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Government Schools - The Continuing Collapse (Vanity)
The Continuing Collapse | 2/7/2007 | Exodus Mandate

Posted on 02/10/2007 9:38:54 AM PST by achilles2000

WELCOME TO THE CONTINUING COLLAPSE!

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” T.S. Eliot

ADVENTURES IN DIVERSITY TRAINING

All of you undoubtedly know that the education system relentlessly promotes a leftist ideology. Still, you may find it instructive to read how the system works at the grassroots to reinforce the Gramscian voice in teachers' heads.

In a Colorado district, teachers were recently treated to diversity training from a trainer who must have had at least a Ph.D. in "Whiteness Studies". From a sheet given to teachers during the "training" :

"Most white people most of the time" share the belief that "bland is best" when it comes to aesthetics. They believe that "wealth equals worth" and that a wife is "subordinate to (her) husband." In communicating, white people "don't show emotion" and "avoid conflict, intimacy." They share an ethic of "win at all costs" and possess a "master and control nature." http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_5333019,00.html

Who would have thought that Louis Farrakhan would be moonlighting in Colorado?

THERE'S A BUZZ ABOUT VOUCHERS IN THE BEEHIVE STATE

Pull up your easy-chair and get out the popcorn; there's going to be a donnybrook in Utah. The Utah legislature's lower house just passed a voucher plan:

Utah's plan is modest, and at the same time revolutionary. It would reimburse parents sending their children to private schools between $500 and $3,000 a year based on their family income. Parents whose kids currently attend private school would not be eligible unless their income was low enough. But all new kindergartners would qualify, so that by 2020 all private school students would be eligible for vouchers. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009624

Current betting is that the Utah Senate will pass the bill and that Governor Huntsman will sign it.

Interestingly, a key feature of the bill that got it through the Utah House is a provision giving school districts $1,500 for every student who leaves with a voucher. None dare call it a ransom. But, hey, highly trained education professionals will grab a dollar any way they can.

In any event, even with full passage and signing, the fight won't be over. Utah is one of 37 states with a "Blaine Amendment", a 19Th Century expression of anti-Catholic sentiment much beloved by nativist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and, today, by the left and the government education monopoly.

From the outset, the Blaine Amendments were intended, in part, to make sure that no state funds were used to support parochial schools. (Here is Utah's version: http://www.blaineamendments.org/states/states_files/UT.htm). Not long ago, a small Florida voucher program was declared unconstitutional under the Florida Constitution on the basis of Florida's Blaine Amendment (http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7528).

Rest assured, the education special interests have only begun to fight (apologies to John Paul Jones). The folks who think vouchers are the answer are effectively ceding game, set, and match to the education monopoly. The obvious and straightforward solution is simply to get our children out now. If just twenty percent of parents were to rescue their children, it would probably be more than enough to cause the entire corrupt system of government schooling to collapse.

YOUR CHILDREN ARE SAFE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BECAUSE OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS REALLY CARE AND ARE HELD TO HIGH STANDARDS [Can you see my nose growing?]

Not everyone cares enough about children to be an education professional. To see if you are cut out for this calling, answer this question: What should you do if you discover a 12 year-old is sodomizing 6 year-olds in your school's bathroom?

1. Beat the living be-jabbers out of the adolescent pervert and then call the police? 2. Detain him and call the police? 3. Call the police? 4. Not call the police and cover it up, thereby allowing him to find 3 more victims?

In Allentown, PA, answer "4" is the winner:

"Teachers and administrators at Central Elementary School knew they had a problem with F.H., a 12-year-old who had been accused of going into a bathroom stall and sexually assaulting a first-grade boy. But instead of calling police and removing F.H., district officials covered up the attack and allowed him to remain in class, leading to the sexual assault of three more first-graders, parents say."

In a civil action by the 6 year-old victims' parents against the school district, the district's lawyer correctly stated that under existing law:

"...school officials cannot be held responsible simply for failing to protect youngsters from assaults by other students. He cited federal court rulings that say school systems are generally immune from paying damages unless it can be shown that they actually took “affirmative” steps that put youngsters in danger, and that the action taken 'shocks the conscience.'"

The District's lawyer's point, obviously, was that the district wasn't liable because it took no affirmative step that "shocks the conscience".

Now, let's leave aside that the highly trained education professionals in Allentown had their lawyer argue that covering-up the rape of six year-olds and leaving the perp in the school to troll for victims doesn't involve an affirmative act that "shocks the conscience". How many parents know that the law holds government schools to such a low legal standard regarding the safety of schoolchildren that the standard itself "shocks the conscience". The full story is here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17030722/from/ET/

FELONY STUPIDITY IN TEXAS

Contrast the standards the courts have concocted to protect our highly trained education professionals from the consequences of their perfidious behavior with the treatment of a 10 year-old in Texas that was so outrageous that even a liberal Dino media columnist is up-in-arms about it.

