☀️Uplifting Sun
Friday, January 12 - 2024 Week 2
With the high temp here in Marysville hitting only 22° today, the Sun is finally out to raise your spirits higher.
☀️Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?
In the original “Incredibles” the villain, Syndrome, says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” That makes a lot of sense. But the turn of phrase doesn’t work for everything.
When everything is a crisis, that could actually be true.
Maybe we could say, “When someone acts like everything is a crisis, no one cares,” which would be sort of the boy who cried wolf syndrome. Climate “scientists” are some of the worst, graduates of Henny Penny University with their PhD as Crises Criers.
But, for as much as we should be thankful for the multitude of failed predictions of cultural failures, things are not good. The Lord will put an end to all crises on the appointed day, but until then, of the making of many crises there is no end.
Our government schools thrive on crises, and currently have more incentive to perpetuate them than to mitigate them. Problems are marketable. Messes beg for more money. If you give a student a book, they’ll read for a day. If you teach a student to read herself into every story as a victim, she will never grow up and take responsibility. She’s too special to be competent. These days, she’s too special to be only one gender. Even doctors in WA can only make educated guesses about babies (see the clip from Brandi Kruse below).
And, we, the property-tax-paying citizens of Marysville are bound by law to subsidize this educational crisis. We are paying now out of our bank accounts, and we are paying now for the worldview caught in the classrooms. Who is learning the logic of analogies and the basics of geography? Who is learning what really counts and, like, just how to count?
The Marysville School District Superintendent sent an email to the families, staff, and community members last Friday with a budget update. You may remember the current budget crisis we’re in, including threats to close the pool and shut down sports and eliminate other programs. Well, the Superintendent reported that the finance team found almost $6,000,000 worth of things that were in the budget that didn’t actually need to be spent. And then he reported that the actual fund balance, instead of being in the black by an estimated $1.4 million dollars, was really $9.8 million dollars to the positive. That’s over $14M of “found” money.
Anyway, it’s still not “enough,” right? There’s still an overfall budget deficit. When will it be enough? When will we see a return on our investment? The crises are our return.
It’s part of the reason why we should start other schools, and a huge part of the reason why we should get the Fed’s hands and the State’s hands off of them.
Investor and market analyst David Bahnsen wrote in his book, Crisis of Responsibility:
“the federalization of public schooling has been an unmitigated disaster. It violates the constitutional role of government and pollutes the proper relationship between states and the federal government in a self-defeating effort that requires localism to succeed.”
Our government schools aren’t even succeeding on the local level. It is a crisis among crises. And when everything is a crises, when will we learn?
☀️Around Town
Brandi Kruse reports on a new “fiction” book being taught to 4th grade students at Marvista Elementary near SeaTac.
This week’s sign of cultural collapse comes from the New York Post with their report that Fruit Stripe gum will be made no longer!
☀️Coming Events
State of the City with Mayor Jon Nehring - Wednesday, January 31, 6:30pm. See this page for more info.
Marysville Presents “You’re Out!” (ha, that’s just our editorial alternative title) - Tuesday, February 6, 6:30pm. See the city event page for more info and registration.
☀️Friday Fun
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You'd think that the rainbow mafia would have adopted the Fruit Stripe horse as their mascot and saved the brand?
love the bottom meme, but whoever made it must have gone to public skewl! ;)