- Traditional values have been under assault on college
campuses for two generations now. But the vast majority of Americans have
no idea how thoroughly these same left wing, libertine sensibilities are
being enforced these days even at the high school level.
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- In New York, one public secondary school has for years
dispensed two kinds of condoms from its nurse's office -
"Regular"
and "Mint Flavored." The mint flavored condom dispenser is
labeled
helpfully, "For Oral Sex Only," a photograph accompanying the
New York Times report on the school revealed.
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- On the West Coast, things aren't much better, according
to Stephen Miller, a student attending Santa Monica High, where, he says,
school district policy states: "Condoms are available to students
in grades 9-12 in a manner which promotes greatest
accessibility."
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- Legally speaking, Miller notes, it would seem that a
school policy encouraging sex between minors is flirting with the statutory
rape laws. "The law aside, fourteen-year-olds are a little young to
be having sex," he complains.
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- Then there's SM High's gay club, which to those
unenlightened
in the ways of modern academe may sound uncomfortably similar to a gay
recruitment program.
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- "In case your son or daughter decides at their
tender
age that they are gay, we have a club on campus that will gladly help
foster
their homosexuality," Miller reports. (Imagine the outcry if the
Catholic
Church suddenly became so publicly accommodating.)
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- Do school officials notify parents when their minor age
children enroll in SM High's gay club? "Of course not," says
Miller.
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- Still, while the school's condom availability program
is a matter of rigorous enforcement, other official policies have fallen
by the wayside.
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- The daily ritual of having students recite the Pledge
of Allegiance, for instance, succumbed to earlier waves of political
correctness
years ago.
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- "It took months of effort to get the school to stop
resisting and finally bring back the pledge, and required intervention
from the superintendent," complains Miller. "Even then, it is
still only said twice a week, while policy dictates it should be said every
day."
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- School holidays at SM High are another sticking
point.
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- Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, for instance, have become
little acknowledged anachronisms, the traditional values advocate notes.
Rather then honor those who fought and died in America's wars to preserve
freedom, the prevailing view, Miller says, is that "the U.S. has used
its soldiers to kill innocent people, and the same Indians that helped
the pilgrims were either shot, or put on reservations."
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- Meanwhile, SM High teachers and their favored textbooks
concentrate on less offensive cultures.
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- "We do nothing for American holidays but everything
for Mexican holidays," Miller says. "Teachers insult and demean
the president [while] history teachers denounce the U.S. as wickedly
imperialistic,
some supplementing standard history texts with something comfortably more
liberal."
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- In the wake of 9-11, SM High even invited a Muslim leader
to the school to explain the splendor of Islam. "But no such
proclamation
was ever made about America," says Miller. "Scarcely a student
at my school covered their heart when the national anthem was played in
the September 11th memorial."
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- Meanwhile, the school newspaper condemned the U.S.
military
attacks on Afghanistan.
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- "Osama bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa
Monica High School," Miller concludes.
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