HOME SCHOOLS vs. PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Mike Russo

THE PROBLEM

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Many public schools did not offer full-time in-school, face-to-face education during the Pandemic; the on-line “Zoom” classes that were offered were not effective for most students. However, Private, Religious and Charter schools were, for the most part, fully open during the Pandemic. Why the large difference between public schools and the others? The short answer is that the Teachers Unions, for a number of reasons, wouldn’t allow their members to return to classroom teaching. Local governments agreed to incentives that the Unions demanded, but it wasn’t good enough. Because most public schools usually had predominantly minority students, the bad effects of schools being locked down fell mostly on them. So what should parents do to prevent their children from ever being affected again like this or if they do not want their children being taught harmful, racist theories?

THE SOLUTION

IF YOU COULD AFFORD IT, putting your children in religious or charter schools is the answer. Charter schools are so popular that they run lotteries to select their students, so parents should sign up their children for the lotteries. Some States have passed legislation that give parents education money to send their children to the schools they want to send them to (see Thomas Sowell’s book, “Charter Schools and Their Enemies”). In addition, many public schools have morphed into indoctrination-institutions for brainwashing children, teaching racist theories such as “Critical Race Theory” and the “1619 Project” while at the same time not teaching the greatness of the founding of America, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. These are not simply insignificant teachings, they turned children into self-hating anti-Americans, so many public schools have become something to avoid.

IF YOU COULD NOT AFFORD IT, what should parents have done if their children were stuck in partially locked-down public schools or if they observed their children being taught half-baked theories? I believe the answer is to: 1) attend and speak up at local school board meetings, 2) get elected to local school boards to change curriculums, 3) provide children with materials that give the accurate side of history, such as those offered on-line like PraegerU.com. (in accordance with the philosophy that the best remedy is to offer more free speech, not to shut down speech you disagree with), contact “Parents Against Critical (Race) Theory” [info@stoplcpscrt.com], 4) pressure politicians to change funding of schools by having public education funds follow the children so that parents could choose what schools to send their children to and control their children’s education instead of the Teachers Unions, and 5) Home School children.

CLOSING

Many public schools, as well as private schools, can longer be trusted to simply teach our children, instead of indoctrinating or “brainwashing” them. The safest course is to get them out of public schools. If that’s not possible, then consider homeschooling. With all of the guidance available…it’s dot difficult. If that’s not possible, then closely watch everything your child’s school does and complain to your school board when necessary or better yet, run for a spot on your school board.

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DEFEAT THE RADICAL FAR-LEFT POLITICALLY

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Mike Russo

NY City Tammany Hall leader “Boss” Tweed, 1860’s-70’s

Although I’m slightly more conservative than liberal, I try to be even-handed in my writing. However, the Left has become so radical, and even criminal at times, I think an article that is not even-handed is in order and appropriate. The following is a brief summary of what I believe has and is happening to adversely affect U.S. politics:

1. President Biden used to be a moderate Democrat for most of his political career, but he has governed as a far-left radical after becoming President of the United States. His policies are difficult to understand and appear to all be geared to hurting Americans and the U.S. Examples of this include his dismantling of the myriad of immigration and border policies that kept the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. very low; putting America in huge debt by wasting trillions of dollars in allegedly helping Americans get over the pandemic; dividing America along racial lines by supporting and funding Critical Race Theory; weakening our military by not providing it with enough funds to even keep up with inflation; by removing economic sanctions from our adversaries such as Iran, China, and Russia.

2. Mainstream Media has become so dishonest that absolutely nothing it says about former President Trump can be believed . It is guilty of “bias by omission” since it reports next to nothing that makes former President Trump look good or President Biden look bad.

3. Democrat Party leaders refuse to debate issues, but instead make “ad hominem” (personal) attacks against Republicans. The reason for this is that their policies are absurd to the extent that they cannot be successfully defended from arguments against them.

4. Former President Trump is attacking Governor DeSantis, often unfairly. Trump can be mean at times and consequently will probably lose the Republican nomination if he continues, because many do not like it. He really needs to be more careful with his speech and never mimic the Far-Left’s tactics.

5. Far-left Democrats should commend President Obama because he did their bidding by trying his very best to drastically weaken our military, economic system, and Healthcare in order to further his Socialist agenda and that of the Democrat Party (by furthering policies that would create a large permanent poverty class dependent on the government for basic subsidence). His political party is allowing large numbers of illegal aliens into the U.S. since most will eventually vote Democrat, and Obama doubled the National debt (from $10 trillion to $20 trillion), coming close to bankrupting the country (and President Biden is finishing the job).

