Posted on 03/04/2013 6:34:24 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
Glenn is PO'd this morning about the two recent school incidents involving guns, the Pop Tart "gun" story, and the Florida story, where the kid who wrestled a gun away from a gunman was suspended, because he didn't wait for "first responders."
He's been asking, "When America, are you going to take your children out of these schools?"
"I know it's hard... You say, 'I don't know how to homeschool.' Well, I don't either. But we're doing it."
Bravo to you St_Thomas_Aquinas, Glenn Beck, and Neal Boortz aka “The TalkMaster” for speaking TRUTH about the grossly misnamed “Dept. of Education” - Boortz was famous for saying that the NEA and Dept. of Education have done and will continue to bring more harm to America than anything AQ could ever dream of doing. The NEA controls and programs the average public school student for 15,000 total classroom hours (1st - 12th grades), injecting anti-American cancer cells into the hearts and minds of our supposedly most loved and treasured resources on a daily basis. 15,000 hours of programming designed by Bill Ayers and to the glee of George Soros and Barack Obama. The NEA delivers state-sponsored terrorism into every government classroom in America, cloaked in a “for the children” argument that is every bit as false as “Hope and Change” was bullsh*t.
Parents, I pray you - look into hybrid home/private schools, virtual schools, Christian/Jewish/Catholic private schools. Take out student loans for elementary education and then set your kids free to work through college by getting their own college loans. You simply can’t de-program the 15,000 hours of junk science, revised history, new math, social justice and anti-capitalism indoctrination that occurs during the most formative, impressionable years of a child’s life.
The NEA is professional organization of child abusers. They are a sanctioned crime syndication, protected by unions and politicians, engineered by terrorists in promotion of pro-Islamic and anti-Christian, anti-American zealots. The NEA is the single most powerful political lobby, far more so than the NRA, in America.
The Dept. of Education must be exposed, defunded and abolished. Imagine if Microsoft, Walmart, Google and Apple operated the top four elementary school systems in America, and were forced to compete for taxpayer dollars in the free market? Would not our kids education get better, cheaper, faster each and every year? Wouldn’t these four “school companies” have to compete for market share and respond to customer demands, unlike the NEA? What if every parent in America could choose the school they desired, enroll their students, the school notified the government and our tax dollars were then sent to specific school WE SELECTED?
If you love America and you love your children, you’ll become as creative as possible in finding a way to remove your kids from the tyrannical clutches of progressive government engineered child abuse factories.
Thank you for your sacrifice and the good news! God bless you and your family.
Then why is it taking you so long?
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There are so many resources for parents and homeschoolers these days, it's amazing, incredible and fantastic.
I haven't even checked out Khan Academy, but I've heard it's by a fellow who believes education should be free and accessible (don't know his politics), and he has a whole bunch of classes on online, for free - to include all those high school math classes.
The homeschoolers I know all have kids who are calm, respectful, but are go-getters. They have no problem dealing with little kids, or their elders.
Great post, #20. Agree !00%
Both of my daughters went to public schools and both are conservative and know the difference between pinheaded lib and conservative patriot. My oldest is a member of her college GOP club while my youngest is involved deeply in Christian based theatre.
Both attended several Palin rallies with their parents in 2008 and worked the phones with me to help conservative candidates.
Monitoring your children and reinforcing morals, principals and common sense goes a long way.
“Take a look at a homeschool curriculum, some time.”
I guess this is where it breaks down for me...I would feel compelled to use many of the same books used in the local schools - just so my kids could speak the same ‘language’ as the other kids and professors in college. Using a homeschool curriculum might prepare them well for life...but not for college. Sad but true.
And to your original point - the difference in today’s math class goes alot deeper than over-use of word problems (or the interjection of social issues in the word problem). Its hard to explain, but its a completely different language.
I would suggest the reverse - take a gander at a middle school math curriculum, some time. I think you will be surprised at how few of the terms have any familiarity to you.
I have said this for years. About every 5 years a new crop of PhD’s graduate and have to make their mark so they re-brand terminology and come up with some new fangled way to do the same thing we have dome for years. It is very apparent in the software industry. I am not talking about innovation but am alluding to the constant renaming of processes and standards. I spend more time trying to understand what the young mush minds out of college that somehow became managers are talking about than I do actually making product.
I often like to point out we sent men to the moon with a slide rule and big chief tablet and haven’t done anything that paramount since, except make thing more complicated. KISS.
I understand your points...and I do take the time to explain to my kids that some of what they are taught in school is complete nonsense.
I have got them successfully de-programmed on global warming.
My step-son is de-programmed as far as the gay marriage agenda goes...not yet with my daughter.
And both kids think I’m a complete whacko for suggesting that the schools have incorrectly taught evolution as fact, instead of properly as a theory. Obviously the schools have spent alot of time on that.
On the plus side, both have expressed exhaustion at their teacher’s constant moaning about their salary...and on their own have grown to understand that they would complain no matter what they were paid. So that’s a plus.
Again, I admire those that do homeschool...but I could never do it.
I tell my kids over and over to “question everything” they hear in schools, even if their teacher says it’s true (unless it’s Math).
We've got four kids, the eldest of which is sixteen. We pulled him out of the local kindergarten in his first semester, and began home schooling under the school district's charter program.
Didn't take long for us to realize that it was just as stultifying and controlling as having him in the classroom, so we soon found a way to break free of the gov't education system completely.
My wife was about the most unlikely teacher you ever met, but she rose to the task and overcame her own educational shortcomings to instruct our kids. In the last eleven years, she's done a great job of teaching them. They're on par, or even ahead of their public school peers in most areas.
Given what goes on in the government indoctrination compounds, we wouldn't think of ever sending our children there.
That's a great typo to describe school bureaucrats! A cross between "fetid" and "cretin" - unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever run out of those, even if there's no cash left. :)
That's how we made it work.
It is sad when one considers what the public schools have become. I went to public schools in the 1940’s and was quite well prepared for a university. The university I attended had many students from prestigious private schools and I did just as well as those kids.
The socialization argument is ridiculous. The facts are actually the other way around.
Would love too. But being divorced and the sole bread winner for both households with travel as part of the job, I cannot. But, I would be happy to pay a teacher all the money for my kids currently going to the state. SCHOOL CHOICE is needed for this to become a reality. I applaud and support those who do.
Totally agree. While taking your own kids out saves them, it doesn't really fix the system. Likely the easiest way to affect change in this country is for good folks like us to run for our local school boards.
We can still work, meetings are local, wont have to move. Getting conservatives on our local boards means that change can start to happen at the ground up.
A smart person once said "The world is run by those who show up"
Remember the liberal/progressives are showing up everywhere, because this is their religion. They also do like to suck off the government right?. Conservatives can show up, work and then rotate out or move up the ladder to state and national level if it suites us. We have the numbers do we have the will ?
It breaks my heart that less than half the republicans who voted for Mitt Romney even bothered to vote for republicans for statewide education seats. All UofM board of regents seats went to hard left democrats. The same can be said for state board of education seats and seats at Michigan State university.
I don’t even have kids but I go to school board meetings and never miss a vote.
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