Government "Education" Monopoly

After 3 years of frustration with our local public elementary school, this article rings very true for us:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_2_a1.html

I'm wondering if it resonates with anyone else, though many participants here seem to exemplify the mindlessness one would expect from products of this system.

 

I only glanced through the article as it was rather lengthy, but I am in total agreement with what I did read. There is no doubt that the public education system in America, which is controlled by the Rockefellers, is failing our children miserably.

There is a book written by a women named Charlotte Iserbyt, entitled The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, which I highly recommend.

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/

 

I think the problem is more ideological than conspiratorial.

 

Why don't you try homeschooling your children if you don't like what you see happening?

 

That's an option, but we want to investigate some Christian schools first.

 

I'm inclined to agree with rat here. I have read a lot about what the rockefellers did to public education in the early days.....an almost deliberate dumbing down of a fairly non-oligarchic, creative system. Nasty, nasty stuff. Home schooling is a great idea. My best mate's girlfriend is the smartest, most open minded and non conforming person i know...she was home schooled. While myself and my friend are sitting here confused and trying to sort out the bullshit drummed into our heads over 12 years.

 

Thanks for the link Rat. Too bad there's not enough memory to download that book. GRRR fake anime porn! Gotta clean the puter's memory...

Yes, I agree with homeschooling. The more I read about the education system, the more I want to homeschool my future children...

Peace & love

 

The only homeschooled kids I know grew up to be social inept religious nuts. I'll pass. Besides, I remember learning about phenomenology, existentialism, russian literature, colonialism, advanced calculus, and puritanism as it relates to today's society in my public school. Yeah, dumbed down.

 

You are a master of objectivity, seriously

What ever world you're living in ITS NOT OURS.

 

I knew a crazy religious hoemschooled family too. Their father was a minister and I don't think going to a traditional school was going to save those poor kids from the brainwashing they recieved at the hands of their parents. That doesn't mean that all parents who homeschool their kids will have crazy religous beliefs. Please stick to the issues, pumpkin.

Peace & love

 

Well that's to be expected when parents keep their children out of school to make their education Christian and keep them from being exposed to anything. But that's like saying that because someone buys a gun to kill themself with it that everyone who buys a gun will end up dead. It's nonsensical.

 

Hey, I grew up in Amarillo Texas....a place where that is exactly the case. Besides, I never went off topic.

 

Young Singers Spread Racist Hate
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1231684&page=1

Ignorant and informed parents should not teach.

 

The topic, if I recall, is public education and it's negatives, not crazy religious folk who brain wash their children. I live in IN and I knew a family too... so what? That doesn't have much to do with the Man keeping the general public down by dumbing down education. There will always be an extreme religous group that brainwashes their children, whether they are homeschooled or not...

Peace & love

 

^^^

Thinking is good

 

Some people should not be parents, but since I value my right to homeschool my children without interference, I will fight for their right to do the same.

Back on topic, the public schools are scary places. I hear stories from friends all the time. My sisters have had problems, my nephew can't read at 8 and the teachers say its OK, he spends most of his time "guessing words from context and pictures", a trick taught to him by a school district terrified that someone will teach the kids phonics and then they will be able to read themselves. I had my son in the local kindergarten for about 6 weeks when the principle told me basically it was none of my business what went on in the classroom, tried to get me to sign a paper so he could hit my kid with a board (WTF-if I hit my kid with a board I would go to jail-but he is a professional?) and told me I needed to stop teaching him the alphabetic sounds because I was "putting him ahead of the rest of the class" and that since some kids didn't know all the letters yet, I should "try to focus his attention on forgetting all that phonics stuff". He wanted permission to hit him because the kid was so bored he "was asking inappropriate questions", mostly about why they had to do something and disrupting other childrens learning opportunity. I asked him why they didn't just take the kids who were at a higher level and let them do something else, but the goal was for them to "learn together in a cohesive community" So now I homeschool and have never regretted a minute of it. We got to travel the country while other kids were sitting in the classroom. We (finally) found a great non-christian homeschool group, where tolerence and diversity are important, but math and reading are too!

 

That's insane, busmama. I had no idea it could be that bad.

 

Not all public schools are scary places, the main thing to blame for bad teaching is the no child left behind act, it pretty much says that if you don't learn what you should in this grade, it doesn't matter, we will still pass you, and I also blame the parents, a lot of my friends in school who don't do particularly good, there parents don't care, if the parents tried to help, or punished their child for not passing, then their child would do good. And you can't say that public school is intentionally dumbing students down, its because you get that one kid who shouldn't have passed, so the teacher has to spend more time teaching him personally. But, me for instance, am in public school, and I know I wasn't shortchanged at all on my education.

 

That's what they all say.

 

What is that supposed to mean?