Covid the Delta Variant

As a public service, let me tell you, just because you are vaccinated doesn't mean you can't get COVID the Delta Variant. Sounds like a novel, doesn't it? Like the disaster movies I am now watching on You Tube. This morning at 2:00 I could not sleep and assessed the deep cough, runny nose, slight headache behind my eyeballs, and aches and pains (arthritis right?). No fever registering on my new fangled thermometer that scans and you don't have to stick under your tongue. No fever, no infection. Right? Wrong. So why would I decide to leave my comfy bed and go to the Emergency room? Apparently God was not going to let me sleep unless I did. 

Cecily Ramsey]who is usually with me was in Mobile with Drew. Thank God. With her chronic illness here with me was the last place she should have been. And going anywhere at night is just not my style anymore. But Flowers is close. The nurse who checked me in stuck the long q-tips up my nose and did a thorough smear. Painful, but brief. When they brought me back to the ER I also got an X-Ray. Fortunately it looked good. But I tested positive for Covid the Delta Variant. 

 Because I thought my vaccination made me immune to Covid, I attended the Marjorie Taylor Green Event, went to UPS to mail medicine to Cecily Ramsey, had sense enough to skip Sunday school, attended the Republican Executive Committee Meeting, Signed papers to sell our home in PC and faxed them to the title company at UPS on Apple Drive, felt bad enough to cancel two appointments on Wednesday, and by this morning at 2 am decided I should go to the Flowers ER and let them check me out. I must admit I was shocked when the nurse came in and said, "You tested POSITIVE for Covid." 

I came home and texted my family and friends that I had been with recently to put them on the alert for symptoms. Sister Sylvia (Dr. Rushing who insisted that I get the vaccine) and brother-in-law Tom were packing up to go out of town for a seminar when Tom brought his phone off the charger and told Sylvia, "Sharman has Covid. We're not going anywhere." She called immediately after canceling with the seminar and later went and picked up the Z-Pak (Zythromycin) and the steroid the ER doctor and nurse practitioner prescribed) for me along with every vitamin the herbalist at CVS recommended. She also brought Mucus Extended Relief with (and this is important) Guaifenesin Extended release. Elkanah Burson emphasizes that I need to take two 1200 mg to loosen the mucous in the lungs. You do not want to drown in those fluids! I have been instructed to keep a record of my oxygen levels (she brought me an oxygen checker, temperature, blood pressure, etc. and to write a journal to write THE BOOK). She brings these things to the front door and I pull the shades from the window and she inspects me. I am blessed. So far I pass muster. Between her and Dr. Frank Crocket, I will make it through this. 

 Sylvia is sooo concerned about people not getting the vaccine. She reminds me that the ones she sees in the hospital on ventilators are mainly not those who have been vaccinated. So many previously healthy young people and now, children. Tomorrow I will call the places I visited and inform them. 

 Have any of you read Alexander Solzeneitzyn's novel, The Cancer Ward. It is a story of a ward of cancer victims in the Gulag (a Russian point of horror, incarceration, and cold.) The book builds around the people the hero encounters there in that ward. I must say I was reminded of that book today as I went to have the INFUSION the nurse practitioner recommended and told me to call and get in line for at Flowers. You cannot get this infusion if you are sick enough to be admitted to the hospital. It is Out Patient. But one enters through the Digestive Health Entrance next door. The whole group taking the infusion is called from their cars to meet the nurse at the door who guides you through a labyrinth of corridors back to the corner of the hospital with one examining table and one chair. The infusion machine can handle two lines. 

Abby, a beautiful wonderful nurse, skillfully put in the IV, something very important to me because I have a phobia about needles. Something about my Daddy chasing me around the table in the examining room at his office on South Oates with me screaming with every step and the waiting room full of patients waiting to be seen and listening and then giving up only to bring the shots home from then on to pull me out from under the beds with mother helping to give me a shot. I go weak in the knees and the blood drains.... you get the picture. And then once I had a vein burst and the contents of an IV leak out onto the floor and flood the room while swelling up my hand and my arm. Memories... 

