I had a young child in a charter school in Los Angeles back in 2009. That is when it all started. I had moved him to the “progressive charter school for the arts” (yes - even in the name) because the regular public school complained that he wouldn’t sit in his seat and wouldn’t focus and was distracting other children. So I got the diagn…
I had a young child in a charter school in Los Angeles back in 2009. That is when it all started. I had moved him to the “progressive charter school for the arts” (yes - even in the name) because the regular public school complained that he wouldn’t sit in his seat and wouldn’t focus and was distracting other children. So I got the diagnosis (ADHD) but did not want to medicate him - and I thought a “progressive” school would just teach him without demanding a drugged up compliant child.
How wrong I was. They gave him ‘red cards’ for jumping outside, they banned playing tag, they did not give the children any exercise and playtime was monitored for ‘bullying’ (even touching another child was considered bullying), he got in trouble for ‘bullying’ his best friend when they were actually playing, they had constant lessons about causing harm and bullying, and they banned him from drawing any tanks or guns. No reading or stories about war or fighting or any kind of violence. They couldn’t manage to teach him to read though - because they believed in this ‘whole word’ way of teaching. That is “child will just pick it up automatically when they get to be 7” - or something. Oh and spelling was out because the child should just be able to spell things they way they sound and they will pick up the correct spelling eventually from reading. When and if they master reading that is. And as long as they are not reading about war or fighting or aggression or death or weapons or comics.
My child was 6 and 7 when he was exposed to this insane way of educating children. I actually moved to the UK when he was 9 which then came with it’s own set of rigid conformity issues but he is 20 now and actually fine and not woke at all. But these poor children who grew up exposed to that insanity and indoctrinated with the idea that they were bad and wrong if they wanted to play with a toy gun or liked comics where the superhero wiped out all the bad guys. And if they persisted in such ‘wrongthink’ they were drugged up to the eyeballs on methylphenidate or methamphetamine. No wonder they retreated to their video games. The progressives and their dumb ideas messed up an entire generation of kids and now we are seeing the consequences as these young adults are in universities.
I had a young child in a charter school in Los Angeles back in 2009. That is when it all started. I had moved him to the “progressive charter school for the arts” (yes - even in the name) because the regular public school complained that he wouldn’t sit in his seat and wouldn’t focus and was distracting other children. So I got the diagnosis (ADHD) but did not want to medicate him - and I thought a “progressive” school would just teach him without demanding a drugged up compliant child.
How wrong I was. They gave him ‘red cards’ for jumping outside, they banned playing tag, they did not give the children any exercise and playtime was monitored for ‘bullying’ (even touching another child was considered bullying), he got in trouble for ‘bullying’ his best friend when they were actually playing, they had constant lessons about causing harm and bullying, and they banned him from drawing any tanks or guns. No reading or stories about war or fighting or any kind of violence. They couldn’t manage to teach him to read though - because they believed in this ‘whole word’ way of teaching. That is “child will just pick it up automatically when they get to be 7” - or something. Oh and spelling was out because the child should just be able to spell things they way they sound and they will pick up the correct spelling eventually from reading. When and if they master reading that is. And as long as they are not reading about war or fighting or aggression or death or weapons or comics.
My child was 6 and 7 when he was exposed to this insane way of educating children. I actually moved to the UK when he was 9 which then came with it’s own set of rigid conformity issues but he is 20 now and actually fine and not woke at all. But these poor children who grew up exposed to that insanity and indoctrinated with the idea that they were bad and wrong if they wanted to play with a toy gun or liked comics where the superhero wiped out all the bad guys. And if they persisted in such ‘wrongthink’ they were drugged up to the eyeballs on methylphenidate or methamphetamine. No wonder they retreated to their video games. The progressives and their dumb ideas messed up an entire generation of kids and now we are seeing the consequences as these young adults are in universities.