Why can't Johnny read?

Many of my friends who attended public schools do not have the ability to think abstractly, or even I will venture to say, correctly. They are the same people who flock to their televisions every night at 11 o’clock to watch the news. They are the ones who when they hear of Nancy Pelosi in Syria and think “at least she’s talking to them”, instead of asking “why she is kissing up to terrorists”. They are the ones who saw “An Inconvenient Truth” and believed it, making it impossible to have a conversation about global warming with them because they only know what they saw in the movie or heard on TV news.

These are the same people who use only politically correct terms when discussing various minority groups, but have no problem dismissing most Bush policies as benefiting “white men”. They talk about Bush being the biggest failure in the history of the US, but don’t know how he has also piloted the most successful economy in the history of the US. They talk about Bush’s tax cuts benefiting the super rich and corporations, and accuse him of doing nothing for the poor, but they don’t seem to know that Bush has increased spending on social services and entitlements.


So get me fitted for my tin foil hat (again) because here is my latest conspiracy theory: public education, a widely recognized liberal institution, has as one’s of it’s goals, the prevention of education. Johnny can’t read and that is fine with the left, the dumber he is the more Johnny will rely on the evening news for information and entitlements to keep him dependent upon the government. Johnny will never figure out that the left maintains control not by trying to end racism and bring harmony (despite what generations of leftists say) they instead break groups into small groups and practice a divide and conquer tactic towards winning the hearts and what is left of the minds of those who survived the public education system.


DISCLAIMER: I am not saying all teachers suck. I know there are good teachers and even some good school systems, but they are statistically insignificant and don’t disprove my theory. But more importantly, please don’t get offended if you are one of the good teachers out there. There are good teachers and they deserve our admiration, unless they support tenure, but that is another blog for another day.


No Child Left Behind and any other standardized method of checking for competency in education breeds a district-wide policy of coaching children to pass the standardized proficiency tests, but does not check to see if Johnny can really read or write except just enough to pass the test. And the system certainly doesn’t care if Johnny can think, as a matter of fact the less Johnny can see how the left is operating the better.