Canon City is pretty conservative. By today’s standard, Canon City in the early 1990s, would have been staunchly conservative. My parents sent me to public school, and they had their misgivings, and it was definitely not openly liberal or antichrist.

However, I did once try to witness to my high school gym teacher (several years after graduating) and he revealed himself as being a God-hating person in that conversation. Recently, the same thing happened on Facebook with my junior high English teacher. On an article talking about gay Polis’ pretend husband, I said I would pray for their repentance. Several people liked my comments, but several supported homosexuality, included my English teacher.

I pointed out that the same defense she used to support homosexuality left her defenseless against pedophiles. There has to be some absolute standard we must hold to. She told me I was like talking to a brick wall, while not answering my objections at all.

So, going to public school didn’t ruin me, by the grace of God. But your conservative, little school with all the Christians may not be as Christian as you think.

That’s a great video, and she makes great points. I’m sure elsewhere, she’s covered the fact that the whole thing is funded by socialism. People without kids and people who don’t send their kids to public school and those who are morally opposed to government education (me) are still forced to pay via property taxes. And don’t think that if you’re a renter that you get out of paying property tax.

The following comes from Jerri Lynn Ward.

Hi!  I am an American parent.  I willingly send my children as young as 5 years old to be educated by people I don’t know because it’s FREE!  Aren’t I smart? I know the teachers might be Commies and that they might make my kids learn about anal sex as practiced by sodomites, but it is FREE!  I know my 5 year old might get beat up on the bus, but it is FREE!  I know that education majors are taught bullshit and come from the stupid category of college majors, but it is FREE!  I know that government schools outlaw the influence of Christ, but I can make up for 38 hours a week of humanism with 30 minutes of Sunday School at my mega church.  Besides,  it’s FREE!

I went to a basketball game at the Canon City Middle School, and they had several buckets out to catch water leaking from the ceiling. For the sake of argument, we’ll assume it’s because the roof is leaking, which is probably a safe assumption.

It is perfectly predictable that the roof would leak. All roofs will eventually leak. Roofs last a certain amount of time, and then, they fail. This is why any competent homeowner and building owner has funds set aside for roof replacement, and other maintenance items that we all know are coming eventually.

The original building of the middle school is over 100 years old, while the gym, I’d guess, was built sometime in the 1970s. That’s practically brand new as far as most buildings and homes in this area are concerned. A building built in that era is well-built and functional, assuming it’s properly maintained, which, as we now know, is not a safe assumption.

The problem is that the original portion of the junior high hasn’t been well maintained. They have done a poor job of maintaining it, so they want to tear it down. Granted, a 100 year old building may have issues that come up, and may not be built to modern standards, but when I went there, it was a nice building, and even as a kid in my early teens, I appreciated the antiquity of it.

The irony is that they have shown themselves to be incompetent at maintaining that building, so the voters have chosen to raise taxes so that they can tear it down, and continue their incompetence. Their incompetence has been rewarded. Why anyone thinks they’ll be able to maintain the next building is beyond me.

It’s possible that the roof in the gym just recently started leaking, and they’re diligently seeking bids for its replacement, for which, they have adequate savings. But it’s also possible that it is evidence that they’re also incapable of maintaining a building built much more recently, and that they’re incapable of budgeting for large expenses, even if they are to be expected.

But why bother budgeting or properly maintaining a relatively young 40 or 50 year old building when they can use the water damage to show that taxes need to be raised? All they have to do is show people the water damage, say there are no funds for its replacement, and covetous voters will gladly spend other people’s money to fix it. That has proven to be a successful strategy for them.

Should we be embarrassed that past voters are so cheap that they’ve inadequately funded education, or that we’ve elected and hired people who are incapable at maintaining nice buildings?

The following is all from Bojidar Marinov, and well-worth the time.

Here’s the mystery: In the 45 years child slaughter was approved by the supreme court, sixty million babies have been murdered in the womb. Abortion has been politicized and has further divided the two political parties.  Democrat families are far more likely to murder their children.  Given that, it is reasonable to think many of those 60 million murdered babies would grow up and vote Democrat. Given that roughly the same number vote for each side in presidential elections, one could assume that by now, the Democrat voting bloc would be drastically reduced.  Here is the mystery: It hasn’t.  How does that happen?

The argument that illegal immigrants replace the babies as voters doesn’t work, since the most generous estimate of the number of illegals here is 15 million. That’s not nearly enough.  Another main argument, “dead people vote Democrat” is equally invalid.  In both cases, the numbers are too low to explain the discrepancy. So where is the answer to the mystery?

It’s in the government schools, the same schools that counties endow with billions of dollars of bonds when the vote comes up. We think, “our schools are different,” but they are not. They are all part of the tenth plank of the Communist Manifesto. And while parents watch FOX News and imagine themselves fighting against “cultural Marxism,” they actually deliver their children to the institution established by classical Marxism, as per the Communist Manifesto and then increase funding at every opportunity.  How many college graduates from Republican families vote Democrat?

So I told my Bulgarian listeners: “You can be active every day in evangelism, legal work, protests and other political activities, you can write blogs and deliver sermons and lectures, you can debate and defeat “cultural Marxism” all day long and you can translate and publish and promote good Christian and conservative and libertarian books and the world may look up to you as the ultimate example of a cultural warrior for Christ . . . if your children are still in the government schools, it is all pointless. Eventually, they will vote against your faith. So, before you do anything else, go back home, and take them out. And, pastors, you are especially guilty. So start preaching an exodus from the government schools right now, if you want the next generation of Christians to be there when you grow old.”

One pastor came to me after the sermon and confided, “I am one of those especially guilty. I knew about homeschooling many years ago, but I was too timid and lazy to do it. My children are grown up now, and they lack fervor in their faith. The school has taken a good care of them. But I will be changing my preaching. I will use your mystery as a starting point.”