Susan, my roommate who had already claimed the cot, had different symptoms than me. She was throwing up and had diarrhea. She was doing everything she could to hold it in but she needed more covers, a throw up bowl and some ice bits to help settle her stomach. I assured her my sister said her partner, Dr. Gale, told Sylvia that the infusion made him feel better immediately when he had Covid. Unfortunately, the busy nurses were unaware of her needs and I was able to help get her another blanket, a pan o throw up in and some ice and water. It turned out it was a good thing that Susan was truly just a friend I just hadn't met yet and somehow we bonded. I gave her my card because I told her I want her to email me and let me know how she is doing after we part! 

I asked her where she thought she got Covid and she told me that a woman in her office got sick and told them she had gotten tested and was negative. She wasn't tested. She did. And everyone in the office got Covid. 

 I had noticed a lovely blonde woman sitting in the chair Cattycorner across the hall from our room. When they were able to complete the infusions on everyone in our little corner of the hospital, we lined up behind the Pied Piper nurse to leave. The lovely woman I had noticed across the hall looked up at me from her wheel chair to say, "Mrs. Ramsey, you were my eighth grade teacher. I am Caroline Holman." How delightful that was even in the middle of our current weird setting to see my sweet Caroline. I do hope my Headland friends will pray for her and check to make sure she and her family are taken care of. 

 Joseph in Genesis 45:5 And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you. Genesis 50:20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this--to preserve the lives of many people. 

 We do not know why we are where we are. But we had to be where we were to be where we are and God will use it for good. 

 So today, in spite of having the shock of Covid, God has blessed me in so many ways. Drew Ramsey and Brittany Ballard Ramsey sent me lunch from Longhorn, Brooke Ramsey Evans went to the grocery store for me, and Sylvia and Tom brought me a fish sandwich from the wharf. I still have an appetite. Drew and Brittany in spite of already having had Covid went today and took the vaccine. They have children and the new form of Covid can be much more serious for children according to my sister who sees the consequences in her cardiology practice. 

When the nurse taking our history asked me if I had been losing weight I laughed and said, "That will never happen until I have been dead ten days." Susan laughed and said, "Me too." (I told you she and I bonded. Soul sisters. Though with her form of Covid she probably is losing weight. She lost taste and smell Sunday.) 

 Two guys from directly across the hall greeted us with "Roll Tide!" To which all of us in that hall responded with a "Roll Tide" back. Reminds me of when Joe and I would say our prayers. I would end with "Amen" and Joe would add "Roll Tide!" The Pied Piper nurse led us through a torturous maneuver of halls averting as many people as possible to the door at the Digestive Health some into rho part of the Flowers. I was glad to get home. 

 As part of the equipment Sylvia brought me I now have my very own oxygen measurer. I am warned if the oxygen measures less than 90 I am to go immediately to the Hospital. I an also chronicling Blood pressure, and temperature. I am well equipped now. You may also want to acquire these health meters. 

 I am ready to go onto heaven anytime but apparently God has some reason that I need to stay on here for awhile. 

Otherwise why did he send me to the hospital? 

 I'm curious why the papers I was given mention being quarantined even from our pet. Fortunately, Gigi sleeps in the shower and will still comfort me. I sure do miss Joe. All of us from the Infusion Ward appreciate your prayers. 

 See Also for description of Delta Variant https://www.modernhealthcare.com/clinical/unraveling-mysterious-mutations-make-delta-most-transmissible-covid-virus-yet

The INTERSECTION OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY, SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND THE GREAT RESET

 Could it begin with a simple textbook? Why be alarmed?

RAISING REVOLUTIONARIES. 

In the 1990s we had a push for education reform under the guise of Goals 2000. Within that push was a total restructuring of education as we know it. I was running for the Chairmanship of the Dothan, Alabama School Board. I asked to see the bylaws of the Board. Apparently that was unexpected but access was reluctantly given. The thing that jumped out most at me that has great influence on what is happening today was the statement THEN that: All Learning will be SEQUENTIAL.

Little did I know that when David Hornbeck was paid to rewrite the Bylaws to fit Goals 2000 and make all learning THEMATIC that change would wind up with Critical Race Theory. Sequential learning is line upon line, skill upon skill. Phonics builds words. Words build sentences. Sentences build paragraphs. Drill and Repetition reinforce both Reading and Math. 

