Public Schools Are A Dismal Failure

by Al Benson Jr.


Today, June 2, 2019, I read an excellent article on the Zero Hedge website. It was authored by Justin Spears via the Foundation for Economic Education. I would urge concerned parents to check it out.

Mr. Spears starts out with: "In the first part of this article set,  my colleague Mike Margeson spelled out the historical roots of the American schooling system. He clearly laid out the blueprint that men like Horace Mann used to build a system that does anything but 'educates'." What he is saying here is that Unitarian Horace Mann provided this country with an "educational system" that was, essentially worthless! Seeing that Mann's main intent was not to educate but to downplay the influence of Christian schools in this country, I am not surprised. Mann has a reputation as an inventive educator that is not deserved.

And Mr. Spears continued: "In what was one of many fiery speaking engagements, the late John Taylor Gatto delivered a line that has resonated with me as I have studied the effects  the public schooling system has on children. In this particular speech,  Gatto was recounting the story of Jaime Escalante, the educator who successfully taught calculus at Garfield High School in Los Angeles yet was forced to resign.  As he finishes describing the trials and fate of Escalante, Gatto explains that above racism and other forms of bigotry is the embedded idea  that what really occurred was a deliberate attempt to stop genuine learning: Earlier in the speech Gatto laid out a compelling case of how and why schooling is meant to keep citizens ignorant. This success at an inner city school was not going to be tolerated by the establishment. He implored his listeners to understand the real problem and to quit 'fencing with shadows'."

In other words, people needed to get over the naïve idea that throwing millions in public money at public schools was ever going to do any good. All that ever did was to make a bad problem even worse!

Noted by Mr. Spears was the fact that: "Contrary to what those in public education will tell you, the system is flush with cash, which generates very few positive results." Mr. Spears notes that, in 2019, after all the money that has been spent of public education, ...we are still seeing such horrific results in our schools...The answer is much simpler than it has been made out to be. The system is broken. There is no remedy to fix this system. It is fundamentally flawed. The famous saying that you cannot fix a problem with the same mind that created it rings so true. So if reform will not work, what are we to do?"

Again, the answer to this is so simple the educational establishment hopes you never figure it out. You simply need to unschool!  He notes that there are several methods to accomplish the task of unschooling, and one of them is homeschooling. This does not mean that you never educate your kids or teach them anything. It means that you do not do it the way the public schools claim to be trying to do it. You, especially if you are a Christian, need to get your kids out of the public school system--a system that has been engineered to keep them ignorant--and they are especially being kept ignorant of their real history and heritage, which is one of the main agendas of public education in our day.

If there is no real way to reform this broken system then it needs to be separated from, seceded from, if you will.  Lots of folks don't want to hear this. They need to. They need to begin to realize what is happening to their kids while they are in public schools--and what's happening to  them ain't good!

If you can, check our Mr. Spears' article. Don't take my word for it. Find our yourselves.

Our "Ever Truthful News Media"

by Daniel Benson

Today's news media might as well be witches. They have hunted (and haunted) the President since he was elected. Yet did they ever do this to Obama? No not once! The media is as far left as the old Soviet Union was--wait--maybe even further left. The Soviet Union might actually have been right of today's media. The "Doctor Feelgood" media can't tell a truth to save themselves. Local news people  might be decent, or even trying, yet the national news media is so biased toward the leftist agenda they would fall into the Grand Canyon trying to promote it. If they told you the Atlantic Ocean had dried up and the water there was an illusion  they would believe it and call you a liar from pointing out their error.

Most "newspapers" are rubbish now. A handful of people own all the newspapers in the country so you can't get a straight answer from those either. Again, the media is so biased you couldn't swim through it. Even the local paper here is controlled by them, though there is one local weekly here that is not (it's the only paper in the area worth reading). These few people want you to follow their lead blindly until you cease to exist. They tell you every lie you can imagine, and sometimes they fool themselves and actually put some truth out there (not much). How rare it is to see something politically incorrect in their papers. What you and I call politically correct (the truth) is completely taboo for these guys. They are so far left they probably couldn't see the left rearview mirror on  a car.

How many times a day are things misrepresented to you? The internet is slowly getting to be more and more controlled now and the reins are tightening because they don't intend to let you hear any view but theirs.

Take a leftist rally vs. a rally on the right. They will report throngs of people at the leftist rally and a smattering of people at the one on the right, when the left didn't have one quarter of the 150k they said was there, and the rally on the right had three times more than the 25k they said was there. In sports events, attendance is announced by the ticket counts. Too bad you couldn't make the media use that method to tell us how many were really there. Google is slowly becoming the search engine of the left, taking down right-leaning things everywhere. Twitter and Facebook are tools for the anti-Trump and pro-left agenda as well, while anything someone might deem even slightly right of Stalin is removed.

