Public schoolers: How's that indoctrination workin' out?

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Public schoolers: How's that indoctrination workin' out?
Posted: April 24, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

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I recently did something I haven't done in decades: I re-read the Laura Ingalls Wilder series (the Little House books). The contrast between the schools of Laura's time (late 1800s) and the schools of today is staggering. Utterly incomprehensible.

To illustrate, consider some recent headlines:

* Obama czar's "homo-genda" proposed for U.S. schools; Congressional legislation called "a sexual revolutionary's dream"

* Look what they're erasing from U.S. history! American heroes could get swapped for hip-hop culture in textbooks

* Survey asks students when they lost virginity; Results in newspaper show classes counseled "why not" be sexually active

* Schools' assignment: Squelch family values; State lawmakers urge "meaningful" counseling for wrong attitudes

* Liberal intolerance alive and well in moronic teacher from Oregon; Oregon teacher panel probes educator determined to "demolish" tea party

* Bill would require sex education starting in kindergarten

* Memo to public schools: Stop pushing sex! Group demands California implement programs promoting abstinence

Can you imagine these headlines happening during Laura's time?

Learn about the depths the secular culture goes to in corrupting your kids – read "The War on Children: How Pop Culture and Public Schools Put Our Kids at Risk"

If you read the sobering history of public schools, it becomes painfully clear that their purpose is not (necessarily) education; it's social change. "The public schools movement began in the 1830s, led by Horace Mann," notes George L. O'Brien in "Government Schools in Crisis." "Supposedly, the goal was to ensure that every child would have access to an education. However, from the beginning there was another agenda, and that was to control what was being taught so as to create so-called model citizens. Public schools meant taking control of education from the parents and placing it in the hands of social engineers and the government."

The early successes of these social-engineering experiments were limited because most school districts were independent and under the power of a local school board (meaning parents). But then the "unified school" movement came along at the turn of the century, which destroyed the system of local control. After World War II, educational jurisdiction was transferred to state governments. Things spiraled down even faster under President Carter, who created the U.S. Department of Education.

"Once the parents lost control of the schools," laments Mr. O'Brien, "the schools quickly became laboratories for social-engineering experiments. … The central struggle, of course, is money. As long as the government schools take so much money from parents in taxes, it is hard for parents to afford to send their children to non-government schools. Attempts to change this through tax credits and vouchers have resulted in vicious counter-attacks from the NEA among others."

Since schools are the mandatory gathering place of our society's future, it's the natural laboratory for any agenda – anything at all – to be forced upon our children. Since teachers' unions are extremely left-wing, it's the left-wing propaganda that gets pushed. Anything green, anything abortionist, anything feminist, anything homosexual, anything victimized, anything revisionist – it's all there, shoved down our children's gullets.

And since the liberal education machine is obsessed with sex – and make no mistake, liberals as a whole are obsessed with sex – schools are unwilling to comprehend, much less encourage, family values. Therefore, children become corrupted.

Which is why we now have sex education in kindergarten. Can you imagine this happening during Laura's time?

It's to the point where all the "agenda-izing" has pushed out academics. Who has time for science, history, math, English, etc.? We've got graduates who can't even find the United States on a world map. No wonder we're unable to compete with Korea or Turkey on international math scores.

It also means we now have government thugs whose job it is to catch desperate parents who lie and claim their children are living in a better district (so the kids have a chance at a higher quality education) in order to force those children back to dangerous inner-city schools. "I was actually crying," said a grandmother, "and all I'm wanting to do is just to have my grandchild have a better education. … Why can't they just let parents to get in the school of their choice?"

Because, in the words of John Stossel, the government monopoly thinks it knows best.

As if this isn't bad enough, we hear from a furious mother in Wyoming – Wyoming of all places! – on the Rush Limbaugh show that her high-school son was told by his government teacher, "The old people just need to shut up and go along with what needs to be done for this country. … This country will be better off when the old people are gone."


You know, all those troublesome old people who "laid their life on the line for this country so that [the teacher] has the freedom to spout this drivel that she's spouting." And this is just one teacher in a fairly conservative state. How much worse must it be in places like San Francisco or Boston?

The peer pressure in these schools – pressure to dress, act and speak only in certain ways – is so strong that it's taken otherwise decent kids and turned them into monsters. I can't count the number of children I know who start out wholesome and innocent – and by the age of 15 are slouching around, dressing like sluts, talking like sailors and having sex.

What would Laura think?

Schools have become little more than giant laboratories of social experimentation. When confronted with the massive failure of the public educational system, the only thing liberals can bleat like a broken record is "More money! More money!"

What they won't admit is that government monopolies fail. Their broken-record chant should be "More competition! More competition!" if they really cared about better education.

Of course not every teacher agrees with the radical left-wing garbage pushed in schools. Most teachers enter the profession with a sincere love of children and a desire to shape their futures for the good. But their often mandatory involvement with teachers' unions and government mandates wipes away their innocent and naïve interest, leaving behind jaded, bitter and disillusioned people who once hoped to shape our children with great care.

Homeschool your kids, folks. It's the only way to save them.
 
