Posted on 05/29/2009 5:53:22 AM PDT by greatdefender
LOL
When I was in school we were just expected not to call people names (not that we never did, but we knew it was wrong!) and we were expected to be civilized, period. I guess now that they don’t expect that out of kids, they have to teach them how to behave in each particular instance because there is no over riding moral code.
Not any more. Our son graduated Wednesday night. Magna Cum Laude and will be going to the Honors College at Michigan State University in the fall. Not all public schools are corrupt cesspools.
As long as “genital OCD” is discussed, I don’t see a problem with it. Oh wait, “genital OCD” is not what fags like to hear.
Amen, and universities fight to get these wonderful kids. They’re the brightest, most mannerly kids in the country. You can spot them a mile away because they usually have that “uncorrupted” look.
And everyone wonders why California is in the shape it is in.
Yeah, on the contrary,
any overriding moral code is considered intolerant and oppressive.
LOL!
What’s wrong with a kid thinking it’s their responsibility (duty) to get themselves to school and not waste Mom and Dad’s money on gas?
And how long ago would parents in CA have said the same thing?
no.
Congratulations!
It took a lot less time to destroy civilization than I would have imagined. This is not the culture I grew up in, and I’m not THAT old....
Thanks. People need to research their schools and show up at school board meetings where various things are discussed.
Well, my kids (5th grade) asked me about “gay” when I told them not to use the word as an insult (which most kids do)
So I told them it was when people wanted to mate with others of the same sex (can you tell they watch Animal Planet a lot? LOL!)
To which they both said “EEEEWWWW”
The natural revulsion against this activity is very strong.
I agree. People have tried to be civil. No more. It is time for action.
To “edit” what has been taught in the government schools ( and do it properly and thoroughly) takes far, far, far, **more** time and is harder than simply homeschooling.
Think about this.
1) The atheistic Marxist indoctrination is **much** worse than when your adult children attended school.
2) The parent would need to read all the text books, review all homework assignments, attend as many assemblies as possible, and thoroughly interview (every day) the child when he returned from school.
3) The parent would then need to provide alternate assignments, textbooks, and reteach what has been taught in school.
Why not just homeschool, or send a child to a conservative private school, in the first place?
CA has had problems for a long time. I know they have always had a reputation for good schools, but back when lived there (I wasn’t in school yet, so my older siblings were probably in very early elementary school) I remember my mother complaining about how bad the schools were (this was in the early 60s). They have tended to go with any new and liberal idea that comes down the pike.
I am not saying all Texas schools are good, I was simply making the point that in various areas of the country there are still pockets of good conservative people running schools that do not buy into this stuff (at least insofar as the Supreme Court allows—that is a rarely talked about but very real problem in public education).
wintertime, you’re revving me up. Make it so miserable for these petty bureaucrats, known as “educators,” that they will throw up their hands in surrender. Government schools here in my red state are losing students to private/home schools and really feeling the crunch. And if TEACHERS started exercising “conscientious objections” to teaching this garbage—even to the point of being willing to lose their jobs—we’d see a reversal of some of this nonsense.
I must say, though, that some public schools in my red state are stickin’ it to the man. They have Scripture verses in their classrooms and on their desks. I double dog dare ANYONE to try to confiscate them, too.
How about using the perez hilton video as an example of being “tolerant” of others? You know, we have to show both side of the issue to be effective teachers.
You’re right, but that’s work. Many parents (probably far fewer on Free Republic than in the general population) simply don’t bother. In fact, you and I both know that lots of parents see public schools as free baby sitting. That is really a lot of the problem. If every parent cared as much as you do and kept up with what was going on, went to the school board meetings, voiced their opinions and backed it up by voting and talking to other parents, etc, we would not have the education mess we have today.
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