You Can Never Be Too Politically-Correct(?)

By Al Horn

An incident that recently occurred in the Wentzville School District has the community in an uproar. As well it should. Teachers taking it upon themselves to send home interpretations of religious symbols should not be tolerated. Who knows what will be pushed upon the young impressionable minds of our children?

My granddaughter attends a kindergarten class in this school district. My wife and I carefully read everything she brings home. Vigilance is the best weapon against those who would corrupt our young ward. We put together a program at the beginning of the school year to search for any subliminal messages that might be contained in the handouts she brought home. You can never be too careful.

We meticulously monitored her television viewing and the kind of games she was allowed to play with the neighborhood children. Despite her cries of anguish, we held her out of dance classes when we discovered they would be involved in a winter program that included religious content. What might our subdivision association think if we condoned such activities?

Some of you might think we are going a little overboard here. Do you think the constant scrutiny is fun for us? No, it is not. We feel we have a duty to be good caretakers of this fertile mind that has been planted in our household. If only others would see the advantages of being on guard against the evil that lurks in our public school systems. I know that these people have been trained to present subjects in an orderly manner and that they have guidelines to follow but can they all be trusted? Imagine if you would, at the end of October, they had sent something home explaining the importance of a witches cat being black. The uproar that would have followed!

I could see how the events would have played out. Following such freakish behavior, the offending teacher would have been drug from the classroom to the Town Square. The community leader would have had no choice but to bring in an executioner to hang the trollop. That way, no other school district would hire her to infect any more little children with her perverted ideas. Of course, it couldn't stop there.

The department heads and the school board would have to be called to task for their part in allowing such an apple to be slipped into the barrel. The head of the kindergarten department would be branded for life, literally, of course. The elementary principal would receive lashes. And possibly the whole school board would spend a night in the local stockade.

Reality check!

That's the way it would happen if some people had their way. There are those in are society bent on having anything even subliminally representing religion removed from our public schools. My, we have come a long way since the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic to escape religious persecution from the government. Why? So as not to offend people of other cultures or simply because there are those who believe in no religion? I believe this represents a dark path we are being pushed toward.

If the school district hands out a reprimand for this, a domino effect will surely be set in motion. Next year kids will not be given or be allowed to bring candy canes to school. The next step would be to remove the lighted candy canes that the City of Wentzville has hung up on the city streets. The year after that, lighted wreaths and angels will disappear. What will follow?