The Bible tells us to, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6).
What we saw yesterday at Timber View High School was hardly a fulfillment of that command.
Instead, we saw what has become common in public education; a war zone with S.W.A.T. teams showing up to clean up a mess brought on by out of control students hell-bent on taking out their frustrations upon each other.
Training a child starts at home.
But, more importantly it starts with parents who are trained on how to train their children.
Training begins by recognizing that the ultimate in education starts with knowing what God has to say about life, respect, and authority, all of which are totally missing from today’s public education system.
In fact, God has long since been excluded from public education and the results have been less than impressive.
Teachers often teach in fear of their lives.
Administrators become administrators, not necessarily because they wanted to become professional paper-pushing, babysitters, but because they were fed up with having to deal with unruly students in the classroom.
Worst of all, the students frequently receive less than adequate instruction on how to act as civilized human beings, much less how to read, write, and add two-plus-two.
The whole educational system is basically in a shambles, and Timothy George Simpkins—the kid who decided to play shoot’em-up at Timber View yesterday—is a byproduct of the failure.
Therefore, rather than keep throwing money down the educational rat hole, it’s time to start defunding education and put the child’s educational welfare back into the hands of the parents.
Let them be in charge of what the child learns, instead of a bunch of evil bureaucrats who could not give a rat’s ass what goes into the child’s head, much less whether the child turns out as a civilized member of society or a brute beast destined for the prison population.
The parents certainly could do no worse, as they watch their sons and daughters indoctrinated to become two-fold children of hell.
***UPDATE***
Timothy George Simpkins was released from jail on bond ($75,000).
His defense is that he was being bullied in school, and a video taken just prior to him pulling a gun and start shooting shows him in a classroom beat-down.
If it is true that Simpkins was being bullied, then did he notify school officials long before he decided to take a gun to school and settle the issue his own way?
Did he let his parents know, who then turned around and let school officials know, about the bullying?
If school officials were notified, what did they do about the bullying? Were any students disciplined, suspended, or expelled? Were any criminal charges filed?
There are so many questions that need to be answered.
One thing is for certain.
It is moronic to think that using a gun in school is an answer, unless another individual is using a gun to threaten the moron’s life.
And even at that, there is a long history leading up to such a conflict that could easily be resolved, if cooler heads prevailed.
Someone had to have known something was going on long before anything happened.
But, we’ll never know all the details, given the media’s need for fresh, dirty laundry, and this will soon be swept under the rug, as if nothing ever happened.
