Finally, someone has the guts to speak up. This is the way the
schools
should be run. Period.
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FINALLY - - Someone in the teaching profession had the courage to
set
the standards so badly needed NOW.
PLEASE, MAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS
and SHARE IT…..PLEASE.
We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of
Colorado ,Tom Brokaw
on TV a couple of weeks ago....what a dynamic, down to
earth speaker.
Even though Palin and Brokaw were also guest speakers they did
little
but nod and agree with him. This is the guy that should be running
for
President in 2012!
New high school principal
A Speech
Every American High School Principal Should Give.
By Dennis Prager.
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
interested 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 be 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 fortunate -- 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.
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