I have taught for 20 years . . . in private schools. I gave up writing letters to the editor about government schools (they are not “public”) long ago. They have been “reforming” themselves for decades, and they just get worse and worse. The problem is four-fold, as I see it: (1) teachers unions (which have no place in education); (2) education schools graduating idiots with degrees in certified inferiority (schools which would be entirely abolished in my kingdom except for special ed); and (3) “centralization” of local schools, which, along with busing, has for a long time been destroying the neighborhood concept of schooling (and removing schools that much further from parental control); and (4) Democrats keeping black people on their plantation, thereby destroying the black family. Sorry, but I gave up on “public” schools long, long ago. Their problems are too deeply rooted, and they are not worth the efffort.
This is awful!
But this didn’t start one hundred years ago. I went to public schools from kindergarten, through 7th grade through 12th grade - in a blue state. (Spent 1st through 6th in Catholic school.) I learned nothing but to love America and the Constitution. I only fell down on that Algebra stuff.
Whatever happened to the three R’s Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic.
Maybe it is time to go back to the McGuffey’s reader.
A couple of years back some second cousins were visiting from Virginia (DC area) for a YMCA Gymnastics event and they were talking about having to do a pledge of allegiance the United Nations in the elementary school. the kids mother was a lobbyist, so she was not shocked to hear this practice.
unfortunately contact has been lost with this second cousin over the issue of politics, her politics was to liberal for my taste and I was to conservative for her taste.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/11/Teachers-flock-to-Northwestern-University-Marxist-Conference-journalist-booted
Excerpt – read the ENTIRE article
This Saturday, the Midwest Marxist Conference was held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The event was teeming with teachers who spoke about the new found bond between the radical socialists and their Teachers Union. The all-day event, which collected money to support Chicago Socialists and featured a communist bookstore, provided students on-campus along with the radical left community to plan the next phase in their activism.
Becca Barnes, a Chicago Teachers Union teacher and organizer with Chicago Socialists, proclaimed at the beginning of the conference that “the struggle here in the United States has entered a new phase. Nowhere have we pointed the way forward more clearly than here in Chicago with the teachers union strike.”
After the opening plenary, breakout sessions addressed more specific topics like the history of the Democratic party, education, and case studies in Russia.
In these sessions, speakers continued to celebrate the use of education as a mechanism to insert Marxism into public institutions.
In one session, the idea of targeting their message to students, even over “the working class,” was debated.
“What Are They Teaching In Our Schools? Anything??”
They are teaching PLENTY in our schools - that’s why a conservative would be insane to let his kids anywhere near them.
Public schools teach Marxism, Satanism and agitation.
Face it, they won. We hear all the bluster from those who say they aren’t going to take it. So far, all I see is that they are going to take it, even if it destroys their own lives.
Not a real soul or a patriot left. Many people declare they care, but they are still willing to take it. So, when and what will it take?
We have a country over 300 million, and they are willing to allow these commies the keys to the car with less than half voting.
I am sick of them, but I am even sicker of us. We are cowards. More comtemptable than they are.
ugh. I am done wastin’ my time, even 10 minutes going to a fake ballot box.
I have been involved in primary and spec education for years, and the reason teachers are instructed to go down blind rabbit holes instead of basic instruction is simple...
If you succeed you can’t ask for more money.
“This teacher spent two days trying to make her students learn a Muslim “hand sign,”
A more useful lesson would be to teach them about the Caliphate...and a few lessons on the Byzantine Empire to show the futility of “peaceful coexistence” with Islam...
In all levels of education and government they are teaching “sustainable development”. (Agenda 21)
I finished teaching “Lord of the Flies” which is a very appropriate metaphor for the Obama campaign - worship the beast.
I went to my youngest Son’s parent-teacher meeting recently. Sizing them up by what I know, 4 out of the 6 were okay. The other 2? I decided that I could reduce them to a blubbering mess within 5 minutes with a high-powered verbal ass kicking in front of their peers. Fortunately, the other 4 teachers assured me the other 2 wouldn’t be a problem. Education vs. indoctrination, fight it at every turn.
Hey, teach, I got yer “hand sign” right here...you take your five fingers, roll ‘em into a ball...follow this very closely...
Another reason to homeschool.
PLEASE GIVE IT UP!!!
Our nation's government owned and run, socialist-funded, compulsory, GODLESS, single-payer entitlement schools can NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT be reformed precisely because they are a GODLESS, socialist-funded, single-payer, and compulsory-use entitlement.
The **ONLY** possible way to get the form of education that you seek is PRIVATIZATION!
Yeah! I am shouting, jumping up and down, and having a fit. Someone as smart as you should be tilting at windmills.
Homosexuality - good and normal//Christianity - the evil bane of the planet//Islam - the up and coming world religion and you must be prepared to submit//Working for a living - makes you a sap who doesn’t realize that Uncle Sugar is ready to cater to all your needs.
Way back in the 70s my wife, a beginning schoolteacher and I determined that public school was a waste of children’s and parents time. Since then I, at least, have come to regard placing one’s child in public school by an aware parent is prima facie child abuse.
No...public schools should be demolished, the rubble crushed and plowed under, and the earth where it once stood should be salted, so that nothing may rise on that spot again.