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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Correct. Thank you. They have been indoctrination centers for decades.
“Are Public Schools becoming Reeducation Camps? “
Is the pope a marxist?
Most of the students I taught don't know that Africa is a continent, what the Holocaust was, or a definition for a grandfather.
I taught art and so, I was not forced to teach students how to take the multiple achievement tests that are the only real subject these children are taught. That's right, friends.The test IS the curriculum! Public school children are being taught how to take tests and not much else.
YES!!!! .............no doubt about it.
Is this a trick question?
Is this a trick question?
America is lost, and it was lost a generation ago in its government schools.
Wait...
Wouldn’t Reeducation mean that they were educated previously?
No, I’d say they aren’t Reeducation camps, but indoctrination camps.
Becoming? Where has the writer been these last few generations?
You’re late to the party, dude.
If your son voted for Obama, thank a teacher.
Same here.
We don’t need no thought control.
I had to listen to a PP sex ed class discussion in 8th grade. It was so nasty.
Mega dittos.
"...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. ...
Third, to a startling degree, public schools seem to be intent on undermining character. ......
Conversely, all the traits that might make a person more organized, productive, and successful are systematically undermined..."
If you think schools are “becoming” re-education camps you are a day late and a dollar short..........
Just get off the boat, or have you been in a coma for the past forty years?
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