Posted on 03/02/2006 3:38:43 AM PST by Glacier Honey
No! I haven't. Is it good? I've read a couple of Mr. Clavell's novels, but not this one.
It is very good and short. It shows how a teacher can brainwash a child.
I know when I was raising Cain in the early 90s about what was going on in the classroom.. folks just sort of eased away, quietly, from me. And when I wore a billboard in front of the school during "drop-off" time.. well, I guess I just wasn't very quiet about it all. And years later, so many strangers and not-strangers alike would sidle up to me at grocery stores, etc., to tell me how right I was ... "back" then. I spent 10 straight years being the "go to" person for people freaking out over what they were being put through via "pub ed", and aiming these folks in better directions, to contacts, to better educational means.
It was like an underground railroad.. moving kids and families to safety (from the unions and abusive "bureacrats"). The "they" definitely had my name on a list, and seemed to make it their supreme pleasure to torture me, annually.
I homeschooled my kids beginning in 1993. My kids are grown. Was it worth it?
Every last bit of it.
Over the last decade+, have been trial balloons floated by the usual control freaks, that parents should have to be licensed.. to be.. PARENTS. Cincinnati tried this. Got lots of press. Went down, real quick, real fast. No story on page B-22, either. It went underground. I'm sure the "thrust" will percolate again. It's what Underlies, methinks, Hillary's grat "health care plan".
The Robert Reich model of turning the schools into government "catch-all" centers. Centralized government resting at each and every PUB ED SCHOOL.
Hillary has to hate "private ed". You see, how can she pay off all her pals with government largess, unless for PUB ED.
Now I gotta read the book you are referring to. :) Sounds truly wicked and engaging. Unlike "her".
check on the internet, It is short and may even be on line.
Tape recorders will help.
Especially for the very young, IMHO. Young children are usually incapable of putting into words what they are being "fed" in the classroom.
My eldest two kids were very verbal. But even 6 months out of pub ed, was I learning what they had been learning. I was beside myself. I had blood in my eye. How dare these fatuous "adults" lie to my children?
It's the story of Hansel and Gretel, yeknew. The witch and her candy house ARE many of the teachers in PUB ed....
I couldn't agree MORE with you. I've written volumes on this subject. Of what is being "taught" to the wee ones. The ones who don't have experience or knowledge (or brain pan yet) sufficient to be able to tell mom and dad what is going on during the day.
Leftist twits like this only know one side of the story. The side that's a pack of lies.
Like Ronald Reagan once said, "the problem with liberals is not that they know so much, it's that they know so much that's not true".
That's the horror of it. They don't even know they've been metaphysically lobotomized.
They don't even know it.
Liberals invade everyone's personal space. They feed off the vibrations of other living souls and because the place they themselves inhabit has no warmth or vitality.
It's why Liberals get in your face: they don't have one. They look in the mirror and don't see anything. In their frustration and fear, they scream at you; praying you'll scream back and register to them that they are alive.
lol... Are you suggesting he be given a mineral bath?
ok. Thanks!
The teacher now has an ACLU lawyer..Same one the Ward Chrchill had ...I wrote to the school already ..We ALL need to do that and slam this Marsist pig and the school's principal.
trason laws ? Do they even exist anymore? seems like the do not to me..Sad.
"Sorry, from I see in classrooms this doesn't happen nearly as much as you think it does."
How do you monitor and see other classrooms while you are teaching in your classroom?
What a moron!
Well, he is a smug "intelligentsia" type. Ya know, the "I know more about everything than you" type of fella.
I get ya. I know what you mean.
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