I often say about public education that it’s like using a Porta-Potty at an outdoor concert full of drunks after waiting for an hour in a long line in the hot summer sun as opposed to a nice private bathroom in your master bedroom. I mean, if you gotta go, you use the damn thing. But optimally, you want the nice one off your bedroom. Public education is garbage and has been really since its inception. I try to help make the public school in my district better by electing good people into office. Still, so long as the progressive labor unions run the government schools and a corrupt communist-oriented Department of Education sets the policy, there isn’t much hope for public schools. And that’s the real point from the government and why the governor race in Virginia is competitive. Parents after Covid have heard the quiet stuff out loud, and it has scared them. Your children are not your children, they are possessions of the state, and with that simple revelation, Terry McAuliffe uttered that which was never meant to be said in public. The true intentions of the entire progressive movement, the micromanagement of every aspect of our lives, and the theft of our children to turn them into communist insurgents. Thankfully this year, and this 2021 election, we have options. But the damage is decades old and is nothing new to me.
I started this blog site over a decade ago to cover the stories our local newspapers wouldn’t cover about gross sexual acts teachers routinely committed against the students of my home district of Lakota. This latest terror in Loudoun County, Virginia, where a guy dressed up as a girl raped two girls brutally in a bathroom, is not unusual in public education. What’s unique about this one is that it involved the trans bathroom controversy, which is going on in most public schools. The issue is hot in Lakota, which is in northern Cincinnati. A majority of the current school board members supported it, which is why there are so many candidates seeking to knock them out during this election. But this has been going on all over the United States because it comes from the Department of Education essentially and the talking points of the teacher’s unions who are entirely in support of all the Democrat Party platforms. The trans condition is a new wrinkle to the old problem of school boards covering up this bad behavior from the parents to keep all this bad behavior undercover. Newspapers and local television will cover the football games and all the feel-good stories but ignore all the vile sex abuse in just about every corner. A quick search of my blog site will list hundreds of stories that I have covered, and those are just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a lot more that goes on that nobody will ever find out about.
I ran into a lot of trouble with Lakota when I covered a grade school teacher taking naked pictures and sexually abusing students in the classroom. This was ten years ago, and the school board very much wanted to cover up the whole case. They thought that I was hurting real estate values in our community by slamming the school by me covering it. They worried that people wouldn’t move to the neighborhood because everyone knew that schools were the only reason people bought homes. Most adults in my community didn’t want to hear about the sexual molestation of children by school employees because it might hurt property values. So the coverups continued. Ten years later, one of the people running for this year’s school board is Vanessa Wells, who had her daughter threatened with murder in Lakota. Of course, the school board tried to cover it up and attempted to suppress the story, which was a considerable court case. Vanessa became tired of being a victim, so she put her name in the ring to become a school board member. Truthfully, the way to solve the problem is to elect good school board members. Still, until recently, until some of these stories started being talked about because parents realized during Covid shutdowns what was going on in the schools, nobody wanted to discuss it. Parents were happy to get the free babysitting service, and they didn’t want to know the bad stuff. People voted for big progressive school board people, and the unions ran all over them. In that way, government schools became like that public toilet that nobody cleaned, and people pissed all over, then expected good results.
I’m happy to hear that more and more parents are homeschooling their children. My kids are homeschooling their kids, and the resources I see there are amazing for them. When my kids were young, my wife and I homeschooled them at various times. One issue was when the school demanded we give our kids sex education in the 4th grade. We had to pull our kids out of school because the political pressure was so great that it became impossible to send them to school. My kids both spent their senior years of high school in Europe, where they were learning about life in real-time, not just reading about it in some art class where their classmates were plotting all the ways they would get drunk on a Friday night at a football game. I learned firsthand that public schools were a waste of time and were evil in their social intentions, so I’m not surprised at all at the news stories now. I’m happy that so many people have finally caught on to what I’ve been saying for three decades. The straw that finally broke the back of public education was the overstep of progressive politics, first with Covid, then by driving the transexual issues of unisex bathrooms.
I am encouraged by each election, as they are all opportunities for positive changes back to tradition. But the brand of government schools is forever damaged. A few years ago, if I had said that public schools were equivalent to a dirty public toilet, many people would come to their defense. But not today. Now, most people are just saying, “yeah, you’re right.” Public schools and their government overlords and labor unions have done it to themselves. But none more than Terry McAuliffe letting the cat out of the bag at a debate with his challenger in Virginia for the governor race. It’s true; public schools have always sought to steal our children, to use them, to abuse them, to turn them into Anti-American activists. It’s the system itself that is at fault. It was broken from the start, and the school board’s job was not to manage the district and the money but to lay cover for all the crimes because the value of the school to the community was much more important than the kids themselves. So great evils were perpetuated, and the expectation was to always cover it up from the parents so they’d keep paying for the higher taxes and keep running on the treadmill to fuel the whole enterprise, never questioning anything. But times have changed, and I think it’s for the better, as ugly as it is. It’s about time that everyone admits what the problem has always been. Public schools are dirty and messy, and if you love your child, you would never send them there. Ever.
Rich Hoffman
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