ZERO TOLERANCE FOR TEACHERS
By Doug Fiedor

A few days ago, the Washington based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) released an interesting report on school crime that blows away the smoke and exposes many of the myths the socialists in the public school education industry use to indoctrinate American children.

Through its research division, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice documents that today's juvenile homicide rate is the lowest since 1966. Yet, the number of youth suspended on an annual basis has nearly doubled over the same period.

The group questions the "zero tolerance" foolishness so popular with far-left educators lately. "Today's high school seniors are no more likely than their parents were to be assaulted, injured, threatened or robbed in high school," says Vincent Schiraldi, a criminologist who has headed the CJCJ since 1985. "Ironically, today's students are much more likely to be suspended than their parents were. We need to question why a well-behaved generation is being so severely punished by being denied access to education."(2)

The report shows that the concern over school violence has been fanned by intense media coverage of random incidents like the Columbine High School shooting and a 24-7 news cycle. As media coverage of juvenile crime goes up, the public is starting to think it's happening more, even though it is not.

"The increase in suspensions seems to have little to do with serious school crime, which has not risen," says Jason Ziedenberg, JPI Senior Policy Analyst. "When youth are kicked out of school, they are more likely to get into fights, carry a weapon and engage in reckless behavior. Aggressive suspension policies may actually put youth at risk."

Of course "zero tolerance" has very little, if anything, to do with crime. It is basically a control thing, part of the far-left's indoctrination technique to create a nation of obedient little human robotrons who will never dare think or act outside of the "politically correct" envelope.

Some of us who are old enough might remember the outrage Americans had with the former Soviet Union's practice of using strong psychotropic chemicals and strange psychiatric "reconditioning" of people refusing to act like good little communists. On the other hand, perhaps it is good that most Americans do not know about that. Because, today, the far-left American public school education industry is doing the very same thing to American children.

In some American public schools, nearly a third of the boys are forced to take one chemical or another to alter behavior. Children who misspeak or like to horseplay are regularly sent off for weeks of behavior modification "counseling" where they are indoctrinated into the "politically correct" method of behavior desired by liberals.

Competition between students is now often forbidden. Self expression, especially if it is conservative expression, is forbidden. Religious expression, especially by Christians, is forbidden. Pride and celebration, especially for Caucasians and males, is forbidden. Excellence and productivity are suddenly frowned upon because they "might" leave another student behind who could then "feel" bad.

The federal government has spent more than $125-billion on education over the last 25 years, with negative results. SAT scores have dropped 37 points since 1967. Yet, the socialists in the public school education industry continuously demand more money. Grade inflation in public schools is up. Scholastic ability over the past 40 years is way down. But, the socialists in the Democrat Party demand an increase in the federal education expenditure from $18.4-billion this year to $33-billion in the 2002-03 school year.

Apparently, the far-left public school education industry needs the extra money for their increasingly active program of mind altering drugs and behavioral modification indoctrination. We say that with only slight reservation because there have been no programs forthcoming to raise the scholastic ability of children as the cost per student increases. Just the opposite, in fact. School districts, like the one in Washington, D.C. -- which has the highest cost per student in the nation -- also usually produce the lowest scholastic ability per student graduated. Most of the graduating students are, however, good little socialists.

That seems to be the goal of the far-left public school education industry: Training good little socialists. The public school education industry is training workers for the "Third Way" society Clinton, Lieberman(3), 150 Members of Congress, and their sycophants in the liberal national media are working to implement.

Truly, this is not beneficial "for the children." Unfortunately, many parents in the United States are allowing this to happen without a word.

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young ones and old ones both.