Posted on 04/21/2018 5:24:06 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Massachusetts preschool tells children to stop saying 'best friend'
By Greg Norman | Fox News
None of the students at a Massachusetts preschool have a best friend. And that's an order.
Pentucket Workshop Preschool's "best friend" policy is being blasted by a parent who says her daughter got upset after reportedly being told by a teacher she couldn’t use the term because it could make other students feel excluded.
"How do you police a 4-year-old from expressing their feelings?" Christine Hartwell, whose daughter, Julia, attends the Georgetown school, told FOX25 Boston. "It's outrageous, it's silly [and] it hurts.
Hartwell added: "When I asked her what was wrong she said she was really sad about what her teacher did that day."
The school does not spell out the policy in their handbook, according to Hartwell, but she told FOX25 Boston she got a letter from Pentucket's director.
"It has been our experience (which spans decades) that the use of the term 'best friend,' even when used in a loving way, can lead other children to feel excluded [...] which can ultimately lead to the formation of 'cliques' and 'outsiders,'" the letter was quoted as saying.
It adds the school will continue to discourage children from saying the term.
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Not at all. Give parents vouchers and let them choose their own schools. The government should not be dictating how to educate children.
Who pays for those vouchers?
Vouchers are the camel’s nose that will get government even more involved in private schools.
This thread was about a private school.
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Thumb suckers
Use of the term ‘best friend, even when used in a loving way, can lead other children to feel excluded.
This country need a hugh kick-in-the-rear to get back to basics.
The preschool’s headmaster’s head should be spinning with all the parents pulling their kids because of this policy.
Absolute insanity. And, unfortunately, it seems to be catching.
That is a large part of the problem.
Kick the government outta our schools. Hillsdale College is proof positive this can be done.
Trying to get rid of individuality. The educational establishment has been at it a long time. It wants cookie-cutter robots — Shut up and operate your computer and we may allow you to live and breed, maybe.
Perfect!
Good one
They are social engineering your children like Pavlov’s dog so that irrational, unnatural pathways are drilled into their little mushy heads (incapable of free will when adults-—totally programmed minds with no agency as Fichte knew the State could do in 1810, if you could get the little children away from parents into an artificial, controlled institution (Prussian school system).
A system where the State could remove young children from the Natural Family/common sense for MANDATORY INDOCTRINATION— removed from the Natural family so the child’s mind/worldview could be totally warped and controlled by the State. Common Core is weaponized curricula—carefully worded “words” so that they could control the Mind. Before 1970, there was some free play and free association in schools, but that ended with Jimmy Carter.
Peer pressure is used by the facilitators (teachers) of the Marxist/Socialist ideology to flip 2000 years of rational, humane Christian Ethics (the Age of Reason) back to the irrational, pagan, satanic, slave, tribal/collective “ethics” where Evil is Good, baby-killing a “rite” and Man-Boy “love” is “good” again, as slavery in all pagan, collectives and in todays Afghanistan. There is no individualism—no ability to think outside of the group.
Free play and free association and the mother and father (natural, moral, mature role models) HAVE TO SHAPE THE MIND OF children-—otherwise, they will be warped, removed from Reality, and easily controlled for they will believe any irrational thing you say (like boys can be girls) and therefore, be totally dehumanized (not capable of Reason and Logic (the Christian worldview which is the ONLY rational one, which rid the world of the idea that Slavery is Good and sodomizing others is evil is being destroyed in the minds of children).
YOU CONTROL WORDS like BANNING God, Jesus Christ, Best Friend and you ban concepts—YOU CONTROL THE MIND/worldview. They are creating irrational socialists (group (non) thinkers) who have no agency-—dependent totally on group think.
We are incapable of transmitting a Christian worldview (Individualism/Natural Rights from God) on our children when they are put into these artificial, evil, indoctrination prisons which deny Truth (God), deny Free Play and Free Association and the Natural Family (truth/common sense). Agency can never exist is such shaped “minds”——which are totally removed from nature and Reality (the Natural Family).
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