Unless you are willing to goosestep with this abusive government, you are their enemy.

A Disappointing WSJ Op-Ed on the Class of 2012!

By A.J. Cameron (Bio and Archives)  Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us

About 15 years ago, I began reading the Op-Ed section of ‘The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).’  The initial op-ed I read addressed how elected politicians, specifically Democrats, were preventing domestic oil companies from drilling for oil in America because of an agenda.  Isn’t it sad that fifteen years later, we are still victims of elected politicians’ shenanigans regarding an incongruent and abusive anti-oil policy?  Subsequently, I have enjoyed reading the Op-Ed section of the WSJ.  While I agree with a majority of the editorials posted in the WSJ, every once in awhile there is an editorial with which I disagree, or that disturbs me.

I am not a psychologist, but I believe the editorial by Bret Stephens in the Tuesday, May 8th WSJ is an example of misplaced aggression.  Maybe Mr. Stephen was bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider and the venom injected into him drove him to write his editorial, but I was disappointed by Mr. Stephens’ effort.

I respect good teachers.  An aunt was a teacher; a cousin was a teacher before becoming a nurse; a niece and her husband are teachers; a cousin is a teacher, and I have friends who are teachers.  I’m thankful for many of my teachers throughout my education.  Sadly, many teachers focus is not in their students’ best interests. 

Unfortunately, over the past several decades, the NEA, politicians, especially Democrats, and the Goebbels media have conspired to hijack the educational system, abusing students, good teachers and educators, and taxpayers.  Tenure has been equated to dedication, and all too often, these two concepts are incongruent.  Many school districts are top heavy with administrators, and those in school administration, buttressed by militant teachers with an agenda, will fight to maintain their ‘entitlements.’   

As Mr. Stephens stated, many students probably have ‘benefitted’ from inflated grades, but is this the students’ fault?  Are they not victims of an educational system that shuns grading students because grades can be too demeaning for those who struggle in a course?  Isn’t this the same educational system that tends to focus upon indoctrinating students rather than educating them?  Doesn’t this ‘caring’ agenda lead to the conformity of thought for this entire generation?  Aren’t the many narcissistic professors pressured to have their students pass their classes to justify their inflated incomes and limited class schedules due to tenure?

In a world in which Socialists, Communists, and Marxists are debasing individual effort, why should students even go to college, racking up a fortune in college loans?  Are colleges and universities kept open to allow the Pied Pipers of Progressivism to remain flush in cash and benefits, and be ready to indoctrinate the Class of 2013, and each year thereafter?  I agree that being multi-lingual is important, and I wonder if Mr. Stephens is multi-lingual?  As for a degree in hard science or engineering, as we slide towards a ‘behind the Iron Curtain’ dictatorial soviet state, isn’t it up to the state to determine what people do for a living?

As for puffery, isn’t that all the rage?  Aren’t we supposed to throw caution to the wind, abandoning religious faith and sound science for the U. N. Agenda 21 environmental pretense and science by connived consensus?  In addressing students thinking for themselves, is that an untapped opportunity, in which, as students graduate from our conformist educational system, they go to a private decompression educational system to erase the Progressive pablum that has been implanted into their consciousness to allow for critical thinking, and for these students to become employable?

As the Dictator-in-Chief continues advancing the Progressive blitzkrieg against our economy, I wonder if, and when, new graduates will think for themselves, and realize the many lies to which they were subjected in school, and the lies about how the Dictator-in-Chief and many politicians care about the youth of our society.  Unless you are willing to goosestep with this abusive government, you are their enemy.  How is that for a reality check and a quick education?  In today’s litigious society, who will be the first to bring a lawsuit against any or all levels of our educational system that led him/her through the trough of Progressive tripe?

Sadly, as the NEA became a division within the Democrat Party, focused upon amassing power and fortune over educating students, students have become collateral damage in the war to indoctrinate these defenseless students into an unholy agenda.  The reason the cost of education has mushroomed over the past several decades is that the NEA, politicians at all levels of government, and the Goebbels media have conspired to take advantage of our political and tax systems to advance their non-educational agenda.  They play upon parents’ desire for their children’s education and people’s guilt if they don’t cough up the cash to keep the self-serving system going.  Under the Dictator-in-Chief, now all educational loans fall under the dictate of the Federal government - what could go wrong with this system, especially when graduates can’t find a job, or a job that allows them to repay their loans? 

Until the stranglehold of the NEA, with its focus upon amassing power and fortune is broken, won’t students, their parents and taxpayers continue to be shortchanged?  Hasn’t much of our educational system earned an ‘F’ for failing its students, their parents, employers, and our society?  I suggest that Mr. Stephens review his perspective about the Class of 2012, and begin questioning why those students, with whom he has interacted, have failed to measure up to his expectations.