Soon you won't be able to watch tv without them knowing exactly what you are doing and watching--oh wait--they already know! Your internet traffic is watched, your tv is monitored, your telephones, cell or landlines, are listened to. Ever hear of smart phones? Big Brother, Trump notwithstanding, has his nose into everything you see, hear, or think. And the media can't be bothered to even try to say "hey, we see what's going on" because they are part of it all. They will vilify anyone not following their plan, fire anyone who speaks out against them, and make sure they never work again. But, as for you low-level "useful idiots" they just want you to be a good stooge and do exactly what they say because, after all, they can't lie can they?

Funding Public Education in Chicago

by Al Benson Jr.

 Over the years, as most who read my stuff will testify, I have followed what goes on in the vaunted, so-called "halls of education" in this country, particularly when those halls are located in public school buildings. Some pretty far-out things have happened in this country in the name of public education, but what I am about to comment on here may be the most expensive.

I came across a blog spot called Newsalert http://nalert.blogspot.rs  just yesterday that had an article on it datelined May 25, 2017. The headline asked this question: "Why Does the Chicago Public School System have $9 Billion Dept With Only 381,000 Students?" When I first read it I couldn't believe I hadn't misread it. I thought it should have been $9 million, so I went back and reread it. It was $9 billion. Simply amazing! The article started off: "Chicago public schools will look to borrow $900 million in the coming weeks adding to the district's $9 billion dept--but it remains unclear if anyone will actually give them all the money The loans are $500 million more than Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office announced last week when a financial rescue plan was outlined....District officials told board members Wednesday that the district would likely 'just run out of money' if it didn't take out these loans."

It almost seems unreal. How does a public school district get $9 billion in debt? Where does the money go? Who ends up with it? What does it get used for? I realize you have to spend quite a chunk on teachers' salaries, especially in Chicago, where it seems that some school superintendents earn almost as much a congressmen and you have to have lots of books, paper and pencils, (and probably now, computers) for over 300,000 kids, but, $9 billion dollars worth? 

And who, in the end, will pay for all this? Why the lucky Chicago taxpayers of course. It will be their "privilege" to get stuck with the tab for all this, plus interest. But they should feel lucky to get to do this. After all, its all for "quality education" for the kiddies, right? Anyone who thinks that public schools are not the biggest rat hole you ever poured your money into just hasn't been paying attention for the last 150 years.

Several years ago I published a little booklet called The Unitarian/Socialist Foundations of Public Education in which I showed that anti-Christ Unitarians and anti-Christ socialists provided the basic foundations for what we refer to as "the public schools." They are not public. They are really government schools and they provide (for a hefty price) government-approved propaganda for your kids. Those parents who woke up and saw the light years ago took their kids out of public schools and either put them in private and Christian schools or they home schooled them. Unfortunately, these good folks still have to pay the lion's share of their property taxes (another bad institution) to pay for kids to be propagandized in public schools.

But parents need to start learning to think outside the box. The public schools are not your only option in most cases. The school situation in Chicago is one glaring example of the cost of "public education" in America. The unseen costs are measured in the effects of those schools on the souls of your children and on your culture, and in most cases, those effects only show up later.  

Evolution and Spiritualism--Darwin and Wallace

by Al Benson Jr.

I can remember, years back now, hearing a preacher in West Virginia talk about evolution.  He was, as they say "agin it" and he gave some pretty fair country reasons for his position. One thing he said that I never forgot was that the theory of evolution absolves man from any accountability to God for his actions. If man is nothing more than a highly "evolved" animal then he is accountable to no one for his actions, no matter how good or evil they may be. He is just doing what "comes naturally" since he has no creator. If that's the case, you have to wonder why so many people get mad over what Hitler and Stalin did. If they are responsible to no one and to no God then how can anyone condemn their actions? The Illuminist forebears  of the perpetrators of the French Revolution were absolutely shocked at the thought that they might, somehow, be responsible for their actions.The very thought was anathema to them.

So you can see that, among those that do not care to be judged for their deeds, that the theory (and it is only a theory) of evolution would have a particular appeal.

You always hear about "Darwin's theory of evolution" but the "history" books, if such they can even be called anymore don't say much about Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, who might well be called Darwin's alter ego.

According to an article on http://evolution.berkeley.edu  Darwin and Wallace worked together on a theory they had both come up with independently. Darwin started working on his "natural selection" theory in the 1830s and kept at it for about twenty years, during which time he "corresponded briefly" with Wallace. At a certain point, Wallace decided to ask Darwin's help to publish his own ideas about evolution, so he sent Darwin a copy of his theory in 1858, which, "to Darwin's shock, nearly replicated Darwin's own." This is about where most histories stop.  There is, however, a little more information about Dr. Wallace we should all be aware of--and maybe that's why it's usually left out.

