Posted on 09/16/2015 9:45:36 AM PDT by B4Ranch
Yep! I attended JFK Medium Security High School and know full well about being an inmate first and a student second.
So much for the ‘socialization’ argument thrown at homeschoolers.
Even as early as the Year 1886, such was the case. A man by the name of Zacharias Montgomery was denied an important post in the federal government for doing just that. You will read some of his words below.
With that said, those who love liberty must be willing to come forward to declare that it is better to be remembered for standing on and articulating enduring principles of right versus wrong, liberty versus tyranny, than to be praised by the mainstream media and so-called "progressives."
I am reminded of the words of Zacharias Montgomery in his 1886 Book entitled "Poison Drops in the United States Senate . . . ." Although his treatise dealt primarily with the public school question, the following remarks might be helpful to those who, today, are concerned by what passes for "public education."
Excerpts from Zacharias Montgomery:
"My countrymen, disguise the fact as we may, there is in this country to-day, and in both the political Parties, an element which is ripe for a centralized despotism. There are men and corporations of vast wealth, whose iron grasp spans this whole continent, and who find it more difficult and more expensive to corrupt thirty odd State Legislatures than one Federal Congress. It was said of Nero of old that he wished the Roman people had but one head, so that he might cut it off at a single blow. And so it is with those moneyed kings who would rule this country through bribery, fraud, and intimidation.So Zacharias Montgomery in 1886."It is easy to see how, with all the powers of government centered at Washington in one Federal head, they could at a single stroke put an end to American liberty.
"But they well understand that before striking this blow the minds of the people must be prepared to receive it. And what surer or safer preparation could possibly be made than is now being made, by indoctrinating the minds of the rising generation with the idea that ours is already a consolidated government ; that the States of the Union have no sovereignty which is not subordinate to the will and pleasure of the Federal head, and that our Constitution is the mere creature of custom, and may therefore be legally altered or abolished by custom.
"Such are a few of the pernicious and poisonous doctrines which ten millions of American children are today drinking in with the very definitions of the words they are compelled to study. And yet the man who dares to utter a word of warning of the approaching danger is stigmatized as an enemy to education and unfit to be men tioned as a candidate for the humblest office.
"Be it so. Viewing this great question as I do, not for all the offices in the gift of the American people would I shrink from an open and candid avowal of my sentiments. If I have learned anything from the reading of history, it is that the man who, in violation of great principles, toils for temporary fame, purchases for himself either total oblivion or eternal infamy, while he who temporarily goes down battling for right principles always deserves, and generally secures, the gratitude of succeeding ages, and will carry with him the sustaining solace of a clean conscience, more precious than all the offices and honors in the gift of man.
"History tells us that Aristides was voted into banishment because he was just. Yet who would not a thousand times rather today be Aristides than be numbered amongst the proudest of his persecutors.
"Socrates, too, in violation of every principle of justice, was con demned to a dungeon and to death. Yet what name is more honored in history than his? And which of his unjust judges would not gladly, hide himself in the utter darkness of oblivion from the with ering scorn and contempt of all mankind ?
"From the noble example of Aristides and of Socrates let American statesmen learn wisdom, and from the undying infamy of their cow ardly time-serving persecutors let political demagogues of today take warning."
His book is complete with a history of what he called the "anti-parental" system, documented reports, and other statistics. Read his complete work HERE.
Anyone who reads his complete volume will realize this man's ability to see the consequences of what his fellow Americans were advocating in the area of education of youth.
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,,,,, and Common Core is the doctrine for those minds of mush .
Are you joking?
Its all about control, IMO. It's like the children are little robots or something. This, the feds like.
Homeschooled children learn to think for themselves and learn the 3 R's. This, the Feds don't like.
Children can't even carry a jacket! It must be worn - not carried or put on the back of a chair. And the jacket itself can not be what mom bought at Sears - but must be purchased thru the school to match the uniforms.
And this is TEXAS!
Just wow.
Just wow.
Talk about turning out scads of little mental defectives. Of course that’s the whole point it would seem.
They won't home school because in my estimation, they are just too lazy - some of them have stay at home moms that could do the job.
They won't speak out because they don't want the school to “take it out on my kid”.
The result? Very confused children.
It sounds like a perfect way to create little psycopaths.
I’d be happy if they just taught Civics and American History.
Nope. The district is providing the online schooling and say she has to have the HPV vaccine if she wants to get the credits.
Now they teach sex ed to first graders and Islamic history to fifth graders.
BFLR Thank you.
hmmm. I wonder if they have the same kind of teaching method as in MO where the kids teach each other in groups?
It’s Sister Agnes!
You didn’t mess with Sr. Agnes! LOL
Somehow we all *survived.* Learned at bunch of stuff. And became productive citizens.
If there is ever a remake of “Jailhouse Rock,” it needs to be set in a public school.
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