Another Brick in the Wall

By: Chris Johnson

In 1979, the legendary British rock band Pink Floyd released a song called, “Another Brick in the Wall.”

I’m sure at the time, the rockers never would have believed that it would be a conservative anthem almost 50 years later, but its lyrics resound in the hearts of those who’ve been paying attention to exactly what’s been going on in the public schools in recent years.

“We don’t need no education; we don’t need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom; Teacher, leave them kids alone.”

If you’re not quite there yet, wait until you hear about middle-school teacher, Sarah Bonner.

According to NBC News, Bonner has been a teacher for twenty years and, like all good teachers, she likes to encourage her students to read. What separates Sarah Bonner from good teachers, however, is the books that she pushes on them.

“’I wanted to give them a smattering of fiction and nonfiction to choose from on a day that we call ‘Reading Monday,’ Bonner, 42, told TODAY.com. ‘We just read and celebrate books.’

“One of those books was Juno Dawson’s ‘This Book is Gay.’ It’s a bestselling nonfiction book that’s billed by its publisher as an entertaining and informative ‘instruction manual’ for anyone coming out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans,” NBC reports.

What NBC doesn’t report is what the book contains. One page introduces what it calls, “a diagram of a cisgender boy.” The first odd thing about this boy is his 5 o’clock shadow, but that’s hardly the worst of it. The sketch is of a naked male, diagraming which parts of the body, “FEEL NICE when you touch them.” It gives recommendations to the middle school students reading this on how to touch each individual body part.

There’s also a dictionary section of the book, which defines graphic homosexual terminology in ways which would turn a normal person’s stomach.

Perhaps worst of all, it includes a section explaining how “sex apps” work:

“1 – Upload a tiny picture of yourself to the app.

2 – The app works out your location.

3 – The app tells you who the nearest homosexuals are,

4 – You then chat to them. 

5 – Because you are near, it is easy to meet up with them.”

There you go, don’t say school never taught you anything.

The focus of NBC’s reporting on this story, believe it or not, isn’t that a teacher would dare to put such perversion in front of her students, it’s that the parents would dare to push back against it. At least one responsible parent did push back, by filing a police report against the teacher for child endangerment.

Bonner was placed on administrative leave before deciding to resign, but parents all over the country have stumbled over this book in their kids’ classrooms and school libraries. And it is not slipping into these spaces because the teachers and librarians aren’t paying attention. These kinds of books are being sought out and presented to kids in order to make the kids think a certain way on this subject.

Another instance comes from Florida, where first year teacher Jenna Barbee bumped up against Ron DeSantis’ recently passed law banning homosexual propaganda from the classroom.

Barbee showed Disney’s Strange World to her students: a climate-change propaganda cartoon with homosexual characters. This time, one of the students was the daughter of a school board member who was not having it. This prompted an apology letter to parents from the school board, and a school board meeting, and the parent/school board member was able to report the incident to the state board of education, which was the basis of an ongoing state investigation.

Hopefully that young teacher, and others watching the incident play out, learn their lesson, and hopefully the states’ parents stay vigilant, since they have actual legal recourse to pursue if this kind of material pops up in their kids’ classrooms.

If only the rest of us parents had similar options.

For most of us, and particularly for those of us in my own city right now which is going through this nonsense of kids getting to use the bathroom of whichever “gender” they’re “identifying” as, we have nothing to appeal to but a hope that our school board cares more about our kids and doing what’s right than they do their own ease. Which they don’t, apparently.

As the Department of Education, more and more, ties federal funding to the acceptance, if not outright enforcement, of radical LGBTQ ideology, how many students will be introduced to graphic sexual material by their teachers? How many middle-schoolers will be encouraged to download sex apps by their school libraries? How many kids will be forced to use restrooms with members of the opposite sex who’ve been radicalized by this material?

In 1979, what Pink Floyd was singing about was how when the schools were done with you, “All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall” universal size, shape, and thought process, utilitarian in purpose.

The purpose has changed since 1979, but the process hasn’t. In 2023, that wall has a rainbow flag painted on it.

“Hey, Teacher! Leave them kids alone!”

 

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