While excuse makers and vacillating politicians bicker over immigration and No Child Left Behind, public education’s politically correct culture continues its noxious indoctrination of those confined inside its system. The kinder and gentler social experiments that masquerade as modern pedagogy are brainwashing many students into a bunch of low-achieving, over-sensitive, undisciplined, and dimwitted wimps. How anyone remains perplexed over floundering classroom performance eludes comprehension. The problem is in “the culture.”

Over the Memorial Day weekend, I was honored to be the guest on a radio program called Political Pistachio. The show’s host (Douglas Gibbs) and his wife ("Mrs. Pistachio") invited me on to discuss several issues facing public education. I shared my inside view regarding two PC agendas polluting public classrooms: multicultural excrement and artificial self-esteem. In nine years of teaching, I saw firsthand how PC programs retarded my students’ critical thinking skills and defiled American cornerstones like competition and self-reliance.

Here’s another argument that public-school bureaucrats use to “justify” their monopoly control over our children’s minds and lives. They claim that we cannot trust the free-market to educate our children because too many free-market (private) schools are greedy for profits, cheat parents and students, take their money, make wild promises, or go out of business.

A few weeks ago the Pew Research Center released their newest Political Knowledge Survey(1), a report that tracked the general political knowledge of responding Americans, and compared it to similar survey results from 1989. The results show that, as Pew reports, “public knowledge of current affairs is little changed by news and the information revolutions.” It seems somewhat reassuring for Pew to say we really haven’t gotten any dumber on politics. But a closer look at the results not only shows we are getting dumber, but that the internet and cable news “revolutions” really haven’t made us a whole lot smarter on politics, when you’d think that they would have. In fact, it seems more like these wonderful new sources of information we have at our fingertips have helped us but tread water in the hunt for a more informed public… even losing some ground.

In quite possibly the most blatant display of hypocrisy ever displayed by a former public official, former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey is now teaching ethics to young men and women at a New Jersey public college. Last November, Kean University located in Union hired the disgraced McGreevey to teach a course in ethics, law and leadership.

Shaping young minds...or is it twisting? - One of the perks of being a celebrity is being asked to give public speeches, including the occasional commencement address for a high school or institution of higher learning. Of course, I’m not a celebrity, per se, which would explain why I’m still waiting on a high school or institution of higher learning to contact me. But, just in case Pauly Shore or Paris Hilton’s gardener’s first cousin’s manicurist has to cancel, here’s a glimpse at what you’d get if you hired me.

It seems teachers that want to teach are getting fed up with the Progressive BS!

I alluded to this point briefly in this week’s radio spot, and I think it imperative that a discussion be initiated on another reason for the Virginia Tech shooting that will be avoided by mainstream media analysis: the need for Teacher Control.

There was a day in the United States when the citizens of this great nation celebrated intelligence in those whom they raised to the level of “celebrity”. It was a day when cogent thoughts were related in high style, where literacy and learning were prized, a day when to be “smart” meant to actually have some sort of culture and ability to write. To achieve fame one had to exhibit some level of education even if it was one realized by one’s own efforts alone, an amalgamation of knowledge not the result of a program from an institute of higher learning. The general public in America once looked up to people who embodied the highest education, even that had from the veritable slate in a log cabin.

It once was the entire purpose of college to create strong moral character.  The idea of going to college in order to get a better job or to go to college in order to take courses which would make you appear smart and sophisticated was the anti-thesis of college.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast, Americans criticized the government for its abysmal response and gave over $4 billion to private charities. The Red Cross opened thousands of shelters, provided millions of meals, and bestowed billions in financial assistance to devastated families.

Washington, D.C. - In a thoughtless and offensive exercise of political hyperbole during a workshop at the United Nations, a representative of the deceptively-named Human Rights Campaign recently likened the imagined “plight” of homosexuals in America to the very real humanitarian tragedy in Darfur.  Homosexual activist groups have organized a “Day of Silence” to promote this victim mentality among children in hundreds of schools across America.  As part of the “Not Our Kids” coalition, Concerned Women for America (CWA) asks parents of participating schools to teach their children (where age-appropriate) the truth about natural human sexuality, marriage and family at home on April 18 rather than subject them to a disruptive day of wholesale homosexual indoctrination.

The level of mush-minds and bird-brain flu victims in the population continues to grow, Public Schools and Colleges/Universities daily eject more and more totally brainwashed graduates and skaters.

Parents of college students who think the primary danger to their sons and daughters is liberal brainwashing should take a hard look at a new study finding that 49 percent (3.8 million) of full-time college students binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs. The typical college campus is beginning to look like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Kids can’t play with Lego cause they are learning about Capitalism instead of Communism and Socialism!