The Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs reports that a collective bargaining group representing public schools in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is calling for a boycott of student teachers from the local Christian university. The reason for the proposed shunning? Oklahoma Wesleyan University’s president (yours truly) dared to suggest that the bad ideas presently being taught in our nation’s schools might, at least in part, be responsible for the bad behavior we are seeing in our national news.
In other words — and call me crazy here — I am openly wondering if what Richard Weaver wrote of in his seminal 1948 classic, “Ideas Have Consequences,” might actually be true: Education matters and what we teach in our classrooms does actually get practiced in our culture.
More to the point, in these very pages on Nov. 29, 2017, in a column titled “Teaching lechery and getting lechers” I averred that today’s long list of Hollywood and Washington miscreants might have something in common — they are products of our nation’s schools and, as such, they might just be acting out the failed ideas they have been taught at their respective alma maters.
In other words, garbage in and garbage out. Teach sexual license and get sexual licentiousness. Tell young boys that sex is amoral and don’t be surprised if they grow up to be young men who behave immorally.
Think about it. How many hours a week do kids spend with their parents? How many hours a week do they spend at their church? Now, how many hours a week do they spend at their schools? Just in terms of raw quantitative input, it is clear that our educational institutions have more influence on our culture than any other entity. Our colleges, universities, and public schools can’t pretend to be innocent here. What we teach (or don’t teach) surely has some bearing on human beliefs and behavior. And if not, then why bother?
But, for suggesting such possibilities of cause and effect, the Bartlesville Education Association (BEA) issued the following demand on Dec. 11, 2017, in Bartlesville’s local newspaper: “Bartlesville Public Schools [must] refrain from accepting student teachers for any training in our classrooms until Dr. Everett Piper publicly apologizes for [his] personal attack on our [teachers].”
Now, it should be clear to any educated reader (not to mention anyone who fancies him or herself a teacher) that The Washington Times is a national newspaper and all articles written therein are for a national audience. My article or any other, is, by definition, not necessarily a local critique.
But setting aside the BEA’s curious ignorance of how to read in context, let’s consider the obvious question: Why is this group of teachers so intent on contriving personal grievance when the sexual paradigm presently taught within our nation’s schools is irrefutable?
Consider just these few examples:
In Jay, Oklahoma, 12-year-old middle school students are given graphic instruction about masturbating, oral and anal sex, with detailed instructions for boys on the how to “go down on a girl”.
In Fox Ridge and Cherry Creek, Colorado, middle schoolers are provided a private password to an internet portal through which they gain direct access to a variety of explicit sexual practices including actual videos (not cartoons or diagrams) of men engaging in anal sex.
In Edmond, Oklahoma, the high school approved reading list includes literature on rape erotica. Yes, you heard correctly. Rape erotica.
Fifth graders at Andrew Jackson Language Academy, a West Side Chicago public school, are treated with pictures of Homer Simpson with the inscription, “Lube, Lube, Lube. Use more lubrication, increase pleasure ” The curriculum at this school also includes a promotion for female condoms with the tagline: “Once you pop, you won’t have to stop!”
The list goes on and on. Spokane, Washington. Cupertino, California. St. Charles, Missouri. There is hardly a community in the nation left unscathed.
And this doesn’t even touch upon the celebrated “sex weeks” at universities such as UCLA, University of California at Berkeley, Yale, and the University of Michigan that have included activities such as “the naked mile” and seminars starring pornographers, sex toy vendors, polyamory activists, and “courses” such as “Fornication 101” which boasts of teaching freshman coeds the wonders of “carnal knowledge.”
But rather than admit that these debauched and misogynistic ideas might actually be creating a debauched and misogynistic culture, this teachers union calls for a boycott of the local Christian college’s students as if that will surely solve the problem?
At the risk of sounding a bit pedantic, a refresher in children’s literature might be in order for those offended by my challenge. In such, they might remember that while a little boy shouted out the obvious — that the emperor had no clothes — “the lords of the bedchamber were taking greater pains than ever to appear holding up a train, where in reality there was really nothing to hold.”
• Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, is the author of “Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery 2017).
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Indoctrination, pure and simple. The left is trying for a complete takeover of the young for a future government of evil.
These “teachers” are the product of the hippies and communists of the 60s. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t end them back then!
I keep saying, Mccarty’s purge of commies from our country, in the 50s should NEVER HAVE been stopped.
Ituser, it has become all too clear, in historical retrospect, that McCarthy was RIGHT–and that those who VILIFIED and attacked him were exactly what he SAID they were–COMMUNISTS hellbent on COMMUNIZING the United States.
And yet the last time i saw a text book, he was STILL villified in it..
I totally agree that what is taught in public schools is garbage. The left wants to control what is taught. If any suggestion is made that perhaps the students aren’t ready for some materials we get criticized as old fashion. Well now the students are out of control and the administration doesn’t know how to handle them. I guess that’s the new fashion.
i wonder.. Would this teachers group go against islamic madrasses?
” (yours truly) dared to suggest that the bad ideas presently being taught in our nation’s schools might, at least in part, be responsible for the bad behavior we are seeing in our national news.”
Oh you silly goose.
Don’t you know actions have no consequences? Free love can’t possibly lead to teen pregnancies. Gay sex can’t possibly lead to the spread of AIDS. Fatherlessness can’t possibly lead to gangs and other criminal activity. Welfare checks can’t possibly lead to fatherlessness. Paying Kim Jung Un billions in “go away” money can’t possibly lead to him funding his nuclear program. Forcing banks to approve housing loans for people with no jobs can’t possibly lead to a housing crash.
You’re never going to be a real Democrat if you think actions have consequences.
I believe what is happening is that we are attempting to pull ourselves back from the edge of a failed society. our President is doing what we need to accomplish this but there has been a lot of damage. it is not about communists or even the democratic party which as a lifelong democratic voter I can tell you no longer exists. it is not about anybody else’s ideology. it’s about us. what we allowed to happen. that we were silent. textbooks that embed fake history. teachers and professors without any credible scholarship allowed to teach and have tenure. massive doses of foreign money dumped into every aspect of our lives. media, entertainment, education, colleges and universities. identity politics, congress. and billions to the enemies of western civlization and terrorists freely flowing without public disclosure. those who would destroy this republic are very loud and screeching. we have to be loud. rude. and screeching. and protect our President, donald j. trump.
We can only HOPE we are at the point society is willing to be pulled back from that precipice..
I believe this is against the rules of the EEOC? Discrimination for religious beliefs as a test for employment is unlawful and UNCONSTITUTIONAL! It doesn’t matter that student teaching is not a job but a requirement to get certified as a teacher, which is a job!
Do what the leftists do, S U E !!
M A G A !!!
You should know by now, ONLY US on the right, have to follow those discrimination laws. TO leftist nut jobs, they are mere suggestions, to be ignored when they desire.
Take their Federal money away from the school!
Disband the group also.
They tried that with sanctuary cities. Hasn’t been so easy.
Yea. Anyone attempting to do so, will just get taken to court, and the left will shop around for a SJW judge, to ‘put a block on you doing so’..
This is the gay/progressive indoctrination agenda to destroy the family unit. They plan to steal your child’s innocence and groom them to have sex with your children. It’s a gay/muslim philosophy ! Sex with children and separate them from their parents and Christian belief system.
Pure evil. Parents, it’s your responsibility to remove gay / muslim/ progressives from all of your schools !
Yep, gotta train our “Hitler Youth” for the future “new world order”.
Destroy Christianity and Christians who tell the truth for the evil of liberalism. Liberalism is the devil incarnate. The devil is the “inclusiveness and diversity” of the left.
