public education vs. america – Page 2

December 7, 1941: “a day that will live in infamy”: the surprise attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor–I haven’t yet heard anyone else mention it today, so I will.

One Pearl Harbor Day, not many years ago, found me teaching in a public high school, where I soon discovered that the students had never heard of Pearl Harbor. So I told them about it, and told them how my father and his friends all flocked to the recruiting office, where they were turned away because they were still too young. The students looked at me quizzically, and one of them asked, “Well, what did they do that for?” Why did these young men volunteer to defend their country after it had been attacked?

That question, and whatever prompted it, is part of the Day of Infamy that lives on.

But that’s what public education, and our downfallen culture, will do to our young people.

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The other day I reported that the school next door to me had deleted the words “under God”–as in “one nation under God”–from the Pledge of Allegiance. In fact, I’d first noticed that back in April.

This morning, “under God” was back.

What gives? Had people called up the school board to complain? Or did the fact that school board elections are just around the corner have anything to do with it?

I’ll be keeping my ears peeled, to try to discern whether there’s any pattern in this. I could always contact the board myself, and ask for an explanation, but for the time being I prefer to wait and see.