Thursday, October 09, 2003

Before you read this

Put away anything throwable around your computer. I damn near broke my moniter when I found this link by Random Nuclear Strikes. It's yet another reason to not put your kids into public schools.

"Pacifist teacher Colman McCarthy doesn't vote, give out grades, or tell students what to think. Instead, he makes them question the answers."

Doesn't vote? I bet that this puke was out chanting slogans and holding signs that say "BUSH=HITLER", but golly gee, don't ask him to actually VOTE! Y'know, it's only a duty of an American citizen! But wait, it gets better! Why doesn't McCarthy vote? Read on, folks. As usual, all boldface is my emphasis.

"What party are you from?" a boy asked McCarthy—a challenge as much as a question. Before the teacher could answer, another student ventured a guess: "Anarchist, right?" she said.

"I am a conscientious nonvoter," McCarthy revealed. "I don't cooperate with the voting system because anybody sworn into office is sworn in to uphold and defend a violent constitution. How can you vote for people who believe in armies? As soon as we get a new constitution that says we're going to solve our problems through nonviolence, I'll be there to participate."

Wide awake now, the class erupted into a din of scandalized voices.

"But what could you do by not voting?" demanded Martha, a café au lait-skinned junior, sitting up and slipping the hood of her black sweatshirt off her head.

"I'm not cooperating with violence," McCarthy said.

"What if there's a candidate who says no to violence?" she probed.

"He's still sworn in to uphold a document that advocates violence!" he responded, his voice rising.


A document that advocates violence? So "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" is advocating violence now? A document that allows this fucking drone the right to say what he wants is "advocating violence"? But wait, it gets better!

A few years ago, McCarthy was teaching a peace course at an all-girls private school in suburban Washington. "At the end of the year," he recalls, "one of the mothers called me up, a little curious—she didn't see her daughter slaving over any homework for my class. She said, 'How did my daughter do in your class?' I said, 'How would I know? I'm her teacher.'

And there's MORE! Get ready to blow chunks!

McCarthy reluctantly wrapped up his speech at the 45-minute mark and was mobbed by several teachers who wanted to buy his books. Another group gathered in the back of the room to discuss what they'd just heard. While agreeing that McCarthy's in-your-face comments wouldn't fly with most school boards or parents, they excitedly talked about how radical pacifist ideas could enliven their own classes.

An elegant- looking teacher in her 40s wandered up and joined the conversation. The truth, she said conspiratorially, is that when you close your classroom door, you're in charge and there's a lot you can get away with. The others nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, the teacher registered with alarm that a reporter's tape recorder was running. She declared that her comments were off the record and abruptly walked away from the group. Reconsidering their candor, one by one other teachers in the circle requested that their comments, too, be considered off the record. Peace may have a chance in America's schools. But at least for now, the revolution will not be broadcast.


It's not just McCarthy, it's all the damn teachers! These people are teaching YOUR KIDS! I don't know about you, but if I had to listen to these idiots for more than ten minutes, I'd show them true violence! These people have been wrapped up in their own little cocoon for so long that they have lost touch with reality! McCarthy actually advocates GETTING RID OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION! FOR DEAR GOD'S SAKE, HOW THE HELL CAN I NOT CALL HIM ANTI-AMERICAN?! These people are radical socialists, dedicated to everything that is antithetical to America! You wonder how so many kids today can be completey ignorant of the world? THIS IS HOW! Your kids are being taught absolute CRAP! Think about these teachers the next time you hear them complaining about their pay. Our universities are sinking, our public schools are failing, and yet these fuckwads just don't get i! They have insulated themselves from the real world for so long that they no longer have a clear view of reality! I could spend YEARS going over McCarthy's bullshit and refuting it line by line, but I don't have a gag-reflex that would allow me to be in the same room with that man for very long!

If McCarthy and his ilk hate the constitution so badly, he needs to leave. Or better yet, be removed from it's protection. McCarthy and other slime like him are the reason why so many young people come out of school completely incapable of dealing with life. McCarthy and other slime like him are the reason why kids can name various "racial" atrocities, but they can't tell you who was on our side in WWII. McCarthy and his ilk are the reason why students today can't read, can't write, can't do arithmatic, and can't learn.

It's people like McCarthy who support the Left. This is their activist base. And I have every right to call them anti-American. Because, through their words and actions, THEY ARE!

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