Sequential Learning was replaced by THEMATIC learning (for example: "oppression of the masses" in Critical Race Theory). Phonics and Direct Instruction was replaced by whole word memorization and inferential learning. Break down the whole to the part. Drill and Repetition was then called Drill and Kill. All of this became a part of every subject (a.k.a."Integrated Learning" -in Science, Language, Art, History, etc). 

EQUITY AND OUTCOMES BASED are now interchangeable.  It is not equality of education; it is equity of outcome. 

Recently a new AP World History Textbook was put up for adoption here in Dothan, Alabama. We were not allowed to have access to a physical textbook, but were referred to an online "sampler." This is what I saw in that sampler. 

It is important that people realize that Critical Race Theory does not come with a label. It is insidious in its inclusion and the impact on the child's mind and understanding of the world around him/her shifts.  

The question here is does the AP World History textbook, Advanced Placement World History – modern 1200 – present published by Perfection Learning push the Woke political agenda rather than teach factual world history and why should we be alarmed? 

“Wokeism is fast becoming the new state religion. 

Should it overtake our government, in making identity politics paramount, it will unmake any semblance of a unifying American identity. 

In so doing, it will serve as the ultimate tool of cynical, radically leftist power-grabbers, who will be dividing and conquering under the guise of a fraudulent virtue, justice and morality.” (Newsweek, June 21, 2020. Ben Weingarten, America is Fast Becoming a Woke Theocracy, FELLOW, CLAREMONT INSTITUTE                         

Does this AP textbook promote the Woke Agenda and Critical Race Theory?

1.           Patriarchy One of the most negative aspects of the patriarchal norms of masculinity is the tendency for men to constantly be in competition with each other . Almost every aspect of many men's lives is shrouded by the need to see themselves as better than other men, or other people in general. 


2.           Critical Race Theory/WhitePrivilege an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. 
White privilege privilege 
white 


3.           Woke agenda is anti-Israeli independence. 


4.           Anti Second Amendment–Woke agenda is anti-gun 


The core idea of Critical Race Theory is that racism is a social construct, and that it is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies. White skin benefits white people in some societies. 

5. Woke Agenda is anti-capitalist, pro Socialism/Communist 

1. Evidence of promotion of the concept of the Patriarchy Woke definition of patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property. Some patriarchal societies are also patrilineal, meaning that property and title are inherited by the male lineage. 

Prologue xli 

2. Evidence of Critical Race Theory and white privilege in AP World History by Perfection Learning: 

 

p. 494 

“granted self-determination only to white countries in Eastern Europe” What was the purpose of calling those countries “white”? Could it possibly have been be the traditions of literacy and the appreciation and understanding of democratic principles in those countries rather than race that influenced that decision? 

Critical Race Theory is a lens through which to view how race has operated in society. It puts people in boxes and divides. 

3. Woke agenda is anti-Israeli independence. 

From the material available through the textbook online limited inclusion, nothing about the history of the persecution of Jews throughout history was included. 

4. Guns are evil. 

Gunpowder empires?

   

What is a right-wing government? In the section about Political Revolutions in Russia and Mexico do they mention the mass murders of Stalin? The drug cartels now operating in Mexico? We do not know because we did not have access to an authentic textbook. 

5. Anti Capitalist/pro Socialist/Communist 

The following speech by Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party demonstrates pro-communist slant of the textbook. The purpose is to undermine the student’s understanding of socialism and capitalism and to further class war. The negative is emphasized but no mention of the benefits of industrialization or capitalism. 

p. 500 "Oppressed colonial people" "exploited working class" 

After looking at the online example of the textbook with limited inclusions from the book, the bias of the book is evident. It reflects Karl Marx interpretation of history. Conflict results from economic and social differentiation.  

This interpretation asserts that white world leaders have been “oppressors” and capitalism has exploited the working class. The book also promotes The Great Reset meaning World Government through the United Nations. And, of course, the Green Revolution. 

  

In order to undermine nationalism, believed by those of the Woke agenda to be the cause of World Wars, the United Nations and Global Governance is promoted as the answer. 

