Letter: Our students offer the biggest indictment of our schools

Posted 12/9/21

To the editor: The Mt. Hope Student Union claims in their overlong public comment, quoted in toto by Tumblr-blog Uprise RI, that our doomed collegebound “are checked for their bigotry, …

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Letter: Our students offer the biggest indictment of our schools

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To the editor:

The Mt. Hope Student Union claims in their overlong public comment, quoted in toto by Tumblr-blog Uprise RI, that our doomed collegebound “are checked for their bigotry, [homophobia and racism]” outside this backwater district; and so we must “teach our students why they cannot [...] continue to be discriminatory and bigoted.” #BeBetter.

Put aside whether postsecondary madhouses really “check” students according to the latest diversity cant — or whether Title IX’s kangaroo consent-courts and crusades against men’s sports better explain record lows in college enrollment — to my alumnal ear, this sounds like the usual overachievers flexing on the meatheads in college-prep.

Still, if we do live in “a bubble of whiteness” — Perish the thought! — then where did these Huskies pick up this blacktivist patter?

With typical slipperiness, moonbat apologists in these pages (as elsewhere) have glossed over CRT as a jurisprudent relic or a sociologist’s hobbyhorse, to which I add, maybe it’s a new medication or rock-group! Call it CRT, DEI, BLM or, with neocons like Bill Kristol and Jeb Bush, the GOP; anywhere this anti-white hydra rears its ugly heads, it spews the same, familiar sewage — and influencing behavior through racial shame isn’t new pedagogy in our district. My classmates having made one of two costume choices, I was once upon a time the lone pilgrim at a Walley School Thanksgiving party.

By this paragraph, certain readers are still screaming, “he’s ridiculing minors when we should be listening to the students!” A convenient defense when an oral exam sounds like your talking points. Meanwhile, these same pearl-clutchers are likely countable among those who — see my previous letter — believe sixteen-year-olds are mature enough to vote; their way, that is. Besides, given NEARI and UFT’s opposition in 2019 to criminalizing teacher-student amours, we can say most educators agree that teenagers are ready and willing to hold their own with adults.

Listen to our students and you’ll hear the biggest indictment of our schools; they cannot meaningfully challenge the left’s world order without lapping their instructors in pursuit of the next revolutionary obnoxity. (Just wait until a school committee member calls the wrong girls’ softball star “young lady.”) Teachers training their pets to sit up and beg for more left-wing policies doesn’t prepare them for a tomorrow any brighter than that of the inner cities, where Democrat promises keep failing to resolve the squalor and chaos of Democrat realities.

While Huskies practice their “hey-hey, ho-ho” chants, former Lt. Gov. Dan McKee is rolling out a vax pass, at first, as optional bling for sycophantic pincushions, but ushering us nonetheless closer toward a medical apartheid — whose ramifications our future leaders are bereft of the vision to address in favor of personal freedom and limited government. This is a great pity — especially because our current representatives aren’t up to the task either.

Zachary Cooper
48A Sherman Ave.

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