6. The Democrat Party, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden destroyed healthcare insurance for millions of Americans; only those receiving free medical insurance did well under Obamacare.

7. The far-left shouts down conservative speakers on college campuses, as well as destroys property in its demonstrations, thus demonstrating it does not believe in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on freedom of speech and also cannot debate anyone that disagrees with them.

8. Many Democrat leaders, such as Democrat Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, and House of Representatives Democrat “Squad,” have advocated violence while the Main-Stream Media falsely accuse President Trump of instigating violence (I taped Trump’s January 6 speech…to “peacefully protest”).

9. Some Republican leaders are timid and cannot competently argue conservative policy positions though those positions are usually far better than liberal positions. Were it not for Fox News and Newsmax cable TV stations, talk radio, President Trump, Governor DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Tim Scott, Rand Paul, Jim Jorden, etc., the Republican Party would be in terrible shape. In other words, as ridiculous as most liberal positions are, the timidity of some Republican leaders, like Mitch McConnell, really hurts the adoption of conservative policy positions.

10. I believe that the far-left wing of the Democrat Party is shaping and mentally preparing its followers to hate Republicans and take over the Federal government. We need to expose this criminality whenever we find evidence that it is happening, but cautiously, because the FBI has been weaponized and is looking for any excuse to lock us up.

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In conclusion, if and when Democrat Party loyalists see what has happened to their Party and punish it by not supporting it (voting for it) until it changes, the Party should then clean itself up and consequently become more competitive and win many more elections. If that never happens, God help the United States, because we will no longer be a Constitutional Republic but a third-world style dictatorship. Let everything be peaceful as we go through this political turmoil.

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MUGGED: racial demagoguery

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Mike Russo

I read Ann Coulter’s book, Mugged, and learned a lot of new information from this lawyer and best-selling author. None of the information surprised me but it was insightful reading Ms. Coulter’s relentless array of facts.

Basically, Coulter contends that very few of the racial incidents in the last 50 years have been racist (civil rights battles were mostly won before the seventies); instead, they were racial hoaxes, perpetrated by demagogues for various reasons and motives.

One of the most important facts that Ann Coulter shows in her book, Mugged, is that all segregationists were Democrats and that the Democrat Party fought against Civil Rights legislation for 100 years going way back to Abraham Lincoln’s time when Lincoln and his Republican Party ran on an anti-slavery platform. This is not news to us who know American history but it is big news to millions of Americans that have been brainwashed and now believe the racist propaganda politicians spout off.

Another very important and horrific fact brought to light in Ms. Coulter’s book is the fact that a major consequence of every racial hoax is the slaughter of whites by young black hoodlums seeking revenge for what they hear and believe to be true about the (phony) racial incidents (Google: “Blackout Game,” “Polar Bear Hunting,” “Flash Mobs”).

Why do I believe the aforementioned to be true? First, because I trust Ann Coulter in accurately portraying the facts. Second, because I not only worked for many years assisting minorities in combating discrimination as a Federal collateral-duty EEO Counselor and then as a Federal collateral-duty Hispanic Employment Program Coordinator, but also have closely followed many racial incidents, including Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

“Mugged” gives the details of many racial incidents, such as the Tawana Brawley rape hoax with Al Sharpton’s involvement. I believe that some racism still exists, but there are many politicians and race hustlers exploiting race simply to get your vote, and use the very toxic “Critical Race Theory” (which contends that all whites are oppressors and all blacks are victims) and the”1619 Project” (which contends that America was really founded to further slavery, contrary to what the Declaration of Independence says).

CONCLUSION

Ann Coulter’s book, Mugged, ends with Barack Obama. The United States has made fantastic progress since it left British rule in 1776, which back then had slavery. Eighty-seven years later President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves (in 1863). One hundred and thirty-seven years after the slaves were freed, the U.S. elected its first African-American President (Barack Obama in 2008). In the 1960’s, significant Civil Rights laws were passed to help combat discrimination. Today, many politicians are unethically using race to create racial strife to further their political agendas. It’s no coincidence that 90% of African-Americans vote Democrat, though Democrat Socialist policies are preventing them from achieving their dreams.

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