Posted on 06/23/2005 11:47:23 AM PDT by quidnunc
My children, educated and brainwashed in the 60s and 70s, rejected anything I tried to tell them about America. They were only open to what they were told in school, in rock music, and from pop culture icons like Che Guevara, Jane Fonda and their like. Even today as adults they refuse to even listen to anything that smacks of non-60s dogma.
I often feel the "revolution" was fought and lost when the liberals -- no, the correct name is Marxists -- took control of education and thus our history. The truly sad part is my kids are instinctively conservative but feel they have to remain in lockstep solidarity their peer group even as adults.
"Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
Would repeating ninty five percent of America's history, be a bad thing??
On the bright side I imagine holidays around your place are more lively for it...
Like the Great Depression, the Civil War, slavery, Prohibition, small pox epidemics, and the Company Store system for example? I wouldn't care to repeat those.
That's the five percent of our history I omitted.
After putting four through the Great Neck South (LI) system, one the most highly rated public systems in America (number 4 in US News & World Report). I am going to put the last into a conservative private school. I will have to continue paying the taxes to support the public system but I won't subject the little guy to their version of things.
Closer to forty percent.
Speaking of history!
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Besides, it is the terrible trials that strengthened us a Nation. That doesn't mean we need to repeat the same trials, on top of the ones the future has in store. The good bits are only good in contrast to the bad stuff.
I plan to go with private school for our children when the time comes but I wasn't sure whether private schools must follow such guidelines as well.
Public Schools were created to mold students into good students. They were to be Americanized, learn our common history, and learn the prevailing generic Protestant Biblical worldview.
Today, we have multi-culturalism, multilingualism, and discrimination against religion. The goal of the left is to destroy America.
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