 

This textbook hits all of the alarm bells. It advances an explicit anti-capitalist political message that’s rooted in a fundamental misreading of world history. These concepts are integrated into all curriculum though most obviously in the history textbooks. Under the guise of diversity training, Critical Race Theory is promoted through the Leftist hives of political indoctrination called Colleges of Education. 

https://www.al.com/educationlab/. June 29, 2021

Apparently the Alabama Education Lab, home for writers on Education for AL.com, are products of this political processing. The focus is no longer on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic but on what is now labeled Social and Emotional Learning. Attitudes and Beliefs have become the agenda of the educrats determining what our children are exposed to in the classroom. (Obviously! Alabama now ranks 52 among 50 states, Washington, D. C. and Puerto Rico) on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). (2021)

 

Our children are being primed for THE GREAT RESET.

                                     Google search on THE GREAT RESET. 

You can see it in the contents of this textbook. 

Fortunately parents are fighting back. Unfortunately, many parents believe the claims that critical race theory is not being taught in our schools. 

And then where does this take us?  "Emerging epidemics"? Notice above under topic 9:2 

 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/covid19-great-reset-gita-gopinath-jennifer-morgan-sharan-burrow-climate/

• The Great Reset is a new initiative from the World Economic Forum and HRH the Prince of Wales to guide decision-makers on the path to a more resilient, sustainable world beyond coronavirus.

• The economic fallout from COVID-19 dominates risk perceptions, but there is a unique opportunity to reshape the global economy.

• Greenpeace International’s Jennifer Morgan, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath and ITUC head Sharan Burrow discuss how they perceive a reset.

There won’t be many among the 7.7 billion people on Earth who haven’t been affected in some way by COVID-19.

From sickness and the death of loved ones to work shortages and school closures, the pandemic’s ramifications have touched every part of society – and thrown inequalities into sharp relief.

As lockdowns are starting to ease, governments and organizations across the globe are turning their attention to the recovery process – and the opportunity it provides to rebuild in a different way. One that makes the world better for everyone and addresses the other great crisis of our time: climate change.

 The Forum’s Mobility Platform, in collaboration with the Commons Project Foundation, has launched the Common Trust Network – a project aiming to help roll out a “digital passport” that shows whether a person has been tested or vaccinated in compliance with prevailing border-crossing regulations as defined by governments, to help open up international travel.

Along with public and private stakeholders, the Network will empower individuals by providing digital access to their health information, make it easier for people to understand and comply with each destination’s requirements, and ensure that only verifiable lab results and vaccination records from trusted sources are presented for the purposes of cross-border travel and commerce.

Online sampler: https://sampler.perfectionlearning.com/ap-world- history-modern-sampler/index.html - p=FC 

"Opponents of CRT, most notably the Alabama Eagle Forum and Alabama Policy Institute, two conservative groups, say critical race theory will “impute fault, blame, a tendency to oppress others or guilt to persons solely because of their race or sex violate the premises of individual rights, equal opportunity, and individual merit,” according to a draft of a proposed resolution the organizations circulated earlier this month."

https://www.al.com/education/2021/06/university-of-alabama-education-professors-ask-for-support-in-critical-race-theory-debate.html

After reading these excerpts from the online "sampler" of the AP Textbook discussed above, what do you think?

FYI

 Celebrating Founding Fathers Is ‘Structural Racism,’ National Archives Says 

Jarrett Stepman  / @JarrettStepman / June 29, 2021

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/06/29/celebrating-founding-fathers-is-structural-racism-national-archives-says/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAF9-x-6ygLF24NG6TNabmdKzVAfJD0ilpnm5btkhhP7RweTR8EeP1CdFZ2ithk4iQMcCvNxSfhkP5fwptUr2fNT5wlYZbMhkDKPZIvCSYo6V-2Mmxc. 

Action Civics and the Critical Race Theory in the Classroom and Your Community

 BEWARE ACTION CIVICS

Protect Our Children. 

 

A new push for our children’s minds and hearts is coming through the "education" pipeline. Most everyone has heard of dangers of Common Core but Common Core on steroids will soon be introduced in a form known as “Action Civics”. Local Boards of Education got tangled up in Common Core by requesting federal “Race to the Top Funding.” As a consequence they were required to adopt the Common Core Standards. Billions of federal dollars will soon become available should the Civics Secures Democracy Act, surprisingly co-sponsored by Republican Senators John Cornyn (Texas) and Tom Cole (Oklahoma), become law. 