I would hope the so called teachers union’s boycott of Christian college students would be a rather useless demand. I suspect very few Christian college students would have any desire to even visit the evidently repulsive, perverted school system of Bartlesville Oklahoma. Since the
removal of God from schools the nation has virtually been destroyed morally. No parent should allow their children to attend ANY government controlled school.The schools, colleges, universities all need to be shut down until Christian teachers can replace the vast majority of what’s in them today.
Right on!!! I guess they haven’t quite prepared the students for beastiality yet; guess that will be next on their agenda. God will remember those teachers and institutes they represent…
Then why isn’t god sending down a holy Smiting from up on high??
“Then why isn’t god sending down a holy Smiting from up on high”
Imagine you are G-d
What do you want?
Strict obedience? Then why give free will?
Or for all to come to the knowledge of the truth?
And what is this knowledge of the truth?
That he has given all he is to you, everything
So you can be like G-d
His desire
Luk_12:32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the Kingdom.
1Co_2:16 As the scripture says, “Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who is able to give him advice?” We, however, have the mind of Christ.
Joh 17:21 I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
I’d wanna punish those who are flagrently abusing their spots.. Whether its teachers, pastors or church leaders who let their facilities be used as sanctuaries to HARBOR CROOKS!
Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses. Faith is a defense against indoctrination, because people who truly practice their faith no evil when they see it and Marxism is evil. Today’s green movement and union organizations are the new homes of Marxism. I finally left my jobs union when they sent central board members to South Africa to celebrate Nelson Mandela and his organization taking over the government there. These organizations cannot have people of faith and principal in their organizations because their insidious agenda would be unmasked.
liberalism is a rabbid disease and should be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
And then people wonder why parents want to home school?
Why do you think so many states, keep going AFTER parents who DO home school? CAUSE THEY DON’T want you to home school your own kids.. They want them in their libtard indoctrination centers, so they can brain wash them in the libtard agenda.
I’ve homeschooled my boys since day 1. We have 2.5 years left. I just keep praying we can get through it. But then I look at the college choices, and cringe. I pray that they can find a good one- either a public institution that isn’t too far gone, or better yet, a good Christian college. One son would find a great fit at the college I went to that hasn’t compromised their principles. They have the type of programs he seeks. The other wants to play a particular sport though, so that school wouldn’t work (though they have the degree program). The options are terrifying sometimes. (“safe space rooms”? really??) I just hope we have done all that we can before turning them out into the wild crazy world.
Even the supposed christian ones are starting to get bat whit crazy…
That will not fly in Oklahoma. Nutcase demented Democrats disguised as “educators” who think they are the arbiters of truth when they reject He who is “The Truth, The Way, and The Life.” The views of this fringe group will be rejected, as they should.
I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
This truly reminds me of getting “rid” of the Jews. Now it is the Christians and their ideology. We really need to fight back with everything we’ve got. The left does not have a god unless it is money. They lie more than I thought was possible.
Here is the situation: Teach immorality. Teach about sex with a disregard for moral parameters. Experience the negative consequences. Blame somebody. Blame those who teach morality. Blame those who teach about sex with a regard for moral parameters. “Hey, nobody is perfect, right?” Okay, so blame all of the Christians.
That’s exactly what we are seeing. THe left’s always good at coming up with these idiotic ideas, then implementing them even WITH ALL OF US ON THE RIGHT telling them, there will be all these negative consequences.. THEN WHEN those consequences hit, they deny, deny, deny that its ANYTHING TO DO with what they did..
DECADES ago, when my teen-aged boys came home from school and told me their sex education teacher–after giving them all the whys and how-tos of sex (which we had already done, along with trying to teach them their actions have consequences, and they need to be RESPONSIBLE when it comes to sex!), told them, “I’m not going to lay a bunch of value judgments on you. You are adults and can make up your own minds about values”–I blew a FUSE. I got hold of that teacher and the school and DEMANDED that my kids be removed from that class, FORTHWITH! I told them that what they were doing was NOT “sex education. ” Sex education that does NOT include the concept of self-responsibility and considering the consequences of your actions on yourself AND your partner is no more than a “HOW-TO-MANUAL” to teach kids–who are NOT ADULTS–to get into trouble.
