Statement of William J. Murray on the Colorado school shootings, April 22, 1999
| The media responses concerning
the tragic shootings in Colorado miss the main problems in public schools which breed acts
of violence. First, there is no moral center. Judeo-Christian values have been replaced by
a "do what you think is right" philosophy. The only real thing a child can do wrong in a public school is be male, or worse yet, a white male. For thirty-five years our politically correct society, led by our public schools, has pounded away at the evils of masculinity. Male college enrollment is down because the entrance requirements are stacked against them. Male athletic departments have been decimated by rules that require schools to spend as much money on girls’ soccer as boys’ football despite the obvious differences in equipment requirements. In many of America’s public schools, girls as young as twelve years old are taught how to disable men with kicks to the groin. Male students feel disenfranchised. They believe the system is against them. In a system where bottom achievers are required to sit in the same classroom as the top achievers, resentments abound. The ACLU fights for the right of students to wear Satanic symbols to school while at the same time fighting to stop any reference to God in the school building by either students or teachers. The battle against what was "normal" has been won by the proponents of a social collectivism and the result is chaos. The answer is not forced psychological profiling or drugging 4,000,000 young boys with Ritalin every day as public school systems do now. The answer is age old - the answer is God. A voucher system that would allow parents who do not want their children destroyed by political correctness to move them to religious schools would help, but a better answer is to allow God’s values into the classroom. |
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