Secrecy in Public Schools
Mathew LaClair, age 16, is a student in the Kearny School District. Recently, his American history teacher, David Paszkiewicz, decided to begin adding his own irrelevant commentary to the our nation’s history. He told the students that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs and that the students would go to hell if they had not accepted Jesus into their hearts.
This peculiar addition to American history is not what bother’s me, however. What bothers me is the reaction of the school board when they had found that LaClair had recorded the ranting of his American history teacher.
LaClair was afraid that nobody would believe him when he would try to bring this infraction by Paszkiewicz to the administrator’s attention. It seemed to the student to be logical to obtain proof through taping the teacher’s rants, before going before the board.
The school board’s reaction to this event was to place a ban on taping lectures in Kearny School District without consent of the teaching staff.
This action benefits nobody but the school district and its staff. They have cast a secretive veil over the school. It is the right of tax payers to have the ability to monitor what is being taught to our children in the most candid fashion available. Our public schools are not secret brain wash camps and should not be subject to the same sort of ideology.
If there is a problem in the school, then fix it. It is never appropriate to mask an issue from the eyes of the taxpayers.
The school board also took “corrective” action against Paszkiewicz, but they would not elaborate on what actions were taken. However, It does not seem the school as much faith in the “corrective” action taken based on the decision by the board to place this ban on taping.
5 comments:
Considering the fact that public education is plank 10 of the communist manifesto, maybe we should address this issue by removing the government from education. It has NO Constitutional authority to be involved to begin with. Privatize schooling and allow parents to choose what type of education/indoctrination their children receive. Why is it we spend more than EVERY other country on education but still produce sub-par students in comparison?
All it takes to really fuck something up is to get the government involved. Then again, our Constitution doesn't authorize the government to be involved with education to begin with. I'm guessing the FF had a reason for that since most weren't socialists/communists/marxists.
I agree. Privatizing our schools is the only way to save our future from our political heroes.
This case is a classic argument for vouchers. Parents, not the government in any form, should control what students are taught in their schools. I believe this teacher is absolutely right, and I would love to have him teaching my children. So long as we have to support public schools who teach evolution and not creation and many other quasi-scientific theories as truth, parents are deprived of their rights to raise their children according to their beliefs and standards. I wish I had this teacher's e-mail address because the grass roots Americans would love to say "Amen" to this man who shares our beliefs and our concerns for the welfare of his students.
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