No More Parental Control For Students In Chicago

By Semperpapa

It is hard to ignore the signs of parental failure in our country for a good percentage of the population. From the new style of "hands off" approach to the "I don't care" one, the combination of parents increasingly reneging on their responsibilities as the main source of guidance for their children and a governmental take over of those responsibilities, the results are, to say the list appalling.

While on one side of their administrative mouths the education system claims that the individuality of each child must be respected and the individual child's self esteem safeguarded, from the other, more covert one, the move toward the absolute control of students moves along nicely.

In Chicago, what a surprise, a school official at one of that cities public school, has banned its students from packing their lunches from home, forcing them to instead eat the school cafeteria's food or go hungry. Elsa Carmona, principal of Little Village Academy on Chicago West Side, stated that she started the program because she was not happy with the fact that some of the students would have soda and chips in their sack lunches and that she considered the school food as a more nutritious choice for the students.

So what? you could ask and maybe even accuse me of taking the issue on a hyperbolic trajectory, but unfortunately this level of liberal intrusion in the school system has been rearing its ugly head at an alarming rate.
Students are not allowed to wear t-shirts with the American flag on it so not to antagonize or offend the non-American students, while other students are allowed to wear garments sporting the image of a mass murderer like Che Guevara.
A child was told to remove his American flag from his bicycle so not to, again, offend other students and it was only after high public protest that they rescinded their decision.
In Los Angeles yesterday, a 17-year old was given a 9-months sentence for bringing a gun to school, weapon that discharged, allegedly when he put his backpack, containing the weapon, down on his desk, the bullet piercing the neck of one other student before striking another girl in the head. Message: if you bring a gun to school, just state you felt in danger and all is well.
At the same time, universities still maintain their "gun-free zones" stopping their trained students with carrying permits from exercising their constitutional rights.

And while education wise the United States slips lower on the list of achievements among industrialized nations; while teachers lose their jobs and the unions work hard to safeguard bad ones as long as they advance their radical agendas; while the "system" continues to fail the new generation, 6-digit salary, non-classroom administrators continue to enjoy very comfortable life styles and make stupid decisions like the one in Chicago.

I heard yesterday a radio talk show personality in LA stating that he would give the school a hard time if it was about his child. Maybe he would, but unfortunately the truth is that our society is more inclined these days to have an attitude of "whatever" and "good, let the government pay for the lunch" more than one of refusal to surrender to the detrimental intrusion of an overbearing government.
By the time we will start paying attention to this sort of abuse, it will be too late.
Sure, accuse me of being hyperbolic!

Just my thoughts!