Education? Or Indoctrination?
Tue November 7th, 2006 17:11 MSTMy wife teaches an after-school class for public school 3rd graders at our church here in Arizona. A few weeks ago, one of the kids told how she could pronounce the name of our governor, Janet Napolitano (D).It turns out her teacher gave out tootsie rolls to kids who learned to say it right. Nobody was talking about her oponent - I guess the kids just automatically know how to pronounce Munsil. Not.
Today, election day, they all wanted to know how my wife had voted. Had she voted for Napolitano? Their teachers had told them everyone should vote for Napolitano.
If this bald electioneering on the public payroll isn’t a crime, it should be! Once again, the teachers have shown that their selfish interests are more important than their sacred trust.
It is this sort of nonsense that causes me to ALWAYS vote against public school district funding - and I did so today.
My mother spent 20 years as a public school math teacher. When my daughter was born, there was one commandment: “No grandchild of mine should ever go to a public school!”
That’s why my kids are homeschooled. This is a way to provide a Jeffersonian education to kids free from fluff and garbage. And with modern technology and communication it’s easy to find like minded individuals who are interested in the same thing in your location. Ironically homeschooling laws even as they differ from state to state are often threatened by regressive reforms form both parties. Virtually all statistics show homeschooled children to be better educated, more independent, more mature and more comfortable as adults. Modern schooling was designed to indoctrinate and make dumb. I suggest reading some of John Taylor Gatto’s work on the subject.