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I’m not so sure about the Education thing.

I have always credited the public school system for making me a conservative.

When I was in Grade School I had trouble with bullies. They would pick on me during recess. So, being a diligent student I would report their actions to teachers and playground monitors.

What did I hear?

“Why don’t you let John, worry about John?”
“Don’t you think you bring this on yourself?”
“Ignore them, they’ll grow tired of it.”

First of all, I was able to realize that I was worrying about John when I reported abuse by bullies. Second, I tried to steer clear of them as much as possible and they looked me up, so NO, I didn’t think I brought it on myself, and finally, Ignoring them made them intensify until I could no longer ignore them.

So then I took it upon myself to do something about them. Oh boy, what a response that evoked.

All the trouble the bullies never got into for what they did, I suddenly found myself in for the crime of defending myself. Now I found myself subject to the biggest lie the public school system ever perpetrated;

“It takes two to fight!”

“One not fighting back will still get the snot kicked out of him,” I answered. That little piece of “Back Talk” earned me a three day suspension, and a stern note to my parents.

It was in the spring of my fifth grade year that a sudden realization hit me. For all their talk, the teachers and administrators weren’t going to do anything about the bullies. They’d accepted them for who they are and they saw me as the only one whose actions they could influence. (Similar to how Obozo treats our allies and enemies.)

I also realized that the only way I was going to be free of bullies was to insure that they were afraid of me. They were already afraid of teachers and playground monitors, that’s why they always did their thing when no one was watching. But if I made them afraid of me, then I’d always be watching.

One day on the playground I snapped, I used a softball bat on the bullies and hurt them all pretty bad. I was suspended for two weeks and forbidden from playing Softball for the remaining years I was at that school.

And it was worth it.

But I learned a lot about liberalism during those days, lessons I’ve never forgotten.

jd