At Adena Elementary School in West Chester, you have to check in, get a visitor’s badge and have an escort. That’s what an ex-student did last week. He committed no crime and was “who he represented himself to be,” says a school spokesman.
However, he lied about his career, saying he played in the NFL, according to police, and letters sent home by school staff.
That sent up some red flags, and leaves a lot of “What ifs” in the minds of parents. The incident has the school looking over their security plans and policies.
“We have officers that are assigned to the beat. They’re obviously going to increase their presence. When you have concerns, when parents are concerned, they want to see that presence up there,” said Capt. Brian Rebholz of the West Chester Police Department.
Police have spent time on the school grounds as students are coming and going from the property.
http://www.fox19.com/story/25520691/lakota-school-looks-at-security-after-man-poses-as-nfl-player
As to the name of the former student no media outlets are reporting it for some reason—the kid is over 18, so saving the boy from embarrassment as a former student is rather stupid—considering they say they are desiring to fix the problem going forward. Channel 19 did put up the name of a fourth grader in their report, so why the police and school would protect a person who lied their way past security to massage his ego around a bunch of children is unfathomably idiotic. The Cincinnati Enquirer has the name because they checked NFL records to see if the kid had actually ever played professional football even as a practice squad member—which he didn’t. Lakota, after the incident is now boosting their police presence, which they stated was the reason for the latest school levy—and they got caught being star struck by a former student who could have just as easily have used the same story to get into a classroom and bring harm to students. There are so many things wrong with this situation that is being ignored that it is literally unbelievable all the people involved actually consider themselves intellectually mandated to advance society as educators—and they have really missed the mark. As anybody who knows anything about dealing with such matters understands, you must identify the cause, not the effect. These news outlets have reported the effect of the issue, but not the cause. Throwing more police into the halls of an elementary school at Lakota and sending home a strongly worded letter might make all the parents feel safe and secure—but it does not solve the problem.
The former student obviously wanted to return back to Adena to fulfill some goal established during his days there as a student. This is the danger of children bonding more with teachers than their own parents as children. The parents of this NFL imposter should really be ashamed of themselves for producing such a shallow young man ill prepared for the world. I mean what was he thinking—even after he went to Adena to have all the little kids and teachers suck up to him with his made up NFL experience—he would still have to return back to his car to drive away knowing that he is a loser who hasn’t done anything yet in life. The fact that he was willing to put on a cloak of such deception speaks loudly as to his actual values. He cares more about what people think of him than what he really is, and this will lead to a disaster as this event is just a prequel.
Then there are the idiotic teachers so hungry to believe that their work with the young man led to something wonderful, like an NFL career. The fact that they so willingly bought the story says that they wished to be deceived—they wanted to believe that their adopted son—a former student of the Lakota school system, could punch out into the world and be successful based on their instruction—and all they really did was raise a liar. And who would be surprised, after all isn’t that what Lakota is really about? Aren’t they more concerned with appearances than actuality? Lakota is about raising money through taxes for their unionized teachers disguised as basically pre-adult day care. Parents drop their children off to daycare facilities up to age 5 and conduct their lives almost independently—as though they were disconnected from their children leaving the little minds to be raised by baby sitters. When the children become of age for public school, they are then placed in an older version of day care organized by the state to spur job creation among the men and women who reside within its borders. Much of what actually happens in public school is about illusion anyway—so that those busy parents don’t feel guilt and change their behavior. The employees of this ridiculous system wish so fervently that it would work and inspire children to greatness that they will soak up any little morsel of success story as a fact without any analysis contrary to their desire.
Interesting how the school board president Julie Shafer didn’t put the young man’s name up on her Facebook account like she did when I called her levy supporting friends’ fat-assed whores—which they are. They are metaphorical whores to the needs of the state at the cost of their children which sickens me. If Lakota wanted to stop the kind of behavior shown at Adena they would have released the kid’s name to put the scare into anyone else thinking of doing such a thing—but Lakota is actually terrified that future students might not do the same and become deterred from massaging their egos with the illusion that their efforts at public education are worthy—and successful. Lakota school administrators and teachers want to believe that they can teach a child to grow up and become a gladiator in an arena filled with drunken fools and scantily clothed cheerleaders to destroy other human beings with the force of their own head. Their bodies may become ruined after only 15 years of this behavior, but heck, they might get on ESPN a few times. That is success—a really good player might be able to purchase a boat in Florida and pour $10,000 into the G-String of strippers on a Saturday night before a big game. Without question these are the thoughts of the teachers giving Kline a hero’s welcome in the halls of Adena elementary with children present and watching closely the adult behavior.
Ultimately, Lakota produced a child in Kline who would rather lie about his career just to impress others—which could be said about every level of the Lakota organization. Suppressing stories are the same as lying because the attempt is to hide the truth. The parents of Kline are even worse, they surrendered the instruction of the young mind of their son to a bunch of pretentious Lakota babysitters who created such a deep yearning for acceptance in the young lad that he actually made up a story about his success to visit an elementary teacher he should have long outgrown and forgotten about. The story is actually a serious one—it’s not about lying to breach security, it’s about the deep need to lie, so to make a former teacher show once again respect to a grown man who still has unresolved issues from his childhood. Lakota just as they taught the young fellow did what they always did, they threw a few more cops at the situation to make parents sleep better at night, and will undoubtedly throw more money at the situation which is essentially like throwing gas on a fire—but it makes everyone feel better about themselves.
The cause of this tragedy is that the student, Jeff Kline, desired to actually visit a former teacher and get their approval. To do it, he had to give the school what he thought they valued to get them once again to look favorably upon him like they did when he was a child yearning for a gold star to be put at the top of his work assignments. Lakota taught Kline to strive for that appeasement at whatever cost, even if lying is the method of obtaining the objective. After all, that’s what Lakota does—so why wouldn’t their rudderless students do the same? The answer is they will do as they were taught—and to that effect Jeff Kline did.
Rich Hoffman
The Overmanwarrior 