The Kids Belong Back In School ~ Ep. 1297 ~ The Dan Bongino Show®

From the Dan Bongino Show's description of this episode on youtube.com/Bongino or in his Show Notes:

In this episode, I address the liberal’s real plan to destroy your police department and render you defenseless. I also address the media’s disgusting disinformation campaign on the coronavirus as it relates to your child’s education.

As the title to this episode says, "The Kids Belong Back In School."  This episode begins with Dan's message, and I wholeheartedly agree!  And I really want you to see that segment.  There is a clip that Dan shows an MSNBC (MSdnc) anchor who asks several pediatricians what they think about sending kids back to school.  The anchor's reaction to not hearing the answers he was expecting is priceless.

Yes, the turmoil in this country is tearing us apart.  There are two distinct sides, about the only thing left that is easily distinguishable in these days.  The teachers unions?  Obviously on the side of the Leftist radicals.  They don't truly care about the kids, but themselves, if they are against them coming back to school.  They are against alternative options to send kids to charter schools, and probably homeschooling, which is another viable option for some parents.  And the parents that can't go to work because their children are home all day?  Well, apparently, the Demonicrats are happy about that, too, since a bad economy could result in a Demonicrat win this November.

Actually, we can factor in the anger of parents that are prevented from sending their kids to school, and all of the other things that the Demonicrat governors, legislators, and local politicians are doing which will hurt these folks.  And if you don't see that ground swell of anger, then you are definitely either living in a cave, or worse, watching Fake News media (mainstream media).  As soon as enough people wake up and notice who has been gaslighting us for generations, I think you will see an uprising.  A major uprising; not in the form of violence, but in the form of a voting surge like you've never seen.  That surge will not be from the Demonicrat side as you are being lead to believe with the Fake News "polls." 

Well, at least I don't think the Demonicrats are going to be able to win, not if everybody knows what Joe Biden plans to do.  I really pray that this episode gets spread far and wide, with full-blown viral sharing.  If after you see this segment of the show, and you still want to vote Demonicrat, go right ahead.  You probably won't be able to afford that vacation that was cancelled anyway because of the government shutdowns.  But the clock is ticking. There is not much time until Election 2020.  And I'm doing my best to spread the word.  I thank Dan Bongino for all he does, and all I can do is tell the few thousand people I count as friends, in my personal life and in social media, and that are supporters of President Donald Trump, and pray that they will do the same. 

Information is critical.  It is our counter to the gaslighting by the mainstream Fake News media.  Though it seems like it is sometimes, with some of the social media tyrants trying to silence us, it isn't exactly an asymmetric battle quite yet.  But, we have to unite, and fight back.  There can be no surrender.  Please keep that in mind for the remaining days until the election.

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A fuddy-duddy speaks on the generation gap ~ By Patrice Lewis

I think that I noticed a level of intensity in this Patrice Lewis column that stood out to me. And I really had to ask myself if there are enough of those kind of kids in existence that could eventually collapse our system of society. Just hearing Glenn Beck talking about what is going on with the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations, and I have to wonder.

I was struck by several of the points that Patrice makes in this column. For example, Patrice wrote, "Fifty years ago, manners and courtesy were drilled into children from infancy. That practice began its decline in the '60s, and it's been downhill from there." I have to agree with Patrice that the turning point was in the 1960's, especially somewhere during the latter half of the decade. There was a lot of social upheaval - chaos - from about 1967 to 1972. And everything changed.

If you are an old "fuddy-duddy" like me, you may have the same reaction that I experienced when reading this column. One of my first thoughts was that the spontaneous combustion of the Occupy Wall Street movement is made up with a bunch of dumb-downed useful idiots that were easily manipulated to be the foot soldiers in the "American Autumn." Or should that be the "American Fall"? (Or the "American Fail?")

Do those of us that respect others, that have some decency left, still outnumber those that don't? I'm pretty sure that we do. I do not disagree with the assessment in this column in that there is a disgusting number of people that just don't care about their ability to contribute positive influence on our society. There are not a lot of hard workers like Steven Jobs available at the moment. There is influence from the media, and from the schools, that tend to make some want to rebel against authority, especially the authority of parents. I'm not sure that we can blame parents for the problems we are facing.

