Think H.3431 is a wonderful idea? OK, then. Let’s have public schools, run so efficiently and effectively by our wonderful government, help our children protect themselves from the dangers on the internet, specifically social media.
One simple question. How has government “education” in social and moral areas worked out for us so far? To answer that question, a brief look at self-evident, documented, historical outcomes of two programs are enlightening.
Although first proposed by the NEA about 1912, during the 1960s, “sex education” became a highlighted initiative in public education, ostensibly to ensure that children would understand the workings of their bodies and be comfortable with their natural development and changes. As predicted by many, this quickly devolved into teaching about sexuality, lifestyles, and more. How has sex education worked out for us? In this Brave New World, we see the results. It would be interesting to know the exact number of “genders” now in existence, but a hundred might not be an exaggeration. As an aside, in the early days of the home schooling movement, over fifty years ago, this initiative in the public school system was often included on a long list of reasons as parents realized public education is not safe for children.
Following the introduction of “sex education” programs came drug prevention school programs. Again, look at the history, lest we repeat it, though nowadays that adage seems to have fallen into disrepute. How has drug prevention education worked out for us? We are so saturated with illegal—and legal—drugs nowadays it is all but impossible to find anyone not regularly using some form of chemical management. Sometimes abuse of even illegal substances is enabled through modern law, e.g. providing addicts clean needles. The fatal evidence of drug abuse is everywhere. This predicted outcome was another common thread among those seeing the evil developing within public education.
Why didn’t these programs work? Or did they work, just not to achieve the goals most people thought they were designed to reach? Both of them certainly changed, in dramatic and devastating ways, the society in which we now live. The dangers inherent in such government controlled programs cannot be overstated. Such programs allow the introduction of information and influential presentations of a lot of information, knowledge, temptation, methodology (very helpful for children who decide the topic is worth pursuing outside than the classroom), misdirection, and other dangers that the immature minds, bodies, and emotional development of children are not ready to properly internalize for their own benefit or safety.
In short, government programs such as these enticed and intrigued generations of Americans, arming them with more knowledge than they should ever have acquired or had access to during their school years. This knowledge, it would seem, did NOT empower them to limit their activities in these areas, but rather encouraged and enabled the “sexual revolution” and now even the legalization of some dangerous and addictive drugs. Their knowledge was provided without any prior internalized moral and personal guidelines or restraints backed by strong churches and family attention, leaving them adrift in a sea of information.
These kinds of public education programs, especially in today’s morally and spiritually unstable world, grant a humanistic, secular, and dangerous establishment far too much control and influence over the development of children and the behaviors in which they will engage. The government’s assumption of responsibility over areas in which it has no ethical right to impose its own control moves parents further away from taking on their essential responsibility for the moral, spiritual and character development of children. Critical safeguards and limits are not inculcated to safeguard behavior and youthful curiosity and exploration. We have seen a successful cultural revolution as parents have willingly stepped out of their God-given roles, admittedly very challenging and exhaustive roles and responsibilities. The government has eagerly usurped responsibility for its own ends. The educational establishment likes nothing better than to help the deterioration of what was once a coherent society with common values.
Now the establishment, powered government through another law, will codify how public schools (closely followed by every other educational option) will help our children be “safe” on social media. Americans must put a stop to their blind obedience to and compliance with a power-hungry, secular government. Government has proven itself incapable of “solving” these kinds of problems.
It is worth noting that each of the three areas discussed above share a common element. They all deal with pleasure. In these times of intense social anxiety for young people, fears about the future—promoted within our schools, entertainment, news and media, on television, the internet, and ubiquitous advertising, information—and personal insecurity, putting any trust in government to allay these feelings is chancy at best. Young people, without a firm grounding or limits on their opportunities to find relief, are ripe for any avenue to alleviate their tension and even pain. Addiction to sex, drugs, and social media seem to offer pleasurable opportunities to relieve overwhelming feelings of pain and despair. This cannot and will not be prevented by any efforts by the education establishment. H.3431 is another example of a government initiative, backed by codified law enforced by the police power of the state, that will inevitably lead to unintended (or, again are they?) consequences.
Parents, please wake up and take back your children! Government, get out of our lives! Stop this next unbridled public education disaster. Churches, reclaim your role in society! The intent, details, and pseudo “benevolence,” of laws like H.3431 are blinds behind which more distortions of reality and dangerous outcomes lie. This law must not go forward.
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