Goverment Schools

[redcliffsw]

This is the introduction to "Government Schools are Bad For Your Kids".
Looks like a pretty good read for sure.

How Did We Get Into This Mess?
by James Ostrowski

http://www.lewrockwell.com/ostrowski/ostrowski93.1.html

[Diane Amberg]

Well, that's one opinion. Pull your kids out and put' em back on the share cropper farm where child labor is still legal and ignorance is no drawback. Do the same for mining families and shirtwaist factories and the usual 6.5 day week. Bring back the company store. Kill off all the unions that made a 40 hour week and a decent wage possible. Put ALL the money back in the hands of a few hugely wealthy families. Perhaps we can bring back TB and Smallpox and Polio, Diphtheria, and all the rest. Then go back to having huge families that the wage earner can't make enough to feed, but that's OK, most of 'em won't live to grow up anyway. Be careful what you wish for, there may be baggage attached.

[pamsback]

that's exactly what ran thru my mind Diane.........

[Lookatmeknow!!]

Diane well said!!

[Sarah]

Well, there are alternatives to public education being homeschooling, private schools and charter schools. 

[redcliffsw]

Sarah, you're right.  

The liberals have been brainwashed and in turn want to control and indoctrinate others.
Kinda like being re-constructed..........

[Varmit]

Ignorance is no drawback....then please explain the educational system today that constantly turns out children that can hardly read, or count back correct change?  How about those kids that can't tell you where New York is on a map?  And while you are at it could you please point out where the federal gov't has the authority to be involved in education?

[Sarah]

Ignorance is no drawback....then please explain the educational system today that constantly turns out children that can hardly read, or count back correct change?  How about those kids that can't tell you where New York is on a map?  And while you are at it could you please point out where the federal gov't has the authority to be involved in education?

It doesn't.  Education was never a constitutional right and honestly, is not something the government should be involved in.  I believe that's probably patterned after other countries where the government runs the schools so that the children are educated the way the government wants them to be educated.  So that they can mold the next generation to think the way they want them to think. 

[pamsback]

You all are always blah blah blah explain the kids comin out of school that can't read etc. I can't. THEY aren't MY kids. My kids were above their grade level on every test they ever took and will BE taking till my last one graduates this spring. I am not the PARENT of THOSE children. MAYBE if THEIR parents had taken the TIME and expended the EFFORT on THEIR kids that I did there would BE no PROBLEM.

I am tired of hearing you deride the school system. I had life-long teachers in my grandads family. My Aunt Nellie took the time to take us on nature walks and teach us the plants and animals. She taught us about fossils. My grandad, my mom and dad taught me about books. My grandma taught me about gardening and history. They taught me biology from raisin animals. I went to public school....what became WEST ELK before I graduated.....I didn't figure my education stopped when I walked out the door and neither did my family and it didn't BEGIN when I walked THRU the door.

I carried that philosophy on to MY children and they have turned out JUST fine thank you very much....THEY even spent MOST of their school time in WEST ELK schools except for Ashley and she is in PUBLIC school down here and is doin JUST fine. Nobody MOLDED any of us exCEPT family who taught us to be independant, FREE-thinking INDIVIDUALS.


Red, the WAR is over....we LOST....get over it.

[Varmit]

Pam, you bring up some very good points and I agree with them.  I think parents should be more involved with their kids schooling.  That being said, my question would be why should the parents have to do the teachers job for them?  And if the parents are having to pick up more and more slack why do we, as taxpayers, have to keep throwing more and more money at a system 1) federal gov't funds shouldn't be going to anyway? and 2) continues to lower the standard just so they can say more schools meet the standard? 

If parents cannot trust the teachers, adminstratiors, faculty, e.t.c to educate our children then why should we be forced to comply with mandatory scholastic requirements, that even homeschoolers are supposed to follow?