Students who were not breaking the rules have had their personal property stolen by the principal of Albuquerque's Van Buren Middle School. Another student was breaking the "no skateboarding" rule, so the principal, in a textbook example of collectivist non-thinking, "confiscated" everyone's skateboards. Because you can control what I do, right? This is a lesson socialists in government love to teach. It forms the basis for "gun control" and other forms of bigotry as well.
The dad of one of the victims foolishly went to report the theft to the police. He wasted his time unless he learned a lesson. The police, who are just as corrupt and dependent on collectivism and theft as the "public schools", refuse to act on this particular theft since the thief, the principal (unnamed in the news story's glaring "omission", but Ms. Cardinal Rieger, according to an internet search), "intends" to return the stolen property in a week. So, I suppose bank holdups are OK with The Law as long as the thieves return the money when they say they will- perhaps after their investments have paid off.
Sending your kids off to be subject to the whims of such people as this principal without principles is abuse. Government is destroying education and replacing it with "schooling" in statism. Separate school and state!
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Hi Kent,
It's good to read your writing, sir.
I posted a comment on Collective Punishment. I hope they caught that I wasn't serious. :)
Thank you.
They probably didn't get it if you didn't spell it out for them, and sarcasm probably goes way over their heads. They don't seem too bright. It's fun to try, though, and other people probably got it.
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The lesson taught to schoolchildren in this case is chiefly that in the "controlled environment" of their schools, it is neither safe nor wise to bring with them physical property they are not willing to lose.
This is in itself a singularly valuable lesson. As Robert A. Heinlein once wrote: "...a wise man should be prepared to abandon his baggage at any time."
If you value your skateboard and wish to keep it, do not expose it to the vicious and antisocial whims of soulless scum who are inclined to seek positions of authority.
And there's a second lesson for the kids.
People who go into the "teaching profession" (as opposed to those of us who are genuine professionals who accept the obligation to teach what we know) are soulless scum with an utterly antisocial attitude toward the rights of human beings.
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"People who go into the "teaching profession" (as opposed to those of us who are genuine professionals who accept the obligation to teach what we know) are soulless scum with an utterly antisocial attitude toward the rights of human beings."
I've wondered recently about going into teaching, I've wondered if (as things currently stand) if it's even possible for someone who's not an authoritarian to stay a teacher. Seems to me that if you're not an authoritarian, that you'd lose your job fast. Regardless I'm guessing it's a certainty you'd be sued by parents for "not preventing" a bad thing from happening.
I'm sure it makes perfect sense to the Principal and he is indeed teaching the ultimate lesson. After all he's getting paid with money stolen from EVERYONE who lives within certain imaginary lines drawn in the dirt, whether or not they use the government service or not.
This has been shared-
I am sick and tired of public "officials" overstepping their boundaries and even more tired of the lack of response from law enforcement EXCEPT when we protest that overstepping!
(shared and apologies - school has been taking far too much time as of late.)
Thank you!
Time for a Citizen's Arrest.
Actually, those are also pretty worthless unless the police actually want the person arrested.
What really needs to be done is file a civil suit for the stolen property, and use the return of the property as admission that the property was stolen in the first place.
I once worked in a convenience store, and we were told to never sell an open bottle of alcohol, and to never sell alcohol to someone who is obviously drunk. If they give us the money anyway and walk away we are supposed to use the money as evidence that they stole the alcohol.
So any returned skateboard is evidence of the theft.
Good catch there, Kent. This certainly puts the relationship in a light that even the dullest might understand.
I said - might...
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