Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin? Thomas Sowell

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The following is from The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 350 - 351:

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Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin?

Recently a couple of dear friends visited us, bringing with them their six-year-old twins, Sara and Benjamin. These are some of the loveliest children you could meet — not just in appearance, but in their behavior. They are the kinds of kids you can see in Norman Rockwell paintings, but less and less in the real world.

Now Sara and Benjamin are going off to public school and it is painful to imagine what they might be like a year from now. Most people are unaware how much time and effort the public schools — and some private schools — are putting into undermining the values and understanding that the children were taught by their parents and re-orienting them toward the avant-guard vision of the world that is fashionable in the educational establishment.

Today’s educators believe it is their job to introduce children like Sara and Benjamin to sex when and in whatsoever manner they see fit, regardless of what the children’s parents might think. Raw movies of both heterosexuals and homosexuals in action are shown in elementary schools.

Weaning children away from their parents’ influence in general is a high priority in many schools. Children sit in what is called a “magic circle” and talk about all sorts of personal things, with the rule being that they are not to repeat any of these things to anyone outside this magic circle. Sometimes they are explicitly told not to repeat what is said to their parents.

Some handbooks for teachers warn against letting parents know the specifics of what is being done and provide strategies for side-stepping parental questions and concerns. Glowing generalities and high-sounding names like “gifted and talented” programs conceal what are nothing more than brainwashing operations to convert the children from their parents’ values to the values preferred by educational gurus.

Right and wrong are among the earliest targets of these programs. “There is no ‘right’ way or ‘right’ age to have life experiences,” one widely used textbook says. Another textbook tells children that they may listen to their parents “if you are interested in their ideas.” But if there is a difference of opinion, parent and child alike should see the other’s point of view “as different, not wrong.”

Sara and Benjamin are only six years old and are going into the first grade. Will any of this apply to them? Yes. There is a textbook designed for children ranging from pre-school to the third grade, which tells children their rights and about asserting those rights to parents. Whenever “things happen you don’t like,” you have “the right to be angry without being afraid of being punished” it says.

In other words, don’t take any guff off mommy and daddy. Who are they? As another textbook says, parents are just “ordinary people with faults and weaknesses and insecurities and problems just like everyone else.” In many of the textbooks, movies, and other material used in schools, parents are depicted as old-fashioned people who are out of touch and full of hang-ups.

What these smug underminers of parents fail to understand is that the relationship of a child to his parents is the most extraordinary relationship anyone is likely to have with another human being. If the avant-guard ideas taught to children in schools blow up in their faces, it is the parents who will be left to pick up the pieces, not the glib gurus.

Most of the classroom teachers who carry out such educational fashions and fetishes have no idea where they originated or what their underlying purpose is. In reality, many of the techniques and strategies used to break down the child’s values, personality and modesty are straight out of totalitarian brainwashing practices from the days of Stalin and Mao.

That is the origin, for example, of the personal journals that children are required to keep in schools across the United States. These journals are not educational. Gross mistakes in spelling, grammar and usage are ignored, not corrected. These journals are gateways to the psyche and the first step in manipulating little minds.

As our friends departed and went off to enrol their children in the public schools, I could not help wondering if I had seen Sara and Benjamin for the last time. Would they still be the same sweet children after they have been used as guinea pigs by those who claim to be trying to educate them?

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What do I think about this? This is shocking! It is evil! It is obscene! It is straight from Satan! These people doing this are criminals! They are betraying a trust. People trust them with their most precious possession — their children. And it is government that is doing this — the school system! And I am forced to pay and support the system!

People should go to prison for this! How very happy I am that I chose not to have children!

That this kind of thing could happen in America shows how very, very corrupt America is! If something like this happened in a moral society, people would learn about it and the population would be so outraged, so angry, that it would all stop very quickly.

I went to a little one-room country school. We were taught the basics — reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, etc. My moral outlooks came from my parents and the church we attended.

All of this is an attempt by a morally degenerate liberal left to replace Christian outlooks and values in our children with their own Godless, depraved outlooks and values. It is all about the left’s war against Christianity! And I suspect the homosexual lobby is playing a big part in it!

What can one do? Find a private school that you are sure you can trust or homeschool your children.

It all takes me back to my idea of the Christian Brotherhood. See The Christian Brotherhood. I would form an Amish-like Christian community isolated from the world. The community would educate the children.

11 Dec 2023