Posted on 06/15/2011 6:55:12 AM PDT by edcoil
**ALL** government teachers in government owned and run government K-12 schools support the following merely by **willingly** agreeing to work in them. ( Last I checked, no one was holding a gun to their heads.)
** Socialism. All government owned and run schools are funded by threat of armed police action against citizens. ( Socialism is Marxism lite.) Merely by attending children learn to be comfortable with taking money from a neighbor for a service that their parents want for free.
** Collectivist and voter mob run schools. Merely by attending learn to be comfortable with the collectivist voting mob control their daily lives and even the thoughts they are forced to think.
** Godlessness. ALL ( that means every) government owned and run school in this nation establishes godless secular humanism. Children will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must simply to cooperate with the classroom instruction and complete assignments.
** Government compulsion. Any parent who can not afford to ransom their children from the godless, collectivist, voter mob run, socialist government schools is under armed police threat to send their children to the godless government schools. ( Too bad if the government schools work tirelessly to destroy the political, cultural, and religious worldview taught in the home.) Oh!...And since government is running a price -fixed monopoly and giving schooling away for free, this makes private schools scarce! ( My county has NO private schools of any kind.)
So?....ALL government teachers **willingly** accept a paycheck for establishing godless schools that establish the religion of godless secular humanism, and teach children to be comfortable with taking money from a neighbor by way of armed police threat, collectivism, voter mobs, and government compulsion.
Yet...Some claim not to be Marxists. ( Yeah right!) ( eye roll!)
So not all teachers are Marxists!
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Oh! And...If any conservative and/or Christian thinks they can sneak in a little conservatism or Christianity they are, **indeed**, teaching an important lesson!
Lesson learned: Conservatives and Christians are sneaky!
“I personally don’t blame the teachers themselves.”
Well, I do. Only a major character flaw would permit someone to believe they’re entitled to be highly compensated for worse-than-inferior work.
I guess it’s a chicken/egg kind of thing — unions/politicians. Whichever came “first”, they’re both screwing the taxpayers.
GPA. Grade point Average
(I did say theirs, not mine :))
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Elite liberals accept prejudice when it’s against any white person from the South .
They eventually added “regionalism” to the list of harassing behaviors. Of course they meant the bashing of Yankees.
They who control the present, control the past; they who control the past, control the future. (George Orwell - 1984)
History teacher here. I have a real history degree. Agree with you wholeheartedly.
No sense in complaining about the system, the system is what it is. Just have to buckle down and make sure that your kids are not part of the statistics.
I love teaching and thankfully my supervisor is well aware of my conservative leanings.
I failed two for the same reason. Insufficient effort. Their parents were not happy and I told them that I was happy to sit down and discuss with them why they were getting failed.
I told the parents that my job was to teach the kids, and if they weren’t learning or making the effort to learn, then I would be doing them a favour by giving them a wakeup call now.
I told them that failure is an opportunity to improve and that I wasn’t going to pass anyone that I felt wasn’t ready for the next step up. I actually got a gift from one of the parents a couple weeks later thanking me. She said that I had given her son plenty of warning throughout the year and that she had been trying to impress on him the need to study. He had expected me to just pass everyone.
Did you stand there going, “anyone? Anyone? Axis Powers were...anyone?”
I strongly believe that the Federal Government is TOO BIG. The Department of Education, for one, should be abolished. Public schools should “belong” to the people of the local community whose children attend those schools and whose taxes support those schools. I cannot agree that educating our children should even be considered “for profit”.
“For profit” education is good enough for rich people, why not the rest of us?
However, I have learned that I can incorporate the extension lessons that I do not have time to include prior to testing. So, we learn about M.C. Escher and students create their own tessellations, using their knowledge related to transformations (they also are required to write a paragraph using correct mathematical terms to describe their tessellation); we learn about Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, then explore the ratio of arm span to height and the Golden Ratio. We also explore the Fibonnacci Sequence and other patterns; and we “play” with the graphing calculators and CBRs. (They think it's “cool” that I have found some “neat” videos on YouTube about these topics.)
Did I mention that I thoroughly ENJOY teaching 7th grade Math? :-)
I need you to elaborate... what do you mean by “...good enough for rich people, why not the rest of us?”
Excellent! My daughter goes to a private school. Every morning they recite three prayers, one in English, one in French, one in Spanish (they are conversant in French and Spanish by the time they graduate 8th grade). They also recite the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
Kids are capable of so much more than the public schools offer.
No, but it is kind of obvious :)
No, but it is kind of obvious :)
Entrance into the most prestigious colleges requires attendance in these elite elementary schools.
Can you think of any example of a public service being offered that is superior to the private counterpart?
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