Rant #3,428: School Days

School ...

All the public schools open this week if they haven't already opened.

And the colleges and universities are also opening, so our academic landscape is pretty much in full swing for the 2024-2025 school year.

And here comes the problems.

Where the beginning of the school year used to be a relatively happy time--at least for parents--it now signifies the beginning of protest season--

And how will colleges, universities, and yes, even some public schools, handle the coming of the Hamas groupies?

They had better do a better job than they did last school year.

Students and their sympathizers--including instructors and professors--took over campuses, spouting their anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, intimidating not just Jewish students, but all students, who were there for the right reason--to be educated.

But the wrath was mainly directed at Jewish students, who had to bear the hatred of these groupies while administrators sat with their hands folded and did little or next to nothing to quell these disturbances.

On Tuesday, Columbia University had its first protests, and a campus statue was defaced. Two of the Hamas groupies were arrested.

Around the country, there have been other altercations, and more arrests.

Of course, these Hamas groupies ignore the reality of the situation, and what made these recent protests even more wretched was thst they came a few days after it was announced that six Israeli hostages--including one with American citizenship--had been murdered by Hamas terrorists.

One Columbia student who was interviewed by the local press here said that the atmosphere at the school was horrid, as anybody entering the campus had to go through a gauntlet of security simply to get on the campus.

"This is not the way to protest," the student said, adding that you are not getting your points across by upending the university.

I am not saying that protests should not be permitted.

But what is going on at many college campuses are NOT protests; they are vicious pep rallies supporting terrorists and targeting Jewish students on campus.

Vicious language, barbarian behavior, and destruction are part of the plan, and it is very intimidating.

It is also very wrong, period.

But these schools simply have no idea how to handle these uproars, which are fueled by people who generally get their news off of Tik Tok.

They are completely uninformed, but what they do know what to do is create anarchy on campus.

It has got to stop, and if there is blood on anyone's hands here, it is on the hands of college administrators, who haven't a clue about how to run what is supposed to be an educational institution.

Shame on them, shame on the Hamas groupies, shame on the biased press, and shame on all of us for letting this hatred and anti-social behavior simmer to this boiling point.

(And now we have the new school.year's first mass shooting, in Georgia. Another story for another time.)

And who used to prepare me for school, waking me up, making my lunch and helping me get ready for my and my sister's school day?

My mother, of course.

My mom passed away a year ago today.

She was a great mother, was always in our corner when we needed her, and she loved our father to pieces.

I miss her greatly, and I hope she is with my father now, having a good time in heaven.

So as the school year begins, and every year that the school year begins into perpetuity, I will think about my mother.

She did a GREAT job, and my sister and I couldn't have chosen a better mom--and dad--on our own.

So today is a bit of a sad day for me, but then I think of everything my mother did for me, and even through the sadness, I have to smile, at least a little bit.