Yesterday there was a piece in the Denver Post about a U.S. census worker dropping off thousands of census promotional materials at a high school in Jefferson County, Colorado. Over one thousand posters featuring various languages other than English, and over one thousand grocery bags (you know, the "save the environment" bags) were among the items dumped. Over three hundred of the posters were in Farsi, the language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Pakistan. Jefferson County is not a hotbed of Farsi-speaking families (just over 300 persons listed Farsi as the language spoken in their homes in the 2000 census). The principal has an idea for the posters: turn them on the other side, and give them to the students in art classes.
Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo. Some students in California came to school with tee shirts on which American flags were featured. Assistant principal Rodriguez said some "European" students had tipped him off about the tee shirts. The guilty students were brought in to the assistant principal's office and asked to turn their shirts inside out. Their mothers came to the office in defense of their sons. One mother told Laura Ingraham today that she had sarcastically apologized to the assistant principal that she had raised a son who thinks for himself, not blindly adhering to the "politically correct" thinking the school promulgates.
Are you raising children who think for themselves, or do you urge them to be politically correct?
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Hi Bob. Been off moving into our mostly finished new house, let's not go there shall we?! Ha. It's hard to decide that...if you raise them to go against PC, you may get them into more trouble than it's worth. Long story short, that happened to me in the 1960s in Kansas over a racial problem. As the kid, I was just humilated to be singled out. Maybe I'm not the norm there. But it was tough going for the rest of the school year.
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