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June 28, 2004 Ah yes! May the 10th was a good day for liberal foot shooting. In the same issue of the “Teen Brain” “Time” magazine I found another proof of liberal intervention breeding stupidity. “No Longer Separate, But Not Yet Equal”, was a series of articles written by several reporters revisiting the major communities that were “at the heart of the integration debate”, which spawned “Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kans.” The entire spread was very downbeat. The bottom line was that the 50-year-old Supreme Court ruling has really done nothing to better educate the nation’s minority children. The opportunities are there, but there are still too many excuses for the poor performance of black and Latino children in the public school systems of America. One paragraph too was very telling: “ By 1971, the court had endorsed busing to overcome the residential segregation that was keeping black and white children apart. Particularly in the South the integration drive worked…but a series of court decisions in the early to mid-1990s reversed the trend.” Hummmmm! I wonder whom the President of the United States was that allowed that to happen? Could it have been the “First Black President”, Willie Jeff? Two quotes tell all. Robert McFrazier is quoted: “Brown accomplished what it set out to accomplish – to integrate schools. But has it done anything to improve academic success? No. It’s failed miserably.” And the second by Dr. Derrick Bell, a law professor and author of a book on “Brown”: “But the idea that putting black kids together with whites would solve our problems was naïve in the extreme.” So we see another great liberal idea that failed to produce any appreciable success for the children of America. 50 years of integration has not helped. 50 years of multicultural claptrap and pretense at education; while teacher unions soaked up tax dollars for parties and the wooing of liberal politicians. I grew up in a segregated neighborhood and attended integrated schools from the 6th through 12th grades. We didn’t care about percentages, or quotas; we cared about education. Our teachers cared about education too. I saw no instance where any one of any race was favored over any other race. You earned spots on teams, clubs, choirs and school plays based on your own drive and ability. You took responsibility for your own success or failure. You did not ask courts to try to make everything “all better” when you failed to achieve a goal. You tried harder the next time. Rulings like “Brown vs. Board” and “Roe vs. Wade” are the socialized quagmires that result from courts making law. What has really been interesting about my travels through the various MWR libraries and magazine racks around here is that sometimes you find that “gem in the rough.” I found a hardcover copy of “The Turning Tide: The Fall of Liberalism and the Rise of Common Sense”, by Pat Robertson. The eleven-year-old publication was a very optimistic book for its time. It indeed gives many examples of liberalism in action, especially against Christian morals and values; and how court cases conducted during the early ‘90s were overturning much of the liberal agenda. But within the pages of Robertson’s book I found this on page 225, “A ten page feature on the NEA in June 7, 1993, issue of “Forbes” magazine (I will try to “Google” this later) shows the alarming results of the NEA’s domination of public education for the past thirty years. Statistics show that unionization, government spending per pupil and teacher salaries have skyrocketed while SAT scores and every other measure of student achievement has plummeted. It is not coincidental that the changes began at the same time that the NEA began taking control. “Forbes” is quoted: “The NEA’s rise is directly linked with the thirty year decline of American education that occurred simultaneously – not just in terms of quality, but especially in terms of quantity; education’s crushing and incessantly culminating cost.” Mr. Robertson’s book is 10 years old; so the NEA, which has not been checked or balanced since the writing of “Tide” has now allowed educational decline for 40 years. The failures of “Brown vs. Board” are not a mystery. Integration has had little impact on educational achievement. Unions, substandard teachers and substandard teaching methods are still the rule of the NEA thumb. None of that was mentioned by any of the “Time” reporters. Education is poor in America only because the nation’s schools aren’t “mixed” enough. I don’t know how much longer America can withstand the “progressiveness” of public education under the auspices of the NEA. It is really time to get back to the basics of neighborhood schools and get the kids out of those long bus rides to mediocrity. ------------ About the Author: Independent, Conservative, Christian. Married with 5 children raised and two grandchildren. Army Veteran and published poet with www.poetry.com since Y2K. Email Michael John McCrae: michael.mccrae@us.army.mil Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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