Why are liberals trying to take childhood away from our children?

Question

Is this the message we're sending children about supporting our troops? Since when are toys considered bad?

"Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in
Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons."

Perhaps they'll suspend him too for trying to cause bodily harm to other children because he tried to separate cookies with his mouth. It would make about as much sense as this does.

"a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070615/ap_on_re_us/zero_tolerance

Then they wonder why we like to home school our children, or send them to private schools. It's so we don't raise mentally unstable children suffering from a stolen childhood due to a over-the-top PC world.

It's not just about this article. I just used this because it was there tonight. This has been slowly happening to our schools for some time now.

It's about other things too.
-No Christmas parties in school anymore
-It's a "merry" or "happy" tree now.
-They're that praying in school is punishable and they should be ashamed simply because it offends others. Prayer at graduations is banned as well. So much for wishing your classmates well.
-They're being taught that they do not have to respect the flag anymore by saying the Pledge of Allegiance. If they do say it, it's the watered down version that does not include "One Nation, Under God."
-"Voluntary" drug testing in high schools. But, they take privileges away if you do not volunteer. Threats of punishment does not make it voluntary.

Answer 1

It is a technique straight from the Communist Manifesto:

Abolition of the family! (page 87)

Answer 2

This is an issue worthy of exploration. I don't believe this is an accident, I believe that the "public" has been duped into thinking what they are doing is the right thing, they are what I'm told are the "useful idiots."

The first thing that must take place in a country targetted for take over is the removed of guns/weapons (ur article ingrains in children that they are bad). Meanwhile, they indoctrinate our children.

Here is some info about the course we are on in the USA:

The fifth collumn is a clandestine subversive organization working within a country to further an invading enemy's military and political aims. People willing to cooperate with an aggressor against their own country.

The American Fifth Column is born out of Socialist/Communist ideology where the citizenry grows dependent on the government while the government increasingly legislates itself more control over the people.

The American Fifth Column is embodied by the politically correct multicultural one-world movement and encompasses all of the Progressive-Left buzz word initiatives, such as "diversity," "public good," "it takes a village," "global village" and so on.

Perhaps the most disturbing avenue the Fifth Column has cultivated is within our education system. From grade school through college, the education establishment, bolstered by the political activists and social engineers of the agenda-driven National Education Association, has the government mandated opportunity to poison the minds of our children, to brainwash our country's youth.

Nary a day goes by when there isn't a story espousing the political indoctrination by the likes of a Ward Churchill or a Jay Bennish, "teachers" – and I use the word loosely – who impose their political beliefs on their students while usurping the parental birthright to bequeath familial core values to their children.

Answer 3

I read a book written in the 30's that said that socialists (read Liberals) would conquer the US from withing by taking over the schools, the newspapers, and the radio. The book was written before TV. I am sure they added that to their list later. You say they are taking away our children's childhood. They are also taking away their ability to learn about work, accomplishment, and self respect. One of the biggest dangers of PCness is the demeaning effect it has on individuals. You can't think your a little better than the next guy, and then you look at him and realize that he is not very much, so you must not be either. What's wrong about thinking you are something special. Most of us are in some way better than our fellows. Some of us excel in math, others in sports, others in science, others in the arts, but woe be it if you say you are better in your chosen field. Most families anymore have to have two wage earners and therefore must turn their kids over to the educators at an earlier and earlier age. We can not keep the fuits of our labors for ourselves and our families. We must turn it over to the IRS for redistribution to those who will not work as hard as we do and must be cared for. They use our money to buy the others votes. Maybe we should deny the ballot to anyone receiving a government check, because that qualifies as a conflict of interest. The two worst things that happened in the Twentieth Centu;ry were the 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve Board. Bring on the Fairtax act and bring back the Gold Standard.

Answer 4

Most of the things you cite are from conservatives, inflicted upon us. All the drug testing and zero tolerance behavior is of conservative origin.

Now, the pledge... When I grew up on military bases around the world, we never said those "under God" words. Back then, the military could recognize unconstitutional things, and we said the Pledge the proper way - one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Taking out "Under God" Is not 'watering it down." It's removing from the pledge the ugly artifact of McCarthyism - this phrase which divides our indivisible nation. The phrase is reprehensible and I can't understand why any AMerican who loves her country and her country's values would support such an onerous phrase in our pledge.

