Posted on 12/30/2011 3:52:01 PM PST by blam
Indoctrination Centers yes, Prison Camps no.
If public schools are prison camps they are about the most porous, worst defended, worst managed, worst administrated prison camps in the world.
Fixing public education really isn’t that hard. End all public education unions, end tenure, end all time wasting classes that are parental responsibility such as alcohol awareness programs, hire educators with degrees in the fields they wish to teach, begin eliminating anyone relying on “education” degrees as their only qualification to teach, fire bad teachers quickly, expel disruptive students, and pay for excellence just like private sector jobs do (salaries based on merit rather than seniority).
Coaching public high school baseball, where we´re constantly exhorting - and even tutoring kids first and foremost to academics, has, and I hope will be as bright an example in their lives as it has been in mine where, though in my sixties, I can still play at being a kid again.
An article such as this one wouldn’t have been written in the 1980s. A lot of this “school as prison” nonsense started right after Columbine along with the advent of zero tolerance policies, cops in schools, and the availability of technology to monitor students’ every move.
Gee! What a brilliant observation.
The writer of this piece must have been frozen since 1980 and was just defrosted.
Maybe he simply read some old back articles on FR and came to a conclusion.
The problem is that it is too late. The little zombies already march in step to the political correctness they have been immersed in for 12 years of their lives and feed on the next generation of zombies and on and on and on.
I had a very long talk with the head of the daycare where my school aged children were spending the first half of Christmas break, and then again with the district manager.
It was MANDATORY to fill out the free federal lunch form for all enrollees, including address, phone number and income. Lie on that form, and it could end up in a federal database compared with our tax forms.
So I filled it out, with “too much to qualify for the program” in the income field and “not needed” in the phone number fields.
In other news, it's rumored that "talking pictures" will someday debut at local theaters.
Many years ago, the Kansas City, MO school district lost its accreditation, but they managed to wrangle something they referred to as "provisional accreditation." This last year things were so bad and it was so obvious that the state had to yank the school district's accreditation.
No college in the country is required to accept a student who graduates from an unaccredited high school. The high school diploma is worthless.
Mark
My daughter was reading “Night” in English and one of the background handouts stated that nazism was right-wing. I corrected it with my daughter and explained the difference between different types of socialism communism capitalism etc at the same time emphasizing that “right” wing was for small govt. I figured that would be the end of it. She came back beaming a few days later after getting extra credit (2 hwork prs) for bringing it up and her teacher was all “well I hadn’t noticed that”.
I’m fine with my girls where they are for the social interaction (something I still struggle with); you just have to monitor the details, supplement, and spend time discussing what they’re learning at home.
It makes for good dinner conversation and also keeps us talking when we might not be in the mood for it (mrs reed is stricter by far but I have my moments - sigh dreading the thought of a few years from now when I’ll have to buy more firearms just to not be cleaning the same ones all the tome when the boys come by - hmmm likely needle knives too, maybe some rope, ...)
Since then, I've recognized public schools, social security and the Federal Reserve among the MOST destructive government institutions in our country. With the actions of the teacher's unions in pushing Hard Socialism over the past three years. The radicalism, irresponsibility and angry, barely suppressed violence of teacher's unions, I believe, will wake up conservatives to the danger of government schools period.
I like to start a group to promote the replacement of government, tax-funded schooling with freedom. Since '84 in speaking with conservatives about schooling, I'd get talks about the need to "reform" the schools. I'm hoping that it's becoming clear, that schools are organized on socialist principles and cannot be reformed. The anti-Americanism of government schools is becoming clear to everyone.
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