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A fuddy-duddy speaks on the generation gap

PATRICE LEWIS

By Patrice Lewis

September 30, 2011 ~ 2:49 pm Eastern

© 2011

A seemingly minor incident happened this week, which left me thoughtful.

I was in the city with my younger daughter. We needed to swing into a post office to mail a letter. The post office had a dedicated lane in its parking lot for cars to drive up to the mailboxes. The street was busy so I needed to swing into the parking lot quickly, not slowly … except I couldn't, because two teenage boys were walking across the driveway.

Well, can't be helped. They were there first, after all, and pedestrians have the right of way.

Except they wouldn't move. They deliberately stopped and just stood in my way, so that my car stayed half in the street, blocking traffic.

After a few moments one of the boys moved, but the other started walking toward the car as if daring me to run him over. He wasn't being threatening or dangerous. He was just being a jerk.

I managed to pull the car to one side and nip past him, and that was that. I mailed my letter and drove away. In my rearview mirror I saw them laugh. The incident left me fuming.

The boys were the typical teenagers we often see these days – slouching, insolent, eyes half closed in a perpetual sneer at life. The one boy's reaction to my presence – I dare you to run me over – was spontaneous and arrogant.

"If this is the future of America," noted my 13-year-old daughter, "we're doomed."

My anger turned to sadness and concern. Multiply these boys by millions, and you do indeed have the future of America. These boys had no sense of social courtesy, no understanding of civic consideration and apparently no desire to obtain either. Get a bunch of these types of kids together, and the situation is ripe for flash mobs and other social chaos.

I realize this sounds like the classic fuddy-duddy generation-gap thing, but in point of fact I'm not the only one to note the changing face of young people in our society. Fifty years ago, manners and courtesy were drilled into children from infancy. That practice began its decline in the '60s, and it's been downhill from there.

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You! Back to your festering hellhole! ~ By Patrice Lewis

My outrage is not about the rightness or wrongness of Ms. Williams-Bolar's actions. My outrage is with the inflexibility of the educational brown shirts that permit the existence of those festering hellholes laughably called schools. My outrage is with the helplessness of poor parents who are punished for going to any lengths to protect their children from the academic famine of these prisons.

Look, if we're going to continue federal funding of public education (putting aside the question of whether it's even constitutional), it is long past time to make changes such as John Stossel outlines in his book "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity." Why the hell aren't we attaching funding to the child rather than to the school district? That way parents are free to place their children wherever they choose, and by doing so schools will be forced to compete for a child's tax dollars. Literally in one simple stroke, the vast majority of educational issues in this country would be solved by allowing competition between school districts for students' funding.

I had not heard about this case until Patrice Lewis wrote about it in her column. Like Patrice, I am outraged about it for the same reasons she tells you here. While Kelley may have broken the law, where is the justice in forcing her to send her two daughters to the "hellhole" that they claim is school?

You! Back to your festering hellhole!

PATRICE LEWIS

By Patrice Lewis

January 29, 2011 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2011

While I generally try to avoid writing about specific news cases (because I'm not an investigative journalist), once in awhile a story hits the headlines that is so heinous I can't help but address it. If I'm misunderstanding any particulars of this situation, please forgive me; but the point of this commentary is much broader than this one incident.

KELLEY WILLIAMS-BOLAR

Doubtless you've heard about the single mother in Ohio named Kelley Williams-Bolar who received a felony conviction for lying about her residency to get her teenage daughters into a better school district. A felony conviction. This is the level of seriousness normally applied to such offenses as attempted murder, serious drug dealing and bank robbery. The mother has no previous criminal convictions and works as a special-ed teaching assistant while going to school to get her teaching certificate. Judge Patricia Cosgrove – who admitted she wanted to make an example of Ms. Williams-Bolar – stated, "I felt that some punishment or deterrent was needed for other individuals who might think to defraud the various school districts." Ms. Williams-Bolar served 10 days in jail and was told she would serve her full sentence of five years if caught again.

Yes, let's cruelly punish those people whose children are trapped in festering hellholes and who will do anything – even break the law – to get them a better education.

