Right Turn from the Left Lane

Mʏsᴛᴇʀʏ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ Hᴀᴜɴᴛᴇᴅ Sᴄʜᴏᴏʟʜᴏᴜsᴇ

Screaming at the screen doesn’t help. Shag and Scoob, and the rest of the Mystery crew, always wander into the dark and scary shadows unaware of the danger lurking there.

The suspects may change, but the solution is always the same.

Scooby-Doo 101: To solve the mystery, solve the crime.

CSI begins with a one-desk-fits-all warehouse where education goes to die: Curiosity bled through indoctrination, critical thinking erased by cultish dogma, and free-thought deadened from complacent submission.

Lured by the temptation of educational equity (and a free lunch), trick-or-treaters disappear from dawn to dusk only to emerge witless shells of themselves howling at a TikTok moon.

Yeah, the dungeon masters preach diversity, but then squeeze tiny bodies and minds into freakish uniforms in their experimental laboratories and lobotomize their victims of any competitive workplace (or academic) skills. Till finally, the brainless zombies are released into Villages of the Darned with equivalency degrees in:

• White Men are Evil
• The Graveyard of Capitalism (and “Zoinks!” …)
• Witches, Warlocks, and the Founding Fathers

Oh, sure… fraidy-cats can always hide out in some horror-free haven, but they’d have to scare-up the admission fee themselves – in effect paying twice: Out of pocket tuition on top of unrebated school taxation, which is spirited away and never seen again. Along with their souls.

Trick or Treat: Is school choice the solution or just a clue?

Nothing else is run this way. Would you let the straw-brained scarecrows of Internal Revenue take your grocery dough then tell you where to shop and what to buy?

Money should follow the little monsters wherever they lurk: In town, out of town, the outer limits.

After all, we expect their mummies to make other life-altering decisions, why not education? If they can pick out a fright-lite video for family fun night, certainly they can figure out the least possessed schoolhouse in the neighborhood. Not to mention that an empty class here or there would help expose problem areas (…which is also why not).

But don’t think “choice” means you actually have one, because you really don’t. Not unless where and when also includes to go or not. If not, one episode ends the same as another. And the nightmare continues.

Sure… you can pack the tykes off to 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐈𝐧𝐜. but can you make them think?

The creature must obey its master – if not mom and dad, then the mad scientists of the sinister state.

Truancy laws dissolve the authority and responsibility of parents. Compulsory attendance is imprisonment and public schools… nothing more than juvenile detention centers. (Kids serve life so parents can return to a life before kids.)

Forced education is indoctrination: There is no learning without free will.

The cruel reality is changing schools like changing channels doesn’t really change much. A cast of fresh faces in new roles and different places will still be haunted by the same ol’ ghosts.

…minus any celebrity guest stars (outside of drag queen story hour).

To be frightfully frank, it doesn’t really matter how school choice is cooked-up, it’s all just so much witch’s brew without its most gruesome ingredient: Customers. And no, parents are not customers.

Neither are the goblins. But the goblins make the rules because they rule the money. So, your choice is theirs.

Parents are nothing (…except in the way).

Which exposes another Halloween-ish prank: Why are the childless paying for the non-existent to sit in invisible desks?

Well… if the goblins can make you go, and make you pay to go, then they can make you pay even if you don’t go. So…

What is public education but legalized theft?

Die Hard: Welcome to the party, comrades!

Poker pros have this notion… whenever you find yourself at a table and you don’t know who the sucker is – it’s you. Well, did you take a honest look around your remote-learning kitchen table? The shutdown/lockdown was never about Covid. It was about control.

…suckers.

To ghost-edit Dostoevsky:

We lay freedom at their feet and say: Make us your slaves but feed our kids gender neutral environmentally sustainable rainbow affirming Scooby Snacks.

Free men are citizens. Subjects are zombies. 𝑹𝑰𝑷

Giggling Green Ghosts: (…Ruh-roh!)

But before the credits rolled on Saturday morning’s cartoon lagoon, the sideshow apparitions were always unmasked to reveal the devious minds behind the crime:

• Public Unions of the Ungrateful Dead
• Ghoulish Tenured Teachers, supported by…
• “Proud of My Little Demon” Minivan Moms

Free for all education (which isn’t free and costs more than if it wasn’t free), Soviet bureaus of propaganda, and trick or treaters sacrificed to the goblins of convenience. Yeah… there’s your crime.

Oh, Scooby-Doo! Where are you?

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
The goal of education is to obtain a diploma, not an education. The diploma is needed to pay for the education. The education is not.

The Way Outs
Kids need less classtime and more playtime, time with dad, and the Flintstones.

^{Genesis 22:7} And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb? ⁸ And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb.

^{Isaiah 53:3} He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. ⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

^{John 1:22} Who art thou? ²³ I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord. ²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

^{John 10:9} I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. ^{John 10:1} He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. ^{John 10:10} The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

^{Isaiah 53:6} All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

^{Luke 24:7} The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

^{Matthew 27:11} And [Pilate] asked him: Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. ³¹ and led him away to crucify him.

^{Luke 23:33} And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him. ^{Mark 15:27} And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. ²⁸ And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith… ^{Isaiah 53:12} He was numbered with the transgressors.

^{Luke 23:34} Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

^{Luke 23:39} And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. ⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. ⁴² And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. ⁴³ And Jesus said unto him, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ^{Romans 5:8}

^{John 3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

^{John 20:1} The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away. ¹⁵ Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. ¹⁶ Jesus saith unto her, Mary.

^{John 14:6} I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ²⁷ Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The Cry of the Rocks
Truth can be ignored but cannot be made untrue. Truth just is, even if held by just one. One plus God.