Posted on 2/18/2007, 3:01:42 PM by rellimpank
A loyal reader writes in response to last week's opus on full-day kindergarten:
"Dear Mr. Suprynowicz: I read your columns on a regular basis, and while I don't often agree I have never felt compelled to write. But the education issue in Nevada and across the nation just baffles me.
"I'm a very optimistic moderate Republican, and as a profession I solve problems. But as I read your column ... I came to the realization that there may be no solution to our dismal education efforts as a society.
"I agree with you about the 'incarceration in the government homogeneity camps.' I have real problems with the public education system, and my kids attend private school because of my concerns. You also praise the idea of children staying home until they are older than 5 so they are not ripped from their parents and their nurturing environment. Well, the problem with this is that the majority of children are not in nurturing, caring, learning-enriched environments.
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
>>>What would be a non-governmental solution? Living closer to the grandparents and the extended family? "Allowing" groups of neighboring families to pool their day care or home-schooling efforts, so no one would feel "chained in their kitchen" for months on end? (Today, of course, it's illegal to care for the kids of three of your neighbors unless your kitchen is "government certified to commercial standards"; it's probably equally illegal to help home-school the kids of three neighboring families without a wall full of government "licenses" and "certificates" and vastly expensive "charters." When did we decide to let these petty "enforcement officers" tell us who should care for our kids, and how?)<<<<
BUMP!!!!
>>>Merely close these counterproductive government Political Correctness Academies and tax rates could be cut in half. Trim federal per-capita taxes and expenditures back to 1962 levels, to match. (Did anyone wake up in 1962, alarmed that we "didn't have enough government"?)
Once again, families could survive on one salary; one parent could stay home to raise and see to the non-government schooling of the kids -- the system that gave us Franklin, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and even self-taught fellows from such inauspicious backgrounds as Abe Lincoln and Hartford's Rev. J.W.C. Pennington.<<<<
THIS is what makes me want to support Ron Paul.
I loved this, but this part the best!!
the 'incarceration in the government homogeneity camps
Really worth a read.
I ahven't read the full article yet, but thought I'd give you a heads up.
That would be LBJ.
What would be a non-governmental solution?..."Allowing" groups of neighboring families to pool their day care or home-schooling efforts, so no one would feel "chained in their kitchen" for months on end? (Today, of course, it's illegal to care for the kids of three of your neighbors unless your kitchen is "government certified to commercial standards"; it's probably equally illegal to help home-school the kids of three neighboring families without a wall full of government "licenses" and "certificates" and vastly expensive "charters." When did we decide to let these petty "enforcement officers" tell us who should care for our kids, and how?)
Heh. Reminds me--when I was a kid, my mother and a few other neighborhood moms watched the neighborhood kids until one mother, who had all the proper licenses and certificates, complained to the city that the other mothers didn't.
Once again, families could survive on one salary; one parent could stay home to raise and see to the non-government schooling of the kids -- the system that gave us Franklin, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and even self-taught fellows from such inauspicious backgrounds as Abe Lincoln and Hartford's Rev. J.W.C. Pennington.<<<<
That's what we do. It's hypocritical to complain about government intrusions and socialism and support having the government educate and watch over your children.
We felt so strongly aganst our school system that we have decided to homeschool our children and are now in our second year of this.
I have serious problems with sending our children to public school when that is where the homosexual agenda is so focused more and more and God is slowly being squeezed out.. my oldest did go to pre-school, but only until the day his teacher told me they were going to start 'tolerance training' before Christmas, the same teacher that allowed girls to hit, punch and bite boys and told the crying boys that 'boys don't cry'. Tolerance.. yeah.. I figured out just what kind of 'tolerance' they were going to be teaching.
I would ask anyone that supports more government control of our children and their upbringing if public school is such a wonderful thing why do we hear too often of children taking guns to schools and killing fellow students and teachers? No, sending our children to public schools to be raised isn't the answer, the answer to that IS the parents.
School should only be a place to get an education in the 'three R's'.. and not in how to have sex either with another of your gender, or how to have sex and get free BC and/or abortions or get private sex ed lessons from the 'hot' young teacher.
My husband and I stay so focused on everything from what our children watch on tv to video the games they play because we do something that I fear many parents don't.. we put our children and their needs first.
We live on one income and while we don't live in a mansion, but we also don't live in a dump.. we don't spend every spare cent on alcohol or drugs... food, clothing and the electricity are more important, THAT is a choice we make to provide our children a childhood where mommy is home.
THEY are the future of this nation and they are worth it.
Public schools = Left wing "reeducation camps"
Absolutely
"I agree with you about the 'incarceration in the government homogeneity camps.
Exactly what they are.
THEY are the future of this nation and they are worth it.
You're right. It's not always the easiest route but we don't become parents because it's easy.
By the way, welcome to freerepublic.
My child does attend public school, but her education and wellbeing is my responsibility and so I criticize at will, as well :)
>>>her education and wellbeing is my responsibility and so I criticize at will
bttt!
The school systems are run like organized crime. Forced to pay it off and no say in what happens.
And it's only going to get worse.
While I understand what you are saying and have witnessed such, I can't broadbrush/generalize that far.
"Forced to pay it off and no say in what happens."
Not just the schools, but liberal do-good programs everywhere could teach the Mafia a thing or two about extortion and coercion.
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