What teachers really want to tell parents

Ron Clark is an award-winning teacher who started his own academy in Atlanta He wants parents to trust teachers and their advice about their students Clark says some teachers hand out A grades so parents won't bother them It's OK for kids to get in trouble sometimes; it teaches life lessons, Clark says

I couldn’t agree more to everything you said. My kids went through the public schools, mostly because I felt like things in our district were still being (fairly well) handled—but it got pretty sketchy there at the end of my daughter’s last few years (she graduated in May of this year) with the liberal bias from a few of her high school teachers causing her some problems. If I had children now, I would probably homeschool—things are that bad. I don’t see how America survives with the education of our children being so poorly executed.

My point was that the removal of God from our system signalled the death knell for public instruction.
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Government schooling have always been an abomination.

1) The earliest government schools offered up a lukewarm and generic Protestantism that could be generally accepted by the voting public ( mob) without being offensive. What does Christ do with the lukewarm? He spits them out of His mouth!

2) By my grandmother's day, government schooling was secular humanist in its worldview with a nod to God in the morning prayer and ( possibly) a scripture verse. Simply by attending children learned to think and reason in a secular humanist manner. They had to, just to cooperate with the classroom.

3) Government schools were a progressive idea. Progressives have **always** controlled teacher training and textbook curriculum. Progressives have, from the beginning ( mid-1800s to early 1900s) been pushing the social, ethical, moral, and religious envelop.

3) Government schooling is socialist-funded. Simply by attending children learn to be comfortable with the voting mob taking money from a neighbor for tuition-free schooling. Well?...If the government can give them tuition-free school, why not a thousand other free things? Franklin D. Roosevelt was not an accident. He was the product of one to three generations of voters being indoctrinated in socialist and secular humanist government schools.

4) From the beginning, unless a parent could ransom their child from the government schools though the extra expense of private or home schooling, the child was compelled to attend. Once there, the government then crushed every First Amendment Right. ( Speech, press, assembly, and religious expresion). In other words, the government did, ( and still continues) to teach children to be obedient prisoners of the state.

Was Franklin D. Roosevelt and now Obama an accident? No! Progressives planned for this from the beginning. Their major tool was to corrupt the minds of the children from the beginning ( mid-1800s to early 1900s).

“My point was that the removal of God from our system signalled the death knell for public instruction.”

Unfortunately, it seems to have lived on. Like a zombie.

My ideal situation, which I don’t think I’ll live to see, is that the vast bulk of children are privately educated. Home education or private schools. While government schools would remain for a small portion of children who have no other choice due to unaddressed poverty, parental indifference, lunatic ideas of social equalization, etc.

As I said, I don’t expect to see it. Instead, the vast bulk of our kids will continue to be “educated” in the government schools, and we as a society will continue to speed toward mediocrity and irrelevance. Not to mention Godlessness.

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