Posted on 09/29/2010 10:28:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is going to sound weird, but your post reminded me of it.
When I was young, all the way up through undergraduate college, a lot of my dreams (sleeping dreams) took place inside some kind of mass institution. "We were all supposed to" do one thing, or go to a certain place -- there were all these weird systems that we had to conform with, that were different from the system of schooling I was forced to conform with, but somehow also a system.
I wish I could have grown up with dreams that were free of such "structure." My kids are all homeschooled; I hope their dreams are not still in boxes.
I will occasionally have a dream where I am wandering from room to room in a school. I have an exam and I have not prepared for it. I have forgotten that the class was assigned to me and I have never been to any of the classes, done the assignments, or studied for it in any way.
I agreed up until the part about vouchers.
Vouchers suck. Government money always comes with strings attached. Always. Vouchers are just the camels nose in the tent to governmentizing (a new word) private schools.
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“Schools are FORCED to keep kids who have no desire to learn but a big desire to create havoc in the classroom.”
Now we get to the nut of the issue. The government schools are there for tax subsidized daycare and perhaps indoctrination, not education. It’s nothing but a form of welfare: Aid to Families with Dependent Parents.
Schools are as relevant as buggy whips, unless one wishes to admit we (teachers) are actually in the baby sitting business -- or as I call, practice prison.
LOL! May I steal this?
“LOL! May I steal this?”
Sure. I borrowed it from another FReeper some time ago.
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