Tea at Trianon: Why School "Restorative Practices" Are Destructive

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, April 1, 2024

Why School "Restorative Practices" Are Destructive

From The Easton Gazette:

Social justice is not the justice of the bible or the legal system. Social justice has been redefined. The real definition of Social Justice is: The fair treatment of all people in a society. However, Social Justice has been completely redefined to mean something entirely different being integrated with ideology known as Critical Race Theory (CRT) or its rebranded form called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DIE). This takes race into account, and becomes ambiguously critical of it. Social Justice has been redefined as receiving what one wants/demands without having any standards, boundaries, morality, laws, respect for others, consequences, or God. Equality and fairness is eliminated and replaced with "Equity," which is an unfair system of taking from some and giving to others without being earned. The corrupt meaning of social justice tips the scale of justice with partiality.

If you have not read this past article, we encourage you to do so to get a better understanding. I Have A Nightmare: Systemic Racial Disparities In Schools and It's By Design

Blind-eye reporting and double standards in discipline is nothing new, and has been going on for years under Affirmative Action. It just wasn't until 2018 that it was legislated in Maryland as a result of social justice activism and BLM working the state legislators. (Read more.)