Schools. The playground of children, and the totalitarian left

There has been a convergence of three related stories recently.

A New Jersey middle school has banned hugging to prevent excessive physical contact between students.

Principal Tyler Blackmore declared Matawan Aberdeen Middle School a ?no hugging school? last week.

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On Thursday, David Healy, the superintendent of schools for the Matawan Aberdeen Regional School District, defended Blackmore, explaining that the restriction is a response to specific incidents that violated policies on ?inappropriate relationships.?

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?I think it?s a safe policy. Nobody can say something inappropriate has happened if they?re not allowed to do it at all.?

http://www.inquisitr.com/209769/hugging-ban-matawan-aberdeen-middle-school-new-jersey-2012/

New York (CNN) ? Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city?s standardized tests.

Matthew Mittenthal, a spokesman for the NYC Department of Education, said this is the fifth year they have created such a list. He said such topics "could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students."

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-words-from-tests/?hpt=hp_c3

TEACHERS are banning schoolkids from having best pals ? so they don't get upset by fall-outs.

Instead, the primary pupils are being encouraged to play in large groups.

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"They are doing it because they want to save the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend. But it is natural for some children to want a best friend. If they break up, they have to feel the pain because they're learning to deal with it."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4203460/Schools-ban-children-making-best-friends.html http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/blog/index.php/2012/03/best-friends-ban-in-uk-schools-mirrors-ayn-rands-anthem/

Amazing. Three perfect news stories which all show the left in all its glory. Petulantly striving to establish utopia and control the petty habits of we human beings. In essence, it is totalitarian by nature. Schools are the perfect labs for leftists keen to enact their fascistic tendencies in small realms as opposed to the larger society which they, undoubtedly, would also like to control in similar ways.

To me, one of Thomas Sowell?s best ideas was the idea of ?phase one thinking?. That idea is prevalent here. You may spare the rod but you may also spoil the child. A child who had had no discipline may turn out to be a terrible adult, but that outcome will be in the future, out of sight and out of mind. In the here and now, a place which preoccupies the leftist mind, the image of a crying child or the discomfort of applied discipline is all that the mind is focused on.

The hearts of people who do this may be good you think. After all, don?t they wish to alleviate suffering? Maybe, but look at the way they do it. The solution is always to impose their will upon others, to control other human beings and to forcefully change their lives; are such people truly good? I don?t think so.

The self-esteem of the people who would do this to children is great indeed, they are so sure in their anointed position that they can impose it on mouldable minds. So great are they that they think they can break the nature of people. For such an end, what cost?

Children hug, they need to be stopped from doing so by an all-powerful authority enacting an ideology.

Children will have best friends, the unequal quality of human personalities and the uniqueness of one?s own tastes dictates that a child will like some more than others, to stop this natural process from happening, they need to be stopped from doing so by an all-powerful authority enacting an ideology.

Children will encounter things that makes them upset, it?s inevitable in life, to stop this process is not only impossible, but it will come with an all-powerful authority with hooks into all aspects of life.

God help us (ironically said of course) in the hands of these incredible and dangerous fools.

Posted on: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:36 PM

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