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‘Student Can’t Be in National Honor Society–Because He Supports the President’ (2019)

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I had one of these. I wonder what happened to it.

Holmdel High School! I used to cover their football team. But now they’re playing another kind of game.

Like public schools everywhere, Holmdel High serves up a daily heaping plate of Far Left Wokeism and everyone’s expected to kow-tow to it. So when this one 16-year-old didn’t bend the knee to Baal, but rather committed the unconscionable sin of supporting President Donald Trump… they decided he couldn’t be in the National Honor Society.

Student Can’t Be in National Honor Society… Because He Supports the President

I was in the National Honor Society. No one ever asked me about my politics. I didn’t care, one way or another, about being in the NHS; but no one asked me about that, either.

Public education is broken and it won’t be fixed. Teachers’ unions, Democrats, and “educators” won’t allow it to be fixed.

So why do you send your children there? (No one ever answers this question.)

Student Can’t Be in National Honor Society… Because He Supports the President

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Will school officials wind up getting stung for their actions?

A junior at Holmdel High School in New Jersey  was invited to the White House to hear President Donald Trump’s speech yesterday about restoring free speech in, ahem, “higher education,” where it is mostly banned, these days.

The president invited Boris Kizenko, 16, after learning that the junior was barred from the National Honor Society for a “character flaw”–his support of the president on the social media (https://patch.com/new-jersey/holmdel-hazlet/holmdel-student-who-feuded-high-school-invited-meet-trump).

School officials–why do those words always set off the doofus alarm?–say pshaw, it never happened, we would like never keep a kid out of the National Honor Society just to punish him for his politics! We are at liberty to disbelieve them.

Boris says he’s tired of having to listen to the “regurgitated left-wing ideology” that’s offered every day at public schools.

The president, meanwhile, plans to stop all federal research grants to all colleges and universities where free speech only exists for left-wingers.

We’ll keep our eyes peeled for an update on Boris Kizenko’s story. Will the school officials suddenly change their minds and let him into the National Honor Society?

Personal note: Holmdel was one of the towns I covered for The Bayshore Independent in the 1970s. I liked their high school football team, but the township’s politics were relatively quiet.

The Most Equal and Inclusive High School in America

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Throughout the land, in recent days, public high schools–and colleges, of course– have been competing with one another to see which one can produce the most stilted and asinine graduation ceremony.

A school in Texas vaulted into the lead last week by not allowing students to wear their National Honor Society ribbons, ’cause it’d make kids feel bad who weren’t in the National Honor Society (I was in it when I graduated, and I can’t say anybody noticed, much less felt slighted).

Well, that has inspired another high school to go it way better.

Elwood P. Dowd High School in Schmendrick City, Michigan, will not allow graduating seniors to use their personal names. The names will not appear on the diplomas. As Principal Sy Fistula explained, “What could be less inclusive than your personal name? It excludes everyone but you! But we won’t allow that anymore.”

Dowd is going to extraordinary lengths to achieve absolute equality among the student body. During graduation, each student will wear a large gunny sack to completely conceal his or her identity. Each will be led up by ushers to receive his or her diploma. And to avoid any hint of inequality, all of the diplomas will be exactly the same and will be handed out at random by a blindfolded teacher who will fish them out of a barrel.

And instead of a traditional anthem of any kind, said Fistula, “Our kids will sing that old favorite from China’s Maoist era, ‘The People Joyfully Carry Manure to the Fields.'”

If the graduation is as great a success as anticipated, said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mildred Blastoff, “We’ll do away with personal names all throughout the year for each and every grade in all our schools.”