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To Parents with Children in Public School - by a student
Arkansas Publik Skulz ^ | 30 Aug 2003 | Ashley Anderson

Posted on 08/30/2003 7:18:10 AM PDT by steplock

Arkansas Publik Skulz
To Parents with Children in Public School
Date: Saturday, August 30 @ 07:12:31
Topic Letters to Editor
"I will stand and fight until the end, because I owe it to my country."

Dear Editor:

This is for all the parents and their children who attend public school.

I have gone to public school all my life, until last September when I began private school. The differences are incredible! I will attempt to inform your readers as to what children in the government’s schools are doing every day.

Reading, writing, and arithmetic were the three basics every school used to go by. Are they what you think of when you think about what your child is learning?

Throughout most of my attendance In public school, the kids in my class only read one or two books throughout the whole year, until I was privileged with going to an AP class. The Advanced Placement courses have now been replaced with IB classes, which is short for the International Baccalaureate Organization, a part of UNESCO, United Nations. In this class, we were assigned numerous short stories to read, mostly about the myths of other countries, and some about their religions.

This class was intended to be a higher-level class, in which advanced students could “maximize” their learning capacity. Learning about the religions and cultures of other countries, and not names like Henry van Dyke, Washington Irving, O. Henry, or even Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, names which I never heard until I attended private school. These authors, among others such as Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson are purely American, and the basis for all literary writings in America to date.

Why were they never taught to me? Even in the advanced class we never read “Rip van Winkle.” Instead, we were assigned books like “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, which gave the details of killing babies and living in a world where no one was special and a person’s worth was based on his/her ability to conform to the group. Was I being conditioned?

When my mother was in school, she was taught phonics. In public school, I was taught to memorize the look of words and how they sounded. I was taught to remember the answer, not understand the question. I didn’t have spelling or vocabulary words to learn past the sixth or seventh grade. Why not?

In my private school, everyone has spelling and vocabulary words, in every grade, every week, to understand and learn how to use them in sentences. Words like philanthropy, misanthropic, and ameliorate were never taught to me in public school, despite the so-called “advanced” classes I was in. My mother, however, insisted on my having vocabulary words, even though it was not provided in public school.

Learning arithmetic has taken on a whole new meaning in public schools. It means that the more advanced students are made to wait for the others to catch up, and the advanced students are given “busy” work. The textbook often goes unfinished, and the students are passed anyway, because they tried their best. Grading on a curve is commonplace in public schools, so the students don’t know if they’re doing anything wrong. They are taught to be mindless and to accept whatever they are given.

I took Algebra in the eighth grade in public school, geometry in the ninth. When I changed to private school, I retook Algebra because my new school taught it differently, with more of the textbook. This year I’m taking trigonometry and Algebra II, both of my own choice. I know I’ll be getting the most out of them because we won’t be waiting for everyone to catch up like we did in public school. I can learn at my own pace.

Most kids in public schools are uncontrollable. How can any learning actually take place? Respect for authority, integrity, and honor are not words generally practiced by students who attend public school. If the administrators were to enforce the rules they have, they wouldn’t need to make more. Total control is the only thing gained when making more rules than needed.

I was amazed at how well-behaved the students at my private school were. Not only did they work hard, but were courteous, polite, and obedient. These things are a direct result of the proper atmosphere that this school provides. Christian values are taught, along with studying the Bible, which, needless to say, is strictly taboo in a public school.

Although I had some great teachers in public school, which are extremely hard to find, they could do nothing with the curriculum they were given from their superiors, not to mention the state, and the Department of Education, which is a part of the federal government. The department itself is unconstitutional; “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The United States as is written here means the federal government, or national government. The Constitution gave no such power to the federal government as to run a federal department of education. Therefore, it is unconstitutional. The Constitution, since 1787, is and has been the Supreme Law of the land.

I encourage all those who care about their children and grandchildren to go searching for the answer. There is a lot of information available; but you may have to look no further than a book by Charlotte Iserbyt called “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America”. It gives a detailed account of what really happens in public schools, why, and where the corruption comes from.

Students: no one can tell you who you are. If you don’t think for yourself, someone else will, be it a strong-willed friend, the media, or even our own government. Some people would have us believe that we’re too young to do anything about it, even if we wanted to. Well, there is one thing we know how to do, and that’s spread the word about what is going on; you have to learn more about it.

Even though it may be difficult to fund attending a private school or homeschooling, it is the only immediate way to stop what is being shoved down the throats of America’s youth. Soon even these may be forbidden. The way to avoid being institutionalized while attending a public school is not easy, but what is the most important thing? Is it more important to play football or be a cheerleader and end up flipping hamburgers in a fast food joint, or actually learning something that will be valuable to you the rest of your life?

Defend your mind, and ask questions. Don’t take anything for granted. Public school is not going to change, because it is running exactly how the government wants it to. Follow the money.

I am a Christian. This is not the time for believers to stick their heads in the dirt and hope that everything goes all right. The remnant of Christ’s followers exists today as foretold in the Bible. This is the time for believers in Christ to rise up and defend the rights our Forefathers died so that we may keep. I will stand and fight until the end, because I owe it to my country. What will you do?

