Are You O.K. With This? (Repost)

I say this to all my friends and family who are parents: Get your kids out of public schools. We're at the point where the things they are teaching is going to mess them up, not to mention the huge controversies here in PA over mask mandates. Whether you're for or against masks, the protests and tension between parents of different ideologies and the schools following the laws does not appear to be a healthy learning environment. I regularly watch school board meeting just like this where parents are openly disrespected and silenced when they unearth the horrors of the modern education system. This parent isn't describing an inclusive book showing that you should treat people of different persuasions equally. It's depicting a horrific act of perversion in detail. I'm Mr. Free Speech but there is no good reason for that to be in a school library. A few years ago, I wrote an article about not caring much if To Kill A Mockingbird (one of my favorite books, also one of my favorite movies) remains in curriculum. Well, if we're debating the necessity of that book, this content is way outta the question. (Lolita is a disturbing masterpiece. At least that has literary value and cultural merit. If that was removed from high school libraries [not that I know it to have ever been available there], I'd understand why it's an important book but also feel that should probably be left up to the parents to decide if their kid is mature enough to read such a provocative book.) This isn't an isolated event. It isn't one school board that resents its parents. It's not one book with questionable content. At what point can we be open and admit there is an ideological tug-of-war between parents and the public education system? 

"But Todd, you're not a parent--" Thank God for that. I would not be as mature and respectable as this lady is if I found such content at my child's school. Also, I don't have kids (that I know of, jk) but I do have family. One sibling is in high school, and despite them being much more mature than I was at that age and also probably at this age, thinking about them reading that makes me wanna vomit. (I mean, I read the complete works of Marquis de Sade and Venus in Furs at, like, 16, but A.) literary value B.) It wasn't provided to me by the fucking school library. Despite my reputation, I'm pretty fucking liberal, especially when it comes to art, but at a certain point, everyone has their limit.) I think having books depicting predatory things and how they are wrong can have merit but to quote advice I was given from a family member about my own writing, "They don't need every gory detail of it." It isn't a great work of art but Speak by Laurie Hals Anderson has a good message that kids should have access to without an explicit depiction of assault. At the very least, it isn't a smutty depiction of perversion.

I was very fortunate in public high school. I think my teachers were so good that it honestly made college a major disappointment, also, because half of those professors were corrupt ideologues or simply pieces of garbage coasting off tenure like it's welfare. (Obviously, I had a lot of great college professors, too, and am immensely grateful for their impact on my life. The sad reality is that not all teachers live up to this standard.) It saddens me to say such negative things about the American education system (never been outside it, so, I'm not endorsing other education systems, simply speaking on the one I've gone through) but times have changed in the decade since I graduated. This video clip is not an isolated event. I've heard anecdotal stories secondhand and seen many video clips/read articles on this. I think respectfully and professionally voicing concerns is a high road to take but it's a high road to nowhere. I think protesting and such forms of demonstration is a bad idea in this case and at worst could be confusing or traumatizing emotionally for the children to be subjected to. I've read about protests around some schools in local news for various reasons and without blaming anyone, I think that is very tragic and has to be upsetting to the students, and after all, it's them we should all be the most concerned about. As I opened with, if you can afford it, take your kids out of this system. There are many great teachers doing their best and I sympathize with their position in this mess but they are working from within a broken system that does not have the children's best interests in mind. 

 I've seen many examples of it. Parents in my timeline, take an active interest in your children's education. Try to be involved in a productive way, if possible. We're at a point in the history of America where there are three camps. Those of us who are disgusted by what is happening, they who are imposing this upon the future generation, and those of us with our heads in the ground.

Youtube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Xm4AX25tE&feature=youtu.be
Article about the video, since the video will almost certainly be deleted by either YT or the school board itself. (Yes, it's Daily Wire. If you don't like it, make your own fucking site that reports on subjects like this. Idk what to tell you. If NYT or HuffPo wrote this, I'd share it just as enthusiastically. Deal with it.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-mom-reads-graphic-gay-porn-found-in-school-library-to-school-board