Posted on 09/01/2017 8:30:55 AM PDT by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Looking like summer is hanging on here in central CA. 110+º for the next several days.
I agree with this completely. In the ‘old days’, Summer vacation was every bit as instructive in its way, as the school year was. I probably learned MORE in the Summer, through independent reading and activities, time to contemplate and grow interiorly, etc., than I did in school.
The Deep State is always developing new information that must be transferred into your offspring via educational endoctrination.
Eventually, they will demand around-the-clock access...for the good of the children, of course.
It affects even homeschoolers. My parish tries to coordinate Faith Formation around three different county school systems. Can the Stewardship Committee meet? No, it's spring break. Is this a good date for a Spirituality event? No, Friday's a teacher workday: people will treat it as a three-day weekend.
It takes time to indoctrinate children. Especially when you have to waste so much of the day on actual education.
Less of that each year, going by test results.
Even in my late sixties, I still count the passing years by their Summers, just like I did as a schoolchild.
The author of this article raises some very good points, but he could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had gone right to his last few paragraphs. A society that makes itself subservient to its institutions for no damn good reason isn't even free anymore. He'd be better off simply pointing out that government-run education is completely incompatible with a free society.
This guy is consistently right. I am amazed he has not been shipped off to a monastery and silenced.
Yes, ditto what you said.
I loved summer growing up! I could just relax and spend all day thinking about the world, without some obnoxious homework assignment or test getting in the way and ruining everything.
I still do that, which is why I am pretty useless overall, oops. Heh. The upside is that I've done that for so long I am almost too old to care about what the world expects.
I feel so bad for kids these days, with the school year starting earlier and ending later. This was happening when my son was in school, thirty years ago.
Sending kids back to that prison-like environment, sticking them into a classroom to listen to some teacher drone on and on about really boring stuff, and then when they leave the classroom, the bigger kids bully the smaller kids, with detrimental effect on both sides... it’s awful. School is such a horrible environment, it is institutionalized child abuse, as far as I am concerned.
I tend to agree with you. Especially with family trips to the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore, Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C.
One advantage of starting school in August is that the semester break coincides with the Christmas break. Instead of having book reports and mid-year exams hanging over your head during the holidays, the semester in over.
Calling Betsy DeVos. Pick up the phone, please, Betsy.
Is it time to homeschool, yet?
I wish I could have.
On the other hand I hold standardized test’ partly to blame for the shortened summer. In Arizona now, many schools start closer to the first week of August then the first week of September. Since standardized tests are held on a fixed date, schools discovered that they could get an advantage by starting the school year earlier. Like the peacock and its excessive plumage fostered by competition, all schools and all children nwo bear the burden of a competitive device.
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