As I hang out on homeschool park days, the liberal families there seem to be giving their kids fabulous childhoods. We're all having a blast.

Answer 5

i don't know...for christs....happy meals? toys? YES! it's an outrage! take to the streets! meanwhile, ignore the fact that the fed just printed 650 billion in new inflationary money to prop up investment bankers and wall street all for the good of making union pension funds look better. NEVER MIND that the fed is creating another HUGE bubble in paper profits. KA - BOOM goes the bubble! that same happy meal, with or without toy, is fixing to cost about 28 bucks! i never liked mcdonalds anyway. i'm a burger king guy.

Answer 6

I have to disagree that the liberals to blame for any of this. The conservative method of dealing with things in the world is more to blame for violent attitudes in children than anything. Anyway, in our school district, our kids still say the pledge of allegiance with "one nation, under God", we still have actual "Christmas trees" and the plastic knife would not be an issue. I agree, those stories are over the top, but consider what led to these rules.

Answer 7

First of all, do not blame the problems directly on Liberals. Both Liberals and Conservatives are behind all of the things you complain about here.

As to your first point. Many schools, mine included, have a rule against guns, violence, over-the-top gore, and drugs/paraphanalia in their students artwork and homework. This is a very hard rule to enforce, as the line is fuzzy as to what is "appropriate" in a given situation. What i suspect happened with the fifth-graders in California is a simple enforcement of that rule. Sure, the guns on the soldiers may have been relevant to their poster, but once that is allowed, what is to stop an art student from drawing people shooting one another, or people using drugs, if they can explain some small way it is relevant to their art. The biggest problem I see is that the students were not warned ahead of time that they would not be allowed to have weapons on their poster.

The case of the kindergardener is much the same. While i think the suspension was out of line, you have to draw the line somewhere. After all, a butter knife isnt much more dangerous than a plastic knife, and a paring knife is pretty hard to cut someone with too, but steak knife isnt that much better than a paring knife.... and so on. Also, you can cut yourself/someone else with a plastic knife. It isnt that hard, and with the way most kindergarteners saw away at things, it is entirely possible that the knife could have caused injury. The suspension of a kindergartener was out of line.

Christmas parties are, indeed, overtly Christian. a Winter Holiday party is just as effective, and includes people of ALL religions, and people of no religion. Public schools are required to give freedon from religion, and making kinda be at a CHRISTmas party is forcing them to participate in a holiday from a religion in which they do not believe. Trust me on this one, little kids get just as excited about a "Winter Holiday" party.

And, same thing for the "merry" or "happy" tree. There is, after all, CHRIST in CHRISTmas. Freedom from religion. You might have forgotten just how influencable young children are.

I do think that punishing children for praying is out of line. However, the teacher should keep his/her prayer in an area where the children cannot see them, and there should not be group prayers in a class.

The problem with the Pledge Of Allegience, is, in fact, the "Under God" part. Not saying "Under God" is not watering the pledge down, it is preventing children and teenager from being forced to concede the existance of a god they do not believe in. Perhaps your history or government teacher never taught you, but the Pledge has changed many times, and the original version did NOT have the words "under God" written anywhere in it. In fact, that was the most recent change to the pledge.

Drug testing is more of a product of CONSERVATIVES, not liberals. Liberals are more LIBERAL about things like that. Also, it is completely voluntary. You have to make a choice, activities or drugs. It is your CHOICE to use drugs, but they have a consequence. I do not support drug testing in schools, as I believe that it is the parents job to keep their kids safe; however, it is voluntary.

Answer 8

Because the Bible told us to:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=4&chapter=14&verse=18&version=31&context=verse

See also Psalm 137: 8-9, 1 Samuel 15:3, Numbers 31, Genesis 19:7-8.

All of us liberal childhood-stealers study the word of the Lord and strive every day to be just like Him: 2 Kings 2:23-24.

Answer 9

I don't know if liberals are behind it, but it is sad. How else are they supposed to support our troops? Wear a T shirt with soldiers on it. Oh wait, if they are holding any type of weapon then they are evil according to the schools.

Answer 10

Liberals hate children, remember abortion????? if they can get them before they are born, all that much better. How many choices do you know that start with two people but in the end only one is left??? And that's progress? Women's liberation? from what, a conscience?

Answer 11

As my fine friend Mr. Marxist states, this is a standard ploy of the socialists, so want your family back, vote anti-socialist, in plain english that means for anyone but a democrat.