There has been a growing controversy — in Rhode Island and across the nation — about the firing of the teachers at Central Falls High School.

Teachers are in an uproar, the union is “outraged”, the parents are “outraged”, the students are surely “going to be traumatized” (But then, that seems easy to accomplish these days.  To listen to the talking heads, one definitely comes to the conclusion that children are just not as resilient as they used to be when adults had common sense.)

To understand why these teachers were fired, one needs to understand the system…

Back in 1994, Goals 2000, the educate America Act was passed by Congress.  This was under the Clinton Administration but Goals 2000 was the end product of America 2000 which went back to the George Herbert Walker Bush Administration. 

It seems that the more educated we get, the dumber we become. At our own peril, we cloud, obfuscate and confuse what our common sense, instinct and intellect tell us, with unproven, esoteric education theories. Then we experiment on our kids’ brains with what boils down to psychiatric unproven and untested hogwash. Such is the case of Social Emotional Learning, or SEL.

As Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid unquestionably is one of the nation’s most powerful political figures.  So, as Majority Leader, how could he be so wrong on Domestic Violence?

Arguing in favor of a jobs bill and speaking before the Senate, he uttered – even by Washington standards – some of the more unusual comments to come from a politician.

Senator Reid’s comments are quoted in The Hill.  To really capture the full impact of his comments, however, you need to view them on You-Tube for which this blog contains a link.

“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie…”

Who wrote that? The answer is Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kampf”, published in his 1925 autobiography.