(Some left-over; for this drink of anti-kool-aid read first and check those 30? links later)
The intro on this public financed schools homepage is showing a spectacular picture of its pompous chapel.
Its principal recently sent a school wide email:
Ask the Lord to give us the wisdom to discover the right, the courage to choose it, and the strength to make it endure. The Lord is in control. He has a plan for each and every one of us. If we seek His will in our lives, we will find the "peace that passes all understanding."
Hallelujah!
Through the Christian News Wire Service a retired teacher of the school is lobbying against the schools forced gender-norm standards:
"I would separate the sexes, separate training, and have different standards"
Its current superintendent may well agree as he himself was educated in a prestigious, at that time "single-gender heterosexual" institution, well known for its fine celebrations, agreeable to God.
The secular schools flag-folding ceremony states that raising the flag at reveille is "a symbol of our belief in the resurrection of the body".
You will have confidence in the quality of their graduates when you know that their core values are "Integrity First, Service Before Self, Excellence in All We Do". The institutions supervising organization is even promising Global Vigilance, Reach & Power plus the marketing byline "Cross into the blue".
The schools is seated in an area full of other important institutions who take care of the moral and nuclear defense of the United States. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, the World Prayer Center and the Guardians of the High Frontier, as they call the Air Force Space command, are just a few miles away. Next door is also the evangelical Focus of the Family headquarter. When it opened in September 1993, a schools sport team delivered the keys to dog lover James Dobson.
The areas 2004 67% county vote for George W. Bush was healthy but also disappointing. You would expect more trust for The Leader.
School football coach Fisher DeBerry was recently asked to take down a football motivation banner claiming: "I am a Christian first and last … I am a member of Team Jesus Christ.". He may soon join his predecessor who is now making a career as Executive Director for Family Ministries in Focus.
When the schools head chaplain advised against holding Bible studies in dormitories, principal Johnny Weida, a born-again Christian, overruled him in front of 300 teachers, staffers and pupil leaders, saying it is OK to have Bible studies in the dorms.
Other things happen in these churchlike dormitories too. At one point, more than a third of its female attendants reported "unwelcome, deliberate physical contact of a sexual nature".
When such unwelcome contacts, like let’s say gang rapes, happen, principle Johnny Weida decides on the issue. But sometimes the numbers get just too big and holy Mary is asked to give outside help for the cover up. We do know Mary from other cases where she demonstrated a strong working relationship with a high valued alumni of the school in question.
This publicly financed, secular school, with strong relations to high ranking officials, is the US Air Force Academy, Building Leaders of Character for the Nation.
Its graduates will have their fingers on the buttons that may launch a nuclear war and its alumnis recently re-enacted Guernica in Fallujah.
Who owns their loyality? Can you trust them? What happens if they are part of a plan?