Having left California a little more than a year ago I still find it intriguing to follow the news there. For example, the spate of new laws going into effect January 1 always top news reports in the Tarnished State (it’s not appropriate to call California the “Golden State” anymore since the elected representatives there seem hell-bent on doing all they can to destroy the state’s economy).
I recall several years ago when California voters fired one governor then hired another with promises that things would turn around. At the time California fired Gray Davis California’s economy was arguably the 5th or 6th largest in the world. Now it’s closing in on third-world status as businesses leave, residents escape and state lawmakers set up laws to exacerbate problems.
Take for instance the second-to-last paragraph in this ABC story. With a young daughter in California public schools this worries me greatly.
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While test scores in California schools continue to decline and kids there are kicked along to the next grade without the necessary skills to master last-year’s lessons, the political plantation owners that run the California Legislature have decided that Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideals of a colorblind society, where people are judged on the “content of their character,” are no longer vogue. Then again, it’s patently apparent to most residents the value of California’s political character, particularly when this kind of debauchery is pushed.
When California eighth graders read below a second-grade level and can’t perform simple math problems from the first and second grade, why must students be taught the sick and offensive biases of the rabid homosexual lobby? Apparently students don’t need to know how to read, write and do their arithmetic, but they do need to know ”the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups.”
What happened to the values that made America a great nation? It would seem this kind of teaching would go much farther to promoting and preserving the kind of American exceptionalism that is responsible for creating and spreading vast amounts of wealth and prosperity across the globe.
