Posted on 08/05/2020 7:34:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
We conservatives are quite the enigma. On the one hand, we shake our fists at the Beelzebubs of Antifa and denounce their lawless barbarism. On the other, we demand that government schools stay open so that we can send our children to the leftist factories that produce the very Marxists we loathe. We make our young people the targets of the Socialists' weapons of mass instruction and then bemoan the loss of patriotism among our youth. Are we self-destructive? Or simply daft?
Maybe neither. Perhaps we are fearful. As products of the School System ourselves, we have been conditioned to believe that the only people qualified to teach our children are those who hold government credentials. Yes, we have a vested interest in our children and love them in a way that a government employee cannot. And yes, we see them for the individuals they are rather than as one of the dozens of kids in Mrs. Peabody’s class. But teach them? Is that even possible? To answer that question, we could look to statistics showing that homeschooled students outperform their public-schooled peers on standardized tests and the SAT; that they fare better in college and graduate at a higher rate. But doing so merely perpetuates the moderns’ myth that the chief end of education is cramming for tests and regurgitating information that is forgotten five minutes later. We set our sights too low. If we are to preserve Western Civilization, we must aim higher. Instead of fashioning competent test-takers, we ought to be in the business of grooming minds for greatness -- minds like those of the home-educated Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Edison, and C.S. Lewis (to name a few). It isn’t a classroom our kids need, but a proper education.
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I’d like to see schools stay closed.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century. It’s primary functions today are as a jobs program for over-educated grads of over-priced colleges, and free daycare for parents that have sold themselves into indentured slavery.
We slept while our enemies plan, rust never sleeps. The change needs to begin in our education system because those are our future leaders good and bad
I for one do not “demand that our government schools stay open.”
>>It isn’t a classroom our kids need, but a proper education.<<
THIS^^^ Now is the time to kill the education monster. Schools today are daycare facilities for the young and indoctrination systems for the older kids.
The teachers are going to get paid.
Let them babysit for the money.
Well said Sir!
” | Karen Karacsony “
Will look for that byline in future. Good article.
Indoctrination starts early on.
This is a great opportunity for Vouchers. People should get their kids out of government schools.
DOE pays school districts based on attendance.
This is why roll is called every single day.
There is absolutely no reason to change this policy.
If the school has no students in seats on a given day, they should get no federal funding.
Your move school districts and the NEA, your move.
I know. My husband and I were cub scout den leaders for several years. 8 year old boys were terrified about climate change and polar bears drowning.
We’re also pro-police and anti-government at the same time.
Your move school districts and the NEA, your move.
They'll want the law changed, so that it's no longer based on attendance but enrollment only. Then they'll want *that* changed, so fed funding is based on K-12 population within their district.
Next they'll want every abortion counted as if they would have been students!
It’s sorta like being absolutely against the death penalty, but pro-abortion.
To a leftist you can’t put someone convicted of horrific crimes, who has been through decades of appeals, to death, but the most innocent of innocent, on a momentary whim? No problem!
“Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the early 21st century.”
Maybe if it went back to the original reason for public schools to teach kids to read the Bible there might be hope! But that’s just wishful thinking.
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