It's hard to know what's
more sickening – the repellent prospect of our kids being dealt drugs
in schools, or the synthetic outrage and hand-wringing by the self-declared
"protectors" of children, the left-liberal intelligentsia. Policy-makers
and educational experts would do well to turn down the Bob Marley, put
out that spliff and start enforcing a set of simple decent rules for
teachers that will get the pot out of our schools and put the boredom
back in the nation's maths classes.
 This is highly likely your child By now, you'll have read
or seen the story. A Year 9 class at Epping High had
a maths lesson diverted from the usual exploits of Pythagoras and trigonometry
for something a little more in line with the leftist agenda beloved
by most teachers: the use and enjoyment of addictive narcotic drugs.
It has been confirmed that the teacher brought a 10cm "stick" of
"pot" into class, and sold it to one of his pupils. This transaction
was concluded in front of over a dozen students – several of whom,
I am proud to say, promptly went and reported the whole incident to
the police. Thank goodness there are still some decent children left in this country.
And the name of the teacher?
John F Kennedy. Check out the facts for yourself. Still think I'm
making this conspiracy stuff up?
The reaction of the left side
of politics was predictable: already the faux condemnation from all
sectors is flooding in. Within an hour of the story breaking, a spokescommunist
from the NSW Teachers' Federation claimed that it "totally distanced
itself" from the contretemps, and suggested that it would "de-list"
the offending teacher – the only Kennedy they've ever seen they didn't
like, methinks!
Meanwhile, back in Canberra, a representative of the
national teacher's group, the Australian Education Union, dragged
his face out of the government goodie-trough just long enough to claim
that "the AEU completely and utterly opposed the use of drugs, including
within schools" and then called on the Federal Government to give
more money to crack-smoking whores on welfare. (Or something like that – I don't listen very hard when they talk, do you?)
Drugs are, of course, a part
of Australian life, thanks to our short-sidedness in electing Gough
Whitlam and our willingness to play fast-and-loose with public standards
during the 1960s. We've had to put up with watching them move from
being a fad amongst the "groovy" set, into the mainstream, popularised
by "rock and roll" and other forms of counter-culture and, ultimately,
into our homes and suburbs. The use of drugs has become a rite of passage
for successive generations of lotus-eating layabouts, with much of the
flower of Australian youth spending their teenage years bonging on in
preparation for a lifetime to be spent drawing the dole and voting for
the ALP. As the first cohort of these un-Australian boneheads have eked
their way from munchied-out teenage years into a pasty shadow of adulthood, they have inevitably found their way into the professions and into every
part of Australian life. Now, not even our educational facilities are
sacred. (Drugs in high schools – dear God ... what's next? Universities?)
If we were more honest about
it, we would acknowledge openly that the offering of drugs to school
students by teachers was an inevitable step that is completely consistent
with a left-liberal agenda for high-school education. Teachers are a
notoriously politically active cadre, and let me put it this way, on
election day, they don't hand out how-to-vote cards for John Howard.
Most of them are loath to admit it, but teaching is the most strongly
unionised profession in Australia. They have a number of subversive
and un-Australian characteristics, not least of which is their tendency
to whine on and on about not being paid very much, and then getting
drunk at barbeques and blubbing about how crap it is to be a teacher.
Experts estimate that as many as 1 in 10 teachers are, in fact, gay – a proportion that is at least as high as in the wider population. And that's a fact that doesn't make it onto the front of the NSW
Teacher's Federation website, funnily enough. Coincidence? You
be the judge.
And of course, it's no coincidence
that this should take place in a maths class. Maths, with its rigid
and inflexible systems of rules and logic has long been the subject
of quiet subversion from the dedicated post-modernists and moral relativists
of today's staff room. Any discipline that imposes on those who learn
it the "divisive" and "non-inclusive" concept of right and wrong
answers, inflexible axioms and unchanging truths was bound to breed
resentment. Resentment being the only sort of breeding most of these
embittered, nicotine-soaked lesbians ever get up to, mind you – no
‘Costello curves' on these wide hips, thank you very much!
Face the facts: teachers supplying
drugs to school students is a natural outgrowth of decades of permissive
culture, coupled with the vestigial effects of many years of a Labor
government. But when you try and engage young people today on these
important issues, they laugh at you and call you a silly, right-wing
Ann Coulter wannabe. And then when you try and have a sensible
conversation – one of them spray-paints "Nazi" on your car! Kids
these days have no respect.
I blame the parents. Or perhaps, just this one time, the teachers.
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