Lehigh Valley Conservative

I have been thinking about the meeting of the East Penn School District (last month) and the raising of school taxes (4.4%) just under the magical number, which did not require a referendum vote by the public.  I wish to make one quick comment with regards to the ability to tax without the taxpayer approval.  How did that become some kind of law? It is taxation without representation and how can they use this as an automatic tax on the people with the vote of 9 people?

But my interest for now lies in another area of the mess.  At the meeting a number of people got up and defended the tax raise and the school district that was doing a bang up job at educating the children and felt that not passing the tax raise would jeopardize the quality of education.  That is debatable as to whether the raising of taxes will maintain the level needed to be judged as a quality education.  Depending on your criteria for determining success it might be said they have already failed.

To my point in all this, schools and their educational curriculum will never be neutral in anything they do.  The school will always have a culture, worldview direction with goals to be achieved by and through its’ administration.

The early 60’s started the movement to separate children from religious “prejudices” of their parents.  The school administration set itself against the parents, taking God out of the schools.  Parents never came to understand the taking of God out of the school of course was a critical wrong and against God but there was another issue and that was the starting of the process of putting the school against the parent in opposition to one another.  This opposition continued and started a duel process of opposition and the collapsing of morals within the school system through the rule of political correctness.

Education is designed to produce some kind of result.  To argue that a small percentage of parents had successful children within a given school system is not the issue or barometer to gauge the true direction and resultant of the education.  There is no way that education can, nor should separate the educational process from developing/teaching character, morality, and worldview.  It is just a matter as to who’s of those will be taught.

The question should have been at the meeting.  Does the School District as a whole turn out God fear adults, who understand Western Culture, the founding fathers concept of the Constitution, and the true nature of the Capitalistic system?  This will be the true test when you can say for a fact the East Penn School District is turning out good citizens and they have a logical thought process in thinking through life’s problems and they fear God.  I say to be proficient and skilled at some occupation such as computer science, engineering, law, carpentry, or whatever does not make you a good citizen or an honest businessman.  I felt uneasy at the meeting with the framing of the debate.  It is not those successful students whose parents carried the day but how many God fearing citizens that school district is turned out and unfortunately I didn’t hear from any of those parents.  Surveys and test scores show to be going down at all levels, you tell me, should there not be some fear of the Lord starting to show up somewhere.

Proverbs 1:7 King James Bible

 “ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”