Action Civics is based on President Biden’s backing of Critical Race Theory. What is Critical Race theory? Critical race theory (CRT), is a movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the belief that raceis not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist in so far as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.(Wikipedia)

Should the Civics Secures Democracy Act pass, billions of dollars would be spent to politicize students who would be graded on their political action. Teachers, grounded in the politicization of the colleges of education and through teacher certification, are even now making “project based civics” a requirement for classroom credit and even graduation. Those action based projects are usually associated with Alinsky based organizations. Students skip class and lead protests in the community. 

 

All of this is happening behind parents’ backs. So, what can we do? 
1. Attend Local School Board Meetings and let your representative know you DO NOT WANT them applying for those dollars tying curriculum to this policy. 

2. Contact Senators Cornyn and Cole to warn them of what they are actually supporting. 

3. Demand that our Governor STOP the Alabama State School Board from passing this legislation on the state level. 

4. Oppose volunteer requirements and “service learning” as a part of civics education for graduation. 

5. Oppose your local or state school board requiring teachers to discuss current political issues. 

 

The New York Times proposes the 1619 Project as the foundation of American History and Civics education and as a vehicle for Critical Race Theory. Robert Woodson, Civil Rights Activist, counters the 1619 Project with 1776 Unites, a movement to draw on the best of America’s past while also maintaining a special focus on stories that celebrate black excellence, reject victimhood culture, and showcase African-Americans who have prospered. The choice is clear to us. But is it to our elected officials?

This is where the Director of Instruction for the State of Alabama was leading our Education Department. 

https://sharmanbursonramsey.blogspot.com/2018/01/dothan-alabama-continues-to-fail-to.html

 

ONLY ONE LIFE

I am sure this reflection is caused by the death of my Joe. For 51 years purpose in life was in prayer for his salvation and doing as God commanded. "It's your job to love him, it's my job to lead him." And lead us both he did toward Joe's salvation on August 2, 2020 and then on to his death November 20th, 2020.

So, after 51 years what was I to do?

Two dear friends involved themselves in my life. Betty Peters and Barbara Moore. Anyone acquainted with them know that they are first and foremost devout, patriotic, Christian women. They are now widows, fearless in their beliefs, devoted to children, and their country. They were not about to let me idle about without purpose for whatever years God has for me.

And so, once again I find myself drawn to the Eagle Forum, an organization that researches issues and lobbies for faith, family and freedom by being aware of what is happening on every level of government, in our schools, and the culture about us. But, I am not alone here in Dothan. Barbara, Betty and I hope those of you who share our concern and love for our children and our country will join us in this endeavor. 

Joe encouraged me to be a part of this wonderful organization before he died. He also admired these dedicated women.

Today this poem landed in my brain and would not leave.

Only One Life

C.T. Studd

Two little lines I heard one day, Traveling along life’s busy way;

Bringing conviction to my heart, And from my mind would not depart;

Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

Only one life, yes only one, Soon will its fleeting hours be done;

Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet, And stand before His Judgment seat;

Only one life,’ twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.

And then I recalled a post I made on Facebook a while ago when Joe and I lived in Panama City after his retirement -- before health and a hurricane brought us back home to Dothan. I will relate it to you because there are still those involved in education who have been brainwashed by those who have caused the problems in the first place. This event typifies much of what we are up against They are the experts with the clean shirt and brief case speaking educrat and pretending to have research to back up their curriculum. The research they have usually turns out to be anecdotal rather than empirical. But there must be those who challenge rather than joining in circling the wagons.

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Had an interesting experience today at a church group meeting. I am a member of that group and I wanted to invite this group of Christian women to the Panhandle Eagle Forum meeting. I said, "I would like to invite you to the Panhandle Eagle Forum meeting a week from Thursday at noon at the Bay County Library. Eunie Smith, President of the Eagle Forum, will be there to speak on the Eagle Forum, Common Core and more. If you don't know about Common Core, please watch the video with Dr. Duke Pesta Common Core --Six Years Later. Common Core is here in our schools."