In Tomball (one of those places where the schools are "different"), 10-year-old Casey Harmeier was charged with a felony for deliberately setting off a fire alarm. Only the persistence of his father led to the admission by the school district that his son didn't set off the alarm, a highly trained education professional had: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/4523078.html and http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/4531988.html

Because the child had only bumped into the plastic cover on the alarm, thereby loosening it, and then removed it, the prosecutors have reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. The boy goes on trial May 15. Such are the wages of handing children over to the government schools.

HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL HAS GIDEONS ARRESTED

Please don't think, however, that our highly trained education professionals can't recognize genuine threats to our children when they see them. In Key Largo, Florida, Gideons were arrested for distributing Bibles on a public sidewalk outside a school: http://www.ednews.org/articles/7795/1/Gideons-arrested-after-school-officials/Page1.html

The school officials probably feared that the Gideons might cause an outbreak of reading among their schoolchildren.

Lest you think that this fear is limited to Florida, Texas school officials also have had Gideons arrested for the crime of distributing Bibles on a public sidewalk. Perhaps our educators worry that the presence of Bibles might make the members of their school's Gay/Straight Alliance club "uncomfortable" or damage their self-esteem.

EDUCATING THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

In the last edition of the Continuing Collapse, we discovered that a New Jersey district had been caught paying $130,000 a year to an employee who had died in 1974. Now we find that a Brooklyn teacher allegedly pocketed $6,000 for tutoring a student after he had died in Vietnam. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/495736p-417734c.html

If they could just arrange to have the dead school employees teach the dead students it might clear everything up. At least there wouldn't be any union grievance or student discipline issues to bother busy administrators.

DINOSAUR MEDIA DISCOVERS LOOMING LITERACY CRISIS

ETS, a sworn member of the education monopoly, recently issued a report warning that as baby-boomers retire the workforce is likely to become less literate.

Don't worry, this isn't a hit piece on our highly trained education professionals. The problem, they tell us, is them there Latin American immigrants. Why, if it weren't for them, we would have the best educated workforce ever. Really. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0206/p02s01-legn.html?s=hns

Spoilsports - the kind of people that right thinking highly trained professionals and journalists should never pay attention to - think that perhaps the problem just perhaps has something to do with how our highly trained educational professionals are educating their inmates. Here are a few words from the spoilsports: http://4brevard.com/choice/international-test-scores.htm AND http://www.edexcellence.net/institute/publication/publication.cfm?id=50&pubsubid=726#726

TEACHERS GONE WILD

In Houston 300 teachers staged a near riot at a recent school board meeting because they were upset that the district had adopted a performance bonus program, which of course meant that there were winners and losers.

Not only did the sheer enormity of being "judged" on one's performance cause a radical spike in the demand for grief counselors in the Houston area, but the disgruntled highly trained education professionals sought therapeutic relief by giving grief to the board (which grief sharing nearly got out of hand). http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4539311.html

GOVERNOR KNOWS BEST

For at least two years, Texans have been wondering if our beloved Republican Governor Perry had slipped away unnoticed to Tijuana for the political equivalent of a sex change operation. Now we know.

As reported here last week, Perry decided to come out of the closet by issuing an executive order requiring all government school girls to be vaccinated for an STD before entering 6Th grade. Now the Texas Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have taken some of the fun out of his political-bath house impersonation of Jocelyn Elders.

"Gov. Rick Perry's order requiring schoolgirls to get inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer may be unpopular with social conservatives, but another important group also is lining up against it: doctors. From, among others, the Texas Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, many doctors are saying it's too early to mandate the vaccine, which was approved for use last June." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4532274.html

Absent from the Texas debate is any discussion of the Governor's use of compulsory attendance laws and government schools to coercively implement a bit of his private vision of utopia.

In the 9th Circuit's Palmdale decision, the Court stated baldly that once your child enters the government's school the government can teach your child what it wants, when it wants, and how it wants. This incident in Texas simply reminds us that the political power that can be wielded through the government 's schools goes far beyond curriculum and teaching methods.

Parents who are offering their children as a sacrifice to the Moloch of government schools are effectively giving up control of health decisions for their children and, as the legal standards exposed in the Allentown case show, are effectively giving custody of their children to an institution that will only rarely be held accountable for even the physical safety of their children.

REMEMBER, FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.


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1 posted on 02/10/2007 9:38:56 AM PST by achilles2000
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To: metmom; Zack Nguyen; BlackElk; wintertime; cinives

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2 posted on 02/10/2007 9:40:40 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: achilles2000

If I had children today, I would never put them in a public school. If everyone that cared about their kids put them in private schools they would be much better off and their kids would outshine students in the public schools.


