Get your kids out of school. Now. February 21, 2013
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Via culturewarnotes, an article at American Thinker which describes some of the horrific excesses of the public education system in this country. Private schools, heavily influenced by their public peers and federal mandates, are not significantly better in general, though there are exceptions. The level of insanity in public schools has reached the breaking point, and the system as presently constructed on and dominated by leftist ideologies hostile to even a semblance of traditional morality is beyond reformation. I agree with the article, schools are now more prisons focused on indoctrination and containment than centers of what has traditionally been known as “education:”
Has it really come to this, that a boy with a shovel is a threat to the community?
Yes.
There’s the boy who brought kombucha tea to school in his own lunchbox.
The six year old Maryland boy suspend for making gun-hand gesture and saying … gasp … Pow!
The Hyannis School District’s threat to rid themselves of a boy, age five, who made a gun out of Legos!
The Arizona high school freshman suspended for being in possession a blankety blank picture of a gun.
A Loveland, Colorado 2nd Grader playing at being hero during recess in a make believe game of saving his friends by throwing an imaginary grenade into a box.
(take the blood pressure pill, Geer)
The five year old suspended in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania and actually accused of being a terrorist for playing with her ‘Hello Kitty Bubble Gun’. No, I did not make that up. Wait, I typed that wrong. Suspended for talking about playing with her bubble gun.
Melody Valentin was searched, harassed, interrogated, chastised, yelled at by school officials, ridiculed by her classmates and suspended for the crime of having a piece of paper with her that sorta kinda resembled a gun. Quote: “He [school official] yelled at me and said I shouldn’t have brought the gun to school and I kept telling him it was a paper gun, but he wouldn’t listen.” She was even called a murderer.
Paper bullets, anyone? A grown man yelling at a little girl, making her cry in public? He needs to meet Trace Adkins.
More:
The war on kids, authoritarian bullies sucking up massive paychecks on our dime, the impenetrable wall of ideological ignorance married to an intensely juvenile and callow state of mind fostered and nurtured by American Higher Education has produced a hell children must not be exposed to. The active propaganda and literal Pavlovian behavioral training that goes on in public schools to force and reinforce a Progressive agenda is disgusting at best and terrifying in reality. If they know how to rewire a child’s brain in pursuit of reading skills, do I need posit the next obvious postulate?
Expelling a child for supposed gun related issues at 4, 5 even 6 years old is behavioral modification taken to the level of brainwashing.
Get your children out of public schools. Do not sacrifice your children. Get out now. Because John D. Rockefeller meant it when he said “I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.”
Why do I mention John D.? Because it was John D.’s money through the Trust that founded the National Education Association. The largest labor union in America.
In 1936, the National Education Association stated its position, from which they have never wavered; “We stand for socializing the individual.”
There is much more at the link, including quotes from current NEA officials making plain their very socialist, very authoritarian, very radical ideology. The NEA feels they have the task of separating children from their parents, inculcating them in socialist doctrine which specifically repudiates Christian morality and the traditional structure of the family, and produces good little leftists.
The corruption and complete disregard for true education has left my sister-in-law, a high school teacher for 15-16 years, totally burned out at age 39. She is bitter and just about used up, from being told to pass football stars who don’t even know Algebra I, let alone Algebra II, to far more time and effort being spent on containing and controlling students than actually educating them. The more federal money that pours into schools, the worse the problem becomes. The system is fundamentally broken, and getting worse, rapidly.
In defense of the edumacator, however, it is true that in many cases they have kids foisted off on them by totally disinterested parents, and are expected not only to teach the kids the regular subjects of school, but also keep them for 12 hours a day or more, teach them basic behavior, deter truly criminal behavior, keep the kids from having sex in the bathroom, etc. There is often little or no support at home, and these kids can be monsters. But that doesn’t excuse asinine behavior like those listed above- and that was just a small sample of recent atrocities. In essence, though, if you don’t want your child exposed to leftist Christ-hating feminazi radicals, keep them out of public schools. Many, perhaps most teachers won’t be like that, but some will, and all it takes is one to completely screw up a child.
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When my son was 11 (5th grade) he was put into solitary confinement for a day because he and a friend were discussing a video game at lunch. A girl sitting nearby went home and told her parents that the two boys were threatening to kill her. No, sweetie, they were discussing a VIDEO GAME. I almost came to the point where the words, “Honey, you can’t talk about things like that at school,” escaped my lips. But then it hit me like a ton of bricks…how can anyone expect an 11 year old boy to think like that? Boys like video games. They may even talk about them with their friends. We pulled both our kids out of public school after that and have been homeschooling for 4 years. I can honestly say that I wish I had never sent them to public school. It has taken all of these four years to undo a lot of what what the public school had done.
Are you sure your son was in public school? Sounds a lot like St. Marks Catholic School! Be careful what you say, the tattle tales are everywhere.
Heather is it legal to have solitary confinement in school?
I went to public school the majority of my life through the 70′s and 80′s. One thing I remember too well from 5th grade until about 8th grade was that I was getting in trouble in some classes because I was not challenged. Yes, I was the kid who used to say really loud, “Mrs. X, why do we have to do parts of speech and fractions again…we learned those last year.” I also remember 8th grade math where I had a coach for a teacher, and we could literally goof off through the class period, and the homework took only a few minutes, because 8th grade math was primarily a repeat of 7th grade.
High school was a little different, because we could divide into different levels. While there were a few high school teachers who would show movies periodically (one American History teacher was nicknamed Captain Video) and my older brother had a coach for senior English where I don’t even think they learned how to write a five paragraph essay, I liked being in the honors classes better than the regular classes. Why?
First, there were less discipline problems in the honors class. I attributed this to students who knew they were going to college, and parents who cared about their education. Yes, if you brought home a “C” or lower, these were the parents who grounded you.
Second, there was much less “busy work” in the honors class. Honors English consisted of a lot of reading and writing, not stuff like diagramming sentences and conjugating verbs. Being not as bright and a slower reader than many honors students, I had to work harder in English, but it paid off…I got A’s in my college English classes, and other students even placed out of English as college freshmen. I was also able to place out of American History.
Third, we did more special projects in the honors class. I learned quite a bit doing special projects and research reports. One year there was a presidential election, so we did an election notebook in American History. Honors science students were required to enter the science fair. One year I was in a regular science class and was the only one in regular science who submitted a project (I didn’t receive any extra credit either). I also had a good teacher for Chemistry who had worked in the real world, so we did things like make soap, and have more lab time than other students.
While I know public schools vary from district to district, I am aware that in general public school today is different than it was 20-25 years ago. I would be open to homeschooling today if I had children.
Friends I know who homeschool say that one major benefit is the kids do not end up doing “busy work”. Once a subject is learned, the homeschooler can move on to the next task. Homeschooling also has less distractions. In a class with 25 students, there is normally a group of goof off kids that the teacher has to get control, and let the goof offs know that they must behave appropriately. Many of the goof offs distract the kid who is trying to listen and do his work, mostly because he has quite a few other responsibilities (I did) and needs to budget his time. Homeschooling also allows encouragement for more special projects. Homeschoolers can also take field trips to places like Austin to watch the State Legislature in session, or go visit museums.
I think that sums up an experience in education.