No more silence

My column for the West Bend Daily News is online.  I bring up the Day of Silence that happened across America last week and pretty much hammer it.  The column is called, ”No more silence.” Here’s a little snippet.

Finally, the fact that the administration and the faculty either implicitly or explicitly support the Day of Silence is unacceptable. Our schools are incredibly valuable to our society, but they do have a finite responsibility. They exist to educate our children to prepare them to be responsible members of our Republic and useful in our economy so that they can be gainfully employed. They do not exist to advocate or protest particular lifestyles, sexual orientations, or moral codes.

As a society, we accept this principle on some issues. For example, we would not accept our public schools holding a day to support the message of Jesus Christ and educate the children on His teachings. Nor would we tolerate our public schools spending a day teaching our children the virtues of euthanasia. These are not issues about which we either empower or entrust our public school teachers to instruct our children.