The nonsense at Emory University this week (note this was written in March 2016) reminded me of something I had written a while back about the difference between sheeple groupthink and the power of awake individuals standing together.
How on earth did we get here? College students are "traumatized" - the actual word being used - by the mere sight of the name of Republican candidate for President Donald Trump in chalk around campus?
Who raised these kids? Who are these cowardly administrators - allegedly grown-ups - running the campus?
The truth is, we didn't raise these kids. The government day camps of indoctrination called schools raised these kids. We just handed them over because we were told we had to. But in a way, we were relieved to do so. We were then free to toil away to keep a roof over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, gas in the car, utilities running, not to mention the occasional vacation. Or we were free to pursue our own personal career development we preferred over the hard, sometimes unrewarding job of raising productive little citizens.
Children spend the best hours of their day in school. The best hours of our day, too. Full day kindergarten does not necessarily produce a better educated child; it just permits longer external influence over children by people who are not the parents And most likely do not share the values of those parents!
Schools are docks of convenience, repositories of the next generation we're all too busy to raise ourselves. Why? In my opinion, that's manipulated, too. Real grownups are too busy eking out a living to meet the bills and are too exhausted at the end of the day to counterbalance the indoctrination. Hillary Clinton herself has said parents should not be in the way of schools teaching children. Except that is against every single principle of education - the parents are the first and primary educators, responsible for the child.
At one time that was fine, when schools taught our children the basic skills they need to become productive, rational, independent members of society, placing them in the care of strangers all day might have been OK when those strangers weren't strangers at all, but neighbors you knew, and who knew and shared your values for your kids.
Instead, and right under our noses, schools have orchestrated the decline of individual critical thought, discernment, and individual achievement - and simultaneously placed emphasis on the value of collective thought, entitlement to recognition through no effort, never mind real achievement.
It takes a family to raise a child, and it takes parents to educate children, as the involvement of parents is the number one factor determining student achievement.
Education is not a "non-family" enterprise; parents are the ones responsible for the education of their children.
Homeschooling is a great example of this, but even with private and public education parents must be involved. The appeal to teachers "leading the way" is interesting as hardly any classroom teachers were on committees to write, research or validate Common Core development. Also it doesn't seem to leave room for parents who are the biggest stakeholders.
Schools in large measure - especially progressives within education - have sought to replace parents or see parents as an obstacle, not a partner.
Part of the biggest problem with Common Core is that it left parents behind. Their voices were not heard before the standards were implemented. Their voices are not being heard in many states debating this now. Their voices have not been heard in the education establishment, or with idiotic way Common Core-aligned curriculum has kids do math, which leaves parents unable to help their kids, widening the divide at home.
Discipline, self-control, patience, punctuality. The biggest complaint from employers is that young people who show up for jobs don’t have those habits. They don’t know how to conduct themselves appropriately.
Common Core is just a federal program set up to program children to the politically correct ideals of a time. And let's face it, with government indoctrination from day care and Pre-K to college, the government infuses indoctrination on young minds starting with toddlers.
This is separation of home and state. Isn't that right out of the communist manifesto?
UPDATE IN JANUARY 2023: How FAST the plan to cut off parents from their children has accelerated! Now, government schools are sexualizing our very young children.This has GOT to stop. Stand and intervene.
