this past year was more difficult for high school seniors, because not only are their HS classes online, college tours are virtual only, guidance counselors and teachers are available only by email, if you’re lucky. The entire process of applying to college has been depersonalized and leaving the student feeling deprived of not only human interaction, but fun.
When the higher (post-secondary) educational system is transformed to digital interactions for the most part, students run the risk of being quarantined in your dorm room over covid, being forced to learn critical race theory, mandated to participate in transgender indoctrinations, asked on your application to pick your preferred pronouns, the students is asking me what’s the point of going?
It is a valid question.
Hillsdale College a possibility. Also Liberty University… there are others
Public taxes fund public schools, which are compulsory for attendance unless exempted in accordance with law (set that aside for the moment).
If kids are prohibited from attending, then the monies used to fund public education must be refunded on a per capita basis to subscribers so that they may obtain the education option of their choice.
Here’s a golden BB for those who intend to litigate:
IF virtual is deemed acceptable and meets with the FULL compliance of compulsory education,…
THEN the provider of virtual services may reside in and operate from any location whether inside or outside of the jurisdiction of the student’s school district.
TO THE DEGREE that a subscriber is able to obtain a lower cost solution provider than is available from his home jurisdiction, then the subscriber may file to the jurisdiction for reimbursement up to the per capita cost of the jurisdiction’s list cost for services. Any excess in list cost above and beyond the subscriber’s actual cost shall be refunded to the ratepayers of that district.
IF virtual is deemed UNacceptable as a regular, mainstay option for compulsory education, then the school system shall be ordered to cease operations until it can provide a FULLY compliant solution. In the meantime, it shall reimburse to subscribers the full list cost of normal services provided.
People will never learn, those Dimocrats they vote for to rule their lives don’t GAS about them or their kids. The indoctrination centers aren’t teaching kids productive skills anyway. They already have their cheap labor & new voter replacements lined up at the border & pouring into their neighborhoods, prepare for life to get much worse.
Does anyone think that Black Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and any other race that lives in this Country truly want revenge on White Americans?
Skin Color only matters to politicians!
If you want to be rich in money, hang out with millionaires. If you want to do drugs, hang out with drug addicts. If you want to be wealthy beyond belief, read the Bible and love your family because those are the wealthiest people in the world!
Listened to the Grandma Janice Lewis describing her 10 year old granddaughter’s chairbound school day; 9a-3p, half hour lunch and two ten-minute breaks?
That sounds extremely unpleasant as well as unhealthy, to me.
At the Physiology link below about attention spans, the author describes the TEDTalk format (no lecture longer than 18 minutes for maximum audience focus.)
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/advan.00109.2016
I wish enough people cared and more would PROTEST. But alas most seem governed by FEAR. Show us oh Lord how to put more sand in the gears.
Used to do a lot of word processing, and as I recall, Hewlett Packard recommended setting a timer to get up, move and refocus every 8 minutes for eye health. It is not good for the eyes to stay focused on a fixed point without blinking and refocusing for long periods of time.
Chairs can also be extremely uncomfortable if a person/child is seated for long periods of time. Chairs should be the right height for the screen, and a hard chair can be painful.
I noticed in the 1990s that my children’s schools did not seem to be aware of ergonomics, or the physical impact of focusing eyes on a screen for long periods of time.
Some workplaces are also ignorant and may literally cripple workers with physically inappropriate equipment and work demands. Back pain causes disability and much of it is preventable.
They are up against L.A. Teachers unions, and California Democrats.
If they want change they should start there.
At Home Depot last weekend, my wife and I had no masks on and even when this plan-demic started we refused to wear masks and we never had any issues.
Last weekend a man walked by us both with a mask on and saw us without one, he huffed and removed his mask and stuffed it in his pocket. He was angry with himself and we gave him the strength to stand up. Not one word was ever spoken, just silent courage.
Just wanted to share this story.
I have a different take on this. Do we really want our kids back in these cra**y schools? Marxist, Socialist, Indoctrination Camps? If we assume 1 out of 100 decide to home school because of this….that is 1 huge victory! What if 3 out of 100 decide to send their kids to a structured conservative private school…that is a huge victory of 3!
Who are we kidding, these public Schools and liberal private Schools are garbage anyway.
