A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give

“If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place.

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.

The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity — your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.

If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values — e pluribus unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America’s values.

This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism — an unhealthy preoccupation with the self — while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interesting in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America’s citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here — it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English — but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning’s elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school’s property — whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can’t speak without using the f-word, you can’t speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way — the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago — by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue. There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately lucky — to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.”

Until next time.

Today will be a quick blog on the picture that is posted to the left.  This is the school supply list for my youngest child.  As I peruse the list of the typical items a first grader would need something strikes me as odd.  All young kids need glue sticks, crayons and tissues.  Lord knows some kids produce snot on a daily basis no matter the weather conditions.

However, the part that grabbed my attention was the short paragraph from the teachers to the parents.  It reads as follows:

Dear Parents,

     The above items are classroom supplies.  Any donations will be greatly appreciated, but are not mandatory.  We will be sharing these supplies as a class, so there will be no need to put your child’s name on the items.

Thank you,

For most people that sounds pretty straight forward and simple, but for me it is anything but that.  My first thought was disgust and then contempt.  How dare they tell me that the money I spend to buy supplies for my child is gathered by a central figure and then redistributed to the class as a whole.  That while I spent the extra money for a 24 pack of markers that everyone is entitled to those because we wouldn’t want someone to just have a 12 pack.  That wouldn’t be fair or equal.  Sounds a familiar doesn’t it.  It’s amazing that a government school would espouse government ideology.

I heard this point made on one of my favorite right wing hate speech talk radio shows one morning, aka Neal Boortz, and it made perfect sense.  I hope I don’t butcher it to much.  When you send your kid to a Catholic School you expect them to learn and follow the teaching of the Catholic Church.  When you send your child to Islamic School you expect them to learn and follow the teachings of Mohammed and the Muslim faith.  So what do you expect when you send your child to a Government School?

I hope real world examples like this help wake everyone up.  It is only going to get worse.  It may be easy to be lazy now, but will be hard work to fix later.

Until next time.

I am not sure how many of you folks have been paying attention to the news lately.  I know it is hard to get away from TMZ or Access Hollywood.  I know that hearing Mel Gibson’s newly released tirade on tape is fun to listen to or the fact that Lindsay Lohan is going to jail is just to important to focus on anything else.  With all that excitement you may not have heard that our Congress just passed a bill, to be signed next week by our President, which creates more and more regulations on banks and other financial institutions.  We all know that more regulations lead to great business and wonderful free market ideas.

These regulations come on the heels of other wonderful growths in government control.  I won’t rehash them all because if anyone has been paying even the slightest inkling of attention you will know of what I speak.  As the private sector unemployment rate hovers around 10%, government numbers not actual, the government sector unemployment rate hovers around 4.4% and is sure to decline as the IRS is adding jobs because of the Healthcare bill.  QUICK TANGENT:  Why would you hire more people to the IRS for something to do with healthcare?  Somebody’s gotta enforce and regulate what you can and cannot do. Sorry, I am back on track now. How could it be that the government number is half or less than half of public sector unemployment? Speculate all you want but it comes down to the fact that our current leaders believe that the bigger the government is and the more control they have, the better our country will be. Kind of scary, huh.

Have you ever wondered how we got into this mess?  How could we have elected a President and a Congress that is so forcefully anti-capitalism and anti-freedom?  Think on it a minute. I am sure you want to know my answer to this tough question. It is because of our poor education system and the lack of parenting due to the rise of “government” assistance programs.  It’s a “pass the responsibility on to others” type of mentality and I am fed up with it.  I am tired of being the one that has to suffer for someone else’s idiocy and laziness.  I am tired of paying the price for parents who have kids but don’t manage them.  I am tired of my kids being punished because someone in their class can’t keep up.  I am tired of being held at gunpoint so that the money I worked for is sucked up and sent out to help for the “greater good”.  I am tired of the ignorance of some being passed off as gospel every time I turn on the TV.

As school fast approaches I am really feeling a need to blog about our public education system.  To many it will make you mad, to others it may open your eyes but to all it will inform.  Keep an eye out for that in coming informational sessions.

Until next time.

Until next time.

My Census took approximately five seconds to fill out.  I listed the number of people living in my household and that was it.  Nothing more and nothing less.  I encourage you to do the same.  That is all that you are required to fill out.  Let me know how you feel about it.  Comment below.

Oh, and here’s a quick commercial for the Census.  Notice they were sure not to offend the population of Asian-Americans by showing one of the Asian women driving.

Until next time.

Go ahead and cancel your plans for the Fourth of July.   Trade in your shorts and short sleeve shirts for pants and coats because our parades are moving to a colder month.  The images of our founding fathers will be replaced with Obama, Pelosi and Reid.  I can’t wait to see their large headed likenesses racing around the field of a Washington Nationals game.  Go ahead wipe away the fifty stars off the flag, because we are now one large conglomeration of the same.  No more individuals because we are all the same with all the same needs and all the same problems.  No more do we need to try and care for ourselves because we are now taken care of.  Our Federal Government has shown us the teat and unfortunately to many of us have latched on.

