The public school system has become not just a wreck, but a complete joke that's dangerous to our kids!
First of all, there's all the progressive indoctrination.
Why Aren’t You Home-Schooling Yet?
Pamela Geller reports exclusively on how high school students are being recruited and indoctrinated by Obama’s Organizing for America in an “internship program is geared towards the 2010 elections.”
That’s just one report from Massillon, Ohio, but it’s everywhere now. When Howard Zinn became a good Commie this week, comments pointed out that Zinn’s Marxist history is now standard reading in high school advanced-placement (AP) classes.
For decades, public schools have been a laboratory where America’s children are used as guinea pigs for the experimental education projects of the elite. And what is astonishing is that so many parents tell themselves, “Oh, that stuff’s not going on in my kid’s school.”
Well, it is. If you’re too stupid to realize it, you’re part of the problem. There is no point trying to “fix” the system, because the system itself is the problem ...
The Other McCain: Why Aren’t You Home-Schooling Yet?
Then there's the outright abuse of children's rights at these tyrannical schools.
Alexa Gonzalez Hauled Off in Handcuffs for Doodling on Her Desk
A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned.
Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday while waiting for her Spanish teacher to pass out homework at Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, she said.
"I love my friends Abby and Faith," the girl wrote, adding the phrases "Lex was here. 2/1/10" and a smiley face.
But instead of simply cleaning off the doodles after class, Alexa landed in some adult-sized trouble for using her lime-green magic marker.
She was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours, she and her mother said.
"I started crying, like, a lot," said Alexa. "I made two little doodles. ... It could be easily erased. To put handcuffs on me is unnecessary." Alexa, who had a stellar attendance record, hasn't been back to school since, adding, "I just thought I'd get a detention. I thought maybe I would have to clean [the desk]."
Alexa is still suspended from her school, her mother said. She and her mom went to family court on Tuesday, where Alexa was assigned eight hours of community service, a book report and an essay on what she learned from the experience.
NYDailyNews.com: Queens girl Alexa Gonzalez hauled out of school in handcuffs after getting caught doodling on desk
Zero Tolerance!
A fourth grade New Dorp boy faced the prospect of suspension after the principal at his South Beach school saw him playing with an action figure carrying a toy machine gun.
Patrick Timoney, a 9-year-old student at PS 52, and friends were playing with LEGOs during their lunch period when the principal took him into her office over the two-inch toy gun carried by a standard policeman figure.
Margie Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, told the Staten Island Advance that there is a no-tolerance policy for toy guns in schools.
Therefore the principal, Evelyn Matroianni, deemed the pinky-sized toy gun suspension-worthy. Matroianni told Laura Timoney, the boy’s mother, that she would check with a DOE security administrator.
NBC: LEGO My Gun: S.I. Boy Faced Suspension Over Tiny Toy Weapon
Indoctrination, abuse, then on top of it all ... they don't even teach kids valuable skills!
English Classes Turn Into Diversity Training Classes
Sadly my recent visits to neighboring school districts showed me a different type of English class. In these English classes, students do not read and discuss the great literature of the ages- teachers feel that these books are racist or out-dated or un-PC or are simply too hard to read. In these modern English classes, the literature that is read and discussed is more modern day literature dominated by stories of discrimination, racism, and diversity. Students read the latest story of a black who experiences racism or something, and then discuss racism. Or they read the latest book about a woman who faces discrimination, and talk about that. Or they read about a poor person, or someone who loves trees, or some other leftist or liberal book.
The goal of English class is no longer to transmit the knowledge of the past, but now the goal of English class is to absorb the narrative of the liberal left. Students don’t need to know who Tom Sawyer is or who Romeo is, but do need to know the cast of characters of the oppressed of the world and absorb the language and dialogue of the left. English class should now be called diversity training class.
A classic novel, deep in importance and history and forming the basis for many generations of America, is now thrown aside in favor of highly descriptive tales of the down-trodden of society. These choices are not meaningless. Think about the kinds of words that are read, the images that are formed in students mind, the discussions that are inspired. Are they motivated and inspired by Socrates, or by some depressing leftist jumbles of poorly written words dominated by messages prized by the liberal left?
Conservative Hideout 2.0: English Classes Turn Into Diversity Training Classes
Get your kids out of the public prisons, er, schools. Now!
UPDATE:
The public schools have become prison / indoctrination camps. Does freedom and liberty mean anything to anyone anymore?
Thanks for the linky. There needs to be an exodus from the public schools NOW! They are cesspools, and will only get worse with time.