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BY FRANK VERNUCCIO
America’s very future is at
serious risk not just from enemies
abroad, but also from
dedicated internal forces that
seek to replace constitutional
government with an authoritarian,
anti-western culture
regime.
Parents send their children
to school to gain an education.
Most hard-working,
dedicated teachers want to
provide that. Unfortunately,
a substantial portion of educational
bureaucrats and progressive
faculty leaders have
a wholly different agenda.
Replacing the basics has
been a strident push by Progressives,
as they shove propaganda
down the throats
of students. The drive originated
in universities but now
infects every level, from kindergarten
to postgraduates.
The extraordinary alteration
has replaced, in too
many cases, academia’s correct
mission to educate, with
the force-feeding of leftist propaganda.
An example was recently
observed in Oregon. As
Fox News reports, “Gov. Kate
Brown, the Oregon Democrat,
signed a bill last month with
little fanfare that drops the
requirement that high school
students prove profi ciency in
reading, writing or math before
graduation.”
On the opposite coast,
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has
sought to ban honor rolls. “As
The Post’s Selim Algar reports,
a new DOE guidance
warns that ‘recognizing student
excellence via honor rolls
and class rank can be detrimental
to learners who fi nd
it more diffi cult to reach academic
success.’ Even grades
can negatively infl uence ‘future
student performance.’
Instead, DOE’s geniuses want
to emphasize ‘contributions to
the school or wider community,
and demonstrations of
social justice and integrity.’
Staff should ‘eliminate practices
that penalize students
who have been marginalized
based on their race, culture,
language and/or ability.’”
What has replaced authentic
education is an aggressive
combination of leftist ideology
and extremist anti-main
stream cultural concepts.
The Biden administration’s
advocacy of Critical
Race Theory and the 1619
Project has been a part of the
push to cram demonstrably
false and inaccurate historical
views down the nations’
throat.
Examples of the bizarre
nature of the warping of education
are numerous. A Daily
Mail article exposed the actions
of one teacher who had
her high school English students
pledge allegiance to a
gay pride fl ag.
The OC Register writes
that “…the powerful California
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Teachers Association…
continues to push an aggressive
and fundamentally reactionary
approach to education…
nothing has been
more illustrative of the political
agenda of our educational
establishment than the
recent draft curriculum for
an ‘ethnic studies’ course for
the state’s schools. Although
this curriculum has created
a fi restorm of opposition and
is unlikely to be adopted as is,
the fact is the curriculum refl
ected a far-left agenda that is
deeply entrenched in the educational
establishment… The
scariest thing about the ethnic
studies curriculum may
not be its ultimate content
but how it refl ects an ideology
that advocates the indoctrination
of youngsters who often
don’t even have the most basic
understanding of sociology
or history. Often incapable
of meeting basic grade-level
English language and mathematics
standards, these students
would be forced to learn
academic jargon like misogynoir,
CIS heteropatriarchy
and herstory.”
The assault on history and
common sense is not confi ned
to schools. It has affected museums
and related institutions
as well. Astoundingly,
as reported by one source, The
National Archives placed a
“harmful content” warning
across its entire catalog website
and the warning appears
when users search for anything,
including founding documents
like the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights.
Most parents were blissfully
unaware of how far
schools had drifted from
their mission. That started to
change dramatically when COVID
forced classes to switch to
remote learning. Astounded
by what they discovered, they
began to react. School board
meetings quickly became battlefi
elds when outraged moms
and dads confronted those responsible.
The parental reaction was
not confi ned to mere protests.
Many have begun to abandon
public schools altogether.
The U.S. Census reports that
“The U.S. Census Bureau’s experimental
Household Pulse
Survey, the fi rst data source
to offer both a national and
state-level look at the impact
of COVID-19 on homeschooling
rates, shows a substantial
increase from last spring —
when the pandemic took hold
— to the start of the 2020-2021
school year. Using a large, nationally
representative sample
of U.S. households, the
survey shows homeschooling
is notably higher than the national
benchmarks and offers
a glimpse of changes in homeschooling
patterns during the
pandemic.”
The trend is destined to expand
until academia returns
to providing honest and unbiased
education.
BY AL D’ANGELO
This was an obituary
printed in the Times of London
I thought was worth
sharing.Today we mourn the
passing of our beloved friend
common sense, who has been
with us for many years. No
one knows for sure how old he
was, since his birth records
were long ago lost in bureaucratic
red tape say. He will
be remembered as having
cultivated such valuable lessons
as: know when to come
in out of the rain, why the
early bird gets the worm, life
isn’t always fair, and maybe it
was my fault.Common sense
lived by simple sound fi nancial
policies (don’t spend more
than you can earn) and reliable
strategies, adults not
children are in charge. His
health began to deteriorate
rapidly when well-intentioned
but overbearing regulations
were set in place. Reports of
a 6-year-old boy charged with
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sexual harassment for kissing
a classmate; teens suspended
from school for using
mouthwash after lunch; and
a teacher being fi red for reprimanding
an unruly student
only worsened his condition.
Common sense lost ground
when parents attacked teachers
for not doing the job that
they themselves had failed to
do in disciplining their unruly
children.It declined even
further when schools were
required to get parental consent
to administer sun tan lotion
or an aspirin to a student;
but could not inform parents
when a student got pregnant
and wanted an abortion. Common
sense lost the will to live
as the churches became businesses;
and criminals receive
better treatment than their
victims. Common sense took
a beating when you couldn’t
defend yourself from a burglar
in your own home and
a burglar can sue you for assault.
Common sense fi nally
gave up the will to live, after
a woman failed to realize
that her steaming cup of coffee
was hot. She spilled a little
in her lap and was promptly
awarded a huge settlement.
Common sense was preceded
in death, by his parents,
truth, and trust, by his wife
discretion, by his daughter,
responsibility, and his son,
reason. He is survived by his
fi ve stepbrothers; I know my
rights, I want it now, someone
else is to blame, I’m a victim
pay me for doing nothing. Not
many attended his funeral because,
so few realized he was
now gone.
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Samuel Young
Post 620
BY JOSEPH MONDELLO
I wrote an article last
week but forgot to send it out
to the Bronx Times Reporter.
So please feel free to read
this twice. Time is sure moving
fast, our Oct. 30 Halloween
Bash is almost here. Five
dollars and a tray of your
favorite grub is all it takes
to have a spooky time. The
Bronx Veteran’s Day parade
will be marching off on Sunday,
Nov. 14. We will be remembering
our own George
Brims. Please try to attend;
more information to come.
We are moving forward with
our membership. Cards will
be in the mail soon. A shout
out to Cmdr. Bill Franklin on
keeping the Post tidy. Nice
paint job on the tool shed.
A shout out to our Local
Plasterers Union, a great
bunch of guys; thanks for
fi xing our ceiling in the
Gold Room. If you are sitting
home and have nothing
to do and are feeling energetic,
the large trees outside
our Post are shedding their
leaves and acorns every day.
We have plenty of brooms for
you to sweep up around the
Post. It will also keep you
feeling fi t.
Flu shots are available at
the Bronx VA. We need you
all to stay healthy. We have
a new email address SHYoung620@
gmail.com. Keep
in touch with us, send us
your email so we can send
you updates and progress
on your Post. Until next
week, stay safe and check
on a buddy. We can all use a
hand.
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