American public schools: Working just as designed

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, January 21, 2002 | Vox Day

[JohnHuang2]

Quote of the Day by DeaconBenjamin

[madfly]

ping, was going to post this, but found that it died right here, so I am reviving this great article.

[madfly]

Bumping for the kids.

[madfly]

Ping for the children.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Interesting article. I live in a "great" School district. I too found out that the problem isn't only in the innner city schools, but right here in my town. The problem is that public schools are doing exactly what the liberals and moral degenerates wnat it to do. To them public school is far from failing.

[madfly]

See this thread on UNA-USA High School Model U.N. Conference

[Artist]

Homeschool bump!

[Artist]

Thanks for posting this article.

[KentuckyWoman]

Thanks for the 'ping'!

Sadly, most parents REFUSE to see the inherent problems with their own local schools because it makes it easier for them to continue with their own pursuits instead of having to worry about what's best for their children.

Do an on-line search for ANYTHING written by John Taylor Gatto. He was a New York state teacher of the year and speaks from experience about what is happening in our public indoctrination centers...err....schools. Also, anything by Charlotte Iserbyt is highly recommended for those seeking the truth about why the schools were designed the way they were. It is social engineering at its finest and most people simply refuse to see.

See our web site at Wilson County Parents and click on the Recommended Reading link on the left for books by both authors. We own everything on the list and use them constantly for reference while trying to educate other parents and prospective parents about the dangers of public schooling.

[Artist]

Thanks for reposting this article.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

John this is one of your very finest efforts. I wonder how many FReepers will dismiss it as reactionary?? I hope and pray very few!!

[joathome]

Present and accounted for, and pinging!

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Education, you see, in the eyes of the educational establishment, is not about reading, writing and arithmetic, as so many misguided parents believe, but about directing the development of children into the kind of adults the establishment and its supporters want them to become." (WorldNetDaily)

I'd disagree. The government-school industry is about an "agenda" all right - providing jobs at all costs to as many teachers, staff, and bureaucrats as possible.

In 1978, when I was in high school, I said that government schools were - at the elementary-school level - mainly free day care for parents. The teacher I said that to didn't dispute it.

By the late 1990s, the Washington ComPost reported that 1 in 83 kids in Maryland's schools were on supervised probation - so many that the state was assigning probation officers to the schools! In effect, high schools have become correctional institutions - for courts that no longer will incarcerate under-18 felons before rape or murder convictions, but instead use the schools as halfway houses by putting the young felon on probation conditioned on school attendance.

Inside the NEA

[madfly]

Thanks for the link. I'm getting very passionate about kids learning how to think and question and learn without being led down some global-agenda driven road to Outcome based results.

So far, I see the need to get the laws changed that don't allow a family to teach any additional kids, and that sucks, for the child whose parents can't read or solve math problems etc.

We have the largest number of Charter Schools in Arizona, but one must be careful in choosing. Some of those school train the teacher in Calif. in the study of Theosophy and Anthroposophy and it's some weird, whacky stuff, johnny! Do a search and prepare to be alarmed.

[EdReform]

Education News bump

[patriot_wes]

Thought I'd throw in a few choice and timely quotes here...

....Peter Hoaglund - Nebraska Senator and Humanist member of the Nebraska Board of Education said this in 1983 … "Fundamentalists have no right to indoctrinate their children in their beliefs. We are preparing their children for the year 2000 and life in a global one-world society and those children will not fit in!"

John Dunphy in The Humanist 1986 said “The battle for man-kinds future must be won in the classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith that will replace Christianity”

....Adolph Hitler said….”Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state. The state will take youth and give to youth it’s own education and it’s own upbringing. Your child belongs to us already….what are you?”

Dr. W. Pierce of Harvard University said in 1973…”Every 5 year old student is mentally ill, because he comes to school with allegiance toward elected officials, founding fathers, institutions, government, patriotism, nationalism and sovereignty - all of these prove the child is sick because the well individual is one who has rejected all of these things and is what I call a true international child of the future”.

[madfly]

Talk about your evil-doers! wow. I suppose they had a hand in the writing of the new text books, little by little, cutting and pasting, ripping out, revising, indoctrinating our children, who are the adults today so wrapped up in World Governance and all the other sub-plots of the master plan. [I feel like I'm in a bad dream]

See this thread from last July. "45 Goals of American Communism (You Will Be STUNNED at What They Achieved!!) published in 1961

[Stand Watch Listen]

...but about directing the development of children into the kind of adults the establishment and its supporters want them to become..

Here are links to various education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)

FReegards

Public School Isn't Like I Remember It
Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002;
Author: Phyllis Schlafly

What Is Lacking In Our Educational System
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002;
Author:| Ben Cerruti

The charade of education reform
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: February 2, 2002;
Author: Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld

High Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

WHY AMERICANS CAN’T READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001
Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid

The Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001
Author: Glenn Sacks

Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001
Author: Linda Bowles

Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001
Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001
Author: Linda Harvey

COOKING THE BOOKS AT EDUCATION
Source: Accuracy In Media; Published: June 5, 2001;
Author: Cliff Kincaid

Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001
Author: Thomas Sowell

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm
Author: John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001
Author: John Leo

Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001
Author: Various

Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001
Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}

New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000
Author: William H. Wild

Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

Littleton Crisis to Government Control

The UN Plan for Your Mental Health

[Zeroisanumber]

Again with the public schools.

I really don't see a major problem with public schools. I went to an inner-city public school, and it had the same problems as other schools in the nation: Violence, drugs, whatnot. We also had a pretty decent school band, a champion debate team, and a kick butt basketball program.

No, it wasn't as good as a private school, but I came out more or less intact with a good education and a good shot at college.

[madfly]

I went to an inner-city public school, and it had the same problems as other schools in the nation: Violence, drugs, whatnot.

Can you clarify this with the year you graduated from High School, and in what inner-city.
Also, what college you refer to?

The changes made in school curriculums was done in increments over time. It seems to me the 90's was a full-charge-ahead decade, perhaps a race to 2000 by the elite global powers-that-be.