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Parents have lost control of their children's education
Washington Times ^ | Saturday, August 22, 2020 | Everett Piper

Posted on 08/23/2020 4:17:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Tired of Taxes

No do not send kids to the leftist colleges. Most can start at community colleges or conservatve tech schools.


41 posted on 08/23/2020 6:14:28 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: BenLurkin

Technically, I have every right to go in and audit my kid’s class if he’s at the physical school. Obviously, I don’t have fewer rights when they’re borrowing my living room to use as their school.


42 posted on 08/23/2020 6:15:06 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Salvavida

And that is what’s coming I’m afraid. There will only be one way out of the mess we’ve all allowed to happen in this country. I pray not but God may have the only way. We patriots may all be wearing the full armor of God sooner than we thought.


43 posted on 08/23/2020 6:18:48 PM PDT by TermLimits4All (A next on the agenda, reelection of DJT.)
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To: dp0622

Sounds like you had a great dad. Sorry for your loss at such a young age.


44 posted on 08/23/2020 6:35:23 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Chickensoup

Even at the community colleges, the same things are happening, but at least the students aren’t there 24/7.


45 posted on 08/23/2020 6:36:50 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: dp0622

It’s a lot worse than you imagine, I have had quite a few job offers of 150k just because I am able to speak to people. It turns out personal communication, you know TALKING to each Other, is now a Lost Art, and those under 30 are wholly incapable of holding a thoughtful, rational conversation with anyone, oh they can text and tweet, but they can’t Talk, Read or Spell.


46 posted on 08/23/2020 7:06:18 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

Can I borrow 35 dollars?

Yeah man you drive with kids in the car today and they don’t say a WORD. it’s RUDE and stupid.

I drove a cab in my 20s overnights and it was so fun with the customers.

I did it as a second job 7 years ago and it was SO LONELY.

No one said a word to me. Just read their phones


47 posted on 08/23/2020 7:09:02 PM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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To: Tired of Taxes

Agreed but one can pick and choose courses. In our area many of the cc and voc school teachers are less pc


48 posted on 08/23/2020 7:17:18 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: TermLimits4All

We have a puncher’s chance if we can win in November with the downvotes that allows us to get to an Article V Convention.

If we can get there and not limit it to 2 issues, like some prominent conservatives want to do, we have a REAL chance of saving the Republic. But it will take everyone to be active.

- amendment mandating a balanced budget
- amendment clarifying the US Constitution needs to be interpreted by the original intent of the founders
- amendment for citizenship, natural born citizen, and anchor babies
- amendment to restore the militia back to its constitutional form
- amendment redefining treason and sedition
- amendment for capital punishment limiting time and scope of appeals, rules of evidence, and clarifying “cruel and unusual punishment”
- amendment prohibiting membership in international organizations infringing on US sovereignty
- amendment prohibiting trade with any nation with a national defense strategy to subjegate the United States
- amendment prohibiting reparations
- amendment to eventually shift social security and medicare to states’ responsibility (death blow to liberal policies)
- amendment asserting English is the official language and no taxpayer monies will be spent translating into any language except customs forms for visits.


49 posted on 08/23/2020 8:06:15 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida

You need to stop drinking this late on a Sunday night.


50 posted on 08/23/2020 8:07:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

Did anything I said was wrong? I am a student of history. The US is done if we don’t get to a Convention, no matter who wins.

I saw Virginia change right before my eyes. Demographics.


51 posted on 08/23/2020 8:15:12 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: rrrod

Keep children away from public school teachers!
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Any parent who cares about their children and their country, needs to review what enormous psychological damage is being done to children in public schools everywhere. Government/union run schools are extremely detrimental to the mental and moral development of children from pre-school through graduate school.


52 posted on 08/23/2020 8:16:49 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Rdct29

The parents should go to the school and drag these assholes out by their hair. I can imagine how bad these lessons are if they have to hide them from the parents. These people better wake up and stop paying for their children to be brainwashed into hating themselves, their parents and their country.
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Well and truly said and every word of it!


53 posted on 08/23/2020 8:18:58 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: BenLurkin

If you’re not homeschooling, start. Now.


54 posted on 08/23/2020 8:36:51 PM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pink Floyd was right - Hey! Teacher! Leave those kids alone!


55 posted on 08/24/2020 4:20:57 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Think free or die
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.

Rudolf Flesch, Why Johnny Can’t Read ? And What You Can Do About It (1955) explained it.

About 20 years later, he wrote "Why Johnny STILL can't read".

BTW, when we were homeschooling, I figured Americans were the most literate in the Victorian era.

So I looked for books teaching reading from 1830 to 1860.

I quickly found two sets of phonics rules that have been forgotten since then.

The table of substitutes and the table of silent letters.

I put them on my edsanders.com website.

Scroll down there, and look for "phonics" and click on it.

Do it soon, as I am going to be working on that site, and they may disappear for a while.

They are made to be printed out as "cheat sheets".

56 posted on 08/24/2020 9:18:29 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: Antoninus
If you’re not homeschooling, start. Now.

Sending your kids to most public schools is child abuse.

So is using the public schools' "distance learning".

57 posted on 08/24/2020 9:21:01 AM PDT by Mogger
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To: BenLurkin

“The philosophy taught in the classroom in one generation becomes the policy of the government in the next generation’’.- Abraham Lincoln.


58 posted on 08/24/2020 9:58:07 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: BenLurkin
A societal culture evolves when its natural born citizens pass down their traditions and heritage from generation to generation.

This is done when a mother teaches a daughter to cook.

It's done when a father teaches a son his trade.

It's done when the family together goes to worship with the rest of their community.

It's no wonder that Western European surnames are often based on occupations: Baker, Butcher, Butler, Carpenter, Cook, Cooper, Fisher, Gardner, Hunter, Mason, Miller, Potter, Smith, Tailor, Wheeler, Wood...

Families passed down their customs to the next generation. Towns only had enough population to support a few hinters and a butcher, a carpenter and a smith, a miller and a baker, a carpenter and a mason...

By taking parents out of the lives of their children, the schools are trying to break the passing of heritage and culture in America.

-PJ

59 posted on 08/24/2020 10:17:49 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: Mogger

I see you’ve collected a lot of eclectic information on your site, including tables of phonics rules. I don’t think I have seen those before. When we were learning to read it was a blended approach in which we got Dick, Jane and Sally readers at school and a more phonic approach at home. We had a lot of spelling tests and gradually absorbed unusual spellings and pronunciation through reading, daily school work, and magazines. I remember liking the vocabulary builders in our newspaper and my parents’ Readers’ Digest magazines. We don’t seem to see those ongoing reminders to develop our vocabulary even in adulthood.


60 posted on 08/24/2020 7:06:12 PM PDT by Think free or die
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