Posted on 09/27/2010 9:17:01 AM PDT by Jack Black
Thank you, we think so. She graduated from college at 20, is independent, well rounded and an exceptional person.
Truthfully, she is so smart and SO strong willed that public schooling would have destroyed her. It was quite an experience (whew)! But also very fulfilling.
To any parent of a young child I will say this: The more successful you are at teaching a child to be independent and self sufficient, the CLOSER they will be to you as adults.
That is still the lock step curriculum taught across the nation and it gets even more rigid and dogmatic in college. When I teach social studies in my classroom I always start the year by telling the kids they have likely NEVER had a teacher like me nor will they likely ever have another teacher like me.
I'm currently a teacher in the public schools serving in an inner city senior high. I am certified to teach everything in the social studies curriculum and pretty much have in the course of my career since 1990. I see and fight the LIBERAL AGENDA in school curriculum every day.
I do this by teaching the differences between subject, issue and agenda. Then I show all sides of all subjects....in doing so, every subject becomes an ISSUE.
Telling only ONE side of a SUBJECT creates an AGENDA.
You'd be surprised at the general reactions of students once they see how badly they have been conned by teachers, clergy and even parents their whole lives. I make them do the research and discuss the various agendas in all that we cover. I find that truth often (not always, but mostly) wins.
In some areas, kids are questioned about what goes on at home and encouraged to report parental behavior that is deemed incorrect by people in the school system. That ain't tin foil hat talk, it happens.
When our daughter was in elementary school, I used to warn her about things like that and one day she came home with a story of her social studies teacher (my field) asking the kids if their daddy owned any of those EVIL BLACK RIFLES. Well I had a parent teacher conference with that teacher and the principal right quick and I reamed them a NEW anal orifice on the spot. I brought those dreaded words "LAW SUIT" into the conversation and all that nonsense evaporated very quickly.
I hate to say this but with most of the true Obama fanatics, he can do no wrong under ANY circumstances. Remember I work deep in an inner city high school. Most of the faculty are extremely liberal democrats. That goes double for the students in that demographic. He walks on water. For these people it really is all the fault of Bush. Stupid? Sure! But there is no denying the gleam of fanaticism that shines in their eyes. So don't think folks will suddenly waken from their stupor and turn on the ... Well, the hands they see as literally feeding them (rightly or wrongly)!
My daughter had a similar experience when she was 10. She told the teacher she owned her own rifles and shot them whenever she wanted to. She was given her "Red Ryder" at 6 and her .22 at 10. Nothing further was ever said about this in her class, but I found it pretty funny .
Kansas City has become Detroit light. All the conservatives left KC to the east and the west of the city.
“The day of the election box being a useful tool to reform our society may be coming to an end, as the Dems seem committed to stealing elections.”
Correct. When even the ballot box won’t give us the right outcomes then we will be heading to conflict soon. Because then there will be no way to end the stuff going on in the country. Might start by fights breaking out at polling places. I don’t know. The 2010 election was nice and all, but the GOP lost the senate in some cases by fraud.
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