Freedom is Expendable

According to John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute, our public schools are teaching that freedom is expendable.

Over the past several decades, America's public schools have increasingly adopted the mindset that students have no rights, and school officials have not been reticent about communicating this message to young people. Indeed, this totalitarian outlook has been reinforced by an educational curriculum so focused on preparing students to enter the machinery of the corporate state that there is little time left over for the things they really need to learn such as what their rights are, how to exercise them, and the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. As a result, the majority of students today have little knowledge of the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution and, specifically, in the Bill of Rights.

He goes on to say

Yet not too long ago, no one would have thought twice about teachers actually teaching the Bill of Rights or students exercising their free speech rights in a written editorial. Today, such acts are looked upon as radical—even revolutionary. Unfortunately, by teaching such a sinister conformity, school officials are raising up a generation of compliant, unquestioning citizens who will march in lockstep with whatever their government dictates.

I totally agree with his article.  I went through the public school system, and I consider myself lucky to have had a teacher that made it a point to educate his students about what the Constitution meant for the protection of one's rights.  But if one were to teach straight out of the approved textbooks, a student would leave with the sense that the Constitution is nothing more than a historical document.

This is why I greatly support those who choose to send their kids to private schools that will teach more than just what is deemed politically correct at the time.  I offer even more support to those who choose to homeschool their kids and educate them in the values that their family holds dear.

As the Constitution becomes more and more politically incorrect, our country heads faster and faster down the road of destruction.