PISD has me PISSED

My son is 5 years old. This is relevant because my son is in kindergarten in the Plano Independent School District (PISD). The PISD has come out on the subject of Christmas with a “We will not favor one religion above the others, so we will call it a Winter Break and the children can have a Holiday Party” stance.

I feel just fine with that. I think it is ridiculous, but I can live with the complete absence of any religion in the classroom.

Then tell me, why did my son make a menorah in his class? Is that not a religious icon for Hanukah? Is that not a Jewish holiday?

Don’t get me wrong, I really could not care any less if the schools want to have a Christmas party or Yule celebration or have the kids make Kwanza stuff. I want my son to LEARN about the world, so teach in school.

BUT, if you are going to say that children cannot bring candy canes to school for other children because they are signifying the shepherd’s crock, and thusly, Christ as the shepherd and all that shit (yes, it happened a couple of years ago right here in PISD), do NOT have my son make a drawing, cut-out, coloring or anything else of any religion!

I love freedom, but this shit has GOT to stop! No more pandering to the minorities, regardless of whom or what they are. We, the citizens of this country, must take action to get this rampant “political correct” pandemic under control. I fear it may already be too late, but here is what I suggest:

When you see someone trying to take advantage of the system so that they can continue to not have to be responsible for their actions (i.e. frivolous lawsuits, manipulating the Welfare system, trying to set someone else up for a quick and easy buck), call them on it. Get their personal information and spread the word. There is no law forbidding the telling of the truth.

There are more people that are honest than there are that are dishonest. That means, we, the honest folks, are the MAJORITY. Let’s use that weight and force our representatives in power (that we were supposed to have put there) to start SOLVING the problems instead of dancing around them.

I am just so sick of everyone trying so hard to make sure that no one gets their feelings hurt, so no one stands up and says, “You are acting like a child. You are wrong!”

There are people like this in EVERY race and EVERY religion. Call the wrong-doers out and take a stand.

Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919, said this:

"In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equity with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

And for shit’s sake, stop getting all up in arms about the stuff that doesn’t matter in the long run.

Thanks for listening. I rambled a bit, but I have had some things on my chest, and now they are off.