Louisiana , made announcement this week , for passing a legislation that mandates the Ten Commandments get displayed on the walls of every public school classroom, including elementary schools, middle and high schools, and all public school classrooms.
This is a possibility for those who support the policy to file a lawsuit in court because the law defies a Supreme Court ruling from 1980 that upheld a similar law in Kentucky. ” I ca n’t wait to be sued”, said Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who has been fairly open about one of the legal’s purposes, has been trying to challenge Supreme Court precedent regarding the First Amendment, particularly the establishment section, which has been used to remove virtually all official recognition of spirituality from America’s public schools for the past 50 years.
As a car for challenging negative precedence, the law seems sufficient. But another objective for it, at least according to Landry and another Republican, is to train and casting individuals. ” If you want to honor the law of law”, the governor said, “you’ve got to start from the original god, which was Moses”.
This is true as far as it goes, but it does n’t go very far. The idea that teaching the Ten Commandments in public school schools will do anything to inspire students to respect the rule of law, to mention everything about fundamental morality, is a fantasy. You might say it’s needed but no anywhere close to enough.
You’re going to have to do more than just post the Ten Commandments if you want to teach kids to respect the rule of law and know that only rules are based on goal social norms. You’ll have to address the root of the problem with why these things are no longer taught in public schools. In reality, the opposite is taught: that goal morality is harsh and that the rule of law is consistently racist.
That means you’re going to have to do something about the educators and administrators. No secret, public school teachers across the nation are typically much more left-wing than the average American, and no matter how small or traditional your community may be, its teachers, librarians, and administrators are among the most extreme people in the country. They are supported by effective teachers ‘ unions, and they are the product of a network for left-wing ideologies to be found in classrooms and college bureaucracies.
You’d better be prepared to fight the teachers unions and end the destroy the professors colleges and certification programs if you really want students to learn about the significance of the Ten Commandments, to say everything of Christianity, Western idea, or the National foundation.
All of those things are, of course, entirely within the purview of position legislature. If the GOP-controlled Louisiana legislature has enough votes to require that every school in the state display the Ten Commandments, then they must also have enough votes to override the laws that require that all public school teachers be credentialed from like colleges.
Although it’s all well and good to pass laws with the intention of altering Supreme Court precedent regarding establishment clause jurisprudence, that does n’t really address the issue. Students wo n’t learn anything about the Ten Commandments unless they are taught by teachers who themselves understand the significance of the Ten Commandments, even if they are permitted to remain on the walls of Louisiana classrooms.
Here lies the problem. Communist radicals have taken control of the organizations that were once supposed to protect our educational system, devoting everything they teach to our students, such as the Ten Commandments or the value for the rule of law.
What can be done about this? Lot. In America, there are only a plurality of liberals who care about these issues. They do n’t wield a lot of institutional power. But Republicans, who count at least some conservatives among their ranks, currently control state legislatures and governors ‘ mansions ( trifecta control ) in 23 states. If the GOP in those states really wanted to challenge the left’s influence on public schools, it could advocate for the elimination of teacher colleges, of credentialing requirements, or to change them so that teachers in public schools do n’t have to be tipped in Marxist ideology to teach in a Republican-controlled state.
And of course, much more than just that could be done — if , the correct wanted to fight back. The key is getting over the assumption that we must keep an obsolete and fundamentally flawed assumption of neutrality in our common institutions. Public schools, for example, had been silent about religion and morality as they indoctrinate students in what amounts to a new form of leftist social activism, bombarding them with lessons from critical race theory and Transgender ideology.
The left obviously does n’t care about neutrality. Every institution and public space they are in charge of is immediately used to promote a very neutral message and agenda. Only conservatives today even make up their minds about neutrality. It’s time to change that. Only a society with a religiously and culturally homogenous society could afford neutrality, which has always been a luxury good. Once the left used it as part of a campaign to overthrow institutions, it turned out to be folly to stick by it.
And yet the majority of Republican officeholders still do so. They ought to take it seriously and reinstate the Ten Commandments in public school curriculum rather than just posters on the wall.
