Comments on: Barbarians at the Gate: Cushing Academy edition

By: George E. Johnston

George E. Johnston — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:40:14 +0000

I was graduated from Cushing Academy in June of l938….yes, I’m 90 years old. I am astounded at Cushing’s reason for eliminating a library but suspect I know the real reason. For me and for my late wife, Cushing graduate of class of l939, and for many classmates the library was also a great trysting place (hard to come by in Cushing days of yore) and someone must have recently discovered that fact!!! A shame…

By: EscapeVelocity

EscapeVelocity — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:09:35 +0000

Its a erasing of history of a certain groups cultural heritage to make way for the new dominant groups (New Leftist Coalition)…their mythologies and preferred histories.

And my last post was modded, for some strange reason.

There is going to be a reckoning in Western Civilization and Islam(and its alliance with Western New Leftists), is going to bring it to a head. Obama is laying the groundwork for the US finally saying enough is enough…but it Europe, its going to get real ugly.

By: EscapeVelocity

EscapeVelocity — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:19:12 +0000

@76

Boots, its as if they are trying to erase the history of Western Civilization and replace it with some kind of multicutlural diversity sensitivity mind numbing dumbness. Programming the childrens minds in witless slogans.

I recommend this book from Ravich for those interested in teh indoctrination that our Children are being bombarded with since the 60s New Left got organized and marched through the institutions.

The Language Police
How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
by Diane Ravitch

http://www.textbookleague.org/124ravbk.htm

By: Simply George

Simply George — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:58:43 +0000

The Cushing students should rush out and buy a copy of The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss, to see how a school should be run. Good luck Cushing students.

By: len hrica

len hrica — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:18:50 +0000

what?me worry.uva65

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By: SamHenry

SamHenry — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:57:51 +0000

I went to a B grade boarding school in Massachusetts, now closed. I became a librarian/archivist. I guess this is a funeral for the loss of innocence like sitting curled up with a book, sitting under a tree with a book, and knowing that book did not glow and was not power hungry! Yes, they take up a lot of space which is precisely why there is something called “weeding’ a collection. Moderation in all things. Too much computer makes Jane and Spot and Dick rather zombieness. I’ll miss seeing Spot run!

By: Boots

Boots — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:32:32 +0000

One more thing, why on earth do 9th graders require cappucino while reading their computer screens? Does the average 14 y/o boy really need that shot of caffeine? Fine if they want it but methinks the fancy coffee is for the comfort of the Cushing adults, not the youngsters.

By: Boots

Boots — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:28:41 +0000

Re: #66 – here’s a link to the City Journal article on the Consumer Product law implemented earlier this year, the one that mandates the removal of pre-1985 children’s books from public schools & libraries:

The New Book Banning by Walter Olson
http://city-journal.org/2009/eon0212wo.html#

Quote from City Journal: “People who deal in children’s books for a livelihood now face unpleasant choices. Valerie Jacobsen of Clinton, Wisconsin, who owns a small used-book store and has sold over the Internet since 1995, commented at my blog, Overlawyered
(http://overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-what-will-be-enforced/#comment-39954): “Our bookstore is the sole means of income for our family, and we currently have over 7,000 books catalogued. In our children’s department, 35 percent of our picture books and 65 percent of our chapter books were printed before 1985.” Jacobsen has contacted the CPSC and her congressional representatives for guidance, but to no avail. “We cannot simply discard a wealth of our culture’s nineteenth and twentieth children’s literature over this,” she writes. She remains defiant, if wary: “I was willing to resist the censorship of 1984 and the Fire Department of Fahrenheit 451 long before I became a bookseller, so I’d love to run a black market in quality children’s books—but at the same time it’s not like the CPSC has never destroyed a small, harmless company before.”

Cushing & its elite students are just leading the way to that brave new world without books.