What is the paving surface of the road to hell?

Rarely does the ultra-liberal left reveal its true face, but the education wing of the post modern establishment again reminded us of the danger liberal thought process holds for western civilization. It comes right from Marshalltown, Iowa.

Following the immigration raid at the Swift plant in Marshalltown, the Marshalltown School Board began complaining of the harm done to students who “left yesterday who may never be back. We’re invested in these children”. The concern is apparently that the students whose parents were in the USA illegally are going to return to their parents’, or perhaps even their own, country of origin.

The Marshalltown School Board reveals much about the bizarre world view of the liberal mind. Initially, no student who left or will leave should ever have been educated in Iowa. Their parents were here illegally, so any harm done to the now withdrawn students was a consequence of parental wrongdoing, and that of no other person. Arrest and deportation would seem logical risks assumed by the illegal immigrant. This logical conclusion is, of course, unappreciated by liberals.

A belief in the intrinsic importance of their agenda motivates the willingness of the liberal left, and particularly its education wing, to exploit the natural human sympathy for and interest in children. But does a quite predictable harm to the education of a tiny portion of the American student population, who were illegally receiving it in the first place, somehow justify ignoring or diluting immigration law?

Since teachers recite the mantra that smaller class size equates to better education, where is the sympathy for all of the students who were lawfully receiving a public education whose education must have suffered some diminution because their classes were enlarged by the illegal occupants? Would not the initial concern of a rational educator find at least some room for the legitimate students who were short changed?

Or, circling back to the central tenant of liberalism; isn’t it really all about the money? The Marshalltown school board was quick to add the budgetary loss to its complaints, ignoring the rather obvious fact that funding is unnecessary for students who are not enrolled in schools. Such a cost/benefit analysis is as foreign to the liberal mind as was space travel to the australopithecine.

As officials of an American government, should not school board members first concern be the preparation of good citizens? We don’t fund schools so that every person who can physically enter an American school can have a unique experience, tailored just for them, designed to maximize their sense of self worth. We don’t fund schools so that the liberal education establishment can have jobs. We fund schools for the sole purpose of preparing good American citizens. Not cosmopolitan citizens of the world, but functioning citizens of the United States of America, and, in this case, Marshalltown, Iowa. Expressing dissatisfaction with the enforcement of immigration laws because a small number of students won’t receive that public education we furnish impedes the primary function of public education itself. This rare insight into the reason free mind of the liberal education establishment is only the most recent warning that we desperately need different people running our schools.