The San Francisco Board of Education is terminating the city’s JROTC program to send a message to the military for their policy against accepting openly gays and lesbians into the military. There are good ways and bad ways of sending a message, but using one which hurts innocent kids is stupid. But to lie about why they are terminating this great program takes a real San Francisco moonbat.
High schools across the city soon will no longer have Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs, after officials decided to eliminate them because of the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gay service members.
The Board of Education voted 4-2 late Tuesday to phase out the JROTC from schools over the next two years, despite protest from hundreds of students who rallied outside the meeting.
The resolution passed says the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers violates the school district’s equal rights policy for gays. The school district and the military currently share the $1.6 million annual cost of the program.
The city of San Francisco has no jurisdiction over military matters, so why are they really ending the ROTC program. They claim this resolution is to protest the military’s ban on gays, but some of the comments of the board members suggests a very clear anti-military bias.
“One of the big components (of JROTC) is military branding, military thinking and military recruitment, and that has to stop,” board member Dan Kelly said during the meeting. (emphasis added by TRS)
Military branding and military thinking? The board’s anti-military bias is showing clear through. Nobody is forcing these kids to join the JROTC program, it is strictly voluntary. They are ending a program which encourages young people to have self confidence and discipline, promotes physical fitness and well-being, teaches leadership and organizational skills, helps the students to work together for a common goal, and most of all, teaches personal responsibility.
Cadets and instructors who spoke at the meeting and rallied outside argued that the program teaches leadership, organizational skills, personal responsibility and other important values.
“This is where the kids feel safe, the one place they feel safe,” said Robert Powell, a JROTC instructor and retired Army lieutenant colonel. “You’re going to take that away from them?”
The moonbats are out in force on this one.
They [board members Dan Kelly, Mark Sanchez, Sarah Lipson, Eric Mar] and other opponents say the armed forces should have no place in public schools and the military’s discriminatory stance on gays makes the presence of JROTC unacceptable.
“We don’t want the military ruining our civilian institutions,” said Sandra Schwartz, of the American Friends Service Committee, an organization actively opposing JROTC nationwide. “In a healthy democracy … you contain the military. You must contain the military.”
What complete idiots! Next, will these moonbats will say something like our military has no place in a civilized society? They act like the military is part of an alien attack on our planet. They are to be quarantined until we decide how to safely dispose of them. What a load of nonsense. The ROTC instructors are teachers just like any other teacher except they wear uniforms and work much longer hours. They are an integral part of the school system.
How can these moonbats say the military is ruining our civilian institutions? The reason we have a healthy democracy is because of the military. The reason we still have the freedoms we have today is because of these heroes who protect us day in and day out. When these people don the uniform, they do not automatically become barbarians who weild swords indiscriminately against friend and foe alike. We have a healthy democracy because men and women have chosen to serve this great country. Do they think harsh words will keep us safe?
In a democracy, the military must be under the jurisdiction of the civilian government, but even then, they are not ‘contained.’ The military is made up of real people—men and women who vote, work, play, sleep, spend time with their kids, and protect this country from all enemies. They should be respected for their service, not denigrated.
The timing of this termination could not have come at a more inopportune time, coming just days after Veterans’ Day. In effect, San Francisco’s Board of Education is telling the military they are oblivious to the sacrifice of our soldiers. These men and women are heroes and should be treat as such.
Make no mistake about what the Board has done, it not about ‘gays in the military.’ It is about the military. The gay issue is just a smoke screen. These people hate the military. The decision to end the ROTC program is an extension of that decision.
Brett at The Elephant reminded me of two other incidents of anti-militarism by the lefty moonbats in S.F.
This is just the latest action in a string of anti-military positions. Earlier this year the city prohibited the USS Iowa from docking on the bay. Further, they have also attempted to ban on-campus military recruiting at city high schools and colleges.
I love his last two lines:
I think it is high time that Pelosi come out and either applaud or condemn her city for their anti-military attitudes. After all, should the Speaker during wartime represent a city that not only despises the war- but the military?
Absolutely!!!
Others commenting on the decision to ban JROTC from S.F. schools:
Neptunus Lex
Sister Toldjah
Ankle Biting Pundits
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