THIS is the mindset that PERVADES our Leftist educational establishment, and has, for decades. The amount of Leftist CRAP that is crammed into the minds of our kids–including revisionist “history” that teaches them to hate and hold their OWN country in CONTEMPT–is mind-boggling, and profoundly disturbing. We need to put an END to the “Dept. of Education.” The Feds have NO BUSINESS dictating curriculum, etc. to LOCAL schools. Return control of schools and what they teach to the LOCAL LEVEL, and put an END to this leftist indoctrination BS. Yes, there may be enclaves of liberalism where people actually WANT their kids to be taught this drivel, but at least it would not be generations of the ENTIRE COUNTRY’S youth being turned into brainwashed LEFTBOTS.
IMO if MORE parents got that outraged, and stormed the school, demanding, the pure unadulterated Feecies our kids are getting crammed down their throats, we would see LESS OF IT being done.
I feel ill.
Those darn Christian Colleges preaching Christian values. How despicable. Ban Spanish schools and Islamic schools while you are at it. Let our own people starve, find no work so the shihole masses can bleed the Country blind, attack our people and demand equality for Muslim non citicens . If you want Islam, go back to you own Countries and see if they will feed you, care for you and make you welcome with Govt benefits. Remember, Separation of school and church must be enforced. Enforce expulsion of the Muslims and freeloaders. The USA must be the laughing stock of the World. Got a problem person? Send him to the USA so he can be coddled and carried on a chip, well supported by the Democrats and the Liberals. America is for Americans.
Can anyone ever remember an instance where an islamic country did JACK SQUAT to help any other country out (even fellow muslim ones) after ANY SORT of natural disaster?? I certainly can’t..
The obvious seems to have escaped the Bartlesville Education Association, oh well, so much for observation skills and any hint of science
You do reap what you sow
Not that hard to understand
Hitler and his associates would be proud of this ‘book burning’. Fascists (minus Aryanism) to the core? Yes.
Seriously? I expect this sort of liberal LOONERY from New York and California. But OKLAHOMA? I grew up there, and it was ALWAYS a very Conservative state, and virtually the BUCKLE on the BIBLE BELT! The people I know there STILL ARE. This just proves that the leftist LOONS who are in control of our educational system nationwide are COMPLETELY out touch with the citizenry whose offspring they are systematically BRAINWASHING in the public school SHEEP FACTORIES to be good little Communists!
If we do NOT wrest control of our schools, colleges and universities OUT of the hands of these LOONS, we are DONE as a FREE Republic. Thanks to the Leftist brainwashing done in the schools, NOBODY will have to STEAL our kids’ freedoms–they will willingly GIVE THEM AWAY, because they’ve been taught by their “educators” that freedom is EVIL and slavery to an all-powerful state is “freedom.” Shades of “1984” Orwelian doublespeak!
IMO its cause like with Texas, North and south carolina.. ITS THE colleges that are turning the state blue..
While some teachers may be to blame for bad thins going on they are not solely to blame. Parents are to ones with the most blame. See schools are supposed to teach things like Math, Reading,and History. Parents are supposed to twach things like manners, right and wrong, and how to behave in public. Parents should be the ones who have the most influence in a child’s life. If a child is not with their parents more theman they are their teachers then the parents are not parents as they should be.
The Teachers and others supporting this barring need sued by those they are attempting to ban. The actions and words of the Admin of the college are their’s alone and the students should not be punished for those actions or words unless they support and agree with those making these WRONG things. This President is WRONG in what he says and believes. Parents are the ones who are to blame unless one is speaking of Professors as being to blame for the IGNORANCE going on in this Nation. Professors at most Universities and Colleges are SPEWERS of the IGNORANCE that is LIBERALISM. It is that IGNORANCE that is to blame for the missing morals and the complete lack of COMMON SENSE.