Posted on 05/01/2011 9:11:39 AM PDT by Lexluthor69
The Public Schools system of the US has crashed and burned! No longer are our children the best educated in the world. Now our scholars rank among the LESS well educated even among a few of the third world countries. This is a shame we have brought upon ourselves by inviting the Federal Government and the Unions into our schools.
One-room schoolhouses turned out scholars of unequaled accomplishment when compared to today’s graduates. A high school education, just 50 years ago, is the equivalent of a college degree today. Our Public School teachers are barely qualified to teach. But, they have a Union to see that they are paid well, whether the can teach or not! Oh, you thought teachers unions were for the welfare of the students??? Surely you jest!
Our local school boards have gorged themselves from the federal trough at the expense of local control of the curriculum and the rules and regulations.
Pupils are not challenged by the courses they study and fall short of goals set by the federal government. So, the schools are now “teaching the tests.” Indoctrinate the students in the questions and answers on the test in hopes of attaining the sought after number of students passing the tests. A well-rounded education is lost to the efforts to make a good showing on the tests.
Students are forced to remain in school even though they have no interest in what is being taught and are a distraction to that handful of youngsters who really do want to learn.
Self-esteem is the number one course of study. Our students are dumb as fence posts but, by golly, they think highly of themselves! They can’t read their diplomas but they sure do feel good about it!
So what do we do about it?
(Excerpt) Read more at silentmajority09.com ...
education? is indoctrination!
What can I say? Ditto, ditto and mo’ ditto. Sorry for the loose vernacular, but I am sick of teaching fractions in high school and having to put up with substituing “tree” fo (woops) three and “fo” fo four. I definately in agreement with the “let them go if they do not want to attend.” Those who blow off their HS careers ultimately realize their mistakes and obtain a GED, but in the meantime, if they bolted, there would be less discipline problems and mo’ (woops, sorry again) learning.
More Money!!!! It fixes all our ills. /sarcasm.
What can I say? Ditto, ditto and mo’ ditto. Sorry for the loose vernacular, but I am sick of teaching fractions in high school and having to put up with substituing “tree” fo (woops) three and “fo” fo four. I am definately in agreement with the “let them go if they do not want to attend.” Those who blow off their HS careers ultimately realize their mistakes and obtain a GED, but in the meantime, if they bolted, there would be less discipline problems and mo’ (woops, sorry again) learning.
Home schooling my four since day one.
I’m of the opinion that sending one’s children to the government schools is tantamount to selling them into slavery.
They can’t read their diplomas but they sure do feel good about it.
A new crop of fruit pickers on the way to a county near you.
Get the District of Criminals out of the education business by eliminating all federal funding and getting rid of the Dept. or Mis-Education, but that is only a beginning.
It’s not education ... it’s indoctrination. Get with the program comrade. Otherwise soon ... very soon you will have to be re-educated in one of the newly built Obamao re-education camps
One factor involved in the education collapse is the growth of the idea that educational institutions exist to provide a job not to teach youth.
Those who leave school before graduation should NEVER get any government benefits. If you can’t be bothered to get a diploma that an ape could earn then I certainly can’t be bothered to pay for your lifestyle.
Education is the transmission of culture. By this measure, the USA is failing even more miserably.
We measure “math and science” scores, which are symptom, not a cause.
The author is right: Our public schools were very, very good before the federal government and the unions took them over, and then education in the United States collapsed. It was the left’s wet dream, and it came to pass.
I detest the left, and with a profundity I can’t put into words, as the word to describe that depth has yet to be printed.
Good for you! I absolutely believe that public schools are indoctrination centers. We have to take back control of our children’s education if we want to see our country remain free.
You misspelled Edumacate in the title.
If you ax me I say they spendin two much time on all them big parking lots, what they needs is bigger football stadiums and more basketball courts..... I'm jus sayin....
Even as early as the Year 1886, such was the case. A man by the name of Zacharias Montgomery was denied an important post in government for doing just that. You will read some of his words below.
With that said, those who love liberty must be willing to come forward to declare that it is better to be remembered for standing on and articulating enduring principles of right versus wrong, liberty versus tyranny, than to be praised by the mainstream media and so-called "progressives."
I am reminded of the words of Zacharias Montgomery in his 1886 Book entitled "Poison Drops in the United States Senate . . . ." Although his treatise dealt primarily with the public school question, the following remarks might be helpful to those who, today, are concerned by what passes for "public education."
Excerpts from Zacharias Montgomery:
"My countrymen, disguise the fact as we may, there is in this country to-day, and in both the political Parties, an element which is ripe for a centralized despotism. There are men and corporations of vast wealth, whose iron grasp spans this whole continent, and who find it more difficult and more expensive to corrupt thirty odd State Legislatures than one Federal Congress. It was said of Nero of old that he wished the Roman people had but one head, so that he might cut it off at a single blow. And so it is with those moneyed kings who would rule this country through bribery, fraud, and intimidation.
"It is easy to see how, with all the powers of government centered at Washington in one Federal head, they could at a single stroke put an end to American liberty.
"But they well understand that before striking this blow the minds of the people must be prepared to receive it. And what surer or safer preparation could possibly be made than is now being made, by indoctrinating the minds of the rising generation with the idea that ours is already a consolidated government ; that the States of the Union have no sovereignty which is not subordinate to the will and pleasure of the Federal head, and that our Constitution is the mere creature of custom, and may therefore be legally altered or abolished by custom.
"Such are a few of the pernicious and poisonous doctrines which ten millions of American children are today drinking in with the very definitions of the words they are compelled to study. And yet the man who dares to utter a word of warning of the approaching danger is stigmatized as an enemy to education and unfit to be men tioned as a candidate for the humblest office.
"Be it so. Viewing this great question as I do, not for all the offices in the gift of the American people would I shrink from an open and candid avowal of my sentiments. If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man.
"History tells us that Aristides was voted into banishment because he was just. Yet who would not a thousand times rather today be Aristides than be numbered amongst the proudest of his persecutors.
"Socrates, too, in violation of every principle of justice, was con demned to a dungeon and to death. Yet what name is more honored in history than his? And which of his unjust judges would not gladly, hide himself in the utter darkness of oblivion from the with ering scorn and contempt of all mankind ?
"From the noble example of Aristides and of Socrates let American statesmen learn wisdom, and from the undying infamy of their cow ardly time-serving persecutors let political demagogues of today take warning."
So said Zacharias Montgomery in 1886. Read his complete work at HERE.
Anyone who reads his complete volume will realize this man's ability to see the consequences of what his fellow Americans were advocating in the area of education of youth.
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