We keep tightening school security, but the violence isn't slowing. Safety measures won't work without rebuilding the moral and cultural formation of children.
Our society since the end of WWII has become worse and worse as we are not a cohesive and ordered society where the majority hold specific moral and ethical standards and enforces them. We can thank multiculturism, importing millions of people from countries that have been corrupt for decades or centuries and do not want to assimilate, radical feminism, Marxism, and rewarding sloth and the refusal by many to take responsibility for themselves and their children if they have any.
Personally, I don't see many people working to establish some kind of norm or standard of moral and ethical conduct that can't be crossed by anyone in any capacity which would be necessary to begin to end the hatred, violence, and chaos that has become the norm but now with what used to be considered moral and ethical by a majority no longer existing, I really don't see anything else other than more violence, hatred and chaos.
"which would mean quickly expelling dangerous and troublesome students" This brings to mind some advice from my father when I was a little boy wanting to bring home a stray puppy: "Much as you might want to, you can't save every little puppy in the world." I have used that advice quite often over the years. No one wants to write off anyone, but far better to write off that one bad person than to do the same to all those good people who would be harmed by their presence. Some times we just need to cut our losses.
Yes, though I think ideally, there ought to be some other kind of intervention in these cases, where there is such abject moral failure on the part of the parents. Our current non-solution is the worst outcome, in which even the best of children are sacrificed for the sake of placating those who are a menace.
In England we did have a system where discipline was progressive.
Parents, society, teachers, police, Borstal, then finally prison or mental institution. As we now have ultra liberalism this seems to be lost because the law protects the perpetrator now.
I believe that from early childhood forward, parents and schools (teachers) ought to teach the meaning of Freedom. What it means in the tangible way it can only be understood, that is, Freedom equals Love (of neighbor). This simple yet profound understanding, would undoubtedly open the understanding of virtue, responsibility and the true notion that we are indeed our brother’s keeper.
If Common law was re introduced as a taught subject it would give everyone a good grounding in how to behave . The Deep State stopped instructing English Policemen and and. Lawyers on this subject in 1970 and we now have zombie people who can not think and reason.
The basic tenant of Common Law
is " do no harm " .to your fellow human in any sense of the word.
The foreseeable result of two full generations now marinated in the mediocrity of a Marxist-union-controlled public school indoctrination model masquerading as an education system. Reliably bolstered by left wing agenda driven digital social entertainment media, the tragic outcome is a huge youth population cohort with distorted social and moral values, no civics knowledge, no critical reasoning skills and with their intellect and 3R skill set stalled at 8th Grade levels. What a perfect audience to soak up the wall-to-wall garbage being fed to them daily by the corrupt 21st Century media, entertainment and political conglomerate via sound bites, video clips, social media ‘influencers’ and the banal babbling of the vapid, narcissistic and largely substance-impaired ‘Celebrity Class’! Add the catastrophic drug culture that continues to grow and dominate huge segments of the youth demographic and the pool of future citizen-voters is daily becoming more dysfunctional and culturally detached.
The institutionalised propaganda model now blanketing the US, spawned by early 20th Century Socialists like Woodrow Wilson and his ilk, further expanded by 60’s and 70’s pot addled liberal progressives and egged on by the likes of crypto-commies Alinsky, Cloward and Piven et al, is now embraced and enthusiastically perpetuated throughout most of the US Blue City and State public school systems and large swaths of the so-called higher education establishments. From elementary up to post-graduate level, this drive to indoctrinate and ‘homogenise’ young minds is ably executed by virtually untouchable Marxist-socialist-union protected K-12 teaching staff and tenure protected Crypto-Trotskyite college faculties, almost all of whom are pushing revisionist cultural, political and social history curricula. . Over the 78year span of my lifetime thus far this well-oiled system has succeeded brilliantly in mass producing a huge, and growing, cohort of ill-educated, civically ignorant, socially inept, morally bankrupt and terminally propogandised citizenry. Unless and until the foundational 'indoctri-cational' conglomerate is completely overhauled the societal erosion will continue, speeding up as we oldsters pass on.