Here are the details as ABC News reported them. After her home was broken into, Ms. Williams-Bolar (a low-income single mom) decided she wanted her daughters to stop attending the local schools and instead attend schools in the nearby highly-ranked Copley-Fairlawn district. Her father resides in that district, so she used his address to register her girls.

For four years she got away with it until the school district's private investigator (cha-ching!) shot video showing Williams-Bolar driving her children into the neighboring district. School officials said she was cheating because her daughters received a quality education without paying taxes to fund it. "Those dollars need to stay home with our students," school district officials said.

So let me get this straight. Ms. William-Bolar's 64-year-old father presumably has no minor children attending the local schools, but 53 percent of his property taxes are applied toward those schools even though he receives no personal benefits. Yet the district won't allow him to use those tax dollars for his granddaughters. Huh?

The mom admitted she did it to keep her children safe. I'm going to take a leap of logic here and assume that the Akron schools are dangerous enough that Ms. Williams-Bolar feared for her daughters' physical safety, not to mention their academic futures. Take a gander at this article and review the statistics for poverty in each school district. No one in their right mind would prefer the Akron schools over the Copley-Fairlawn School District. Girls have been attacked, mugged and raped in inner-city schools all over the country. Can I blame the mother if she wanted something better for her daughters? Seems to me her most serious crimes are poverty and desperation.

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Union-controlled disasters ~ By Star Parker

Star explains why unionized teachers are failing to educate minority children in public schools.

A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed reported on the glowing success of charter schools in Harlem. "Nationwide the average black 12th-grader reads at the level of a white eighth-grader. Yet, Harlem charter students … are outperforming their white peers in wealthy suburbs."


Yet, in 2009 the New York teachers union successfully lobbied the state legislature to freeze charter school spending and now is pushing to limit penetration of charters in school districts.

By Star Parker

Posted: March 20, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Speaking a couple years ago about technology and education, Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs said that technology wouldn't matter as long as you can't fire teachers.

"I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way," he said.

Jobs likened schools to running a small business, which he said could never succeed if you can't hire and fire.

Reasonable? I think so.

Would anyone question that there is no single thing more critical to a nation's future than educating its children?

Yet, consider that 88 percent of our children get K-12 education in public schools and that 70 percent of the teachers in these schools have union-protected jobs.

Gallup has been polling public opinion about unions since the 1930s. Last year, for the first time, less than half (48 percent) of those surveyed approved of unions. Fifty-one percent said unions "mostly hurt" the U.S. economy, and 39 percent said they "mostly help."

The percentage of the nation's private-sector work force that belongs to a union has dropped precipitously. In the 1950s, over 30 percent belonged to unions. Today it's a little over 7 percent.

But in our public schools, the direction is completely opposite. In 1960, about 35 percent of public school teachers belonged to unions, and today it's twice that at 70 percent.

Is it not counterintuitive that most Americans feel unions hurt us, that we allow increasingly fewer goods and services produced in our private sector to be controlled by unions, but we turn increasingly more of our most precious commodity – our children and their education – over to a union-controlled workforce?

In an article in the latest edition of Cato Journal, Andrew Coulson notes that, on average, compensation of public-school teachers is about 42 percent higher than their counterparts teaching in non-unionized private schools. Yet, according to Coulson, research shows that private schools consistently outperform public schools.

He attributes the higher average wages of public-school teachers less to union collective bargaining and more to the political clout of unions to maintain the public-school monopoly over K-12 education.

Over 95 percent of the political contributions of the two national teachers' unions – the NEA and AFT – go to Democrats or to the Democrat Party. Their $56 million in political contributions since 1989 equals that of "Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Lockheed Martin and the National Rifle Association combined."

The main beneficiaries of education alternatives are minority children. Yet, at the state level, unions provide a unified lobbying front to block such initiatives.

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Government schools are watching you ~ By Roger Hedgecock

Roger Hedgecock brings up a story I heard about a day or two ago, about the school district that could remotely turn on web cams on the computers that they had given their students. He brings up several of the issues about why case is so bad. I am sure we could think of many other reasons why this is so bad!

