Posted on 08/23/2020 4:17:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Where did this all come from: the vitriol and vice, the anger and hatred, the looting, the riots, the destruction, the nihilistic confusion, the science-denying gender-bending sexuality, the suicidal infatuation with socialism, the adolescent whining for safety rather than freedom?
Just look over your son’s or daughter’s shoulder, and you might find the answer.
Mr. Kay, who teaches English at... a Philadelphia public school, expressed his concern about the “damage” that “parents” might cause if they overheard the lessons he had prepared for their children.
Mr. Kay then described how “conservative parents” are his chief concern when he and his fellow teachers are engaging “in the messy work of destabilization.”
This past week the parents of students who attend Rutherford County Schools (RCS) in Tennessee were sent a note telling them that they must sign a form agreeing not to monitor their child’s online classroom sessions...
In other words, parents in the heartland of Tennessee are being told to sign a form agreeing not to observe their son’s and daughter’s education or their child will be expelled from class. Unless, of course, teachers such as Mr. Kay, out of the benevolence of his heart, grant these lowly parents’ permission to engage.
Maybe it is because we have allowed ourselves to be removed from the No.1 obligation we have in raising our children: “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).
Call me crazy, but if I’m paying the bill for my kid’s education (which I am), I have the right to be involved in and informed of everything — everything! — you’re teaching him, and there isn’t a snowball’s chance in Texas I’m signing a form forfeiting that right.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Here in TN, the Rutherford County schools told parents they had to sign a contract promising that they would not listen in to their kids’ online classes in their own homes. The contract also said they couldn’t record the classes, so if the kids wanted to review anything, they couldn’t.
There was an uproar, and I don’t know the status now. This was last week.
Sadly, I believe that many parents would rather not know, because once they know, it's very hard to find a good excuse to do nothing about it.
Patient marxists who knows how to play the long game...
Though not every aspect of it all can be laid at John Dewey’s feet as a matter of what he and other “reformers” intended they were the ones that laid the foundations of modern maleducation.
Next he'll tell us someone shot Abe Lincoln...
Bump
All kids could be reading by age three or four...it is very simple...it could be taught to every parent in one hour and cost almost nothing...plus they usually develop great memories
Most colleges today are overpriced indoctrination centers.
A kid could be homeschooled with a traditional education including classic literature, history, science, math, maybe Latin, but most importantly logical thinking.
Then the kid goes off to college for 4 years where, every day, he’s told there are 20 different genders and Republicans are evil.
Just give them an IUD.
As Sir Humphries explained the various departments of government may exist to serve the vested interest of those whose professions they claim to regulate.
Yeah but I was told that at Pace in 1986 and my beliefs didn’t fold like a cheap suit.
18 is a MAN or a WOMAN. Not a child.
But then, in those 2 generations, they have become children
Most of them lost that fifty years ago, and the only ones who have any control are those who either home school, or can afford a private school that they can be sure shares their values.
Heck most of the current generatiuon of parents don’t even know how badly their children are being propagandized, because they were propagandized too.
When you read the literature young people read in the 1800s, it’s really obvious. Jane Austen, for example... those were basically young adult novels, and she was writing the initial drafts when she was a teenager herself. Or look at the Bronte sisters. Even college kids today have a hard time following such writing.
As long as we have rifles, we retain the ability to regain control.
Too true. We hired a college grad a few years ago and tried moving him around to about 3 different positions, but he just couldn't do any of them. Finally under terms from one of our suppliers, we had to have a college graduate fill a manager position to handle their account. Since he filled the criteria, he got the job. He has done it adequately for a couple years now, but it's really nothing that anyone else with a brain and knowledge of the business couldn't do. We could have had a more competent person in that position except for the degree requirement. By the way, there was no requirement on the type of degree.
It’s the Washington Times .... not the What’s Really Happening Across America Times.
I retired from teaching last year after teaching high school science for 7 years. I previously worked in business and raised our kids, so this was a mid-life career change. Going through the education course work for certification was eye opening. Education students are provided with many tools for teaching literacy. We were told to preview the material, relate it to the students' lives, scan section headings with students, read aloud, chunk it, and on and on and on . . . Not once was there a conversation or instruction relating to phonics or individual effort. It was all about how the teacher could make it easier for students who were presumed to be weak readers.
For someone like me who went to grade school in the 1960's, this was very convoluted. My mother taught me to read when I was four (in another language), and our sons learned to read at home before starting school as well. Today's educators seem to go in with the attitude that reading is a great hurdle that most children can't overcome. Indeed, it was my experience that most of my high school students were poor readers. They seemed unwilling to invest effort and didn't know that they could break down words into familiar prefixes, suffixes and roots. The concept of sounding out words was also foreign to them. Sight word instruction and lack of effort have contributed to a crippled generation of readers. Pedagogical malpractice.
We grew up in a different time. Back then, half of my professors were Republican. Today, colleges are far worse with cancel culture, etc. Today, one parent might be the only person telling you one thing. Meanwhile, everyone else - professors, friends, Hollywood, everywhere you look, everything you read - tells you the opposite. Best not to send the kids to college today, unless they commute. Yes, 18 is an adult, but at my age, I now see 18 as a kid.
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Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives
Frontpagemag.com ^ | 9-2-2014 | Mallory Millett
During my junior year in high school, the nuns asked about our plans for after we graduated. When I said I was going to attend State University, I noticed their disappointment. I asked my favorite nun, “Why?” She answered, “That means you’ll leave four years later a communist and an atheist!”
What a giggle we girls had over that. “How ridiculously unsophisticated these nuns are,” we thought. Then I went to the university and four years later walked out a communist and an atheist, just as my sister Katie had six years before me.
Sometime later, I was a young divorcee with a small child. At the urging of my sister, I relocated to NYC after spending years married to an American executive stationed in Southeast Asia. The marriage over, I was making a new life for my daughter and me. Katie said, “Come to New York. We’re making revolution! Some of us are starting the National Organization of Women and you can be part of it...”
You are right.
And at 52 I think of 18 as a kid too.
But I Was a kid who Knew what I believed.
My old man died when I 14. He crammed a lot into those 14 years. Thank God.
And sick, demented, evil monster ####s like soros live to 100
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