Call me Eeyore, OM, but I don't see this situation being turned around until the inevitable societal collapse occurs. It will take too much "tough love" to fix the current system before then, a "tough love" that is now hobbled by frivolous accusations of this-ism and that-ism. There is simply no political will to fight the battles that must occur to fix the system within the system. In the meantime, we need to assume that every social encounter in public carries the very real possibility of grave danger to life and limb. The school stabbing event cited in this post is a perfect example. The boy that died probably had no indication that a simple scuffle would end his life. The rest of us need to take note and be on our guard. Always.
I blame the Welfare State for making the act of having children a method to “earn” a living. Children have become a means to an end and nothing more for the shiftless in our society.
It's complicated though, because children once had more "value" directly to families, such as when they were used as laborers on the family farm. Now they are largely considered to be economic liabilities, especially as adolescence is extended such that kids are prevented from becoming self-sufficient in healthy ways. Dr. Catherine Pakulak was speaking recently about how parents ought to encourage children to do chores and early jobs, etc, if only because such things are good for the soul.
Even a couple of generations ago, children were expected to do chores, to obey their parents, and to take some responsibility for what they did if they were at the age of reason. And children who misbehaved knew they would be punished some way (I was spanked when I misbehaved and didn't turn out to be a psychopath nor did any of those my age.) Teachers were also able to remove a child from the classroom for behavior that interrupted the class. In other words, children were disciplined and they learned that certain behavior was just never acceptable.
I'm afraid that you're coming to a situation where people are going to to have to live in gated communities with armed guards to keep those with unacceptable behaviour out. There is no way you can control the great mass of the population any more, they are too far gone and many have no moral code you could appeal to. The only way will be separation from these people and banishment for the families that do not conform to civilised standards of behaviour.
Our society since the end of WWII has become worse and worse as we are not a cohesive and ordered society where the majority hold specific moral and ethical standards and enforces them. We can thank multiculturism, importing millions of people from countries that have been corrupt for decades or centuries and do not want to assimilate, radical feminism, Marxism, and rewarding sloth and the refusal by many to take responsibility for themselves and their children if they have any.
Personally, I don't see many people working to establish some kind of norm or standard of moral and ethical conduct that can't be crossed by anyone in any capacity which would be necessary to begin to end the hatred, violence, and chaos that has become the norm but now with what used to be considered moral and ethical by a majority no longer existing, I really don't see anything else other than more violence, hatred and chaos.
"which would mean quickly expelling dangerous and troublesome students" This brings to mind some advice from my father when I was a little boy wanting to bring home a stray puppy: "Much as you might want to, you can't save every little puppy in the world." I have used that advice quite often over the years. No one wants to write off anyone, but far better to write off that one bad person than to do the same to all those good people who would be harmed by their presence. Some times we just need to cut our losses.
Yes, though I think ideally, there ought to be some other kind of intervention in these cases, where there is such abject moral failure on the part of the parents. Our current non-solution is the worst outcome, in which even the best of children are sacrificed for the sake of placating those who are a menace.
In England we did have a system where discipline was progressive.
Parents, society, teachers, police, Borstal, then finally prison or mental institution. As we now have ultra liberalism this seems to be lost because the law protects the perpetrator now.
I believe that from early childhood forward, parents and schools (teachers) ought to teach the meaning of Freedom. What it means in the tangible way it can only be understood, that is, Freedom equals Love (of neighbor). This simple yet profound understanding, would undoubtedly open the understanding of virtue, responsibility and the true notion that we are indeed our brother’s keeper.
If Common law was re introduced as a taught subject it would give everyone a good grounding in how to behave . The Deep State stopped instructing English Policemen and and. Lawyers on this subject in 1970 and we now have zombie people who can not think and reason.
The basic tenant of Common Law
is " do no harm " .to your fellow human in any sense of the word.
