VISIT TO AN AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL FROM HELL

VISIT TO AN AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL FROM HELL-OBSERVATIONS OF A MAD DAD! | 4/16/2002 | RWBaral

[xm177e2]

Breaking news?

[codder too]

BREAKING NEWS?

YES,FOR ALL TO MANY IT IS.

[tet68]

See, now you're going overboard. No wonder your kids won't talk to you. Aren't you their friend?

Peer Leaders.........do they still call them jungvolk?

[xm177e2]

[2Trievers]

Great rant ... but don't think it's much different in private, even religious schools. Teach your kids well ... it's a tough, cruel world out there. Teach them well. &;-)

[Ol' Sparky]

Indeed, sending a child to a public school is like playing Russian Roulette with his or her life. It's impossible for even the best parents to undo the damage done by eight hours a day of public school.

[captnorb]

Beg to differ...you have to live in the NE or left coast

[Clara Lou]

I'd just like to say that the public high school here in my Texas town is nothing like what has been described in on this thread. (I don't mean it's perfect, mind you, but parents are still parents down here.) The people of the Village of Massachusetts have given themselves over to this stuff. I'm sure Hillary is proud.

[Lil'freeper]

but don't think it's much different in private, even religious schools.

Trust me, its not. At least not in Jesuit schools.

[2Trievers]

Capt. I teach in the inner city ... of a major CT metropolis ... rife with corruption, greed and political agendas. I've had my kids in private/private religious and public schools. Let me tell you what works ... involved parents. Your kid's in school only 6 - 8 hours. Where is he the other 138 hours/week? I sure hope under your good guidance. That's the only way they're going to make it. You can't keep them in a bubble. Let them learn ... but YOU teach them. Teach them to stand up to bullies ... teach them right from wrong ... teach them to love learning ... teach them PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY ... teach them how to make a logical argument ... and they'll be just fine. I did it three times! &;-)

[Arthur McGowan]

When you get people from all over the country at one location, such as a convention, you will discover that everyone knows that the public schools all over the country are just terrible, "except in my town."

[2Trievers]

We've gone to hellinahandbasket here in NE. And I can see it in my lifetime. It disturbs me greatly ... which is why I choose to stay and fight. To rail about the system from the inside. I may be a lone reminder ... but I'm a reminder none the less.

[RWBaral]

I can only say about my kid's private school, and a few others, which happens to be a Protestant Christian school. I've checked out Catholic Christian schools of the same good calibre. I have a relative who sends his kids to a conservative Jewish religious school, where the same basic Values approach to education are taken. These schools are safer, happier & produce better educated kids on a whole lot less money, and with a whole lot more love & support for the children. What's their big secret of success? The clock has simply been frozen circa 1962, with the exception of computers & such. I don't have to worry about my kid being actively exposed to such corruptions to such a degree. Sure, no school is perfect, but public schools in old New England are becoming intolerable! At my kid's private school, which runs on a shoe string budget & charges per student tuition about 1/4 of local public schools, they start the day with a simple prayer, pledge to the American flag, study correct American history (good & bad), study evolution versus creation based on evidence, study The Holy Bible daily with basic reinforcement of Absolute Rights & Wrongs, and do NOT get sent off to some government reproductive confidential health clinic to get HIV, STD & pregnancy screening behind parents' backs! We have no problems with violence or hate crimes, as the children are taught The Ten COmmandments of Moses & The Golden Rule of JESUS daily in everything they study. The children are taught rational patriotism (not blind), to be good stewards of GOD's Creation (but not overboard), to pursue scientific knowledge (but not worship it) and to appreciate abstinence until marriage is GOD's plan for human happiness (even though it's not trouble free). Most of us parents are not wealthy, and make great sacrifices to send our kids to these local private religious schools. We can't even get bus service for our school taxes paid for our kids! I personally would prefer to eat bread & water, than to give my child over to these local corrupted public schools up in old New England. End.

[Clara Lou]

When you get people from all over the country at one location, such as a convention, you will discover that everyone knows that the public schools all over the country are just terrible, "except in my town."
Arthur, did you read what I said??? Please read my post again. I'll tell you what I have noticed-- people from one city or state or part of the US think that all schools across the US are like the ones in their area. (We do not, for instance, have teachers' unions here in Texas. Teachers cannot strike here.) Texas is not Massachusetts. We have our difficulties, but Hillary's Village won't fly here.

[dasboot]

Ten years ago I observed the same stuff and got busy honeschooling the kids.

Funny, life: I now must thank the public school idiots for inspiring me to the most rewarding pursuit of my life.

The socialists, reprobates, and their well-meaning but misguided supporters, will twist a generation, and maybe even a nation, into the dust; disregard of natural and revealed law, and the didactic history of Western Civilization has already set them on a course of extinction. It'll be messy for a while, but there will be a remnant. Choose your children's destiny. You can do something small and significant, or large and ineffectual.

Those who know, know; those who don't will not change their minds for your excited alarms. Rather , eyes will open; and hearts set searching for light will find you in your kitchen, where you share learning and love. Your completed offspring will do themselves, and you, proud. Your great- grandchildren will hear your voice, not just note your likeness.

God has smacked you upside the head; and I pray , as others prayed for me, that you heed the call.

[RWBaral]

You are right.

[inflorida]

Great rant ... but don't think it's much different in private, even religious schools.

I have to disagree, at least according to my experience. I went to a private school in Northern Virginia and I witnessed nothing even close to what is stated in the first post.
On the other hand, my friends who attended the local public high school could probably identify with the majority of what RWBaral wrote in his post.

[SengirV]

You lost me at " The theory of evoution is scientifically impossible. "

[ActionNewsBill]

...Black Label Society....

I wonder if they got there name here....