Of course not every teacher agrees with the radical left-wing garbage pushed in schools. Most teachers enter the profession with a sincere love of children and a desire to shape their futures for the good. But their often mandatory involvement with teachers' unions and government mandates wipes away their innocent and naïve interest, leaving behind jaded, bitter and disillusioned people who once hoped to shape our children with great care.

Homeschool your kids, folks. It's the only way to save them. [/quote]


"innocent and naive..." Wow. Doesn't speak well for the colleges that gave them degrees. By all means, homeschool.
 
Originally Posted By: jeffoOf course not every teacher agrees with the radical left-wing garbage pushed in schools. Most teachers enter the profession with a sincere love of children and a desire to shape their futures for the good. But their often mandatory involvement with teachers' unions and government mandates wipes away their innocent and naïve interest, leaving behind jaded, bitter and disillusioned people who once hoped to shape our children with great care.

Homeschool your kids, folks. It's the only way to save them.


"innocent and naive..." Wow. Doesn't speak well for the colleges that gave them degrees. By all means, homeschool. [/quote]

There are plenty of problems in the colleges.
 
Originally Posted By: jumprightinitOriginally Posted By: jeffoOf course not every teacher agrees with the radical left-wing garbage pushed in schools. Most teachers enter the profession with a sincere love of children and a desire to shape their futures for the good. But their often mandatory involvement with teachers' unions and government mandates wipes away their innocent and naïve interest, leaving behind jaded, bitter and disillusioned people who once hoped to shape our children with great care.

Homeschool your kids, folks. It's the only way to save them.


"innocent and naive..." Wow. Doesn't speak well for the colleges that gave them degrees. By all means, homeschool.

There are plenty of problems in the colleges. [/quote]



I agree. Better to keep the kids down on the farm.
 
I am tempted to compare income levels with this jeffo character just to humble him! Aint nothing worse than a smart azz college educated know it all!
 
I'll save you the trouble. I make next to nothing. You make more money than I do = you're the better man. Angry though.
 
"And since the liberal education machine is obsessed with sex – and make no mistake, liberals as a whole are obsessed with sex"




Well, that explains it. Conservatives have no interest in sex.
 
Interesting enough. A wk ago I spoke with one of my Sister's. She & her husband recently pulled all of their children out of their local public school.

Bullying & threats to their children. Et the in-action of their school adminstration to stop it. What a crock.

I detest bully's, I want to beat them. But hey, thats just the Missouri mule in me
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Originally Posted By: jeffoOriginally Posted By: jumprightinitOriginally Posted By: jeffoOf course not every teacher agrees with the radical left-wing garbage pushed in schools. Most teachers enter the profession with a sincere love of children and a desire to shape their futures for the good. But their often mandatory involvement with teachers' unions and government mandates wipes away their innocent and naïve interest, leaving behind jaded, bitter and disillusioned people who once hoped to shape our children with great care.

Homeschool your kids, folks. It's the only way to save them.


"innocent and naive..." Wow. Doesn't speak well for the colleges that gave them degrees. By all means, homeschool.

There are plenty of problems in the colleges.



I agree. Better to keep the kids down on the farm. [/quote]

Brilliant, jeffo.
 
Originally Posted By: RubenatorYou hang around here long enough and you WILL become angry.



I've been around here for a while. I'm not angry yet. You shouldn't be either. Just having a civil debate.
 
Originally Posted By: sweatybetty
Homeschool your kids, folks. It's the only way to save them.

I agree Sweaty. I get into the public schools every now and then. What I hear in the hallways is disgusting.
 
When it comes to the cost, it's not private school OR public school, and it's not home-school OR public school. It's pay for government school first and then (if you can afford it), choose home-school or private school.

Home-school or private school are great ideas. Unfortunately your government requires that you pay for public school first.

How many can afford that?
 
just imagine that if only the people who had children in the public school system had to pay the taxes. i bet the accountability level would be way higher then it is now.
 
Originally Posted By: nmleonWhen it comes to the cost, it's not private school OR public school, and it's not home-school OR public school. It's pay for government school first and then (if you can afford it), choose home-school or private school.

Home-school or private school are great ideas. Unfortunately your government requires that you pay for public school first.

How many can afford that?

Don't forget Leon, it's "for the common good." The country is getting a better ROI from Socialist Security.
 
Ooh, what I wouldn't give to receive a letter like that. It's a field day waiting to happen...

Funny, but not in a hardy-har-har kind of way.
 
jeffo,

Did you get beat up by a home schooled kid as a child? I'm just trying to figure out where your irrational hatred for home schoolers comes from.
 
Yep ,HOME SCHOOL !!!!!

Only one of our 4 kids went to public high school . The the train of thought about kids being sheltered( all BULL ) if they don't go to public schools is pushed by parents, who just could not handle doing it , makes them feel better .IMO MY kids are all doing great and when tested did WAY better than the average , In the top 90-99% .
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BUT i will say that the local high school we have in our area "'Sky View '' is the best high school i have EVER seen ,and my youngest love it !! Great parents helped making it a great school !!
 
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