Posted on 09/21/2008 12:38:12 PM PDT by wagglebee
As long as parents insist on dressing their preschool-aged girls like streetwalkers, and allowing their older girls to dress that way...
And especially when the mothers dress that way too...
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And...Where were most of these young mom’s “socialized” and schooled? Yes! Of course! A government school!
You are absolutely correct, it does start at home.
I look at the kids I see in church on Sunday, well some of them are actually young adults as they are out of HS, and we’re not too terribly worried about the public school our daughter attends, as all these kids did as well.
Her best friend’s parents (close friends of ours) are no more thrilled about the 2 girls being in the same class this year than we are, but we are resigned that it happened. We were hoping it wouldn’t happen before middle school next year, but we are hopeful they are both mature enough to know what is and what is not acceptable in the classroom.
Right now our biggest issue is the DARE program and whether or not to opt her out of it, as my husband and I do not agree with much of the propaganda of the program.
And you know this for a fact? How? When my friends and I went to discos in the late 70s and early 80s that's exactly how we dressed --- and not a single one of us went to a "government" school. We all had graduated from Catholic schools.
Good point....and let me take it one step further. There are millions of girls who DO NOT dress in a provocative way whose parents went to public schools. Seems to me the common thread is not the schooling of the parents, but the character of the parents.
Yep. Homeschooling (which is really private school for the middle class, which is why the elites hate it) is the only honorable way to truly be a conservative and NOT place your children on the altar of secular socialism.
Don’t like the bank bailouts? Don’t participate in socialism!!
INDEED, INDEED.
Blessed be the Name of The Lord and all in your family who love Him.
I don't know if you can ask this, but I'd have to wonder what sort of example this single parent mother has been setting...
Most 12 year old boys I know are more interested in baseball than girls.
I'm sure that with your education you have taken enough research classes to know the basic tenet, "correlation does not imply causation"...
Not to mention, there are plenty of modest and moral young mothers who also attended public schools.
Parenting is hard for a mom and a dad working together. For a single mom to raise a boy and do a good job of it is incredibly difficult. Not impossible, but very, very hard.
And that's part of the reason why divorce and fornication are such societal disasters.
I left out these commercials being on comedy central when I watch South Park. But I would expect them there.
I agree with you on the character of the parents — but don’t fault the character of the parents of me or my friends, none of them would approve of the outfits we wore in the discos -— we all changed AFTER we left the house.
But when it comes to certain things, even libs can be conservative. My 74 year old aunt, who I have always considered to be to the left of me, sent some outfits to Jax for back to school. She’s just that kind of a person, never married, never had any kids of her own and so likes being “Auntie Mame.” I thought I was conservative about the clothes I buy Jax -— holey moley!!! These outfits are so cutting edge that any pre-teen would go ape over them, as mine did, and yet there is nothing, and I mean nothing, provocative about any of them.
Agreed.
The challenge is to offer the mother ANYTHING of substance that could be redemptive at all in any lasting way.
Personally, I think such problems have to be PREVENTED ages 1-8.
It’s a bit tricky in that setting but I could probably pull it off.
Sadly, around the room, student after student had a similar story to relate about such aged kids, brothers, sisters, nephews etc.
Mostly, it sounds like this is NOT the mother’s style to have modeled such acting out junk in front of the kid.
Certainly you must know that "where you live" is an anomaly?
I attended private schools in 3 large metropolitan areas, and none of them, nor any of the other private schools with which we interacted, were as you describe.
Frankly, I find your statement above to be pretty absurd.
Not true in either New York (where I lived until I was 15, returning at 18) or South Florida (where I finished high school). Private schools were dominated by the affluent who didn’t want to associate with the proles and worse in the public schools. You had districts like Roslyn and Great Neck on Lawn Guyland that were de facto private (limited to their affluent residents, with no bussing to speak of), despite being “public schools.” Anyone parent with half a brain (to say nothing of their spawn) who had to send their kids to Publik Skools pushed them into the honors track.
FWIW, there is a private school in the metropolitan area nearest me that fits Gabz’s description, according to the teachers who work (and have worked) there.
The school is advertised as a Christian school but according to the teachers I know, the behavior of the students is anything but, and the school will accept anyone for the tuition dollars (it is moderately priced compared to other private schools in the area) - and thus ends up getting the students no one else will accept, or that other schools have expelled.
There are other private and parochical schools in that area which are quite good, and there are others that aren’t so good, but the one particular school does take the children who have been expelled from other private and public schools.
Could be the example set by the media...or maybe those hormones *are* setting in earlier & earlier...
D) ALL OF THE ABOVE . . . including
the spirit of lawlessness loosed on the world in these end times.
If you're talking the Atlanta metro area, I probably know it.
The notion that private schools have, in toto, more problem-behavior students than private schools, in any locale, is absurd, in my opinion.
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