Life On the Rocks

What Progressive Education Teaches


Florida boy allegedly pummeled on school bus for wearing Trump 2020 hat 
https://nypost.com/2019/12/13/florida-boy-allegedly-pummeled-on-school-bus-for-wearing-trump-2020-hat/

This is not about Trump or racism. This lawless, violent, disrespectful behavior is taught and tolerated every day in our public schools. It's an almost impossible job to counteract the official world presented to youngsters in their public school classes. 

Public school curriculum and teachers daily disparage, slander and attack our country, our values, our cultural heritage, basic morality and the distinction between right and wrong. In classrooms there is no order, no discipline, no respect for anything, no incentive to learn, and no education. The goal of those involved in public education is to pad the budget with as many teachers and bureaucrats at the highest salaries as possible and con and bully voters into giving them more money.

I know first hand. My son was in a public school. I learned that he and his friends accepted the dystopic world of public school as the norm of what this country was, and regarded their parents and their values as strange aberrations who had embarrassingly out of date ideas. It's practically impossible to defeat this effect, as the schools are the entire social and cultural nurturing environments for most of a youngster's day from age 5 to age 18.

To blame the parents or the children for this awful violent behavior is wrong, because that kind of behavior is tolerated and standard at many if not most public schools.

And should the parents try to get their child into a better school in a different neighborhood, I remind you of the woman in Ohio who used her father's address to send her daughters to a better school, was spied on by the school system's hired detectives, (good use of school funds, no?) and sent to jail for her efforts. We are becoming the Soviet Union where if you're in jail, you're innocent.

Ohio Mom Kelley Williams-Bolar Jailed for Sending Kids to Better School District 
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654

We must have school choice to save our children, who are our future.