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A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give

Via Dennis Prager

If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place.

To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships.

The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity — your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans.

If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity-, race- and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America, one of its three central values — e pluribus unum, “from many, one.” And this school will be guided by America’s values.

This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

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47% of high school grads aren’t prepared for college

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Students meander toward graduation, taking courses that expose them to a little of everything and not much of anything

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Once upon a time, when postwar industrial America was in full steam, a young person could leave school with basic skills and get a job that would support a family. That America is no more.

To succeed in today’s fast-changing, knowledge-based economy, young people need more skills than ever before. And the jobs that used to require work boots, a good set of tools, and a steady hand now require advanced math, science, and reading — and, typically, also a certificate or degree beyond a high school diploma.

Business leaders have long known this. But ample evidence suggests that many high schools have yet to fully grasp the reality of these new demands.

Despite widespread rhetoric around college and career-readiness for all students, just 8% of graduates from public high schools complete a full college- and career-preparatory course of study. Rates of college- and career-ready course-taking are consistently low across all student groups, according to The Education Trust’s new report, “Meandering Toward Graduation: Transcript Outcomes of High School Graduates.”

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SOME GOOD NEWS

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U.S. High Schools Embrace Shooting as Hot New Sport

The giddy 13-year-old boys oohed and aahed as they stared down the black shotgun barrels and aimed at clay targets they imagined whizzing through the air.

“You guys are welcome to test any of these out,” said Dusty Minke, a sales agent for Browning, as the teens elbowed each other for spots at his kiosk. “We’ve actually had a couple of kids who did so good on the test range that they were like, ‘Can I use this for my rounds?’ We let ‘em, and their scores went up — and they’ll hopefully go and buy one.”

It was day six of the Minnesota State High School Clay Target League championship, the world’s biggest shooting-sport event. Minke could see potential customers in every direction, kids as young as 11 who’d tumbled out of their parents’ cars in camouflage T-shirts beginning at 7 a.m.

In 2009, the contest’s first year, it drew 30 shooters. In June there were 5,134, more than 20,000 spectators and sponsors including Benelli Armi SpA and SKB Shotguns. Trap shooting is the fastest-growing sport in Minnesota high schools, and was recently introduced in neighboring Wisconsin and North Dakota. While it may make anti-gun activists uneasy, it’s a boon for manufacturers and retailers that have stoked its growth.

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HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION IN DETROIT

A student played high school football in Detroit. He was a great running back, but a really poor student.

At graduation, he didn’t have enough credits but he was a great football star and the students held a rally and demanded the principal give him a diploma anyway. They were so insistent that the principal agreed if Dwayne could answer one question correctly he would give him a diploma.

The one question test was held in the auditorium and all the students packed the place. It was standing room only. The principal was on the stage and told Dwayne to come up. The principal had the diploma in his hand and said, “Dwayne, if you can answer this question correctly I’ll give you your diploma.”

Dwayne said he was ready and the principal asked him the question. “Dwayne,” he said, “How much is three times seven?”

Dwayne looked up at the ceiling and then down at his shoes, just pondering the question. The other students began chanting, “Graduate him anyway!” “Graduate him anyway!”

Dwayne held up his hand and the auditorium became silent. he said, “I think I know the answer. Three times seven is twenty-one.”

A hush fell over the auditorium and all the other students began another chant. “ Give him another chance ! ” “ Give him another chance ! ”


USEFUL IDIOTS

What the hell are they teaching our kids in high school? They fill their brains full of green energy and global warming crap, but they can’t manage to teach them the basics about economics. They learn about the glories of diversity, but not about compounding interest on credit card debt? Only 43% of all high school students even have a proficient or better understanding of economics. The politically correct MSM gives their propaganda version of the report. I opened the report to get a few more facts. Here are a few tidbits:

  • The percentage of proficients students in private schools was 62%.
  • The percentage of proficient students in government run public schools was 41%.
  • The percentage of below basic (dullards/retards) in government public schools was 19% versus 9% in private schools.
  • The percentage of white and asian students that were proficient totaled 53% and 52% respectively. Only 11% and 15% were below basic.
  • The percentage of black students that were proficient totaled 17%, while the percentage below basic totaled 39%. (I’m racist for pointing this out. It is nowhere to be seen in the MSM articles)
  • The percentage of boys that were proficient was 47% versus 38% of girls.

I don’t want to hear the liberal crap about private schools having more money to spend. That’s a bullshit storyline. Catholic schools spend 20% to 30% less per student than the stinking city of Philadelphia. For $12,000 per year, a high school senior should know what GDP stands for. When you see the pitiful result produced by the government run, union teacher controlled, public school system, you wonder whether they are actually achieving the result they want. I’d love to see the results from just the Democratic run urban shitholes.

This country’s warped demented economic system depends upon luring millions of financially clueless dupes into student loan, credit card, auto and mortgage debt at an ever increasing rate in order to sustain Wall Street and the mega-corporations that run this country. If 90% of high school seniors understood basic economics, our economy would collapse because there wouldn’t be enough idiots to bilk. The government wants you just smart enough to drive a car, sign a credit card application, and flip a burger at McDonalds. They don’t want you smart enough to realize that making the minimum payment on a 21% credit card will add up to $100,000 of interest over the next 20 years. They don’t want you smart enough to question a national debt of $16.8 trillion or unfunded liabilities of $220 trillion. They certainly don’t want you to understand inflation or the true purpose of the Federal Reserve.

The government wants more useful idiots to screw, without protest. It looks like they’ve achieved their goal.

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/main2012/pdf/2013453.pdf