Posted on 04/16/2022 3:13:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
A discussion is sweeping the country about the role of parents in both the education of their children and what their children’s schools should teach. Frankly, it is high time this conversation took place.
Over the decades, since the advent of the common school, parental involvement in their children’s education has gone from complete authority to having virtually no say. Parents have been eliminated and replaced by the state -- defined as all federal, state, county, or municipal government entities. Added to this takeover are unions, which also have taken a keen interest in what your children are taught. As the state gained more control, it expanded the subjects taught, which, over time, included the state’s definitions of morals, ethics, values, character, and similar topics.
This evolved slowly as the state gained more control of education. It might have continued if not for the pandemic. When schools went remote, parents, for the first time, were able to see the material taught to their children. They were alarmed to find that subjects like Critical Race Theory, radical sex philosophies (including gender preferences), and other controversial subjects were being taught in elementary as well as secondary schools. Parents started to mobilize, expressing their displeasure at school board meetings, protesting, and removing their children from public schools. In fact, for the school year 2020-21, national public-school enrollment declined by 1.5 million students.
The backlash has generated two opposing attitudes about the role of parents in education. Some have suggested that parents should not have any say in what the schools teach, and others suggest that schools should teach what parents want. Neither is right.
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Over the decades, since the advent of the common school, Parents have been eliminated and replaced by “the state.”
<><>the state is defined as all federal, state, county, or municipal government entities.....
<><>includes avid teachers unions.
<><>as they gained control, the subjects taught expanded
<><>now include “the state’s” version of morals, ethics, values, character, and similar topics.
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I believe one factor that facilitated this was the growing number of childless Americans; there was little organized resistance because the American student population dwindled, often replaced by foreign children with parents who had no idea what was being pushed in the schools.
Role of parents in both the education of their children.
School teaches the ABC’s not the birds and bees
Parents handle all the rest
Decades, you say?
"We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and devoted than ourselves"
https://books.google.com/books?id=EgcNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA210
1867
You’re right - schools teach reading, writing and arithmetic. Parents teach THEIR FAMILY VALUES, RELIGION AND SEXUAL STANDATDS.
Not just education. Medical, too. 15-year olds can make their own medical & mental health decisions and force their parents to pay for it.
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