Vanity: Socialism Starts in Kindergarten

Kindergarten Orientation | 08/15/2003 | AlaninSA

[HighWheeler]

"Personally, I think it would be a learning experience for the teacher to ask each student's name, write it on their own personal box, and store their individual stuff in the respective boxes. That way, the kid recognizes how his name is spelled, he learns individual responibility of keeping up with his own stuff and cleaning up after himself."

Paul, Paul, Paul. That's a nice thought, but that is not how socialism works. Kids don't need names once their number-tatoo is applied.

[ChemistCat]

If they're going to do it that way, they should charge a supply fee and buy supplies in common, so that nobody is LOSING anything. Kindergartners should be able to read their NAMES.

At any rate, because of this incident, every one of those kids is going to harbor a very useful resentment, perhaps subconsciously, that they will remember when asked to vote for the first time after age 18.

How to Make A Conservative. Take their stuff away from them at an early age and give it to other people in the name of fairness.

[Akira]

grade school bump

[Lizavetta]

Hey, how about a new school policy wherein all the staff, from principal on down to janitor, pool all their cars together, and the people with no cars or those with the worst/oldest/most beat-up clunkers can get another car from the pool? Y'see, some people don't have high incomes, or spouses with high incomes, and it's not fair that others have better cars.....

Their little experiment in Marxism would wither on the vine IF THEY THEMSELVES HAD TO LIVE BY IT.

[spunkets]

Yea, I know. They only dish out punishment to those that rebel from their politically correct social order. Want to hear the pig scream? Have the teacher replace the damaged property. Tell 'em it happened under their watch, so they pop for a new one.

[Paul Atreides]

I know. What was I thinking?

[Paul Atreides]

LOL! The only thing they'd buy out of their own pocket would be "Heather Has Two Mommies."

[DPB101]

I knew what the deal was in kindergarten when the teacher asked if I had brought enough Fireballs^tm for everyone.

[spunkets]

"What on earth could one child do with FOUR glue sticks during one school year?"

They get hungry.

[AlaninSA]

Well, what really annoys me is that the school's own website requests that we "PLEASE LABEL ALL SUPPLIES" for our kids.

Why label if we're dumping into the communal stash?

[AlaninSA]

Paul, they're not going to be getting a copy of "Heather Has Two Mommies" until later this year.

It's not a part of storytime until February. You know, Valentine's Day indoctr...I mean educational unit.

[LibKill]

Arrrrrrgh!

This STINKS!

Is there any way we can get rid of the socialist maggots in public education?

It is no wonder that thoughtful, caring parents homeschool or send their children to private/and/or religious schools if they can afford it.

Still the poor and the uninformed send their children to these communist indoctrination centers.

I'd pay money (even more taxes) to clean these rats out of public schools. And I don't even have children of my own.

(Some nieces and nephews though. I have taught them to shoot straight. Their parents taught them to speak the truth. Not a bad combination, :).)

[WOSG]

Stop making so much sense. You'll confuse the Socialized school teachers.

Our own young children (1st and 3rd graders next year) take book bags to school with their own paper and pencils and I havent heard of this sort of forced/organized 'sharing' happening.

Of course, it's a private Christian school, so go figure.

[lizma]

Personally, I think it would be a learning experience for the teacher to ask each student's name, write it on their own personal box, and store their individual stuff in the respective boxes.

This what my kids did. They would have had a cow if they had to dump it into a collective pile.

I would have told the teacher no.

[I got the rope]

Yep...sometimes I think the simplest solution for Marxists is at the business end of 3/4" manilla rope.

[AlaninSA]

I'm still in a stunned state.

We're neither poor, nor uninformed. We live in a nice part of San Antonio. Our part of town is conistently represented by Republicans. We had not one Tony Sanchez sign in our subdivision during the 2002 elections.

We bought our house in this part of town knowing that the taxes were higher and homes were more expensive -- but that we'd be able to (so we thought) trust that we'd have an excellent public school district for our kids to attend.

The test scores backed up those thoughts. Our district is easily the best in Bexar County (we have at several districts in this large, urban county).

How did parents in this district allow this to happen?

[donmeaker]

The best way is to provide chalk and use the chalk boards on the wall (never say blackboard!). Lincoln wrote out his sums at home with charcoal on a shovel. If you want paper, buy it. If paper is required by the teacher, she should either provide it herself (if it is for her convenience) or issue it from the thousands of dollars per student provided by the school district.

Of course some kids will have the latest handheld wonder whiz 5000, others will come with empty pockets. When I tutored in algebra, the first thing I did is take away the calculator and tell the kid to think.

So many kids try to punch in the equation, have their wonder whiz graph the figure and then say "oh, its a circle!" when the right answer is to use algebraic manipulation to put it in standard form.....

Guess that makes me a dinosaur. I gave my daughter's first grade teacher a set of McGuffy Readers today.

[donmeaker]

Don't feel bad. I used to carry a pen knife so I could cut a nib from a quill. That is why they were called pen knives.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What a load of crap. It is communism, plain and simple. If I were asked by a teacher, I would gladly pitch in to buy supplies for the poorest children whose parents would be hard pressed to affor the supplies. However, putting everything into a bin where there is only "collective property" and no personal property to avoid hurt feelings is total crap.

I took my sons out of publick skool years ago and have never regreted it for an instant.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Next, it'll be sneakers. Can't have one wearing the Nikes and one having the Payless brand.

They are already doing it in many schools under the pretense that it is because they don't want every day being a fashion contest, that some clotes are too revealing blah, blah, blah. The truth is that they are forcing the kids from middle and upper class families to dress down so that the poor kids don't feel bad.