September 6, 2017

Capital F

By Tammy Derouin

If only there would have been some kind of warning. These were the words of a young, single mother who was distraught over the reality of her situation. A millennial expressed how there should have been some kind of warning as to what could happen when you start having sex.

This young woman, who was struggling with an ex-partner, was having a verbal conversation with her text screen. It was half private conversation and half asking anyone in ear shot range for understanding and support. I could not shake the discomfort of one sentence; if only there would have been some kind of warning. I froze in disbelief.

The millennial generation, the generation which has always had the world at their fingertips and more sex education in public schools than any generation before them, needs additional warnings as to what can happen when you have sex? Wasn’t the introduction of more graphic sex education in the schools neatly packaged to parents, a generation ago, as a way to reduce pregnancies? The influence of the progressive Left, with their Common Core standards, removal of history and implementation of their social agenda issues, has failed. Our public-school system is being destroyed and so is our future. What happened to all the bright red markers? The Department of Education has earned a capital F.

Somewhere along the line, red pens disappeared. It was always nice to see a red A on your paper. But, when did it become too devastating for children to see a bright red F? There’s nothing like red ink on a white piece of paper to get your attention. One could even say it acts as a warning sign. Total failure is down the road if you do not heed the current grade. Was this a onetime mistake or did you chose to ignore the hints along the way; the steady drop of grades from C’s to D’s over the course of time?

Have you tried to read school report cards in recent years? I shouldn’t have to look at a legend to understand grades. The letter scale should have never been removed. A, B, C, D, skip E and go straight to F. Add plus or minus signs, for a little more emphasis. This is simple and straight forward. You know immediately where you are struggling and where you are excelling. Remember, plastic can cause suffocation. Let’s remove the bubble wrap, shall we?

Little It not only suffers from lack of traditional education, now a progressive social agenda, which is more stomach-wrenching than Mrs. Obama’s school lunch program, is being forced down everyone’s throat. Children are getting into trouble for calling fellow classmates the wrong pronoun. What kind of mental abuse are we putting our children through when we punish them for calling a boy a boy and a girl a girl? Science class teaches the facts about chromosomes. No matter what you do to yourself, your gender is not fluid. However, if you call someone by their fact factor, and they don’t like it, you are in the wrong. That’s junk reality. What’s next, the sky is green and the grass is blue and heaven help you if you get false facts confused?

For such a supposedly enlightened time, we, as a society are ignorant. We are allowing ourselves to be misled. Giving in to the false facts of the Left out of fear of being called certain names is a bullying tactic and a tactic used to gain control. The last thing the Left wants you to do is look up the facts. The Left is insulting the intelligence of every American. You can either bow down and conform or call their bluff and look things up.

If we don't wake up, one day the masses will say, if only there would have been some kind of warning. Plenty of warning signs have been available for years. One major problem is that the schools no longer teach the lessons of history. Another major problem is that people do not want to see the truth. They have their heads buried so deep in the propaganda of the Left, delivered by MSM, that they cannot see freedom is disappearing.

We are going to be in serious trouble if individuals refuse to accept the truth. A male is a male, a female is a female, a self-proclaimed socialist is a socialist and a self-proclaimed communist is a communist. Denying the truth hurts everyone and it will destroy our country.

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

Ronald Reagan