Posted on 12/30/2006 12:40:38 PM PST by PhylosopherStone
Former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that the 5 keys to success in school are:
1. Number of days the child attends school.
2. A love of reading.
3. Number of pages of homework read (or done).
4. The presents of two parents in the home.
5. Number of hours of television watched.
The schools cannot force a child to attend school, love reading, do their homework or turn the television off. Schools also cannot force parents to stay married (or even get married in the first place). None of these things can be controlled by educators. All of them are under the control of the family.
Liberals do not respect parents rights. They protest loudly when religion is taught to their children in the schools, but think they have a divine right to indoctrinate Christian children with the liberal belief system. (Assuming that atheists believe in a divine right.) Liberal educators must keep parents out of the process if they are too succeed at corrupting our youth. They have created a system that parents have little or no control over. The message to parents is clear: KEEP OUT!
They teach children how to have sex without getting caught, diseases, or pregnant. They teach children how to get abortions without their parents finding out. They teach children where to get treatment for STDs without parents finding out. They teach evolution without teaching about entropy and the whole body of evidence against evolution. They fail to teach the religious origins of the first settlers of this nation. They fail to teach the religious roots of the Constitution.
You know the drill. They could not get away with this if they had parents involved.
Liberals have worked to force mothers into the workforce. Women migrated from the home to the workplace in droves in the 1980's, doubling the supply of workers and liberals wondered why wages were stagnant. Accountants analyze family fiancés to see if the family is better off with two incomes or one. They look at wages vs. child care expenses, and other costs related to the mother working outside of the home. This analysis should be performed by economists. They would look at the impact that doubling the workforce has on wages, the effect of home production on the price of clothing and food, etc. Children come home to empty houses. When mom was home they did homework and kept out of trouble. Now we have street gangs and drug dealers. This has to have an effect on insurance rates, public funds for criminal justice systems, the cost of social services required to deal with teen pregnancies and teen mothers.
In the early 1960's a couple wanted to buy their dream home but the banks would only consider the husbands income, considering the woman's income to be temporary. There was a law suit. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the buyers. Thousands of couples seeking to upgrade entered the housing market. The price of housing doubled in two years, and doubled again in two more. Single income couples were quickly getting frozen out of the market.
I would love to see a comprehensive analysis of the economic impact two income households have had on America.
America would clearly be better off if mothers were at home until their children were grown.
Thus we see that the only entity that could possible succeed at educating children (the family) has been systematically cut out of the system.
Regards,
The PhylosopherStone Http://www.accelerated-achievement.com
Public education is to prepare the children for work in the corporate environment. Evidently it is successful even though it also produces politically clueless citizens.
Accountants analyze family fiancés...
Only women and men like Jon Carey have that done.
No. Two parents must give the kid lots of presents. Then Daddy has to go home to his wife or girlfriend and Mommy has to leave you with grandma or Child Services for the day. But by giving presents, you know that they love you.
I'm sorry for that... I was in a bit of a crabby mood.
Agree. You've got strike one and two on you. You are welcome to FR, but don't get strike three.
Yes, and you should've said "'its'?". (1950s public education at work.)
It needed to be corrected, I am glad someone caught it. Thank you and best of luck at West Point.
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