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Indoctrination Education: Public Schools Are Now Programming Facilities
American Thinker.com ^ | January 19, 2020 | John Klar

Posted on 01/19/2020 7:38:30 AM PST by Kaslin

When I was in eighth grade, a teacher announced we were going to study capital punishment. The methodology for this process was that the class was divided randomly in half, and each side was assigned the task of writing an essay: one half pro, one half con. After we had completed our essays, the students engaged in open debate about this complex issue.

Perhaps this sort of objective process of critical thinking is still practiced in some American schools, but it surely seems scarce. In its place, secular liberalism, and "progressivism," have become the Church of the American State, administered through public schools.

When Roe v. Wade was decided, the schools may have taught that abortion was legal, but they did not instruct children that it was moral — that was left to parents in the home. By the time marriage was redefined so two men could claim it together as a constitutional liberty, the landscape had clearly changed — not only are children being instructed that homosexuality is the moral equivalent of heterosexuality (in conflict with numerous faith and cultural traditions), but they are being taught that they can select their gender orientation and gender "identity." In Vermont, young children are offered transgender hormone treatment in preparation for transgender surgeries — and if the parents disagree, a court order can bypass them.

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1 posted on 01/19/2020 7:38:30 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

After 12 years of Catholic School I came away Not indoctrinated.


2 posted on 01/19/2020 7:48:19 AM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: Kaslin

Now? Looking back and pondering, it’s been going on for quite a while.


3 posted on 01/19/2020 7:51:47 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: jcon40

But I bet you had a great education, which you would not have had if you had to go to a public school.


4 posted on 01/19/2020 7:57:32 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This programming bs has been going about 4 decades.

It has gotten worse since the Obama years.

Child abuse by parents today is sending their children to these programming centers, aka public schools.


5 posted on 01/19/2020 7:58:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over the right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: Kaslin

There can be no doubt, our universities are the American Komsomol.


6 posted on 01/19/2020 8:06:25 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: Kaslin

“I bet you had a great education, which you would not have had if you had to go to a public school.”

This point was driven home to our adult children with kids in school.

A young man, the adult child, of friends back east, came to our area to go to an elite trade school.

At a dinner party welcoming him back, he told everyone that his 5 years at the so called good state college was a waste of his time and his parents money.

He said, “The 4 years of private high school prepared him better for life than his 5 years at the state college.”

Our oldest son and his wife had some serious discussions with this young man after dinner and later by phone.

They decided to send their children to a good and expensive private high school after their kids finished their 8th grade.

Years later with both of their kids in great colleges, they are glad that they did.


7 posted on 01/19/2020 8:11:59 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Democrats sue Iran over the right to use "Death to America" as their 2020 campaign slogan!)
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To: Kaslin

Excellent article! Should be read by all!


8 posted on 01/19/2020 8:13:09 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Kaslin

Approaching the age of 73-years, I am happy to say that I missed the indoctrination phase of public “education”.

The NEA, AFT and the Department of Education and all entity contrary to the health of our Republic, and must be abolished.

Teachers should not be selected from the ranks of those too stupid or lazy to get a real college education!


9 posted on 01/19/2020 8:13:23 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: Redleg Duke

Correction, “are”,, not “and”.

The NEA, AFT and Department of Education are all entities contrary to the health of our Republic and must be abolished!


10 posted on 01/19/2020 8:15:17 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: Kaslin

Correct. The education from Catholic School was excellent .... and it taught me to question authority.


11 posted on 01/19/2020 8:17:47 AM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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I have heard this statement.

If you send you child to Catholic school for twelve years, you would expect that he will be taught a love for the Catholic church. If you send your child to military school, you should expect that he will be taught a love for the military. Why are you surprised when you send your child to a government school for twelve years that he is taught to love the government?

12 posted on 01/19/2020 8:25:55 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Cutest internet video: Charlie bit my finger. Creepiest internet video: Joe Biden bit my finger.)
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Agreed.

In 11.54 years when our kids realize they didn’t die from climate change some might not appreciate being lied to.


13 posted on 01/19/2020 8:38:31 AM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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If more conservatives would become school teachers, we could combat this. I am a public school teacher in Los Angeles. Just last week I had my students reading a Guardian article from 2004 about how major cities would be underwater by 2020, so they could see for themselves this alarmism about Climate Change is suspect. I could see quite a few of them really taking it in. It doesn’t take a lot to undo the programming. But conservatives refuse to get down into the trenches.


14 posted on 01/19/2020 8:50:55 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

My wife is a great conservative public school teacher in the central Sierras

and a crack shot with a pistol. Was going to volunteer as a concealed carry if it had been allowed. .


15 posted on 01/19/2020 8:59:18 AM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: rktman

Now? Looking back and pondering, it’s been going on for quite a while.

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Exactly! What’s this just “Now” business.


16 posted on 01/19/2020 9:33:18 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: jcon40

Hmmmm. Central Sierras. We’re just a little to the east of that but it sure seems like NV is headed down the hole in the outhouse.


17 posted on 01/19/2020 9:51:17 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Grampa Dave; Kaslin
“I bet you had a great education, which you would not have had if you had to go to a public school.”

I was in 5th grade at Star of the Sea when we moved from VA to TX for Dad's job. But, we moved a month or so after school started, so we ended up going to public school since my parents didn't want to pay a full semester of tuition for a month of school. So, lucky us got to go to the public school for a bit, ride the bus.

After the first week, my teacher talked to my parents about testing me to move up a grade or two. Granted, I am smarter than most, but at that age, intelligence isn't nearly as big a factor as schooling. By the end of fourth grade, Catholic school already had me a year, maybe two, ahead of the public schools. It's ridiculous.

My wife went to the local public school here in TX, And talking to her, I think their AP BC Calc class was the same size (maybe smaller) as my high school's - and they have three times the number of students. Sure, public schools can turn out smart kids. But that's usually in spite of the school, not because of it. Whereas private schools tend to have a much higher average output of their students.
18 posted on 01/19/2020 10:05:30 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Kaslin

It’s sick out there and getting sicker. - The Great One.. Bob Grant.


19 posted on 01/19/2020 10:19:55 AM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Kaslin
"...Public Schools Are Now Programming Facilities"

Stupid title...

  1. Indoctrination has been in full force for over 40-years...The use of "Now" is evidence of decades of having your head up your nether region...
  2. "Public" was a descriptor that was abolished in the late 60's... The "public" no longer establishes, controls, or sets policies for the schools... They are "government" schools... Communist morons producing more communist morons...

20 posted on 01/19/2020 10:34:27 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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