When the government schools can put a "peeping tom" camera and microphone into our homes in students' computers in the name of "security," we have no rights left.

By Roger Hedgecock

Posted: February 22, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The Lower Marion School District, which runs two high schools in this suburb of Philadelphia, gives an Apple laptop (MacBook) to all 2,300 of its high-school students for use during the school year.

Programs like this throughout the country have proven popular with students, teachers and parents. The computers enhance the students' capabilities in understanding assignments, keeping track of deadlines for work and researching topics, for example. Teachers and parents can better track performance in the classroom and with homework assignments.

But Harriton High School student Blake Robbins discovered a more sinister use of these computers by the school administration – a use that students, teachers and parents were not aware of.

Is this happening in your school district?

On Nov. 11, Blake was summoned to the office of Vice Principal Lindy Matsko, who told him that he had "engaged in improper behavior in his home."

On the CBS "Early Show Saturday Edition," Blake recounted that Ms. Matsko accused him of selling drugs and taking pills and showed him a photograph of him at home taken by the webcam in his MacBook as proof. Blake said he told the vice principal that the photo showed him eating candy.

The incident revealed that the school district had the power to remotely turn on the webcam in the MacBook at any time and record the images.

Blake's parents have sued the school district in federal court accusing the district of spying on the students and their families and asking for an injunction preventing the district from remotely activating the webcam, or recalling the MacBooks for fear the district will erase evidence of the cameras' activation.

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Let's hear it for the teens! ~ By Patrice Lewis

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By Patrice Lewis Posted: December 19, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Our older daughter woke up crying one morning this week. "I dreamed about Gypsy and Hopi," she sobbed, referring to the pets we lost in the last few months. "They were good dreams, but when I woke up they weren't there." We snuggled in front of the wood stove on that snowy morning while I comforted her. And I thought, here's a kid who still has a tender, unhardened, uncynical heart. What a blessing. Today is that kid's 14th birthday. When I was pregnant with her, I had the extraordinary experience of being told by a stranger that I would hate my child. No kidding. A woman sitting next to me at a craft fair, instead of congratulating me on my pregnancy, told me I would hate my baby. "I have six kids, and I hate them all," she said. Being a captive audience (I was manning our craft booth and couldn't leave), she poured poison in my ear for half an hour before departing. By the end of her diatribe I felt beaten until I was able to shake off her influence. "It's no wonder you hate your kids," I thought. "You're a hateful woman." Then, on Dec. 19, 1995, I brought forth our firstborn child and we named her after a woman in the Bible. What a Christmas present! And no, I didn't hate her at all. Not even a teensy little bit. But we did wonder what lay in store as she, and later her younger sister, grew older. We knew these gifts from God were too important to entrust to a succession of strangers for their education, so we decided to homeschool. We didn't realize at the time that homeschooling would result in not just an academically sound education but a morally sound one as well, because there were no significant outside influences to dilute their training. Some people don't like this idea. They accuse us of child abuse, of isolating our kids because we try to limit what we see as damaging outside influences. The relatively recent "reality show" mentality of our modern culture is designed to introduce children to adult concepts at younger and younger ages. These "real world" proponents don't seem to understand that parents are supposed to protect their children and keep them from growing up too fast in an often harsh and merciless world. In what could only be called twisted logic, we are sometimes criticized that since our girls are polite and respectful, we must therefore be beating them into submission in order to present a false and polite façade. These people can't seem to wrap their minds around the idea of decent teens. Whenever I suggest that some adolescents are being raised as civilized young men and women, I get snarky comments about how these teens must be whupped by their parents. Some folks are judgmental of how my husband and I are raising our kids, suggesting dark and devious explanations to justify their polite behavior. They dismiss the concept that because the kids aren't locked in a classroom with 30 other children for seven hours a day, they might actually learn real-life skills rather than guerrilla-survival skills. These critics are certain that because our girls spend the majority of their waking hours with us, they'll grow up with the social skills of, say, wood lice. READ FULL STORY >

