Posted on 08/24/2005 5:44:07 AM PDT by dukeman
The subtle messages sent by the school contradict everything a Conservative and a Christian might stand for.
We recently got a large amount of donations to our homeschool library from an exschool teacher. Much of the stuff was excellent, but we threw out 3 HUGE boxes of inappropriate stuff.
We had piles of school posters, nobody wanted them. Among the poster slogans:
The most important goal in life is to help society.
Wisdom is silence.
Be one with nature.
You are the center of your universe.
Me too. Might make an interesting blog if you can write. :-)
There's an idea, linkinpunk.
Even if you don't make it public, I suggest you keep a diary or journal of what happens, starting today.
I'd be interested to know what led to your decision to send him to public school.
Thanks, maybe I will.
Have you checked to see if your local school has a "dual credit" option with a local college.
We opted out of high school, but started the "dual credit" program in 10th grade after homeschooling up to that point.
You still have to "deprogram" some of the garbage from the liberal profs, but I found we never had any "peer pressure" issues or normal NEA intrusion issues to deal with at the local college.
You're weird. You should go get your screening done. (Do you like A-1 sauce with your meatloaf? I do.)
Laura Earl must be one of the most sane people I know. She hates housework because it cuts into her party time. I'm almost as sane as she is.
Well, I hate cleaning, avoid it when I can, and party as much as possible. So I am AOK!
BUSH'S FAULT!
Nope! I like Lea & Perrins!......I'm REALLY wierd!......
Psychiatric Abuse in the Soviet Union
Under the Soviet regime, authorities often sent dissidents and other socially undesirable people to psychiatric institutions for an indefinite period of detention and treatment. In a criminal proceeding, a psychiatric evaluation was often used when the evidence available would not necessarily lead to a conviction. A finding by a psychiatrist of mental incompetence prevents a defendant from standing trial. Judges almost always adopted the psychiatrist’s recommended treatment, which could range from outpatient medical supervision to placement in a special psychiatric hospital. In those situations the defendant loses his or her right to appeal by virtue of mental incapacity. Once released from a psychiatric hospital, "patients" were routinely ordered to register with their local hospital and receive regular supervision (Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow over World Psychiatry 1985, 22-23).
Bloch and Reddaway studied 200 cases of Soviets ordered to receive psychiatric care between 1962 and 1977 and developed a classification of these people. Three hundred cases from the period of 1977-1985 reflected these same targeted categories. All victims share the characteristic of having deviated from the social conventions prescribed by the state. Victims usually fell into one of five categories: 1) advocates of human rights and democratization; 2) nationalists; 3) would-be emigrants; 4) religious believers; and 5) citizens inconvenient to authorities (Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow over World Psychiatry 1985, 30). Though there is no specific mention of homosexual men, lesbians, who could not be prosecuted under the criminal code, were sent to mental hospitals and forcibly treated (The Guardian 24 June 1995). Bloch and Reddaway support the plausibility of such treatment when they acknowledge that forced psychiatric treatment was used not only for dissidents, but also for "social deviants" (Psychiatric Terror 1977, 278).
A common diagnosis of criminally committed soviet citizens was that of "sluggish" or "creeping" schizophrenia, symptoms of which include "dissemination of slander," "exaggerated religious belief," and "excessive valuation of the West" (Helsinki Watch May 1990). Many of the sources consulted by Bloch and Reddaway cite the use of Sulphazine, or Sulfazine, a purified sulfur substance which has not been used in the West since the 1930s because of its lack of therapeutic effect, by psychiatrists treating criminally committed patients. Reactions to this drug include "high fever and pain at the site of injection and throughout the body" (Soviet Psychiatric Abuse: The Shadow over World Psychiatry 1985, 27).
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As long as there are no corn or peanuts in that meatloaf, you're ok.
The idiots in my school first tried to diagnose me with ADD, then when my parents and the doctor lauhed at them. Another tried to convince my parents I was dumb as a sack of rocks. Now I've grduated college and doing just fine no thanks to those morons.
The idiots in my school first tried to diagnose me with ADD. My parents and the family doctor laughed at them. Another tried to convince my parents I was dumb as a sack of rocks. Now I've grduated college and doing just fine no thanks to those morons.
I like the meatloaf heated, with ketchup, cheese, and onions.
I kind of like that one ... it can get REALLY LOUD at my house!
If it is a sandwich made from leftover meatloaf, you are ok. However, if it is a leftover sandwich made from meatloaf, you may have a problem. ;-)
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