Organization: Virginia Department of Health
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:56:50 EST
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Rainbow-7 & Other Things

    Children of the Rainbow, Part 7
    Education Activity in New York City Schools, and later yours? ------>
    Also, Handling problems the Liberal Way ---------------------------->

    This is from the Rush show that ran 12/14 in our area but said to be
Friday's show. Rush and some call in people talk a bit more out
education. I think it pertinent for us parents to know what is going on.

    The board of education is only elected. They are the elected
representatives of the parents. They're supposed to meddle when things
aren't going right. Parents should have a say in what cultural values
their kids are taught. And in New York City public school systems, they
don't WANT the parents to be involved, and probably in more school
systems around the school systems than just that.

    Now, I am nearing my wits end on my ability to handle liberal logic.
Some of it is just cockeyed to the point that not even my vast
tolerance, not even my massive ability to understand and bend and shape
is able to figure some of these things out.

    You remember the Super Soaker controversy? These little Day-Glow
Orange and Green and Blue water guns. Kids would fill them up with water
and go out Psssh, psssh, psssh. And guys with  real guns would say, "Hey
you can't do that to me kid." Bang. And fire back. And so what was the
reaction among the liberal leaders? "We've got to get those play guns off
the street. We can't have those play guns out there. Why those guys with
real guns are shooting those kids with the play guns. Let's go get those
play guns and stop provoking the guys with the real guns."

    Let's not go get the guys with the real guns shooting kids. No! Let's
solve the problem by getting rid of the play guns. Well, San Jose, CA. A
principle of Clyde Arbuckel Elementary School has discovered that there
are some new pencils that are made to look like syringes, they're fake
syringes. And has seen these kids taking these kids taking these
"syringes" and pretending to shoot up. Psssht...

    So he says "We've got to get rid of those fake syringes." In the
mean time, we in America are giving away clean needles to people. "We're
going to stop the spread of disease. We're going to give away clean
needles. Here, use this needle, it's clean if you're going to do drugs."
Pssssht... Yet a kid with a fake needle, it's a pencil? "We've get that
fake needle away from that kid." Now, what kind of sense does that make?

    Folks, let me shoot you straight, bluntly, right between the eyes
here, this I don't understand. We have a disease, AIDS. This disease
kills. This disease is spread by promiscuous sexual activity. In normal
circumstances, in normal times, the very thought that you die from
promiscuous behavior would in itself be a sanction on that behavior.
You'd just stop it. You wouldn't engage in it.

    What are we doing? WE'RE TEACHING IT! We're advocating it. We are
giving out condoms. We are encouraging promiscuous behavior, in our
schools. It doesn't make sense. None of it does, it's liberal logic, it's
in your schools.

    You're the parents, be aware.

    Caller: I have a confession to make. I kind of scoffed on your idea
of multi-culturalism in school, until I saw Crossfire the other night.
They were dealing with the issue of homosexuality like you brought up
earlier in the show. And the whole instance or episode of "Heather Has
Two Mommies" and the books that are out are supposedly recommended. At
first I thought the two weren't related, multi-culturalism and this topic
on Crossfire. But I've come to the conclusion that they are and really
you kind of stole my thunder, because you talked about it earlier in your
show.

    Rush: Well, go ahead and make your own thunder.

    Caller: Both of them are talking about value. You're absolutely
right, the schools should teach the 3 R's, Reading, Riting, and
Rithmetic (yea, I know...) and values should be left up to the parent.
But I'm going to be marrying this coming June to a young lady named
Tiffiny whose been a blessing to me, and we want to have children. And,
Lord willing, we will. But when it comes to my kid's education, I want to
be the one to teach them values, in my case, it's Christian values,
and...

    Rush: What ever your values are, they should come from home. (Caller:
Right, that's absolutely right.) Because it's values that kids get from
home that shape them. Now, here's what he's talking about. I saw
Crossfire, too. That Gary Bauer from the Family Research Council and
somebody from the NYC school board here in New York, arguing about
whether it was proper to teach first graders about the homosexual
lifestyle. The argument is "Is it just making them aware of it, or is it
advocacy?" and most parents who are opposed think that it is advocacy.

    Now, education is a multi-facited endeavor. When it comes to math,
and science, and geography, and all of the things that are knowledge, and
fact based oriented. Those things that contribute to making one a learned
individual. There are people specifically trained for that. That's what
educators used to be, and I'm sure many school districts still are. Those
are the people who know better how to educate a person than someone who
doesn't have that as a profession. It is a career.

    But, when you start teaching, ah, touchie, feelie things, and
cultural values, and what's proper in a cultural sense, that's not, and
never has, nor should it be, part of, the curricula of a serious
educational institution. I mean in many cases you can't teach values to
kids anyway, in school, and some parents are upset about that. And now,
the values they do what to teach, are values that most parents, don't
approve of, and that's why you have to come up with policies that keep
parents out of the mix, because they're opposed.

    So people have gotten hold of these curriculums, and they've gotten
hold of the agenda, and I think that the multi-culturalism tactic again,
is a tool of revenge by those who have failed to make it in America as it
is and want to change it and take it out on YOUR kids.

    MAKS> That's it for this section. There's one on sodomy and the
Colorado things on the 700 Club... maybe. This one deals with history,
health laws, etc.

    In His Love,
    Maks
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