Posted on 09/24/2002 12:12:48 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was an expression of my horror that parents of a child could be forced to consult a modern ju-ju man in order to battle another section of the bureaucracy that wants to chemically lobotomize their child.
It is stories like yours that convince me that we need to stop "freeing" the peoples of Trashkanistan and Balubamistan and begin the humongous task of freeing ourselves.
As another Catholic elementary school graduate I'll say it for you. Corporal discipline is right. It's the only method that will work on some kids (and on most boys) and still let them be kids. Likewise you have to let the kids run and be competitive during recess. Dodge ball, tag etc. Games with winners and losers so the kids can work off their energy.
I lived in great fear of a particular priest who carried his metal yardstick "excalibur" with him. No one misbehaved when the father was in the building. The worst behavior case we had would be like the best student in the public schools.
God Save America (Please)
Kudos to LaBelleDameSansMerci.
Teachers know that these methods don't work and can't understand why they're being promulgated. They don't understand that mass, government schooling was intended to diminish or destroy the ability of children to think for themselves in order that a utopian society might be realized. This "dream" paralleled the "dream" of the giants of industry (Carnegie, Rockefeller) of a compliant workforce. The two ideals have always worked hand-in-glove, and the current "School-to-Work" legislation mysteriously appearing across the country can be traced all the way back to the late 1800s. Gatto outlines all of this in his book.
GO MOM!! The whole issue of ADHD is a crock of equine dung! Please note my discretion here as I generally turn into a ranting nut-case on this subject. I will do my best to remain calm.
How a teacher is in the position of ordering any kind of drug therapy for a child is beyond my comprehension. Fact of the matter is that ADHD is diagnosed almost exclusivley in the US. I'm not wearing my tinfoil hat right now, but isn't that interesting?
Some studies have already shown that kids who were on Ritalin are prone to become cocaine addicts as the drugs are chemically related. So much for the War on Drugs, eh?
Once worked with a lady with two sons. They forced her to put her oldest son on Ritalin--yes, they can force you-- even turn you over to DCFS. When the school wanted her younger son on Ritalin--she took him to a neurologist. Testing showed that the kid could have suffered major neurological damage had he taken Ritalin.
Parents need to start fighting back and soon!--unless they too want to drug their kid into a state of pacificity. Most of the kids on Ritalin are little boys--most little boys are very active pains in the butt--that does not make them ABNORMAL. In fact, that makes them very NORMAL!
God Bless their hyperactive little souls and protect them from the morons of this bureaucracy!!
I'm the daddy 8-)
One other thing I've noticed: school violence
We've had guns in American homes since the first colonies. We've had troubled teens since the dawn of time. But it's only been in the last 10-15 years that we've gotten things like Columbine -- which is coincident with starting to drug kids to make them "easier to manage"
With our kid, they had my wife and I show up for a meeting with about 4 school employees (teacher, principal, nurse, forget who else). They said they wanted to make her "special ed" and wanted us to bring her to a doctor they used, but they needed our OK. I said "No". They gave me a form and an info pack (of about 60 pages of closely-typed regs and legalese) saying to please sign that I said "No".
My ears perked up on that. They would need for me to sign on a "Yes", but absence of permission should be enough for a "no". So I took that pack home and read every word closely (something they probably didn't expect me to do), while my wife called a friend who's a special-ed teacher. The friend confirmed that in all cases, when they want you to see a doc they recommend, it's to get a Ritalin prescription. And buried in those 60 pages was a clause which said that if the parents refused, the school could appeal the refusal to get OK to get her examined anyway (probably on school time and without advance parent knowledge). And in PA, once your kid is labeled special-ed, you have a hard time with home-schooling.
So the next morning I kept her home and handed in the paperwork notifying them that I was home-schooling her for this point on. I was NOT going to allow her to step back onto school property once the wheels were in motion
As long as it is administered fairly, according to clearly defined guidelines, and by level-headed individuals. And that's the catch.
Hurray for you!! There are so many parents buying into this BS I am truly frightened for our youngsters. My kids are grown so it's not an issue for me personally, but it still concerns me a lot!
If children are going to be institutionalized for the crime of being children, then the only way to keep order is through corporal punishment.
But this begs the question, should children be institutionalized? In "modern" times, compulsory, universal education was first dreamed of by Rousseau, the proto-socialist who abandoned all five of his children at birth, turning them over to orphanages where premature death was more than likely. Contemplate that for a moment.
In fact, universal schooling for all intents and purposes had never existed until the mid 1800s anywhere in the world. Many Americans forcibly resisted compulsory schooling, burning down schools in many parts of the country. In Barnstable Massachusetts, at the turn of the century, the militia was called in to force children into the new government schools.
It breaks my heart that Catholics had to set up their own detention centers in order to keep Catholic children out of the government schools. Sadly and ironically, the contemporary popes decried these new institutions that were destructive to families and society. Nevertheless, Catholics had no choice but to create their own parallel institutions, the legacy of which is nuns rapping kids' knuckles.
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