Sincerely,
Ashley Anderson
This article comes from Arkansas Publik Skulz
http://www.gohotsprings.com/school/

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To: Boxsford
It's a portion of the Ghent altarpiece by the painter Van Eyck. You can see all of it here Web Gallery You'll notice the links at the bottom. It's a masterpiece. It includes the Adoration of the Lamb, where the blood gushes into the cup. Van Eyck precedes Vermeer, Vermeer precedes Ashley Anderson ; )
101 posted on 08/30/2003 5:38:10 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: cornelis
Thanks so much for the explanation and I'll check out the web site. The painting is gorgeous!
102 posted on 08/30/2003 7:17:32 PM PDT by Boxsford
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To: ohioWfan
Well thank you very much! What a kind thing to say. Though I must admit, to my shame, that I have been caustic in the past--not on this subject however.

There was a time, when I was first homeschooling, when I had such a passion for it that I was convinced it was for EVERY parent. I quickly found out this was not true and that there were plenty of good parents out there doing a great job with there children in public schools. I think in some cases homeschooling parents think that it validates them in some way if they condemn all public schooling.

103 posted on 08/30/2003 7:30:39 PM PDT by Boxsford
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To: Timmy
LOL!
104 posted on 08/30/2003 7:31:30 PM PDT by Boxsford
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
"How dare them expose the fact that blacks were previously denied the right to vote and the legal ability to participate in the economy of their local communities, all before the adults in the lives of those first graders can indoctrinate them as to the innate inferiority of blacks. The shock! The gall! The horror!"

I'm afraid that you are ignorant of the agenda in play. The purpose of the classes on the Civil Rights movement is only tangentially about the difficulties suffered by blacks. Its actual purpose is to instill white guilt. The leftest elites who control academia, media, politics, and law in America view the white middle class as the single major obstacle to the enactment of their socialist utopia. This group (the white middle class) harbors cultural, religious, and political ideas which are anathema to the elite liberals.

As a result, the leftist elites have chosen to pursue the methodology of Antonio Gramsci. He was an Italian socialist who argued that communists must infiltrate the institutions of culture and deconstruct the culture, religion, and traditions of the people in question. Thus disconnected from their roots, the masses would be alienated and ripe for the political agenda of the socialists.

The bombardment of middle class white children in america with hatred and shame for their religion, ancestors, and culture is the method by which this recalcitrant demographic will surrender to the ideological program of the leftist elites.

105 posted on 08/30/2003 7:35:32 PM PDT by quebecois
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To: ohioWfan
My daughter has a severe speech problem. We knew that she would not go to my son's old private school. They didn't have the services that she needed, and we couldn't pay for school and services.

After looking at the public school, we liked it so much we decided to switch my son from the private school. It's been great for all of my kids.

The public schools really can help special needs kids. My daughter gets speech and occupational therapy. This year, she'll see a reading specialist every day. If we need to, she can go into a special ed classroom with only 12 kids, 1 teacher, and several aides. The teacer in the special ed class really does teach. I observed her class a lot last year, and I was impressed.
106 posted on 08/30/2003 9:06:22 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: 4mycountry
Keep up the good work!!!
107 posted on 08/30/2003 9:15:40 PM PDT by conservcalgal ((I've been here since 1967 and I'm not leaving!!!!!!!))
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To: SedVictaCatoni
Here's an interesting (and cute) story. My nephew, who is five years old and in kindergarden, likes to refer to me as Mr. President - This began after he overheard me and my wife's family discussing politics and one of them saying I should be president.

Anyway, one day we had just gone out to pickup a pizza pie and as we were getting out of the car, he had just called me Mr. President again. I told him, "since I am the president, don't you think you should carry the pizza upstairs for me?" His reply - "No way, if you are the president, you work for me, so I am your boss. You have to carry the pizza up!" So I say to him, "maybe you should be the president." He replies, "I can't. I am only five. You have to be 35 to be a president."

This was two years ago and it still blows me away. I asked where he learned all of this and he said at school. He knew lots of things that I couldn't believe. How many US senators, etc. I was very impressed.

I, on the other hand, also went to public schools and they sucked. I did have some good teachers here and there, though.

108 posted on 08/30/2003 9:48:41 PM PDT by undeniable logic
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To: ohioWfan
I would consider your experiences to be unusual, in a good way, for your children. Having participated in both private and public schools, I have noticed the ones with the active parents are always the better schools. When parents value education and make the time for it, either at home or volunteering in the school, children succeed. That benefit doesn't remain in the home, it helps society as well.
109 posted on 08/30/2003 10:06:38 PM PDT by secret garden (giddy up)
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To: luckystarmom
ping....
110 posted on 08/31/2003 1:52:59 PM PDT by BigBadBrian
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To: steplock
bttt
111 posted on 09/01/2003 4:42:41 PM PDT by citizen (Write-in Tom Tancredo President 2004!)
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