Public School Parents are Slow Learners

WorldNetDaily ^ | October 22, 2007 | Olivia St. John

[wintertime]

That is a good thing! Some towns enrollments are down 30% or more.
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I hope that 30% is organizing a great big school tax revolt and demanding their tax money back.

[brytlea]

It seems to me that if parents didn’t want this stuff taught they would be out in the streets protesting, writing letters, making phone calls etc. Because I don’t see this happening, I have to imagine that the vast majority of these parents either think it’s a great idea, or they simply don’t care.
Either way, it’s a sad situation, but until the public rises up en-mass, this will continue. The people do have some power, but they seem unwilling to wield it.
Susie

[brytlea]

I always thought that phrase was buck naked (like bucks don’t wear clothes I guess), but I often see your version. Not trying to start anything, just interesting how phrases evolve over time.
susie

[brytlea]

Towns will not opt out because they are addicted to federal and state funds. It simply won’t happen, altho I wish it would.
susie

[LadyPilgrim]

ping for later.

[brytlea]

I have taught in both public and private schools, and while I agree, public schools leave much to be desired, and while I wish every parent would just home school because I think it is by far the better answer in almost every case, it will never happen. Some parents want foremost an excellent education, many are mostly interested in free baby sitting. I actually had a parent recently tell me that they thought the most important thing about education was the socialization.

With all of this in mind, we had better fight for our public schools, because there is no alternative that has a snowballs chance in S. Florida of happening.

susie

[RightWhale]

Saw it coming in the 50s. The disgruntled kids then became the parents and then got on the School Board and it was over. There were a lot of disgruntled kids in the 50s. There are more now because gruntlement was not properly managed.

[P.O.E.]

Antidisgruntlementarianism?

[Clintonfatigued]

I lose respect for The Gubernator every week.

[gidget7]

They mentioned it, it got them nowhere!! The towns claim all pay taxes, even those who are elderly or have no children, they must to.

It isn’t the same I know, but to accomplish that, we must have vouchers/school choice. Then and only then, does the money allotted for each student goes where they go.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, it’s partly a Southernism, but a lot of Blacks, regardless of their location, tend to use it. It’s a deliberated exaggeration of “naked”, and “nekkid” implies folks up to no good (for example, one standing outside alone in the woods buck naked is just naked. One standing buck nekkid in front of one’s boyfriend or girlfriend means something is about to happen. ;-))

[cradle of freedom]

This “socialization” nonsense is what the schools have been telling the parents for many years. The parents and teachers are just repeating what they have heard from the all-knowing “experts”.

Socialization is a joke - as if kids don’t have parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, friends, siblings etc. As if it weren’t for the public schools we would all keep our kids locked up in our attics.

[brytlea]

Oh, I get the nekkid part (I’m from the south) but the butt vs buck is what I find interesting. I grew up hearing buck, but more recently hear only butt.
susie

[Clemenza]

And in Palm Beach County, the schools are CONSOLIDATED so that the kids from the ghetto of west Atlantic Avenue are zoned in with the affluent kids of Boca.

[brytlea]

I agree, but it surprises me to hear otherwise apparently normally intelligent people repeat such drivel. How did people get *socialized* before the advent of public (or even communal) education?
susie

[brytlea]

Not a surprise. We lived thru a cluster system in TX in which schools were grouped in clusters of 3. At grade 4 your child was bussed from your neighborhood school and 4th graders from all 3 schools in the cluster went to the same school. Same for 5th and 6th grade. It meant my 3 boys, once one hit 4th grade only ever all went to the same school one year. It also meant that I ended up taking kids all over town (because I didn’t want them to have to ride the bus) every day.
Not something parents would have chosen but the court mandated it.
susie

[fieldmarshaldj]

Whoops ! I left that part of the phrase out. :-P

[cradle of freedom]

We all are guilty of repeating drivel. So much gets past our watchman of the mind especially today with so much hooey being spouted out by the liberal establishment. It is hard not to be influenced even if you are on the look out.

[RhoTheta]

Ping! Long analysis at Post #13 is a must-read.

[azhenfud]

"And they wonder why California is burning?!?"

And THAT's just a superficial burn, unlike what's really in the wait.