Posted on 06/11/2015 8:02:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I homeschooled my two boys.
Abandoning public school is not the answer. We need to take them back.
I learned by sight, too. I was an avid reader as a child and well beyond my grade.
Yes - I agree! Hearing words and well formed sentences help so much in fluency, which is also important to language development. I wish teachers would/could devote time to reading aloud from THE CLASSICS. I’m guessing that’s not going to happen - ever. All the resources and the knowledge we have to draw from - and we’re choosing to ignore it.
Abandoning public school is not the answer. We need to take them back.
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there is nothing to take back. And one cannot change bureaucracies. It is better to do and end run around the Blob and let it die.
It’s only the first of many areas that will be lost for all the same reasons. Obama is going to make sure that even those who work hard not to live under these conditions will have to in the name of “equality.”
That is never ever, going to happen. The public school systems are hopelessly unaccountable, hopelessly inbred, and hopelessly awash in money. It is designed, operated, staffed, and controlled by atheistic communists and secular humanists who look to Bill Ayers and Arne Duncan. Ticket punchers, go-alongs, and college graduates, worker bees all dependent on the government paycheck. It is a racket; a cynical and evil joke worthy of Kafka. They are little more that prisons and indoctrination centers.
Unless you are willing to kill (some of) them, "We" aren't taking anything back, because they have the force of law, and the force of the lazy and the dependent. Don't you see that their work product guarantees voters who will keep them in power? That the only thing they really excel at is debasing and "socializing" children?
You are—horrendous schools are the feeder in NYC crime.
That said, NYC is one of the safest cities around.
The Marxism is, of course, a huge problem as well.
And yet public schools used to be the foundation of a moral citizen.
Too bad our enemies didn’t look at the task as impossible.
Our enemies are on the one hand murderers and bomb throwers; domestic terrorists; psychopaths whose benefactor is the government. On the other hand, the dependent and politically corrected, whose benefactor is the government.
Sure it has. Its a fantastic tool for conditioning. Its just you used to agree with the conditioning they were pushing.
Morality comes from the home. Public schools should have no business in it. Yet that is actually all the education comrades really, really want to do. Political correctness is secular morality, and it is fun for them. Not so much those tedious 3 R’s.
Can’t use the classics....they are not copyrighted and no one will make any money on them. Have to keep the kiddies illiterate and angry.
There will be the teaching of morals in public schools. Its simply a matter of which morals will be taught.
Government schools need:
1) Kids
2) The money that comes with each enrolled child.
Remove the child and starve the beast!
You “get it”! The government schools have **never** been morally neutral, as you pointed out. Why?
Reason:
It is impossible to have a religiously, politically, and culturally neutral education. Such a state of philosophic neutrality can **not** exist in the mind of any sentient human.
Government schooling has always pushed the NON-neutral worldview of the most politically powerful. Fundamentally government schooling is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination.
Wintertime, I agree.
Driftdiver, it is my belief that government schooling is not something that should be taken back, because it is a moral hazard per se and has shown itself to be a failure; a Trojan horse to get inside the walls of the home, and a tailor-made tool for statists of every stripe to gather power. It should be abolished. Which is not likely to happen, because nobody in leadership has the stones to say it.
Further, I will say that the inexorable 100 plus year long slide into the insanity we currently find our country in is incurable, without a spiritual renewal. And that rarely happens to the fat, dumb, and happy.
So fixing public schools is an impossible task but eliminating them is reasonable? No wonder were losing.
What I refer to as the egalitarian fantasy not only confuses--grossly confuses--analysis of cause & effect, in addressing educational problems--as, for example, how to realistically measure school or teacher performance levels; or the quality of parental performance or behavior, etc.;--it has a full complement of other deleterious effects. These include stoking the individual grievance mentality; ignoring the talents one actually has, in order to blame others for the talents one does not have; while causing a denial of opportunities to those who might otherwise excel, or providing incentives to under-perform among the more gifted, generally.
Its effect as an inhibitor of any realistic legislative remedy, is also quite clear.
We don’t try to reconstruct cancer cells, we excise them. Fear and cowardice is why we are losing.
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