On Sunday (2/19) Deborah Carter our 'beloved' liberal member of the education system wrote an editorial entitled Stance of TJ activists sound unfortunately as an educator Ms. Carter has shown once again that she can neither do research or chooses to ignore the research when it doesn’t match her mindset. She states that, “According to last week's online poll, 69 percent of FNP readers think the military should recruit in our schools, once again proving the adage that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't necessarily right.” Excuse me? Just because the majority of the residents in this county do not agree with you does not make them wrong.
The poll was originated after several students from Gov. Thomas Johnson High School (TJ), went before the Board of Education (BOE) complaining that allowing the military to recruit in our schools violates the BOE's own policy, since the armed forces discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. These students, since Ms. Carter does not point that out are the leadership of the Young Socialists of TJ a group espousing the ideals of socialism as the cure for what is “wrong” with America.
First allow me to state, I agree with Ms. Carter when she states that “First, let's clarify that there can be no doubt or difference of opinion about that point "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is discriminatory…” but to blame the Military on this matter is ludicrous at best. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, is not a military policy developed or decided upon by the Pentagon it was created by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by the darling of the left President William Jefferson Clinton. If you have a problem with the policy that is fine, but take it up with the only power able to actually do something about it, Congress.
Blocking the presence of recruiters on campus is not about equal rights it’s about being afraid that there might be someone out there that believes differently than you do. The Young Socialists said in one presentation that gay and lesbian students shouldn’t be further discriminated against by the military since they encounter threatening harassment on a daily basis from their peers. If that is true having recruiters on campus is the least of their worries.
Richard Phillips further said in one of the presentations, "It is precisely this love of rights and freedom that motivates us to criticize the U.S. military for not upholding the same ideals it seeks to defend. ... When homosexual students see signs saying 'Be all that you can be,' they know that this promise is not for them. ... They know that they are simply not welcome because of who they are as a person." The problem Ms. Carter and Mr. Phillips is that you are now seeking to block the right of other students to “Be All 'They' Can Be" not out of some righteous goal of equality but rather to prevent your fellow students from choosing a path of honor and loyalty.
An interesting path that Ms Carter’s “patriots” have chosen, “They have gone through the appropriate channels to seek change, using well-researched and well-reasoned arguments.” The problem Ms. Carter is that their argument is not well researched or they would have petitioned Congress to change the policy they force the military to follow instead of attacking the military with their assaults. As a teacher of literature you are supposed to be teaching these students the power of research and the methods to follow the when writing. In point of fact these students deserve at best a C for presentation but an F on content and research. They raise more questions about their research and knowledge on the subject matter than they answer. Not surprisingly they do deserve an A for exposing you as the left leaning anti-military moonbat you are. Only a true “hater” would jump on their bandwagon without researching the facts before hand.
To paraphrase Meredith Willson “We’ve got Trouble/right here in River City/with a capital T/and that rhymes with P/which stands for presumptuous teachers preaching anti-militarism.
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