Posted on 05/04/2013 4:53:44 PM PDT by wintertime
Completely privatize all education.
That’s the solution.
Whistling past the graveyard. Open your eyes and see the trend.
The would-be good teachers are utterly powerless, and do not even agitate. Where is the push back from all these good teachers? There is next to none. They want to keep their government job. That’s all there is to it.
It’s not their job of good teachers to push back against radical teachers, but just to teach their children well. It is up to students and their parents to discriminate between conflicting data.
There used to be four big rules of things teachers shouldn’t do because they would get fired.
1) Don’t soapbox about politics or religion. (This one used to be extremely serious, but is often not enforced anymore.) Teach the subject you are paid to teach.
2) Do not fail too many students, because this indicates that you are not teaching them well enough to pass your tests. Do not demand students be expelled either, as that cuts state aid money directly out of the school budget.
3) Do not offend the students, their parents, your faculty peers, your department chairman, the school administration or the community at large.
4) Never be in a room with a single student when the door is closed. Do not fraternize with students on or off campus. If you have to hit a student, do not do so in front of witnesses unless it is an emergency.
Another key line: Fake gun busts are nothing more than operant
conditioning. (Fake gun busts include a pop-tart bitten into
something resembling a gun shape)
Correct.
Aeons ago, when the "public schools" were essentially "generic protestant" in nature, Catholics set up our own privately funded, organized, and controlled school system. Why? Simple: in the "public schools", Catholic children would be taught to "think Protestantly" (to coin a word). The Catholics obviously found that unacceptable, and solved the problem.
Now, Protestants have long since lost control of the "public schools"; they are now run by marxists, atheists, homosexuals, and other malefactors. The presence of "good teachers" within the system (I was one, once) do not negate that the system itself is run by The Enemy.
Many of the students in Catholic schools today are the children of Protestant families seeking refuge from the godless "public schools". We welcome them, but ...
That's not really the solution.
The "public schools" must cease to exist. Education is far too important to be entrusted to the government. Protestants would do well to set up their own educational system separate from the government; Catholics would do well to return to the system their ancestors set up.
And, of course, homeschool is a good option for many.
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