If anyone wants to see how REALLY selfish and callous these greedy leftists are, all you have to do is look at this.
They tried this crap in FL, but our governor was NOT HAVING IT! Taxpayers WERENT HAVING IT! We called our local taxing agency and told them that we would not pay the part of our property taxes that went for schools, if they didn’t have those kids back in CLASSROOMS this fall!
Government, which in its best iteration, is an expression of the order and good of God, is hell in the hands of selfish, power-mad, greedy leftist union THUGS.
AZ Attorney General has filed for injunctive relief because they Federal Government feels the need to become more tyrannical when it comes to the sovereign states and their taxes.
When reading this brief, you’ll realize what they are attempting with the stimulus package.
Tax_Mandate_Complaint_As-Filed.pdf
Unfortunately I can’t get the direct link so if you’re interested search this out.
https://www.azmirror.com/2021/03/17/gop-ags-slam-tax-cut-ban-in-stimulus-law-as-unprecedented-and-unconstitutional/
I would like to share with the “treepers” my own story. I am a grandfather to a 4th grade student here in Hoosierville. Last year in March, our schools closed, and went to entirely virtual learning. At that point my granddaughter was, and had been an A/B student. Between myself, my wife, my daughter(Mom), and her husband we all tried to keep her educated to no avail. Her grades dropped like a rock, D,E, and yes F’s??? I became over stressed with her grades. I work a swing shift weekly, and we figured it was our failure, we weren’t doing enough, so we put more hr’s in, but nothing changed. My granddaughter became more and more secluded, her personality disappeared. We looked for answers, but nothing seemed to bring her back to herself. Then… almost a month ago our school went back to total in school classes. She began to reappear, she was a kid again, laughing, playful, more interested in things she once did before this crap started. But this is only half the miracle… They received their report cards a week ago. She made principals honor roll in 5 weeks of in class learning. I am proud of her as the family was. But most of all she was BACK!!! My granddaughter had returned, as if aliens had abducted her, and gave her back. Now I truly understand the brevity of this whole nightmare… I pray for all our kids, and their families that they get the gift that God gave our family, OUR GRANDDAUGHTER BACK!!!
Great story SG21,
When our youngest daughter who we pulled out of school in the 5th grade who is now in a private college holding a 4.0GPA, was a bit overwhelming at first because we asked ourselves if we did the right thing but we stuck to our guns and proved that homeschooling was the best that life could give her.
We kept her socially active, she has a private pilot’s license, she’s a second degree black belt and instructor in Krav Maga, she is a distinguished Rifleman #2522 in the country and #122 top woman since 1884, lettered in Volleyball, all while homeschooling.
Before she graduated high school she was inducted into the international honors society, graduated with the highest honors and is on track to be a very giving ,caring and very successful individual. I however, will not disclose her degree but just know she’s loves this country.
We all laugh now because she thought Homeschooling was tough at first but she is non-stop learning and studying all because of homeschooling.
here is what we used. https://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/
I’m telling you this because even though your granddaughter was down, there are always ways to offset and achieve a well rounded individual.
The problem is that the schools are dumbing down their curriculum
The union teachers are also indoctrinating kids
People need to find alternatives to public schools
There are many extracurricular activities outside school for socialization
Society in general today is loud, obnoxious, vulgar, ill mannered, cell phone waving, dumb and fat.
So the “solution” to Closed Government Schools is Open Government Schools because Non Educating Government Propaganda Mills (Schools) back in operation are “better than nothing???
This is Where the lack of a real alternative to the Bolshevik democRats is clearly visible. No thought given or voiced to Parental Vouchers for Educational Choice. If the Vouchers (MONEY) was made available the Private and Charter Schools would Blossom by the hundreds.
But the “Choice” remains between Bad and Worse Gubmint Solutions.
My children’s mental health has never been so fragile. The school system’s behavior is only part of it. The anti-“social distancing” is taking it’s toll. Those perpetrating it and actively perpetuating it are the enemy within. My faith says I shouldn’t, but I hate those perpetuating this with a passion of a super-nova.
The public schools are poison
Poor quality and indoctrination
Many people have opted for homeschooling or church schools
Please consider alternatives
… anything can be justified for ”Raison d’État”! This is what happens when things are run by ”The Best and The Brightest”.