Posted on 09/09/2018 7:05:57 AM PDT by rktman
Ever since I became a parent and faced the options for educating our daughters, I’ve become increasingly antagonistic toward public schools. Since our daughters are currently 20 and 22 years old and out on their own, that’s a long time to be disillusioned by our nation’s educational system. To modify an old saying, we didn’t leave public education; public education left us. Unfortunately, over the past two decades, schools have only gotten worse and we’ve never, ever regretted the decision to homeschool our girls.
I feel sorry for young parents these days who face similar decisions. If anything, schools have become more hostile and intolerant toward any parent or child deviating one iota from the approved progressive curriculum. Religion is banned (except for Islam), conservative views are smashed, support for our current president is an expellable offense, and being a white heterosexual male is simply unforgivable.
Gone are the days when children read classic literature, memorized their multiplication tables by fourth grade, learned to write with a clear hand and proper grammar, and understood the meaning and impact of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Nowadays schools are obsessed with sex. We’re talking passionately, creepily, fanatically obsessed with sex in every size, shape and sickening variation (including some imaginary aspects, such as gender fluidity).
In Arizona, for example, the school board had considered implementing a comprehensive Planned Murderhood-linked K-12 sex ed program – that’s starting in kindergarten, folks – that was described as nothing less than “obscene.” (Last I heard, parental objections may have shot down this program; I hope that’s true.)
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Mark Levin had a good show last night on Fox with Katie Pavlich and Candace Owens on talking about just this subject. Ms. Owens stated that the left has gotten even worse than we know and is steadily increasing their push.
I just enrolled my Daughter is K. However at a Catholic School. So far I am very pleased as in the past 2 weeks I have had several 1 on 1 with the teacher, and some serious discussions with the principal. There is a lot of parent teacher interaction at the school.
I just found out that schools do NOT teach cursive writing anymore. Think in 50 years someone finds a document written in. Cursive. They won’t be able to read it.
Public schools are massive, public bureaucracies. They go to the lowest common denominator. Imagine if you simply sent your kids to the DMV or DPW to be “taught?”
Well, public schools are no different.
Ahhh...... but you overlook the possible reality.
Someone will obtain a master’s degree in Cursive History and Technique and will extract a fee for translation
A lot of parents have woken up and are appalled at the disgusting state of our public school system.
But that is only half the solution. The other is for the parents to DO something about it. Something meaningful, that is.
Not enough of them are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to properly educate the children they themselves brought into the world.
You don’t NEED a new car every year; you don’t NEED to fly first class when business class will do; you don’t NEED to spend every waking minute chasing the almighty dollar - the children should come first.
Most cursive writing is completely illegible anyway. If someoe can make out the letters they can read it. Learning to write in cursive is a vanity project. Most writing is done electronically these days and if one has to take pen to paper for someone, most recipients prefer printing
I have 4 kids, youngest 35y/o, oldest 45. As a single dad, I put all 4 of them thru private school and 3 of them thru college. All are doing well. Best thing I ever did.
“Ever since I became a parent and faced the options for educating our daughters, I’ve become increasingly antagonistic toward public schools.”
And let’s not leave out our colleges and universities, both public and private. If we really wanted to preserve our Republic, we’d burn 90% of them to the ground today and drive their “professors” into the sea.
Queer Cursive History Studies.
It’s a lot faster to write in cursive. I could believe they could write their exams on a computer, but too many of them can’t type either.
You’re right. They don’t teach cursive. They don’t teach the multiplication table either. Believe it or not, many can’t tell the time on an analog clock face.
Fortunately, their cell phone gives them a digital display of the time and the cash registers at McDonalds tell them how much change to give.
My youngest son was taught to write in cursive (7 yrs ago) before he was taught to print. The principal said “think about it, how does a young kid draw? In blocky scribbles or cursive looking scribbles?”
He had beautiful handwriting then. Not so much now.
Then teach them at home.
We had an exchange student from Argentina. They learn cursive first, because the pencil never leaves the paper. Then when they get to high school they learn manuscript printing.
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K-12 public education = govt daycare
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Exactly Right! Remember during the trial of Zimmerman (?), when the black female witness couldn't read a document because it was in “cursive?”
You're exactly right about cursive documents becoming as unreadable to our coming generations as Chinese is to us.
But Chinese brings us to another matter. The man who is responsible for China going from its old written language to a modified Latin Alphabet recently passed away, aged 100+.
The reason China wants to go to a Latin Style alphabet is to make reading the old traditional Chinese literature and philosophy impossible for coming generations. Thus millenia of Chinese culture will vanish into obscurity, and only the “new” Chinese literature will be read.
Funny what the consequences will be when we are no longer able to read cursive writing.
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