the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood High School students joined Students across the country walked out of their classrooms on Thursday to demand change following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas earlier this week.
Ridgewood High School senior Zoe Kovac was one of the organizers of the Ridgewood event was part of a nationwide “Students Demand Action” call that went out Wednesday asking students across the United States to walk out of school – both in solidarity with the victims of the Uvalde shooting and to demand what they call “stronger, commonsense and lasting gun control laws.”
The incident have also sparked Gov. Phil Murphy to renew his push for state lawmakers to pass a new slate of bills to further tighten New Jersey’s already strict firearm laws.
But as details come forth a murky patten seems to arise . Mental health issues , Fatherless households , lack of guidance , threats on social media and a host of enablers all missing dangerous signs lead to more questions than answers .
Despite strict gun laws New Jersey continues to suffer from gun related crime epidemic .
Data from the New Jersey State Police from 2021 shows that both shootings and gun-related homicides are up so far this year. Between January and May, 87 people were shot and killed, up 36% from the same period in 2020 and up 13% from those months in 2018. (The 2019 data was incomplete, so we are unable to provide a like-for-like comparison.)
But it’s not just gun-related homicides that have increased recently. Between January and May, 445 people were wounded in shootings, up 68% from 2020 and 53% from 2018.
These homicides are concentrated in New Jersey’s inner cities , but no body walks out of school over shootings in Paterson, Newark, Camden or Trenton.
This incident highlights the need for easier access to firearms for law abiding citizens. We need to stop demonizing the protectors, men willing to take bold action to prevent and stop violent crime and stop and put the father back in the family.
A “walk out”?
Not so fast.
Principal Nyhuis, and Principal (now Superintendent) Gormley before him, are apparently reveling in opportunities to prove their woke/progressive militant bona fides to their like-minded leftist, anti-2nd-amendment, gun-grabbing colleagues in the K-12 education industry.
Is there a single person in Ridgewood who didn’t recognize that Gormley was deliberately planting an America-hating seed by playing the role of the Wizard of Oz “wizard” when as our High School Principal he was literally encouraging (!) children to leave the classroom without permission?
Are we to be encouraged or impressed by an RHS “club”, touted, obviously encouraged, and probably generously funded by Principal Nyhuis (and Principal Gormley before him), named “Students Demand Action”?
Not for nothing, that’s the first two letters of the acronym SDS in there.
Maybe just a hint of menace?
Nahhh….you’re just seeing things, imagining things.
Oh, really?
This from Wikipedia:
“Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships and parliamentary procedure, the founders conceived of the organization as a broad exercise in “participatory democracy”. From its launch in 1960 it grew rapidly in the course of the tumultuous decade with over 300 campus chapters and 30,000 supporters recorded nationwide by its last national convention in 1969. The organization splintered at that convention amidst rivalry between factions seeking to impose national leadership and direction, and disputing “revolutionary” positions on, among other issues, the Vietnam War and Black Power.”
What’s next? Campus visits from “Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird” Bill Ayers encouraging the RHS SDA club to take it to the next level?
Bill Ayers, still breathing our same air, went on from trying to kill police and bombing government buildings with the Weather Underground in the early ’70s to shanghaiing U.S. K-12 education by becoming an elected vice president of the AERA, the American Educational Research Association.
This from the Ridgewood Blog in 2008:
“Fast forward to this year, and we learn, upon reading this blog, that Bill Ayers was recently elected vice president for curriculum of the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association (AERA), the nation’s largest organization of education-school professors and researchers.
“Surely the AERA knew what it was getting in electing Bill Ayers to such a position. Since Ayers was “elected”, there must be a majority of people in that organization who share his radical outlook, which as we now know, does not coincide with the best interests of public school children.
“The official State of New Jersey Education websites have links to only two national education-related organizations, namely: Bill Ayers’ American Educational Research Association (AERA), and [Ridgewood] Assistant Superintendent Botsford’s Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).”
http://theridgewoodblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-will-lump-cac-aera-and-ascd-together.html
Curriculum Development seems to be the academic field where true soldiers in the war to corrupt American children and undermine what’s left of our institutions and national virtue and go to cut their teeth and forge relationships with other Frankfurt School-type, chaos-loving, crisis-fomenting misfits.
