The headline for the article on the West Virgina News that I took this material from read: “Kanawha County schools faces budget shortfall and jobs loss due to enrollment decline.” It seems as if it has taken quite awhile, decades in fact, since the Textbook Protest in Kanawha County, West Virginia in the mid-1970s over what can only be called pornographic textbooks, for this to happen. But even delayed justice is better than no justice at all.
The article stated, in part: “Over the past decade the school system has lost around 5,000 students, leading to a funding loss for 72 positions.”
As a result, the West Virginia Board of Education has approved the closure of three elementary schools, which will be consolidated into nearby schools at the start of the 2024-25 school year…”
At 5,000 students gone in ten years, that means the public school system in Kanawha County is losing around 500 students every year. Of course we don’t know where they all went. Some families may just have moved to a different county or state–but not that many! So it seems quite probable, with that much of an attendance loss over a decade, many, if not most of these families have opted to educate their children by other means than public education. All I can say is “good for them!” And who can blame them? With the galloping crud that passes for public education today, who in their right mind would opt for public schools if they could manage to do something else?
People forward to me articles from all over the country about what goes on in public schools today. I’ve written about several of these in the past. You wouldn’t believe some of it if you were not aware of what public schools were doing to, not for, kids. Everything from “trans-closets” right on down to trumped-up “history” studies, like the 1619 Project, with sodomite and lesbian reading material in textbooks and school libraries! And I’m just telling you the mild part. If I described some of it graphically, this blog would be shut down!
I will never forget the account I read about a lady who went to a school board meeting and stood up to read some of what was in her daughter’s textbook. She didn’t get far when the man who was running the meeting told her “You can’t read that kind of thing in a public meeting.” To which the mom replied “If I can’t read this in a public meeting, why is it in my daughter’s textbook?”
No reply was forthcoming to answer her question, which was a good one. So typical of the public school system in our day–and for a long, long time before! If you want to save your kids’ souls, get the out of the public school system. In this day and age you have a multiple number of other educational options–Christan and classical schools among them. Do some homework and find out what is out there for your children.
March 25, 2024
~ The Author ~
Al Benson Jr. is the editor and publisher of “The Copperhead Chronicle“, a quarterly newsletter that presents history from a pro-Southern and Christian perspective. He has written for several publications over the years. His articles have appeared in “The National Educator,” “The Free Magnolia,” and the “Southern Patriot.” I addition he was the editor of, and wrote for, “The Christian Educator” for several years. In addition to The Copperhead Chronicles, Al also maintains Revised History.
He is currently a member of the Confederate Society of America and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and has, in the past, been a member of the John Birch Society. He is the co-author, along with Walter D. Kennedy, of the book “Lincoln’s Marxists” and he has written for several Internet sites as well as authoring a series of booklets, with tests, dealing with the War of Northern Aggression, for home school students.
Mr. Benson is a highly respected scholar and writer and has graciously allowed the family of Kettle Moraine Publications to publish his works. We are proud to have his involvement with each of our projects.