3 posted on 02/10/2007 9:42:25 AM PST by RC2
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To: RC2

I agree, but even better - the public schools would be defunded and delegitimized. That would clear the board for an entirely fresh discussion of education in this country - one to which the unions would not be invited.


4 posted on 02/10/2007 9:45:03 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: achilles2000

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5 posted on 02/10/2007 9:48:04 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: achilles2000

Putting children in private schools, by itself, does nothing to defund public schools.

All it does is reduce their expenses, giving them more money to misuse.


6 posted on 02/10/2007 9:49:11 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)
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To: achilles2000; leda

Interesting.


7 posted on 02/10/2007 9:50:40 AM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: Sherman Logan

In most states, there is per capita funding received from the state and federal governments that is in addition to local funding. In those states, there is a "snap-shot" date to determine the school census in the fall, which is why students are almost never expelled before the snapshot date.

Thus, declining enrollment means less money. This in turn creates problems vis fixed costs in the budget and leads to fights among the various special interests who don't want to accept part of the "pain." The ongoing meltdown of Detroit schools is a good example of this.If you live in a state that doesn't fund this way, I'd like to know which one it is just for my own information. Thanks!


8 posted on 02/10/2007 9:55:40 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: DaveLoneRanger; 2Jedismom; Aggie Mama; agrace; Antoninus; arbooz; bboop; blu; cgk; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the "other" articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. If you want on/off this list, please freepmail me. The main Homeschool Ping List by DaveLoneRanger handles the homeschool-specific articles.
9 posted on 02/10/2007 9:58:57 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: patton

Yup, I'm glad we don't live in any of those districts.


10 posted on 02/10/2007 10:03:18 AM PST by leda (The quiet girl on the stairs.)
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To: achilles2000

Six of one...1/2 dozen of another...


11 posted on 02/10/2007 10:16:23 AM PST by dakine
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To: Sherman Logan

It will for an alternative system that can prove it self. Most parents want the best for the kids as do I. I have a 4 and 5 year old just starting the government reprogramming process called public school.

I can't afford to go private and have no other choice right now.

The largest sign in the school says “Save the planet recycle"

The word Christmas in not ever used in any way shapes or form in the school. It is treated like the "F" word.

And this is one of the top ten public schools in AZ.

We need a new system fast or our country will not survive.


12 posted on 02/10/2007 10:21:03 AM PST by Goldwater and Gingrich
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To: Goldwater and Gingrich

We have homeschooled our daughter for 8 years now. There are alternatives, although for most people no easy ones.


13 posted on 02/10/2007 10:28:52 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)
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To: achilles2000

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14 posted on 02/10/2007 10:31:53 AM PST by VOA
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To: achilles2000
Parents who are offering their children as a sacrifice to the Moloch of government schools are effectively giving up control of health decisions for their children and, as the legal standards exposed in the Allentown case show, are effectively giving custody of their children to an institution that will only rarely be held accountable for even the physical safety of their children.

I especially noticed "Parents who are offering their children as a sacrifice to the Moloch of government schools..."

Compulsory attendance laws violate morality no matter what the government schools do or teach.

They initiate a threat of violence against all parents and they condition children to accept involuntary servitude.

15 posted on 02/10/2007 11:38:02 AM PST by secretagent
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To: Sherman Logan

In most states, school districts are in fact funded on a average-per-capita attendance basis. Removal of 10% of the involuntary ''customers'' from a district would defund the district significantly...but not enough, unfortunately.


16 posted on 02/10/2007 11:40:02 AM PST by SAJ (debunking myths about markets and prices on FR since 2001)
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To: achilles2000

Sorry, didn't see your post before replying. Spot on, and better said than mine.


17 posted on 02/10/2007 11:40:50 AM PST by SAJ (debunking myths about markets and prices on FR since 2001)
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To: achilles2000
Thank you for alerting me. I just love this quote:

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

And then they join the Democratic Party...

18 posted on 02/10/2007 12:31:25 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: achilles2000
But instead of calling police and removing F.H., district officials covered up the attack and allowed him to remain in class, leading to the sexual assault of three more first-graders, parents say."

That is shocking. Good grief.

19 posted on 02/10/2007 1:24:18 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: achilles2000
"But instead of calling police and removing F.H., district officials covered up the attack and allowed him to remain in class, leading to the sexual assault of three more first-graders, parents say."

If it were me, I would organize a "boycott" of the school. Organize parents to pull out all kids from the school, and refuse to bring them back until the administration that knew of the assault is sacked, one and all. The School Board and Administration would be forced to act, and it woukd cause maximum embarrassment.

20 posted on 02/10/2007 2:04:24 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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