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Are Public Schools becoming Reeducation Camps?
pop.RantRave.com ^ | August 5, 2015 | Bruce Deitrick Price

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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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; collectivism; communism; education; homeschool; progressivism; socialism
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To: Signalman

Correct. Thank you. They have been indoctrination centers for decades.


21 posted on 08/10/2015 7:33:22 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

“Are Public Schools becoming Reeducation Camps? “

Is the pope a marxist?


22 posted on 08/10/2015 7:42:49 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
"Most American students don't seem to know what century the American Revolution/"

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.

23 posted on 08/10/2015 7:46:33 PM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Are Public Schools becoming Reeducation Camps?

YES!!!! .............no doubt about it.

24 posted on 08/10/2015 7:47:54 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Is this a trick question?


25 posted on 08/10/2015 7:48:02 PM PDT by lurk
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Is this a trick question?


26 posted on 08/10/2015 7:48:20 PM PDT by lurk
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

America is lost, and it was lost a generation ago in its government schools.


27 posted on 08/10/2015 7:52:59 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: All

Wait...

Wouldn’t Reeducation mean that they were educated previously?

No, I’d say they aren’t Reeducation camps, but indoctrination camps.


28 posted on 08/10/2015 7:58:48 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Becoming? Where has the writer been these last few generations?


29 posted on 08/10/2015 8:47:09 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

You’re late to the party, dude.


30 posted on 08/10/2015 8:50:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: Jack Hammer

If your son voted for Obama, thank a teacher.


31 posted on 08/10/2015 9:32:04 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Crazieman

Same here.


32 posted on 08/10/2015 10:31:41 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."- Lord Byron)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

We don’t need no thought control.


33 posted on 08/10/2015 10:32:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: GeronL

I had to listen to a PP sex ed class discussion in 8th grade. It was so nasty.


34 posted on 08/10/2015 10:32:38 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."- Lord Byron)
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To: Signalman

Mega dittos.


35 posted on 08/10/2015 10:44:14 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
"...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..."


36 posted on 08/10/2015 10:48:08 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: cripplecreek
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.

In the early 80s, I had a friend in 8th grade who just wanted to screw with people, so he created this sort of effeminate joke persona, partly as a result of the fact that he was new in school, as I was, and couldn't seem to be fully accepted by our fellow students. The joke got a little out of hand, and one day a teacher took him aside and "coached" him that he shouldn't be afraid to be gay. The thing was, he wasn't gay. He wasn't even pretending to be gay. He was only making jokes in a somewhat effeminate way, yet this teacher thought she would push him toward ACTING ON HOMOSEXUALITY in 8th grade. And here's the best part: this wasn't in California - this was in MISSISSIPPI. Now, if the leftward infiltration existed to this extent in one of the most socially conservative states in the nation 30 years ago, imagine what it must be like now.
37 posted on 08/11/2015 1:03:17 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

If you think schools are “becoming” re-education camps you are a day late and a dollar short..........


38 posted on 08/11/2015 3:21:51 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice

Just get off the boat, or have you been in a coma for the past forty years?


39 posted on 08/11/2015 6:33:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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