August 10, '01

 

The Bush Education Initiative – Can He Face the Real Problem?

 

By Rabbi David Eidensohn

 

            There is today a great debate going on in Congress, the White House, and the educational world about President Bush's Education initiative. President Bush wants to put teeth into a bill that demands progress and performance in American schools. Tests would determine who progressed and who failed, and would determine money grants to states and localities. The question is: what kind of tests?

            "It is a shame that the focus is on such issues," said Rabbi David Eidensohn, director of the National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists. "We all know what the problems are. We know why students can't succeed in school to their true potential. And yet, President Bush isn't about to talk about those things, because he is afraid to. He wants to promote a program that ignores the impact of our culture and family problems upon students. There is no money in the world that can improve our schools until we untie the knot in the pupil's brain, a knot of stress and silliness that militates against learning."

            Rabbi Eidensohn quoted a Rand report in the eighties that clearly stated that parochial schools, with little money, sent inner-city children to college, while the public schools, floating in billions, failed to do so. "If we don't make a natural environment for children, one for the pure, clean and decent child, who really wants to learn, and whose nature is geared to curiosity and achievement, we will fail. Money will not make the difference," said the rabbi.

            "It is time for us to take off the blinders. Look at what home-schoolers are achieving, with almost no resources. Look at what the parochial schools are doing, with tiny resources. And look what the public schools are doing; they destroy children and produce mass murderers instead of teaching mathematics," said Rabbi Eidensohn.

            "We will not succeed in education until we break the back of the NEA and the lobbies of atheism," said Rabbi Eidensohn. "Our children must not be fodder for the futile fantasies of the radical left. Now that the therapists are proclaiming the glories of intergenerational sex, and those who believe that 'autoeroticism is spirituality' dominate public school sex education, money will not make our students learn."

            Rabbi Eidensohn called for President Bush to create a two-track public school system. In one track, students will be free of radical influences, and encouraged to stay away from sex, sick culture and secular radicalism. Parents will dominate the policies of this group. The other group, for those who want it, will be the regular public school agenda, with its accoutrements. This way, moral students can achieve, and we will not be spending money only to feed the NEA and other instruments of  child-destruction.

            "It is time," said Rabbi Eidensohn, "to let nature take its course. We must improve education by creating in all public schools, two tracks. In one track, there will be no sex to distract the students. Boys and girls will be separated. Abstinence from any serious sex, or any of it at young ages, will be taught. All radical and unnatural ideas will be banned. Children will not be taught to hate their parents, the "bigots," the "homophobes," or anyone. Children will be taught to love and respect. In the other track, public school as defined by the NEA will be available, for those parents who practice modern child-sacrifice. In this track, children will be taught that they are free of any influence from parents. They will be taught to hate their parents, religion, G-d, and traditional family values. They will be filled with anger, the great radical tool for revolution. And when things boil over, the graduates of this group will come to school, massacre their fellow-students, and the NEA will ask for more money to stop the Gun Lobby."

 

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