By Lee Duigon
September 28, 2023
Sometimes incredibly stupid societal innovations are sown as seeds without our noticing. They put down roots in schools, movie and TV scripts, and in commentary by “experts” whom most of us have never read.
And next thing you know, an asinine idea is all over the place like kudzu; and it’s probably too late to cut it back.
We never noticed until it was too late.
For the first time ever, just the other day, I read of public school kindergarten teachers complaining that “most” of their pupils are not—brace yourself—potty-trained. These five-year-olds come to school in diapers, which the teachers have to change from time to time.
A teachers’ group states that 15 to 20 percent of their kindergarteners have not been potty-trained. Poopy-plops all around. Valuable time lost, changing diapers, when they could be grooming the kids for gender reassignment.
Why are so many of these children still in diapers?
Well! It seems there’s a Thing out there, one of those seeds that got planted without too many people noticing, called “Gentle Parenting.” It used to be known as “spoiling your children rotten.” According to the article in Your Tango, it’s a means by which “parents hope to foster a healthy relationship (?) with their children by validating their emotions (??) and educating instead of punishing [oh, super!] and respecting their individuality and feelings…”
(Stop it! Stop! I’ll talk, I’ll tell you what you want to know, I’ll tell you where the artillery is posted—just don’t make me have to listen to any more of this!)
What? Do they think it’s being too rough on a child, to teach him to stop doing biggies in his pants? Like maybe if you just leave him alone, he’ll grow out of it by the time he’s seventeen? With a heartfelt “Good job!” or two to help him on his way?
How is this not stupid?
Doubtless this unsanitary foolery was cooked-up by ivory-tower village idiots who still want Hillary Clinton to be president (but I digress, I think). Heaven only knows how they raise their own children, if they have any. Most of them don’t have the sense God gave an ashtray. You’ll find scads of ‘em at any teachers’ college.
And how about that tripe of validating their emotions? What does that mean? Any emotions? All emotions? The Roman Emperor Caligula had his feelings validated to the extent of declaring himself a god. Senators finally invalidated his emotions by chopping him up like firewood—but not till after he’d done tons of damage to his subjects.
The only upside to this is that if teachers are kept busy changing diapers, they won’t have time for teaching Critical Race Theory and transgender garbage.
Again we must ask: Why do parents keep sending their children to public school? Because it’s there? Might as well just keep on doing it, no sense having the building stand empty. I suppose it’s possible for a few homeschooling parents to do just as miserable a job of teaching their children as the public schools are doing—but worse? Not likely!
And we have a U.S. Secretary of Education who says—yes, he said this—that he doesn’t “respect” parents “thinking they know what’s right for kids”. Hear that, plebs? You don’t know how to raise your own children, and the head honcho of public education admits he doesn’t respect you.
How about that? We finally get an honest statement from our education establishment, and it’s just another insult.
But at least it’s honest.
Pull your kids out now.
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