Parents! If it’s not Fr. Paul Robinson teaching your children modernist theories in school, or someone and something even worse, it’s up to you to warn and arm your children with the truth and how to use it in such situations. Model it for them from an early age. Beginning simply at ages 2 or 3 is not too young. Hate the sin; love the sinner. If something wrong flies over your child’s head, leave it that way. Without being overly protective, keep your child innocent for as long as possible, but do not set up a “forbidden fruit” situation allowing your child to be tempted behind your back.
An example of a child properly taught from my teaching career:- A third grade girl’s mother and aunt most unwisely and ignorantly took her along with an older cousin to a Lady Gaga and Madonna performance in NYC. Clips of the lewd, demonic show were on the third grader’s phone and it was passed around in the school bus on the way to school. A number of my first graders had seen it and told me about it as soon as arriving in the classroom. Most of the children were shocked and/or disgusted, eager to tell on the third grader who made fun of a few children who told her it was “dirty, nasty, immodest, disgusting,” and said they were “telling.” The girl mocked those who said such things and even threatened physical harm at lunch to several who made derogatory comments.
Realizing it was a serious matter, I got the whole class busy on independent seat work, and summoned those students who’d been on that bus for a quick 1:1 private talk, emphasizing to some that they weren’t “in trouble.” The descriptions I received all matched, including the threats made by the third grader. I had to assure some of my students no such thing was going to happen. Some students told me they “saw it by accident” as it was passed around.
With one girl, age six, I was very impressed. Sensing by othe kids’ reactions, she knew what was on the phone, that “Jesus did not like it,” she closed her eyes and refused to touch the phone despite a particular older boy calling her a baby. Her response to him, “My parents say if you see something, it stays in your brain forever. I’m not putting garbage in my brain.” And she refused to open her eyes until the kids were off the bus and the driver told her to get off.
She attended a conservative Black Baptist church from Haiti. I knew her church services were in French and that she spoke Haitian Creole at home. Not Catholic, but she taught me from her parents’ guidance. I have also to add she was always dressed femininely and modestly. The school had a trouser option for girls and female staff permitted when the thermometer fell below 32 F. or there was five or more inches of snow on the ground, also, for certain activities, either athletic or apt to get very dirty. The school handbook encouraged alternatives to pants for these occasions, but in reality, didn’t pay them attention. This girl’s wore only the jumper and later, skirt, at the stipulated length, and long enough culottes on her P.E. uniform. When her parents came for conferences and school events, they too, were dressed appropriately and modestly.
Let’s pray that some day, a student’s simple statement of truth will penetrate Fr. Robinson’s mind and heart. “Out of the mouth of infants and suckling, Thou hast perfected praise.” St. Matthew 21:16
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