Whether geniuses or ordinary children on the farm--where they learned to do EVERYTHING--young people prior to 1885 were allowed to write their own life script.
Posted on 04/23/2024 7:09:54 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
If parents are the primary educators of their children, they need to have the right to choose how to educate their children. If they choose to send their kids to public school, they have a right to know what’s being taught at the school, to give teachers and administrators feedback about it, and to be heard;
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*In 2022, To Kill a Mockingbird, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry were only some of the classic titles taken out of schools*
Can’t have that.
“ If parents are the primary educators of their children,”
There is no ‘if’
*The kind of education that’s primarily about making money is an unsatisfying, inadequate substitute for the kind of education that enriches students. Education should mature and develop our powers as human beings – the powers of perception, analysis, reasoning, judgment, and creativity that we have from God as beings made in his image. That means training students to deal with questions that we all have sooner or later: questions about truth, beauty, right and wrong, the purpose of life, and what lies beyond death...*
Making money is secondary in school today. It’s more like keeping the black kids down.
And this soother guy can take his drips of poison words and stick them in his own ear.
The problem is that since the opening of compulsory, universal education in about 1885, the purpose of schooling was not to get your child to do his or her best, it was to deliberately dumb them down to be docile employees of giant corporations and mindless consumers of products.
Mainstream Studies of Deliberate Dumbing Down
http://www.sing-prayer.org/p/1281
“Go back to nuns slapping you on the wrist with their rulers. They work cheap”
There are a lot less nuns that there used to be and they are on average a lot older now.
Lots of Catholic schools are closing
https://www.ntd.com/75-more-catholic-schools-nationwide-say-they-are-shutting-down_935274.html
Whether geniuses or ordinary children on the farm--where they learned to do EVERYTHING--young people prior to 1885 were allowed to write their own life script.
Parochial schools get money from the govt. they do what they’re told
For all the girl power this culture pretends to wield nuns are no way in charge
Ya nuns used to hit people. Drove a lot of people out of Catholicism. Did much damage
What’s the improvement?
The nuns understood the distinction between “less” and “fewer.”
Sorry but they still have a major pedo problem. Id rather Johnny have trouble reading than thinking about suicide.
Government-run schools absolutely have no place in a free nation.
Any "Catholic" School that doesn't put great demands on the parents and faculty of living their faith is not much better than the public schools.
Utter nonsense and entirely blown out of proportion. About the same amount of people who were "damaged" by the nuns in Catholic school as a child are about the same amount of men who "served in Vietnam" and the number of people who claimed they were "At the towers" on 9/11.
Multimodal AI will be widely available by the end of this year. One of the things it will do is revolutionize home schooling at all levels. Essentially, it will provide low cost but very high quality teachers on every subject to almost everyone. AI teachers will be smarter, better informed, more “caring” and competent than most human teachers. Starting next year. It will trigger a fundamental change in education.
Not a chance. Those still legitimately calling themselves Catholic did nothing about priest pedo (and now gay) for decades.
They are sheep. Nothing more.
When I started teaching at a Catholic school on the Brooklyn Queens border back in the 70s we had 2100 student. The four parish schools in the area had more students 1-8 than the neighborhood public schools. Today one of the schools is closed and another closing in June. The survivors between them have 450 students total. The nuns and brothers are gone or going and not being replaced. Lay faculties cost mucho dinero so tuitions are out of sight. High schools are in better shape as urban public schools have a bad rep for crime and Catholic highs have excellent college placement stats. But elementary schools are where character develops.
The nuns that taught me in the 1970s-80s were not hitting us. And our generation still left the Church. Rather, I think people were lazy and fell in love with secularism and money and couldn’t be bothered with religion anymore.
The article, from what I can tell, is not advocating for parochial schools (which have really lost their way, I agree). It’s advocating for Catholic homeschooling with a traditional, classical curriculum—the Western Canon, Latin, theology, hard sciences, all that.
My homeschooled kids are better taught than I was in parochial school. No question.
I know a lot of people who claim they were turned off to Catholicism by nuns. I spent 12 years in Catholic school along with most people around me growing up
I personally don’t blame others for my life choices. The nuns taught me that
The nuns gave us the best education. There wasn’t much room for ADD but it wasn’t as rampant as it is now - plastics, fetal ultrasound? Vaccines? Lack of breast feeding? Out of control antibiotics?
And there are a lot of Viet Nam vets in my circles. Over 58,000 were killed. Too bad they sacked JFK he planned on stopping that nonsense
Sheep my foot. The Classical-style academies (both Catholic and Protestant by the way) are innovative, flexible, entrepreneurial, and are rebuilding an entire education system from the ground up. I have five kids in homeschool... I see it first hand.
Not that I’d expect someone with those three digits in their screen name to be aware of such things....
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