Posted on 02/13/2008 3:56:43 AM PST by Man50D
If you care about your children, then you should homeschool, find a Christian school, participate in a homeschool co-op, pay the tuition, drive an older car, or do whatever is necessary to keep them out of California's public school system. That's the message from a new campaign, assembled under the Rescue Your Child slogan.
And it's all because the California Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger worked together to establish Senate Bill 777 and Assembly Bill 394 as law, plans that institutionalize the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices.
First, [California] law allowed public schools to voluntarily promote homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality. Then, the law required public schools to accept homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual teachers as role models for impressionable children. Now, the law has been changed to effectively require the positive portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality to six million children in California government-controlled schools," said Randy Thomasson, chief of the Campaign for Children and Families and a leader in the movement to withdraw what supporters pray will be up to 600,000 children from public districts in the state.
At a Los Angeles news conference, Thomasson's organization kicked off the statewide drive for exodus. The new website provides information to parents on just what they have to do, and how to do it, in protect their children from the "gay" agenda now standardized throughout the state.
Officials said SB 777 "functionally requires public school instructional materials and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual 'marriages,' and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality, including so-called 'gay history.'"
The second bill, AB 394, "requires public schools to distribute controversial material to teachers, students, and parents which promotes transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, all under the guise of 'anti-harassment' training," the group said.
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Take away the requirement to join a union, and the NEA, as well as the AFL-CIO, and Teamsters become powerless as the coerced funds dry up.
So was Eric Arthur Blair.
Why would any schools need to be closed?
I probably spent 2-3 hours a month discussing school matters with my girls. I never once tried to ‘deprogram’ them however. What I did do was surround them with Biblical concepts at home, coupled with regular church attendance, so that they immediately saw through lies and half-truths without my having to left a brain cell. I created Christian adults, not robots, with free will and a strong Biblical background
It would be good to see a mass exodus from the schools to homeschooling.
“Where did schools come from, before the Dept of Ed and the NEA?”
I’m not an advocate of the federal government being involved in education, but wintertime wants to get rid of ALL government schools, even if run by a state or locality. And that’s how it happened way back when. The locality (and sometimes churches) decided education was important enough to invest in. But the parents still paid for it one way or another. Kids in areas with no nearby school got either no or minimal education, especially if their parents were illiterate.
I had a great-great grandfather (father’s side) who never saw the inside of a school and couldn’t read or write. My great grandfather could read and write, but barely. My grandfather finished high school and my father was the first generation to go to college.
“I probably spent 2-3 hours a month discussing school matters with my girls. I never once tried to ‘deprogram’ them however. What I did do was surround them with Biblical concepts at home, coupled with regular church attendance, so that they immediately saw through lies and half-truths without my having to left a brain cell. I created Christian adults, not robots, with free will and a strong Biblical background.”
If you do just what you said there’s no need to “deprogram.” If somebody otu there is indeed “deprogramming” two to three hours a night, that’s a pretty pitiful comment on the home life.
WELL said!
Of course the schools would close - if the government is out of education, then the money that funds them is also gone. How would they stay open?
Not only is the call to close all K-12, but also all colleges and universities, especially the liberal ones, which I would assume would be about 99% of them out there.
“There is a reason every developed country has a public education system.”
Strange isn’t it? The only countries I’m aware of that don’t have a comprehensive public education system all have one thing in common — they’re backwards hellholes. Prosperous, developed nations? Every single one has a public school system.
OK, now you're just messing with me.
“I wish people would knock off the snide, personal attacks just so carefully worded so that someone can step back and say “I didn’t attack you! All I said was sending your child to a public school is child abuse, but that doesn’t mean you are a child abuser, even though you send your child to a public school. Oh and btw, all public school teachers are either naive, stupid, or greedy, but that doesn’t mean YOU, just ignore that “all” part.”
I get what is being said, as well as everyone else with half a brain.”
Gosh, I have no idea who you’re talking about.
Granted, our country did not have a comprehensive system 200 years ago, but we were largely an agrarian society, with nearly half fueled with slave labor and the other half with child labor. Yeah, those glorious days or the early 1800's, let's all go back to that idyllic time.
Cooperative education efforts are fine, as long as they are voluntary.
Maybe we are thinking of two different modalities, but I'm going with your statement of removing the government from education and then asking how things would be funded.
Well said?
I’ve set a strong moral and intellectual foundation for my children. If you do that, there’s no need to spend “hours” every day on the Internet or to deprogram your kids into little robotrons.
LOL, have a nice day!
I agree with everything you both have said (but you knew that).
My aunt started her teaching career at an inner city school in NYC in a largely hispanic area. her own fluency in Spanish had those kids fluent in English by the end of the school year. She then taught for some time in Puerto Rico. She got her doctorate wile I was still in elementary school and from there on out she spent most of the rest of her career teaching teachers how to teach in 3rd world country hellholes.
She turns 75 this month and still does some consulting work and remains in touch with farflung reaches of the world. And I still rely on her for advice about school and education in general when it comes to my 9 year old, just like I did back when I was still in school.
“Granted, our country did not have a comprehensive system 200 years ago, but we were largely an agrarian society, with nearly half fueled with slave labor and the other half with child labor. Yeah, those glorious days or the early 1800’s, let’s all go back to that idyllic time.”
Well, if we got rid of that pesky education thing maybe more Americans would be satisified working in the fields or the slaughterhouses and we could get rid of all those illegals. THERE’S a positive side to it.
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