This wasn’t so much a “walk out” initiated by students as it was yet another example of a “push out”, orchestrated by student-manipulating, virtue signaling public school administrators bent on ushering in a new wave of sixties- and early-seventies-era school protests.
Ahhh, the good old days!
RHS Principal Jeffrey Nyhuis sent a letter about this event to parents yesterday that included this klunker:
“Part of showing support here at Ridgewood High School is allowing students the space to express their thoughts and feelings.”
This is the same kind of condescending rhetoric used by the Mayor of Baltimore in 2015 to assure violent rioters that they would be given a free hand to do as they pleased.
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From:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/baltimore-unrest/mayor-stephanie-rawlings-blake-under-fire-giving-space-destroy-baltimore-n349656
April 28, 2015, 12:05 PM EDT / Updated April 28, 2015, 1:59 PM EDT / Source: NBC News
By Elizabeth Chuck
(excerpt)
With her city spiraling out of control, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has two problems: quelling the violence — and clarifying a controversial comment she made over the weekend before it erupted.
“I’ve made it very clear that I work with the police and instructed them to do everything they could to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise their right to free speech,” Rawlings-Blake said Saturday as Baltimore roiled following the funeral of Freddie Gray, the black man who died in police custody April 19.
“It’s a very delicate balancing act because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well, and we work very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.”
The remarks about giving space to “those who wished to destroy” generated swift, strong criticism amid more than two dozen arrests, at least 15 police officers injured, and looting and arson in the city.
“Incompetent beyond belief,” was one of the responses on Twitter. “The mayor of Baltimore should be charged immediately for inciting a riot,” was another.
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More mental institutions are needed.
And less mind altering drugs and video games are needed.
There were armed “good guys” in Buffalo. There were armed “good guys” in Texas. It didn’t help.
police response has come under scrutiny
Also, the school had spent 650 grand to “harden” the school, so don’t try arguing for that.
Or for more funding for the police- 40% of the town’s budget went to police, including its own SWAT team. For a town smaller than Ridgewood, mind you. So don’t try arguing for that.
Or training- the cops had practiced active shooter scenarios AT THAT EXACT SCHOOL.
When masculinity is toxic, when stopping violent crime is criminal, the police and guards sit outside and wait for back up. Ideas have consequences.
Reading, writing and arithmetic. Leave your liberal activism for your spare time.
its a little late for that , time for serious challenges to “public education”
Another way of indoctrination, making sure that these kids vote D when they’re older
Have to maintain critical thinking in these times and ask questions This is what I’d like to know, does anyone out there know?:
“How did an 18 year old living with his grandmother have 2 BRAND NEW Daniel Defense AR15 rifles, worth almost $5000, plus ammo, plus optics with body armor AND a $70,000 F250 pickup?
What about his therapist who specializes in hypnosis?
What is project D E E P D R E A M?
12:16 PM · May 25, 2022”
Doesn’t it seem peculiar (to even the most ardent gun control advocates) that these perps NEVER go into a police station, or a gun shop, or a Nationsl Guard armory, or a military base, or Pelosi’s home – don’t you wonder why???
SMH. Nyhuis isn’t the brightest of school leaders. He is an activist and a follower. He was all in pushing that unconscious bias bs training all last year.
Gun control gets us nowhere. If a sick sob wants to cause such harm, he will find a gun thru other channels. back – ground chks will not prevent it. He flew thru his back – ground check. The issue broken families, isolation and mental health. Pull back the $40 from Ukraine and lets invest in our kids.
Somebody really screwed up here, the police should’ve never ever just stand it outside they should’ve swarmed the building what were they thinking. Somebody from the top gave a poor decision wait until all those body cameras come out wait until the videos. Then the shits going to hit the fan
Society is hard at Satan’s work, subtracting fathers from childrens’ lives every chance it gets. Maybe we could at least stop doing that for a start, and see where that gets us in a few years.