I started telling them about the graphic sex in the American Experience Literature 11th grade specifically the recommendation for Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eyes and how graphic it was. I have a granddaughter in the 9th who may eventually be affected by this. I also expressed my concerns about the Common Core inclusion of teaching Kindergarten children how to know if they were transgender, gay, or lesbian introducing pre-schoolers to age inappropriate sex education being required to be INTEGRATED into the curriculum. (I have grandsons this age.)

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Suddenly one of the attendees interrupted saying, "I have LET you speak before."

I couldn't help but say, "Thank you for LETTING me speak."

"But I cannot sit here and listen to this propaganda," she continued.

I persisted, "Christian women ought to be concerned."

She said, "I was a principal." (As if that meant she was an expert on Common Core and what works in education.)

"But, Common Core is new," I responded.

She said, "No, it isn't."

As if that made it better? Really? That was a sad admission. So, now what failed before has been canonized in Common Core?

Then another former music teacher spoke up and said, "You just don't know about what the Black children live in. Toni Morrison's story is just the kind of thing those children experience!"

Well, first of all, who gave the former principal the authority to LET me to speak? That is freedom of speech, isn't it? Or is that another example of the Left attempting to silence the Right. Where did the Left ever come up with the idea that they have the RIGHT TO SILENCE others.

Secondly, she was a principal? I wanted to say, "Oh, then, we have you to blame for the continued failure of our schools. Isn't that why Race to the Top and then Common Core got into our schools in the first place? Everyone felt they "had to do SOMETHING" because things were so bad?"

But I didn't. I did not persist because that would have been bad manners. So I took a deep breath and the program ended. I left.

JUST CURIOUS--WHY DO WE LISTEN TO THOSE WHO PRODUCED THE PROBLEM TELL US HOW TO FIX IT?

And then to the woman who defended the use of pornography in the classroom, I wanted to say, "Don't those children who might have experienced rape and incest have the right to NOT to be mentally raped again? You really consider that (what I think they justify calling it authentic texts) worthy of 11th grade literature. Couldn't you expose them to tried and true classics? What is the REAL AGENDA FOR THIS?

How dare our schools allow curriculum that will Rape the Minds of those innocents who have NOT experienced incest and rape?

And...isn't assuming that Rape is a Normal part of the Black experience CONDESCENDING?

Why don't ALL CHILDREN have the right to an education that will prepare them academically for whatever the world might send them opening windows of opportunity with quality instruction for reading, Math, History, etc. rather than the condescension of assuming we should lower the standards of academics, civility AND COMMON DECENCY in effect giving that pornography the endorsement of the education establishment!

Needless to say, I came home with my tail tucked between my legs. Discouraged. I admit to feeling as if I had been struck by a woman prominent in the organization of the church.

Joe said, "Sharman what did you expect? If you stand up for something you truly believe there are those who will try to silence you or intimidate you into backing down."

I've been there before. I will do it again. It would be easier if God had called me to Uganda to build missions. It is quite difficult when going to "the ends of the earth" happens to be your own town.

This was indeed a wake-up call. The LEFT has an agenda. They blame us for challenging that agenda and want to silence us. They promote this agenda under the guise of social justice-- a term that sounds so righteous. And yet, the purpose is not social justice, but the undermining of the values that founded our country and seeks to establish an atheist globalist, one world order--though those individual teachers did realize this!

It is our wonderful culture that has produced the greatest Social Justice the world has ever seen. Their version would create a nation of slaves because the uneducated are gullible and defenseless.

Too many have "drunk the Kool Aid" and simply circle the wagons defending whatever comes down from the central office.

These two ladies are lovely people. But, we have a serious difference of opinion (as Christians, fellow educators, and citizens) on what the purpose is for sending our children to school where we entrust them to those who assume en loco parentis position when we walk them to those school house doors. That is an awesome responsibility and not one teachers or parents should take lightly.

Ironically, I spent an hour yesterday with a young mother bemoaning how the new Math was creating a very, very sad and emotionally drained fourth grader. She was herself quite frustrated because she did not have a clue how to help her daughter with it! I could relate. My own granddaughter here in Panama City did the same thing. And that was when I started digging deeper into what once more was happening in my profession.

"As a man thinketh, so is he."

Our God is an awesome God. 2nd Timothy 1:7. For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.