I got a challenge for you. And I’m offering you an apology for a polite and mature challenge if I have you wrong. If I have you wrong, I’m sorry (for real). I think it’s fair considering your lengthy, challenging posts to me.
Everyone else is free to comment too, obviously.
I see you said that this is stupid. Well, American culture is now violent, slovenly, vulgar, hateful, and hyper sexualized, and that goes for its social institutions like education, schools that is, which is part of culture.
I can write several scary incidents in schools coming to roost in my own county, and that goes for “nice neighborhoods” too. Which is why many parents and teachers have been complaining to officials and/or have opted to homeschool. And I’m talking about violent assault, ammo found in a high school, a knife found on an elementary school bus, and stabbings! This, in addition to the lunatic things being taught and shown in classrooms and illiteracy throughout the country, and school shootings, female students dressed as street walkers (dress is part of culture) , and sexual abuse amongst students (which I too witnessed as a student way back) and from teachers unto children.
Some of us homeschool, using our time and resources to not have mentally or physically traumatized or dead or incompetent children in towns that pay thousands of taxes for and under normal circumstances we’d use the schools for which we pay these taxes.
Get this: a friend of mine is paying $50k per year to send two kids to private school. That, in addition to the 30k he pays in taxes, partly for the schools could have been going to under normal circumstances! That’s a total of 80k per year, which is above the median salary here.
This past Sunday, some days after the Nashville school shooting, and a streak of violent incidents at schools on Long Island, including what should be considered felony assault to my friend’s/co-workers (he’s going to soon be featured in the news) son, my wife looked distraught and told me she felt anxious. I asked why, knowing what she likely was going to tell me, and she answered with exactly what I suspected!
So, you said this “culture war” is stupid. And by that logic, all of those concerned and scared parents, normal people earning livings and raising children, and not bothering or victimizing others, making a stink are engaged in such s stupid war. Is that so? It’s either that or you are not including all of what makes up culture. And if the latter is the case, then I take these words back.
I consider this peculiar given this reality and your input while not living here, not raising children here, and your age, and your current station in life (a student). Is that reasonable considering I’m a middle aged man raising children?
Can you understand my or others point of view? That is, how it feels to have this happen around me and increasingly worsen while looking at my 3 and 6 year olds faces. And then to have these concerns considered part of something stupid?
And related to my post above. Who feels sorry for us (the people I described) except us? No one!
And yes, all this has to do with the decline of America. So I’m not derailing. And I don’t hate America. I hate those driving America into the ground!
And people reminding me, “hey, violent crime was higher in the past” is hugely dismissive! Consider the streak and uptick in subway and street crime in NYC. My cousin works in Manhattan, which means my uncle and others worry for her safety everyday. Some women have told me they now stand in front of walls and must be on guard for fear of violent attacks and being thrown onto tracks. This is not a normal way to live; it is pathetic.
She once got screamed at from a car while walking on the street, “white bitch!” Imagine telling her or my family, “Hey, what are you worried about? Crime was higher in the 80s.”
And who feels sorry for us? Almost no one! Not that I need them to, but I’d like for others not to try to sap my mental energies for things and people I can’t control or help, especially those who are working to harm my children.