According to the informative book To The Victor Go The Myths And Monuments by Arthur R. Thompson, Spiritualism played a part in all this. Mr. Thompson notes, on page 203, that: "Spiritualism began in the U.S. and spread to Britain among the Owenites. One of England's most prominent spiritualists was Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.  He was the co-originator with Darwin on the natural selection theory of evolution.  Wallace was also involved in socialist theory and activism. His youthful education that started him on this path included reading the works of Robert Owen and Thomas Paine. In other words, there was a socialist influence on the development of the theory of Darwin, and it was tied to spiritualism."

Ann Braude in Radical Spirits, on page 158, confirms Wallace's ties to spiritualism when she writes: "In 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace's defense of Spiritualism from the chair of the Anthropological Section of the British Association made it an issue in the transatlantic scientific community."

Mr. Thompson, in his book, made another interesting observation on page 262 where he said: "Since all Marxists profess a belief in Darwin, it is strange that people do not see through the rhetoric advocating justice for all races embodied in communist organizations' propaganda. How can Marxists advocate equality when they believe in a Darwinian system that says that all men are not equal? It becomes obvious that Marxist leaders are lying about what they stand for in order to enlist the gullible, bleeding-heart activist."

Now I am no expert on all the in's and out's of evolution. Some folks I know have probably forgotten more about it than I will ever know, but just looking at this background would make the whole proposition a little dicey for me. As a Christian I can't buy evolution because it leaves God and our responsibility to Him out. The church my wife and I attend doesn't believe it either. I realize that, among the "scientific" community that makes us anachronisms or Neanderthals or whatever. Well, that's tough. I've been called worse and I expect to be again--just don't call me late for supper!

When you add all this together--the spiritualist and socialist influence, then this becomes the shakiest of propositions. Anything with spiritualist and socialist connections does not bode well for Christians or for the Church and when you look at the fact that some form of Darwin's theory is, basically, the only theory allowed to be discussed in government schools you have to realize that the fact they are not willing to debate or discuss anything else means that this theory is the accepted socialist dogma they plan to teach your kids. That thought, alone would make me, if I still had school age children, want to secede from the public school system. So think about all of this--and more importantly, pray about it.

Dumbing Them Down For the New World Order

by Al Benson Jr.

Today I watched a You Tube video where a young lady interviewed several college students about basic history questions that most of us knew the answers to when we were in the fifth grade--and most of these college students didn't have a clue, not the remotest clue as to the correct answers. And these were kids that were studying business administration and other like subjects. They weren't just there for the ride, or to find a husband or wife. They were going into professional careers when they got out of school (if there are any professions left when our current regime gets through).

The first question the interviewer asked was "Who won the Civil War?" Would you believe nine out of ten of them got that wrong. One young lady and one young black man both said "the South." One other one said "America." The rest just had no answer whatever. Not a clue! One young lady said "the North." So out of about ten students, one got it right.

Another question she asked was when the American Revolution ended. One kid questioningly  said "1977?" But she wasn't sure. Another one said "1644." Again, for the rest, not the remotest clue.

She then asked them who was the current vice-president of the United States. One out of the bunch answered "Joe Biden" but the rest were totally dumbfounded. This is the generation that is supposed to have voted overwhelmingly for Obama in the last election. Now I will admit that Joe Biden, outside of sticking his foot in his mouth, is not the most charismatic vice-president this country has ever had, but at least the kids ought to know his name--shouldn't they?

If this is what you get from college kids it does make you wonder what their history teachers were doing during  their high school years. I guess lots of history teachers were taking their paychecks under false pretenses. But, then, understanding the history of the public school system, that should be no surprise. Now I don't doubt that there are probably history teachers in public schools that do try to teach history, I've known a couple. But then you have to ask what the public school history teachers are being taught. Obviously none of the kids in these interviews ever had any dedicated history teachers for a history class.

One interesting point, though, toward the end of the interview the young lady conducting it asked them several questions about the current pop culture, like who was Brad Pitts current wife--and they all, without exception, knew the answer to that one.

Folks, this is the next generation that will be called on the run the country, or rather they will be called on to vote for the One World Government crowd that will run the country--and they will do that, because they don't know upside down from inside out. You can't tell me these kids are that dumb accidentally. There has to be design to their ignorance.

Unless we can, somehow, raise up enough Christian and home schooled kids to begin to counter this planned ignorance then we face, at least for the foreseeable future, a pretty bleak outlook. All the more reason for concerned parents to seriously start looking at options other than public schools for educating their kids. Parents, especially Christian parents, really need to start checking out these other options--and they are out there if you are willing to take the time and trouble to check them out.