The only thing I can tell you to do now is that if you are against it,  STAND UP AND FIGHT!!!!!  Call your Congress Men and Women.  Be sure to work diligently this year to help replace these people who are in support of the bill.  We are down but we are not out.  This is a fight that we can still win, it will just take everyone’s hard work and undivided attention.  This is what makes our nation great.  We have elections that we can use to replace the ones that go against our will.

Until next time.

Such as, I am sitting here watching the news rather than the Olympics since figure skating is on. Of course, when you watch any local news it nothing but one depressing story after another followed by one quirky, useless story. I wonder what the suicide rate of a news anchor is? It has to be high since they are stuck there, behind that desk, reading verbal depression for an hour straight. Then again, they usually don’t wear pants so it can’t be all that bad.

Plus, why do all the sports people look like they couldn’t tell the difference between a baseball and a tennis racquet. They are usually overweight geeks with a cheesy gimmick. BTW…am I the only one who is tired of hearing about Tiger Woods? He’s an idiot now drop it.

I won’t even get into the weather people, except Dagmar of course.

Until next time.

A couple of days ago I put out a call to all my Facebook friends inquiring on what they would like for me to write about to kickoff my blog for 2010.  As you can imagine I received a ton of ideas via my status update as well as email.  I should have topics to last me for a few weeks.  One last thing before I get going on the main message of this blog, I have put out the call for guest writers.  I had guest writer and have a new one, whom usually has opposing views, lined up.  I would like to see more.  Many of you disagree with me and want a place to voice your opinion.  Here you go.  There are many more of you who agree with me but have a different idea of how to reach the same outcome.  Here you go.  All of you are invited, just send me an email, keith@lequalsc.com, and we can talk.

I was ready to start out this blog writing about the FairTax and had all of my points laid out when I ran across this story yesterday.  The headline reads “Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor.” I laid out this challenge to my Facebook friends, “Will this story get the coverage of Bush and Halliburton?”  So far, this can only be found in one location, FoxNews.  You know that channel the left love to demonize.  As I sit here and write I can not imagine the reasons behind not covering a story that was so prevalent during the time Bush was President.

The time of open and honest government was supposed to arrive in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2009.  However, as each day goes by we know that is an obvious lie.  This is one of those situations.  The situation is $25 million will be given out to a company of a Democratic donor.  In this time of billion dollar bailouts and trillion dollar deficits, $25 million sounds like chump change. Let me think of a few ways I could use that money….

• I could make a salary of $100,000 for 250 years or $1 million for 25 years.
• I could send 208 kids to a $10,000 a year private school for all 12 years or 2,500 kids for one year.
• I could pay for 480 people to attend Harvard for one year or 120 for four years.  That’s at $52,000 a year.  Imagine the amount of people who could go to a community college or a state university.

I wonder how much money they could have saved if they would have just bid out the job.

I am not going to beat a dead horse on why the other cable news channels as well as the network news channels won’t cover these types of stories.  It is been fairly obvious for a while now.  I just see it as another in a long line of lies and broken pledges.  Obama made the pledge of “no more no-bid contracts” in his speech to Congress on Feb. 24, 2009 but less than a year after that speech he has already gone the other direction.  I know his handlers and the other people of the left will try and say he “misspoke” or that he meant something different.  A common tactic of any politician and a reason we need to replace all of them.

Until next time.

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”    Hillary Clinton

I bet you wondering how I could quote something from Hillary Clinton.  It is extremely important right now.  This quote was made back when George W. Bush was president.  It was made when certain liberals falsely accused  people of calling them unpatriotic because they were against the President and his policies.

It’s amazing how times have changed.  You can do search after search on the town hall meetings that have been going on recently in regards to the Healthcare Reform Bill, aka Socialized Medicine.  The American people are rising up against this monstrosity and the same people who were complaining are now complaining that we are disagreeing with them.  They are comparing us to Nazi’s and say we are carrying swastikas.  Sounds like they have some wonderful compassion and they care to listen my dissenting view.

These wacked out Socialist Liberals complain about being called non-patriotic, without proof, and then compare you to Nazi’s when you disagree with them, with proof.  A little scary, huh.

I know there are people out there that disagree with me and want this healthcare bill passed and just love how we are slowly moving towards Socialism.  I think you are wrong but I respect your opinion.  However, if you have to agree that the level of hypocrisy and lies coming from these representatives is scary stuff.

Watch the videos below of the thugs forcibly removing constituents from Rep. Kathy Castor’s town hall meeting.  Ripping shirts and shoving people.  You get to see it from both sides of the door.  The last video is of a wonderful question that unfortunately wasn’t answered by the Representative because she couldn’t take the heat and had to leave.

If after watching these videos and you still do not agree, please leave a comment to why.  I am always open to a good debate.

Until next time.

The last one is the best because it comes straight from the horses mouth, aka known as Maryland Senator Ben Cardin.  Just listen to the end as Senator Cardin explains how it will be free and “You don’t pay. You are part of the population that shifts its costs over to a person who does pay, and they’re paying for you.”  If that isn’t scary I don’t know what is.  Here’s the link to the story and the video that goes along with it.

This is a short blog but to the point.  Be sure to call your Representative or Senator and tell them NO to this ridiculous healthcare reform, aka Socialized Medicine.

Until next time.