Posted on 08/10/2015 6:49:36 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
K-12 schools in the United States are characterized by three outstanding traits.
First of all, there's less academic activity and achievement. The general thrust of the Education Establishment is to simplify the curriculum, strip away the harder content, keep discussions airy and empty, and in general to make classrooms focused on feelings rather than facts.
Second, even as facts are not taught, specific opinions are taught again and again. Global warming is the fault of human activity. Gay marriage is hugely important. Islam is a fine thing and schools should have a section on this religion and only this religion. A small set of opinions is repeated in the local newspapers and in the classroom. If you hear that global warming is a reality year after year, you will probably assume that global warming is a reality. Never mind that there is no warming in the temperature record.
Third, to a startling degree, public schools seem to be intent on undermining character. We hear endless anecdotes about children who don't do their homework but they're not penalized. Children may be rude and undisciplined but nobody punishes them. The school encourages children to guess, to approximate, to use the wrong answer if they can make a case for it. Conversely, all the traits that might make a person more organized, productive, and successful are systematically undermined.
So you have a massive assault, across a wide front, on the training of the young. Everything has been juggled around. The knowledge that students learn has been decimated. The majority of kids never become fluent, confident readers. Many young adults can't do basic arithmetic. Most American students don't seem to know what century the American Revolution occurred in. If you ask them which came first, World War I or the Civil War, most students will simply guess because they don't actually know the answer.
Meanwhile, all the things that schools were not traditionally supposed to bother with, our schools are obsessed with: feelings, opinions, attitudes, and political views.
So now ask yourself, how do public school classrooms differ from reeducation camps where people are reformed, reprogrammed, brainwashed, and manipulated?
The top "educators" seem to think of themselves as political commissars. That's a term from the Russian Revolution. The job of these people was to make sure that ordinary citizens had correct opinions about everything. "Correct," of course, means whatever the government says it means. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissar
Winston Churchill in an article published in the February 8, 1920, issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald stated that Communism/Bolshevism is a "worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality." It does seem that this conspiracy continues.
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So, how do these people take down the school system? See "The Top 10 Worst ideas in Education." [ http://www.improve-education.org/id83.html
So, how do these people take down a society generally? See "Reeducation." http://www.wendymcelroy.com/articles/reeducation.html
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Complementary article… http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/03/08/our-children-have-been-sentenced-to-12-years-in-re-education-camps/
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Bruce Deitrick Price's ed site is Improve-Education.org. (His new novel is "The Man Who Falls In Love With His Wife," romantic drama set in Manhattan. Info and e-book here: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-man-who-falls-in-love-with-his-wife )
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Becoming?
That was my first thought.
They are turning them into Planned Parenthood farms. I suspect in a decade that a girl won’t be able to graduate without having gotten an abortion as part of the curriculum.
Exactly
No, they have been for along time.
It’s little wonder these kid grow up and elect an Obama.
America’s dying future started in its schools.
Yes. That has been the plan since Woodrow Wilson.
ANSWER: Yes
Excellent comment.
Feelings over fact. Senior engineer friend of mine, Christian stalwart, went to a local community college to speak on how the erosion of values has created societal ills. Many arose to try to refute him during Q&A. Didn’t come near him. Finally the “professor” told my friend to stop responding, then told the students to come up and tell him how his presentation “made them feel!” An elderly lady approached him after the event and said she appreciated his presentation but felt it was light on evidence. ALL he ever presented was fact-based EVIDENCE!
There is no “re” about it
Most accurate reply.
Government Schools are Child Abuse.
They’ve been doing this since the 1940’s.
He’s not concerned with yesterday
He knows constant change is here today
He’s noble enough to know what’s right
But weak enough not to choose it
He’s wise enough to win the world
But fool enough to lose it
He’s a New World Man...
Yep. A little late ther BPD.
Some would say since Horace Mann
LOL no kidding, they were already trying to push the ‘All “normal” boys and girls have homosexual thoughts’ meme when I was in high school in the early 80s.
The public school system should be abolished. Privatize schools, this will allow choice, reduce costs and most importantly, deprive the state from confiscating property if you don’t pay your property tax. If the state can confiscate your property, you do not own it. Costs keep going up, schools are less safe and they are responsible to the feds for funding, otherwise they get none if they don’t kowtow to common core. They have always been nothing more than indoctrination centers, not centers of objective and true education. Would it not be lovely to see the NEA union disappear? How sweet it is!
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