Ace of Spades has been burning up Twitter remarking on the Red Hook, New York junior high where an "anti-bullying" workshop entailed making 14-year-old girls ask each other for lesbian kisses.
How long has the term "bullying" had this status as some kind of official educational lingo? Obviously, bullying has always been around. Thuggish types shaking down the pencil-necked geeks for lunch money and the like.
The home, when most homes were occupied by groups of people meeting the age-old normal-people definition of family, was, until the last few years, the arena in which young humans in precarious stages of development were made to understand the residual impulse to impose a pecking order, and given the tools to deal with it with dignity and autonomy.
Now that at least half of our society's households are constituted in some deviation from that norm, the statists have seen a juicy opportunity to step in it-takes-a-village-style and indoctrinate these impressionable folks in their formative stages into the identity-politics worldview.
This may seem like strictly a culture-and-human-sexuality issue, but it actually has national security implications. Certain demographic groups have victim status conferred on them, and their own bullying gets a pass. This leads to situations like the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Army coming up with warnings about non-existent threats from "right-wing" elements while the obvious threat cannot be named, as we've seen when Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill.
The state supplanting the home as the locus of human development. That's the bottom line here, and the result is a new and unrecognizable species of being without much chance of survival.
I will agree that public schools in some jurisdictions, mostly inner cities, are sewers. Blackboard jungles. In others, including our beautiful Columbus Indiana they are largely doing fine and serving our youth as well as they served us, correct me if I'm wrong. Parental involvement was and still is crucial, just that there is, as you so state, substantially less of it, and, well, weirder. It will take another generation to find out how this all plays out. I might not be around (nor will any of the rest of us if it is indeed as late in the day as you and the fundies are claiming) to see what the divorce stats are for same sex couples or what their childrens' ultimate assessments of the "arrangements" were. Obviously the fundamentals have been lacking for several decades as evidenced by the surpassing skills of those in certain other countries, including commie countries.
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