Government-school 'edjikation' ~ By Patrice Lewis

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By Patrice Lewis Posted: October 24, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 A few months ago, a homeschooling friend called in tears. The curriculum she'd purchased for her three children was patently unsuited to her 16-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane was rebelling for the first time. "She tells me she doesn't want to learn physics," my friend sobbed. "Does Jane know what she wants to do when she grows up?" I asked. "Yes. She wants to be a paralegal. She's wanted to do that for years." "What's wrong with being a paralegal? That's an excellent career choice." "Nothing. I'm proud of her. But she won't know any physics." "What does a paralegal need with physics?" I asked. My friend was silent a moment. "Nothing," she admitted. After a lengthy discussion, my friend decided her daughter was mature enough to choose her own studies, which she could tailor toward her career choice. End of rebellion. This conversation led me to give some serious thought about the purpose of education, especially for older teens. Is it to cram every subject down every adolescent's throat, despite his natural talent, interest, or future career plans? Or is it to prepare a teen to enter the adult world as a useful, productive member of society? Needless to say I'm inclined toward the latter, not the former. Obviously, there are things children must know. I happen to think it's useful if a 12th-grader knows where the United States is on a map and can multiply 12 x 12. I believe a working knowledge of history and science come in handy no matter what career they choose. I believe the ability to communicate in English, verbally and in writing, is critical. These are the foundations for education. But most children eventually reach an age – like Jane – when the foundations are achieved. What's left is higher learning in various subjects. Then what? If your daughter wants to be a paralegal, is it necessary – really necessary – for her to know physics? If your son wants to be a physicist, is it really necessary that he knows the imports and exports of Zimbabwe? I know a lot of you are sputtering right now, particularly the physicists. Doubtless some of you think I'm an unedjikated troglodyte, unappreciative of the finer points of a sound education. Let me assure you that my husband and I both have master's degrees in the sciences and a passion for history. Our admiration for academics is second to none. But I believe most kids, given sufficient time to think it through, have a pretty good idea what they want to be when they grow up. After the foundations are achieved, why not let them decide what areas they should study? Why make them miserable forcing them to "learn" subjects they may grow to hate because they're being, well, forced? [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]

More About Being Schooled: Indoctrination ~ By John Kubicek

In my last column, "Being Schooled," I wrote, "those that are going to the public schools are being indoctrinated by a political force with an evil agenda. I do not believe that agenda really has a happy ending for those of us that value freedom." A recent news segment confirmed those beliefs. It also confirmed that there may be a solution. read more ~ and see the video included! And there are other blogs that linked to the video in this story: Federal judge rules that Christian-bashing teacher violated First Amendment Are schools hostile to Christian students? digg story

Being schooled ~ By John Kubicek

What you read here will certainly give the saying "he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning. And, will this piece also show you how poor our education system has become? I really don't know. But NO, I don't have the answers! However, this article is meant to make you think about what really needs to be done, before it's too late. read more | digg story

Cheat today, vote tomorrow - By Barbara Simpson

A national survey of nearly 30,000 students from 100 public and private high schools by the Josephson Ethics Institute in Los Angeles shows we have a generation of cheaters, liars and thieves on our hands, and it gets worse annually. The findings were very dismal. Perhaps the kids are learning ethics from the politicians and the media. You think?

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Don't subject your kids to horrors like this - by Joseph Farah

Do you want to know why we are losing the American Dream? Today's column by Joseph Farah will explain it for us:

Maybe I sound like a broken record when I advise parents to yank their kids out of the government indoctrination centers we euphemistically refer to as public schools.

Nevertheless, I'm going to keep sounding that alarm.

Do you want to know why we are losing the American Dream? Do you want to know why our kids are unable to think for themselves? Do you want to know why Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to distinguish between right and wrong?

There are a number of contributing factors, without doubt. But the biggest factor without question is the government stranglehold over "education."

I could cite all kinds of statistics for you.

I could tell you personal experiences.

I could present the history behind what is ultimately a conspiracy to steal the minds of your children and to steal your authority over them.

But I've only got a thousand words to write today, so let's make this simple. I would like to ask you to watch this short video, made in May by a Swedish crew, of an Asheville, N.C., classroom before the election:

UPDATE: Superintendent William C. Harrison responds to YouTube video of political discussion between teacher and students.

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