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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Cross-dressing day sparks school exodus

A public school's "gender-bender" cross-dressing event, where boys were supposed to dress as girls and girls as boys, has prompted at least dozens, perhaps hundreds, of students to flee the tax-supported institutions in Iowa.

Many of the parents apparently are members of the Christ Apostolic Temple in Des Moines, which teaches a biblically based doctrine of rejecting the world's values.

"Christ Apostolic Temple Inc. Fellowship ... is a Bible-based organization that believes one must 'come out from among them and be ye separate.' (2 Cor. 6:14-17)," the organization's website says.


Bob Unruh

As I have said before, I couldn't possibly care less who does what with whom and calls it sex. However, none of this has anything to do with education. It is pure social engineering.

Vox Day's comment on this was spot on:

The sad thing is that their kids school could be serving cannibal lunches in the cafeteria and teaching a Red Guards curriculum straight out of the Cultural Revolution, complete with the mass murder of priests, authors and artists, and half the nominally Christian parents in America would dumbly nod their heads and say: "Well, I don't really approve of the overall direction, but my kid's school is actually pretty good. Just last year, it won an award for purging the most bourgeous elements in the faculty and at least fifty percent of the graduating seniors can actually read!"


I'll go even further. Parents who claim they are concerned about their childrens' future and their education, but who leave them in the public schools are liars. It's not like the utter failure of public education is a big secret any more.

2 Comments:

Blogger Strother said...

Parents who claim they are concerned about their childrens' future and their education, but who leave them in the public schools are liars. It's not like the utter failure of public education is a big secret any more.

How convenient for you, Steve. Now that your own children have graduated from public schools, "it's not like the utter failure of public education is a big secret any more." Did this one sneak up on you? You don't strike me as a "nominally Christian parent in America who dumbly nods his head," to quote Mr. Beale.

I'll accept your screed, but you too must accept some responsibility here. The school system didn't fall to pieces right after your own children’s time there.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:04:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

...but you too must accept some responsibility here.

Absolutely.

One of the reasons I can be so harsh is that I recognize my own dishonesty on that front.

While I did, at great financial burden to my family, move my children out of a destructive education system, the King schools, and into a better place, Nancy Reynolds school, I was still being dishonest with myself when I didn't take the opportunity to pull them completely out of the public schools. I knew that the schools were a failure. My involvement in politics simply reinforced that knowledge, yet I kept making the same excuses: they'll miss their friends, they are already acclimated, they are above-average intelligence, and on and on. It was laziness and lies. The end result was that none of them got the chance they should have had. It was a dumb mistake, and if my "screed," as you call it, forces one parent to be honest with themselves, then I feel some of my error will be mitigated.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:44:00 PM  

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