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Exclusive: Can America’s Schoolchildren Be Safe? A Possible Solution

Author: Renee E. Taylor

Date Published: 2007-09-23

There are too many dangers that threaten our children in schools today, from drugs to shooters to potential terror attacks against unprepared facilities. As grim as this situation is, FSM Contributing Editor Renee Taylor offers a possible solution that’s growing in importance each day.

Can America’s Schoolchildren Be Safe?

A Possible Solution

By Renee E. Taylor

Glenn Beck is the enormously popular host of the 3^rd highest ranking radio talk show, The Glenn Beck Program, which is syndicated by a staggering 267 radio stations. He is also host of CNN Headline News’ popular show, The Glenn Beck Show, where he is a welcome relief to the reliably Leftist views of most of its other hosts and commentators.

On his CNN Headline News show, Beck recently aired a series of stunning and horrifying reports dubbed, “Exposed: The Perfect Day”. A four-installment series, it is a must-see for each and every American parent with an interest in keeping his or her children alive in American schools. As Beck himself notes:

For Islamic terrorists, the perfect day is a series of coordinated attacks that kills as many Americans, and creates as much chaos, as possible. Glenn's special series, “Exposed: The Perfect Day”, focuses on one of the areas where we are most vulnerable to this kind of attack ... our schools.

Long before Glenn Beck so chillingly outlined “The Perfect Day” scenario, we knew our children were not safe in the nation’s schools. Safety has given way to the spoils of political correctness, as a generation of ultra Left school administrators and teachers now offers our children as a sacrifice to anyone – from an unbridled, psychopathic student to a bloodthirsty terrorist – who wishes to board a school bus or walk through the front door of the local elementary school.

Just last week in Seattle, a man described in the Seattle Times as “a drug addict” boarded a bus filled with kindergarten through elementary aged children. The suspect, we are told, was looking for drugs in backpacks while terrorizing the youngsters in so doing. How is it that an unknown person can board a school bus, unchallenged by the driver, and terrorize our children?

We also now see an alarming increase in bomb threats, as New Jersey recently closed twelve schools, and schools in Florida received the now famous “Jihad boom” post cards. According to World Net Daily:

“In videotapes captured in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda terrorists practiced the takeover of a school – issuing commands in English, separating children into manageable groups and killing anyone who offered resistance. Some hostages were taken to rooftops, dangled over the edge, then shot for the sake of cameras and onlookers.

In Iraq, the floor plans of several schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey were found in the possession of captured terrorists.”

Will teachers be able and allowed to defend and protect our children or will they just give in when criminals and terrorists attack? Are they being trained in counter terrorism tactics? Why are school bus drivers allowing the terrorizing of our children without a fight? If our children cannot be protected from hapless, yet dangerous, local drug addicts, how can they be protected from well organized and trained terrorists? Does anyone remember the hundreds of children who were slaughtered, many of whom after being tortured and raped, in Russia?

In addition to lax security, our nation’s education system is failing our children. I was amazed when, walking into the local Wal Mart, I read the list of supplies required of students in our elementary schools. Several boxes of pencils, tissues, wet wipes and packages of notebook paper were among those items listed, far more than what is needed by any individual student. But the reason for such a request is that the children whose parents are responsible enough to purchase this outrageous list pool the supplies which are then redistributed among all students, regardless of contribution, throughout the year. My first thought was “what a nice lesson in Communism”. Just this small, seemingly insignificant act only instills in young minds that responsibility is not necessary; the “nanny state” will take care of them. Just like they will keep them safe on school buses.

In a time when we are seeing “Christmas break” replaced with “winter break” so as not to reference Jesus’s birth, The Five Pillars of Islam are being taught to public school children in Nyssa, Oregon, under the guise of “cultural education”. The students prepare and perform skits on tenants of Islamic belief – fasting, charity, prayer, belief and pilgrimage. The text, from McGraw-Hill, heavily emphasizes the “positive aspects of Islam”, while ignoring the realities of present day Islam in Muslim countries where treatment of women is at best backward and at worst medieval. Beatings, seclusion, illiteracy, clitorectomies, head and body coverings and worse, for women, are de rigueur. It also ignores the very fact that our nation and the world is at war with the ideology of a metastatically-growing radical Islam, a fundamentalist belief system that is unrecognizable to the watered-down, politically correct version being taught in taxpayer-funded public education.

One can only wonder how fast the ACLU and CAIR would sue a school that required its students to perform skits showing the prayer life of the Christian or Jew – or the birth and life of Jesus Christ.

Also in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Education is partnering with Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education to incorporate Mexico’s curriculum into Oregon schools, including American history from Mexico’s point of view, in order to make educating the children of illegal aliens easier. With similar programs in Yakima, Washington, San Diego, California and Austin, Texas, there is no need for alien nationals to assimilate into American society. We are watching our own heritage and history melt away as, in part thanks to our taxpayer-funded public education system, the United States of America turns into the Not-Terribly-United Arabic States of Mexico.

Times have changed and unlike the circumstances our parents enjoyed, today we cannot trust our children will be safe, not only in transit to public school, but once they arrive, or that they will receive an non-politicized, quality education while there. These provide only a few of the many reasons why parents are turning toward home education.

According to the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Department of Education, “Home schooling is the education of school-aged children under their parents' general monitoring, and it replaces full-time attendance at a campus school. Some home schooling children enroll part time at a campus-based school, or share instruction with other families, but most of their educational program is under the direct oversight of parents.”

While religious reasons for home schooling top the list, more and more parents are realizing that the cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all liberal education system does not work. In fact, home schooling has grown exponentially, persisting over three decades, and tripling between 1991 – 1996. The number is still growing to where home schooled children now number in the seven figures.

The current day stewards of our children’s welfare – those who are responsible not only for our kids’ physical safety but for their educational inspiration and growth as well - have failed us miserably. Public schools are producing illiterate and unprepared for-real-life students. Further, according to the Society for the Advancement of Education, “American 13-year-olds have been documented as having math skills that rank below their counterparts in 14 other developed countries. One survey noted that just one-third of high school juniors could place the Civil War in the correct half-century.”

But more than these utterly abysmal statistics, no longer do parents wish a stranger dictated by the ultra Left, self-interested teachers’ union to instill in their children a Socialist ideology. They also have no interest in being further terrorized by the fear of ACLU and CAIR lawsuits. No longer do they want their children indoctrinated into the belief that America’s capitalist society and her rich history are evil.

And no longer is this just an issue of a quality education. It is now quite possibly a matter of life and death.

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FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Renee Taylor is the editor/webmistress of www.americantruckersatwar.com, a freelance writer, photographer, home schooling mom and publicist for Joey Holiday. A former truck driver, she has devoted promoting the positive image of the American Trucker in in America and in Iraq. Published on FamilySecurityMatters.org, NewsSarasota.com and others, she has appeared on several national radio programs, such as The Captains America and The Dave Nemo Program, discussing homeland security and the trucking industry.

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