Posted on 01/30/2015 9:37:06 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
California-school mind control: grades for “Gratitude”
By Jon Rappoport January 30, 2015 http://www.nomorefakenews.com
The Sacramento Bee has the story. 1/27/15, “Grit and gratitude join reading, writing and arithmetic on report cards,” by Loretta Kalb:
“Across the state, report cards are undergoing a sea change in how students are measured for academic performance. Where teachers once graded students [only] on traditional math or English skills, they now judge attributes such as grit, gratitude or being sensitive to others…Districts are changing their report cards to reflect the new Common Core State Standards…”
“…when it comes to attributes such as grit or being sensitive to others, they [teachers] give [third-grade] students one of four marks: A for almost always, O for often, S for sometimes and R for rarely.”
Report cards for young children. Grit, gratitude, and sensitivity to others. Welcome to the madhouse.
Where are the massive parent protests? Apparently, nowhere. So they’re brainwashed as well.
In case I need to point this out: a child of eight isn’t naturally gushing gratitude and sensitivity toward others. In schools, these are taught values, and they are now attached to report-card grades. The child is being conditioned to behave in prescribed ways, in order to earn a “gold star.”
It’s all synthetic, artificial. It’s operant conditioning. The baffled clueless child learns to take cues. He learns to speak certain “grateful sensitive” words. He becomes a waddling little duck who’s taught how to quack. They all quack in concert.
As far as the schools are concerned, the child mustn’t think of himself as independent. There are no positive grades for that. Early on, he’s led into the goo-pond with the other kids.
The parents, clueless as well, can make no distinction between what a child learns on his own and what he is taught and how he is taught (conditioned). If the child appears appropriately “grateful and sensitive,” then he actually is.
The mothers and fathers are in for quite a surprise, later on, when their kid rebels against all this mind-control and turns into a hostile force. Or knuckles under, and acts like a perfect android.
This method of programming comes from the school of psychological behaviorism. Its foundation is the idea that personality develops from conditioning—because there is nothing else.
“No one is home” until someone else teaches him “how to be.” And that’s life, that’s experience, that’s perception. Case closed.
This is all true for a computer or a car or a toaster, but it doesn’t happen to be true for a child.
Let’s stop calling them schools. Let’s call them conditioning centers.
“Yes, my little Jimmy is doing quite well at the conditioning center. He says ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ forty times a day. His sensitivity responses are in the ninetieth percentile, and his gratitude quotient is eighty, up from seventy-two a year ago. We’re thrilled. Last night, when we went for ice cream, he told us he appreciated our sensitivity to his preference for a cone over a dish…”
Flash forward a few years: “We don’t understand. Jimmy burned down the garage last night. When we asked him why, he stared at us in a challenging kind of way and said he was expressing his gratitude for fire. The psychiatrist told us over the phone that Jimmy has a dissociative disorder. He needs medication to calm him down. He has a chemical imbalance…”
Or how about this: “Last week in school our Bobby learned more about sexual parts of the body. He was also instructed about gender-reassignment surgery. He told us he was sensitive to people’s choices in life…”
Good for you, Bobby.
It’s wonderful. Who are these crazy terrorists who want to home-school their kids?
Jon Rappoport The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.wordpress.com.
Moving in exactly the wrong direction. Eliminate all that fluff and those subjective evaluations and grade on a no-curve basis for English, Math, and Science. Make all the other junk pass/fail.
So, how mad would you get at your kid for failing his mandatory “voluntary” community service requirements in order to graduate? Used to be that people got sentenced to “community service” for smallish crimes. LOL!
I could maybe understand “attitude” but “gratitude”?? So wrong.
Give me a high enough grade and I’ll give you gratitude. Is that how that works?
I’m dating myself but when I was in elementary school, we got graded on the subject. On the back of the report card was a handwritten paragraph from the teacher. It was then that any educational or behavioral issues were noted (except in the case they called home if you didn’t something “really” bad). For example. “Johnny is doing well in math but we have discussed that classroom participation could improve his grade” or “Suzy and I have discussed that talking during class instruction is hindering the education of her and those around her”. I never once remember a thing about gratitude or sensitivity toward others.
We’re becoming the Soviet state where political commissars police our every thought and anyone exhibiting counter-revolutionary ideas is automatically determined to be mentally unfit.
We can absolutely expect these ridiculous measurements of children to be used to discriminate against children who express Christian, conservative, or American ideas.
The left are waging war against us. And like that ghoul Anders Breivik in Norway they’re starting their war by attacking our children first.
“So, how mad would you get at your kid for failing his mandatory “voluntary” community service requirements in order to graduate? Used to be that people got sentenced to “community service” for smallish crimes. LOL!”
Try getting into a college without “community service” on your sheets these days. I would have put down: “I broke my ass working, saving for college so that the ‘less fortunate’ can get scholarships, and I paid taxes on top of that. There’s my F^$%## community service”.
Not to worry, now shotgun jojo biteme is saying 4 year college needs to be free. While we’re at it, let’s go ahead and inform all those tenured profs that they’ll no longer be getting big paychecks. :>} Amazing what some of them get paid to destroy children’s minds.
“Grit”. Interesting word choice. It is the word Obama’s speech writers keep throwing into his speeches. Interesting the same, rather odd, word has found its way into the official curriculum. I’m sure it’s pure coincidence. Yup. Just a chance. Not orchestrated in the least. No siree.
Schools now have to teach kids to be nice because it’s not taught at home, and/or people are not so religious anymore. Used to be, kids were taught by their parents and by Sunday school teachers to be nice. Kids’ TV shows also stressed this lesson. Now, you see kids in school acting like wild, foul-mouthed brats, and the parents side with the kids, not the teachers.
Back in the 1950s my school was one of the best in the world. Recently however, it produced tina fey....
Gratitude = groveling to your government masters.
Minus 5pts for being white and minus another 5 for being white male.
Next will be servility.
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