Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Foreword for Rabbi Nachum Shifren’s upcoming book “Kill Your Teacher” (11-19-05)

As someone who is in regular contact with students and teachers in the Los Angeles area, I can tell you that the Los Angeles Unified School district--and the rest of our government school system--is in shambles. It is filled with politically correct, godless socialists, who are daily remaking our children in their own image.

Among this wreckage, a good friend of mine, Rabbi Nachum Shifren, decided to make a difference, and install discipline, standards, and excellence where there were none. His reward for that was a heap of abuse.

Rabbi Shifren invited me to speak one day to his class, in the hopes that I, as a black American, could possibly reach some of the minority students who so despised Rabbi Shifren, a white, Jewish man, and let them know how to succeed in life.

What I found was that I was not respected either. Because I represented authority, and this generation has been taught by their Leftist mentors to “question authority”, meaning treat it with suspicion and even contempt.

In Rabbi Shifren’s classroom, I found out that only a handful actually had two parents in the home, meaning the battle was mostly lost before these kids hit a classroom. Most of the students displayed no interest in learning whatsoever, and were hostile. The classroom was an unsafe environment to good teachers like Rabbi Shifren.

Soon after my visit there, I learned that Rabbi Shifren’s classroom had been burnt down under highly suspicious circumstances. No surprise.

What a disappointment to see a good teacher really attempt to educate, yet receive no support from the Administration and teacher’s union (U.T.L.A.). Instead of support, they fought him at every turn!

The American people must wake up to what is being done in the government schools with their money! They are supporting re-education camps for children and teenagers. They must stop supporting this wanton destruction of our sons and daughters, and start supporting teachers like Rabbi Shifren who are standing up for discipline, standards, and excellence in an atmosphere of chaos.

Many of our young people do want to learn, and excel. They need to be given that chance. The administrators, teachers, and students who are “bad apples” need to be removed, for the sake of the good ones.

I know that if we had ten more teachers like Rabbi Nachum Shifren, we could turn America around tomorrow.

--Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

   Founder and President, BOND