Posted on 07/01/2014 3:42:28 PM PDT by PoloSec
Since long before the Kerner report we have had two Americas and after trillions of dollars and the best of intentions the two worlds in many ways seem to have grown further apart. The city fathers of Buffalo are looking over the landscape of the inner-city and in their despair they say to themselves, let us take these children out of this hopeless and dehumanizing environment as early in their lives as possible and introduce them to a civilizing influence.
In this context, calls on this thread for inner-city children in Buffalo to be homeschooled borders on lunacy. Yet we have no way to distinguish between healthy home environments and unhealthy home environments and we dare not do so on the basis of race. White suburbanite parents are finding their school system adopting draconian regulations across the board as a result.
Much of the regimentation in the American school system comes from our inability to cope with America's original sin, it's problem with race. Each step in this process fits into the progressive agenda and renders our schooling process more and more dehumanizing and ineffective.
Kindergarten has been mandatory in my state since... I don’t know when. A while. It was full-day kindergarten (vs. 1/2 day) that became mandatory just about 6 years ago.
Is there such a thing as a healthy public school environment? Not these days.
Progressives are trying to use the school system as a Skinner box to effect their social engineering dreams. We see the same instinct at play in our military today. Race is one of the justifications for imposing ever more and more regimentation in the school system, creating a death spiral.
Since we are dealing with a problem rooted in race, common sense is removed from the equation. As to your specific point, the dysfunctional home environment in inner city Buffalo is probably worse than their kindergartens.
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