Eighteen year old Andrew Lampart, a
member of his high school debate team, told Fox
News, “I knew it was important to get facts for both sides of the case.” But when he tried to use his school’s internet
service to research conservative views, he was prevented at every turn.
After being blocked from websites
supporting Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms as stated in the 2nd
Amendment, Andrew Lampart soon learned his school’s computers prohibited him
from viewing any website or information that wasn’t liberal in nature. The National
Rifle Association website was blocked. The National
Republican Party website was blocked. The National
Right to Life website was blocked. Various
pro-traditional marriage websites were blocked. The Vatican website was blocked.
But here’s what wasn’t blocked in Lampert’s
continued internet search: pro-gun-control websites, the National Democratic Party website, the Planned Parenthood website, a Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT)
website and an Islamic website.
Lampert took his grievance up the
chain-of-command at his Connecticut high school – first to the principal, then
to the superintendent, and finally to the school board.
Nearly 2-months after the incident, Lampert’s
only official response has come through the superintendent, who wrote a letter
about the issue to parents and citizens in their community because news of the
liberal bent was spreading like wildfire. She blamed Lampbert’s conservative education
prohibition on the school’s internet filtering … which she said is intended to “protect
minors from potentially harmful or inappropriate content” (for example, “violence/hate/racism,
cults/the occult, to name a few). The
superintendent was puzzled, however, that “many of the liberal sites accessible
to the student fell into the ‘not rated’ category, which was unblocked while
many of the conservative sites were in the ‘political/advocacy group’ which is
accessible to teachers but not to students.”
Really!? Are you surprised? Is there any mystery here? The problem is not the software, but those programming
it. As long as you have liberal-minded
architects across the spectrum – who only want to steer kids in their own
particular secular and progressive direction – changing internet filters all
day long isn’t going to change the educational outcome; students will continue
to be prohibited from conservative education.
Website accessibility is no
different from choosing textbooks or instructors in classes. If liberals are in control, the progressive
agenda will be the educational learning objective.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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