Posted on 08/25/2012 2:21:22 PM PDT by wintertime
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Like Hitler said, Obozo is ready and willing to write off the older generations as they’re not completely on board, he will just get the children. It’s been how the left operates for decades, they crow about it all the time.
I just finished listening to an audio of the book, “The Tipping Point”, by Malcolm Gladwell. He states that peers have **FAR** more influence over children and teens than do parents.
I have always suspected that this was indeed the case.
Gladwell did not address homeschooling, but, my bet is that teens who have been homeschooled from a young age look to their **PARENTS** as role models and have little no problems with teen peer pressure.
They’re aware of the discrepancy in numbers, I don’t doubt that’s yet another reason they’re demoralising and undermining the military.
When I was in my sophmore year my family moved from Jersey to California. When settled into my new academic location I was given the equivelant education I had recieved in the 5th and 6th grade from my previous home state.
During the following years I rarely showed up. In the last month I took their mandatory exit exam and graduated with a B+.
I owed this to my parents who taught the three “R’s” From our infancy. My brothers and sisters could read, write and cipher before we were in kidergarten.
You are correct re:teachers, just google all the testing scandals of the last couple of years (Atlanta school district, St Louis) and see where they happened and what (not much) has been done about it.
Why is it that conservatives and Christians are sooooooooooo incredabily STOOOPID about this?????? ( Yes! I am exasperated!)
As the schools fill up this week and next, the government indoctrination centers will filled to the brim with children from conservative families and the Marxists are laughing at us and our stupidity.
In my county, if Christians and conservatives removed their children their would be NO NO NO government school to run! Literally! That is the truth.
Their should be “There”. Oh! Those pesky homonyms!
During the following years I rarely showed up. In the last month I took their mandatory exit exam and graduated with a B+.
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So?....What did those wasted years cost you in lost time and wages in the workforce? Hm?
Could those extra years in the workforce earned you quarter of a million dollars?
Could they have earned you a HALF MILLION?
That is what wasting the lives of children COSTS the child!
I could not agree with you more. Learning reading and writing and math is not difficult later on. Healing from hideous emotional abuse and insane condition in public school may take decades.
I don’t know why, except that it suits people’s convenience to not “see” the truth. It’s a difficult thing, especially in this economy (hmmm) for people to make the deep sacrifices of money and time to take control of the most important job they have-guiding their children’s moral, as well as academic and physical growth. But it’s the most important job they have as parents, and it’s more important now than it’s ever been before, because the government schools are being used for indoctrination MORE than actual education. More and more mandates and regulations about what children must learn, and often the parents have NO say. For instance, using the classroom to normalise homosexuality, and they don’t forget to buttress this “teaching” with subtle hints about how people, including parents, are to be dismissed if they oppose it.
Don’t feel bad, I’m typing on a touchscreen and spend more time going back correcting m’s for n’s, and other letters which are easily transposed :)
I was a teenager in the supposedly coolest state in the union. I traveled to the mountains and the coasts. I worked for pocket money to hit the road. For three years I hitchhiked from Canada to Mexico, from the west coast to the darn near entire span of the east coast. It was a GREAT time in my life.
True story- when I was a junior in high school, graduating a year early, doing 4th year French by independent study while doing 3rd year French, my history teacher threatened to fail me if I missed another day of class, as I’d missed 30 days. (Bored senseless with school.) I asked him why he’d do that if I had an A in his class because I obviously wasn’t missing much. Kind of left him as speechless as when I was accused of cheating off a classmate and I responded, “why would I do that when I have an A and she has a C?” LOL.t missing much. Kind of left him as speechless as when I was accused of cheating off a classmate and I responded,
BTW, I believe there are those moments that allow some “ME” time. I have since then become a productive citizen.
Woops, not sure what happened there with the text.
Yes, this would definitely be an improvement but would not fix the problems that are intrinsic to government owned and run, single-payer, and socialist entitlement schools( even if managed by district as small as a city block or suburban housing division. )
Why? ( I hope you will thoughtfully follow my reasoning.)
Answer: Fundamentally, government owned and run schooling is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abuse regardless of how small the locally run district might be.
1) No school can be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral in content or consequences. Such a state of neutrality can not exist in the mind of any sentient being, nor can it exist in a school. Even if the district was as small as a suburban housing division, a more powerful group of voters would be imposing ( by police threat) their NON-neutral religious, political, and cultural worldview on a minority faction and forcing them to pay for it and use it if they can not afford or find an alternative.
2) Government owned and run socialist entitlement and single-payer schooling is risky for the child. As the child grows older it is impossible for him not to notice that the voting mob is giving him tuition-free schooling! Gee! If the voting mob can force others to pay for schooling, why not use that mob to get **lots** of “free” stuff? Simply attending these socialist-entitlement schools may teach the child to be comfortable with socialism and government force to pay for and use the socialist service. This is true even if the district were the size of a city block.
3) Compulsory schooling risks teaching the child to comfortable and compliant with government compulsion. ( Do you think our Founding Fathers would have tolerated a TSA search for even one nanosecond?) Even if districts were a tiny as a small town government schooling teaches government compulsion.
4) All schools must strictly suppress First Amendment Rights. When government does this in its socialist-entitlement schools, the child risks learning to be comfortable with government suppression of God-given human rights. This would be true even in a tiny tiny district.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing education. The most ideal goal would be to have complete separation of school and state.
The time I did occupy a seat in “school” was listening to the current music, how engaging is that?
Who wouldn’t be bored in a situation such as that?
The moron teachers were NOW members and homos. Like I’d stick around for that.
How did you do this and go to school? Or?....Did you skip school?
Anyway....It sounds like a priceless experience worthy of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.
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