The foreseeable result of two full generations now marinated in the mediocrity of a Marxist-union-controlled public school indoctrination model masquerading as an education system. Reliably bolstered by left wing agenda driven digital social entertainment media, the tragic outcome is a huge youth population cohort with distorted social and moral values, no civics knowledge, no critical reasoning skills and with their intellect and 3R skill set stalled at 8th Grade levels. What a perfect audience to soak up the wall-to-wall garbage being fed to them daily by the corrupt 21st Century media, entertainment and political conglomerate via sound bites, video clips, social media ‘influencers’ and the banal babbling of the vapid, narcissistic and largely substance-impaired ‘Celebrity Class’! Add the catastrophic drug culture that continues to grow and dominate huge segments of the youth demographic and the pool of future citizen-voters is daily becoming more dysfunctional and culturally detached.
The institutionalised propaganda model now blanketing the US, spawned by early 20th Century Socialists like Woodrow Wilson and his ilk, further expanded by 60’s and 70’s pot addled liberal progressives and egged on by the likes of crypto-commies Alinsky, Cloward and Piven et al, is now embraced and enthusiastically perpetuated throughout most of the US Blue City and State public school systems and large swaths of the so-called higher education establishments. From elementary up to post-graduate level, this drive to indoctrinate and ‘homogenise’ young minds is ably executed by virtually untouchable Marxist-socialist-union protected K-12 teaching staff and tenure protected Crypto-Trotskyite college faculties, almost all of whom are pushing revisionist cultural, political and social history curricula. . Over the 78year span of my lifetime thus far this well-oiled system has succeeded brilliantly in mass producing a huge, and growing, cohort of ill-educated, civically ignorant, socially inept, morally bankrupt and terminally propogandised citizenry. Unless and until the foundational 'indoctri-cational' conglomerate is completely overhauled the societal erosion will continue, speeding up as we oldsters pass on.
Call me Eeyore, OM, but I don't see this situation being turned around until the inevitable societal collapse occurs. It will take too much "tough love" to fix the current system before then, a "tough love" that is now hobbled by frivolous accusations of this-ism and that-ism. There is simply no political will to fight the battles that must occur to fix the system within the system. In the meantime, we need to assume that every social encounter in public carries the very real possibility of grave danger to life and limb. The school stabbing event cited in this post is a perfect example. The boy that died probably had no indication that a simple scuffle would end his life. The rest of us need to take note and be on our guard. Always.
I blame the Welfare State for making the act of having children a method to “earn” a living. Children have become a means to an end and nothing more for the shiftless in our society.
It's complicated though, because children once had more "value" directly to families, such as when they were used as laborers on the family farm. Now they are largely considered to be economic liabilities, especially as adolescence is extended such that kids are prevented from becoming self-sufficient in healthy ways. Dr. Catherine Pakulak was speaking recently about how parents ought to encourage children to do chores and early jobs, etc, if only because such things are good for the soul.
Even a couple of generations ago, children were expected to do chores, to obey their parents, and to take some responsibility for what they did if they were at the age of reason. And children who misbehaved knew they would be punished some way (I was spanked when I misbehaved and didn't turn out to be a psychopath nor did any of those my age.) Teachers were also able to remove a child from the classroom for behavior that interrupted the class. In other words, children were disciplined and they learned that certain behavior was just never acceptable.
Agree Sarah, Catherine and Michael Pakulak can teach us much about good parenting skills and encouraging tasks that are good for the soul.
And also good for Society.
I'm afraid that you're coming to a situation where people are going to to have to live in gated communities with armed guards to keep those with unacceptable behaviour out. There is no way you can control the great mass of the population any more, they are too far gone and many have no moral code you could appeal to. The only way will be separation from these people and banishment for the families that do not conform to civilised standards of behaviour.
You write with such remarkable clarity, Sarah. - Thank you for a sterling and necessary article.
"If we want to live in more than a prison, we must create people who can live in freedom."
Ben Franklin, or Thomas Jefferson could not have said it better.
Kudos. An excellent overview of our growing calamity of nonexistent values, morals and norms.
This is one of many reasons to recommend Home Schooling.