Posted on 07/06/2020 7:27:31 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be,” quipped Thomas Jefferson, one of the principal advocates for then-controversial public education. The American public school system was born, not from the need for a highly-trained workforce, but from this seed of purpose.
Man may be born with natural rights, but it takes education to teach him to be a responsible, self-governing citizen of a republic. By this fundamental measure, America’s public system, even before the virus upended schools across the nation, is a dismal failure. Out of the United States’ largest 100 school districts, not a single one lists the name of our country or the word “patriotism” in their mission statements. Big surprise then, that fewer than one in five adults under the age of 45—nearly 90% of whom were “educated” in public schools—can pass the basic citizenship test my parents took in order to become naturalized citizens.
Worse than what we’re not learning is what we are: less than a year after the introduction of the ridiculously inaccurate and mercilessly debunked 1619 Project in the New York Times, the Pulitzer-endorsed, Common Core-compliant teaching materials based on it have already made their way into more than 3,500 schools in all 50 states. But the 1619 Project is more of a capstone than new material; Howard Zinn’s A People’s History has long been a staple of history classrooms across the country. After decades of lessons on the injustice of the American way of life in public schools, it should be no surprise that their graduates are taking to the streets to pull down any and all symbols representing the United States.
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Home-schooling is the ONLY answer.
Academia is saturated in Marxism. It won’t be changing.
Agreed. But many, like those in my family, have to work as well, I don’t know how they can make it possible.
According to my local news, schools are just a place for tax payers to feed black kids twice a day.
Public schools should be abolished. The schools are not doing their jobs yet the teachers are getting paid. Nonsense! Public schools exits for one reason, the NEA, not the students. Dewey is laughing in his grave in hell.
Weve got between 15-30% of the population deliberately p1ssing away their primary educational years because to them its boring and ‘acting white’.
Maybe homeschooling group/teachers FOR working parents?
So, teachers pass the ignorant wretch because to do otherwise would get him into trouble with his boss. It's a vicious cycle with no end in sight.
I saw what the public schools had become and inoculated my son with the ability to think for himself.
“According to my local news, schools are just a place for tax payers to feed black kids twice a day.”
No, families on Food Stamps are not deducted for the meals their kids get at school. All of this brings up an interesting question. Do we as a society let kids go hungry because their parents are too ‘no account’ to feed them? We have, rightly or wrongly, decided the answer is no. Schools have become the mechanism to feed children whose parents can’t/won’t feed them themselves. Some say, “Put the kids in foster care if the parents won’t take care of them!”, but the number of kids in that situation is just too great.
This doesn’t help the school achieve its original purpose—to educate kids, now it seems that many schools are there to take care of kids—if the kids learn something, so much the better.
It’s worth my noting that not all public schools are like this, but more and more are becoming like this—the primary goal has become to take care of kids during the day. For way too many kids, schools are the only safe, clean, and perhaps sane places in their lives.
I think if/when schools do reopen, going to be a huge surprise when enrollment drops significantly...& then there goes the $$.
The only silver lining to COVID is there will be more remote/telecommute positions, allowing more people to homeschool.
“Man may be born with natural rights...”
Wrong off the top. All you have is the right to life in the womb. After that, everything can be taken away. Everything except that is a privilege, awarded to you by man. And because of that, it can be taken away.
“After decades of lessons on the injustice of the American way of life in public schools, it should be no surprise that their graduates are taking to the streets to pull down any and all symbols representing the United States.”
The work of the rioters is just terrorism, that’s all. It is done for political purposes as its agenda and it is relatively well planned. A gaggle of graduates forming an idea this much in mass, all over the country, isn’t reality. Hundreds of thousands of kids couldn’t do this on their own in every state, and in most cities. That’s trying to pass the buck. This whole lead is manure.
rwood
President Trump has a Secretary of Education. Why isn’t she doing something about this?
From those I’ve know who have done it sacrifice is a common denominator. There’s always a way to to something if you want it hard enough.
One way or another, the schools will all eventually be privatized. Homeschool for now!
No no no we conservatives can easily take them over
Liberals are a bunch of pussies and stand for nothing
American history is incredible and vibrant and wonderful and if it’s not correctly it will completely interest children
Indeed. Our current school system is a cancer.
Until more conservatives come off their high horse and take teaching jobs, nothing is going to change.
I think it’s already become.
They are worthless.
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