Hahahaha. Mine was Anaheim Stadium in 1977 for their Animals tour. Can’t remember one song they played. But I do recall a double rainbow that was over the stadium. That, as they said in the vernacular of the times, “blew me away!”
NO local news reported this at all yesterday, when the decision came down at about 3:00 p.m. I haven't had time to look today. Major local L.A. station still didn't as of 24 hours later. (KTLA)
Since so many police are leaving due to the forced Jabberwocky, I propose we repurpose that glut of idle 'teachers' to don the blue and hit the streets. They can coach violent criminals the ins & outs of proper pronoun usage.
Good idea. And people like me that are good teachers but didn't want to get into the soul crush of the Teaching Industrial Complex can take over now...
It is being forced. There's many forms of coercion. Some folks are able to resist. For some the "choice" is take it or lose your job and/or not be allowed to work at all in the field. That is pretty much my situation, indirectly: no jabs, no travel. No travel, no making a buck the way I make bucks.
I could have said no, and found a completely different way to make a living. So that was a choice. But not one anyone should be forced to make IMO.
So has California. Remember the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics? Very few were homeless, and then, concentrated around "The Nickel" - 5th street downtown. Now, they're everywhere. Garcetti during his first election said he'd "look into it" and the count then was between 28 and 30k. Now it's over 80k.
In California it's illegal to take your kid out of school without proving that you have either enrolled them in a private school approved by the state, or you are home-schooling according to the state approved and provided curriculum - which is approved by the NEA.
They will fight you for the money, and they have resources. Been there, done that, got stories.
That is not true. We are in California and homeschooling through high school, we file psa once a year and we are left strictly alone. Kids who want to homeschool through a charter actually get funds to spend on their education (although the charter then tells you what you can or cannot do.) California has very good homeschool laws.
Thanks for the update. The process has changed. Just looked and it seems the law is the same in that all kids under 16 must be enrolled in a public school, a private school approved by the state, or an approved home schooling or alternative education program. It sounds like the process for "approved" home schooling has changed so as to be more reasonable.
Back when my son was of school age (more than a decade back) it was more difficult. The "program" had to at least claim to comply with NEA approved curriculum. When my son was in high school, "experts" at his high school declared he had learning disability and was due to this so called disability failing. The disability turned out to be he was bored by the pathetic pace of his classes. Got him into an program in which he could work at a more reasonable pace, and finished 2 and a half years of high school curriculum in 4 months. That program was made possible by the charter program but was administered by a local district, who viewed it primarily as a way to shuffle off problem students out of sight and thus out of mind. Thanks to a dedicated teacher/mentor/coach, it worked.
In an imperfect system both can be true. From a UK HomeEd forum experience about 80% of parents sailed through with a letter or an F U, 20% seemed to get caught up in some frightful protracted battle with some council officials, home inspections.
I think the LEA (Local Education Authority) smell blood and fear and go for anyone who hasn't got a clear picture.
Interestingly most of the anglosphere supports/allows HomeEd and it's literally illegal in most of Continental Europe.
I cannot comment on Europe. In California, a home inspection can be made (but is virtually unheard of) but there are clear guidelines about what they can and cannot ask for (basically they can see attendance records and a psa letter filed with the department of education.)
I am reminded of one of those bloody moments when I was involved in education reform here in California. As part of our due diligence we had 3 CPAs who audited the budgets of a dozen districts, including our local district. The state law mandates each district publish at least annually a budget and full accounting of spending. The problem is few actually do. The state provides a document template. Districts file the document but don't bother to fill in most of the blanks in the template. Have all the chapter headings, but no content. Really.
In a local district "open" meeting, the accountants presented the reports filed by the district for the prior 5 years. Mostly blank documents. The superintendent could not explain this. The staff would not explain this. None had any idea how much money they received nor how they spent what they had. This followed a pitch by the superintendent for more funding - another sales tax add on "for education". When asked how much of the existing sales tax add ons supposed to be "for education" actually made it to the district, the answer was...wait for it....we don't know exactly. Exactly? Well, not imprecisely. In fact, not at all. But we're sure we need more.
At that time, state taxpayers were paying around $20,000 per year per student on K through 12.
Money & lawsuits talk - it’s amazing the creativity of parents who care for their kids - co-ops, home-schooling, great courses & curriculums available ... takes about one to
two years of vacating the abysmal system & parents who are willing to
bite the bullet & invest in their kids schooling outside of the system. Best thing we ever did with ours. When
you realize there were no “public” govt schools in this country until the later part of 1800’s (Horace Mann, Massachusetts public school system. And not nationwide until
the “father” of “regressive” education, the awful socialistic, John Dewey got his hooks into the promotion & propagation & indoctrination of the system. Because we all can see how horribly illiterate our Founding Fathers & even Honest Abe Lincoln & Grover Cleveland, etc, etc were!
Yes and then the Montessori schools took hold here - and things accelerated going downhill. 1970s to 1980s began the "everyone gets a trophy" and no kid learned responsibility, taking ownership of failure and trying to do better.
"a trans 6 year old is like a vegan cat. you know it was not either the child or the feline making that decision."
YES!!!! Sometimes the truth is just so obvious that even a Leftist cannot deny it! This line is perfect and I think I am going to start stealing it, if I may?
Although for completeness, my cat does love vegetables. Like she will slit your throat for broccoli. She drinks a green smoothie every morning. Full disclosure we switched to vegan yogurt at some point and she was pissed, but eventually adjusted so she could enjoy all that green goodness. The point still stands. She would make other decisions if she could buy groceries.
I recently went through some old elementary school homework (1980s) in a box buried in my parent's basement. Almost every assignment dealt with the evils of environmental destruction, racism, industrial growth, etc., in a not at all nuanced fashion. I was just parroting my teachers, with no apparent ability to critically assess their claims.
The ideological indoctrination only increased through high school and university. Only more recently did I realize the extent to which this was all religious. Progressivism, secular humanism, liberalism, wokeism, scientism, are all names variously applied to this religion. This is not only a religion, but one dominated by fundamentalism and extremism. The followers believe that the tenets of this religion are unassailable objective reality, giving them a level of conviction exceeding even traditional faith-based religions.
Vaccination is their purification ritual. BLM, pussy hat, and pro-abortion protests are there religious festivals. Masks are their talismans or rosaries. Universities and public schools are their madrassas. "Trust the experts" and "follow the science" are their version of "what would Jesus do?"
The zealous followers of this religion over the ensuing decades have taken over universities, public schools, government agencies, courts, and, more recently, major corporations. At the same time, they have amassed tremendous power to impose their religion on all Americans, and even proselytize overseas, far more aggressively than any Christian missionaries. They operate outside of democratic accountability because they dominate all of the institutions, and thus have effective veto power over legislative dictates with which they disagree. We saw this starkly with the Trump administration. He had no power because the woke institutions were united against him.
This ideology needs to be recognized for the religion it is and the democratic process needs to firmly assert itself against its rising influence and control. This is a religion and, like any other religion, they do not have the right to impose it on us anymore.
The Social Justice religion is a postmodern stew of previous egalitarian religions/ideologies: a definite base of Marxism, with a splash of punitive Puritanism, seasoned with a few dashes of Bolshevism and Jacobinism. Makes for a potent yet toxic meal!
Left Egalitarianism has been the de facto religion (or secular theology) of our educated class since maybe the 60s, but after a 50-yr-campaign they have at last seized the means of cultural production and are salivating at the chance to brainwash an entire generation and at last fulfill their destiny as omnipotent infallible philosopher-kings.
They are a committed band of fanatics who seem to have seized the moral high ground (as in, You can't disagree w me, think of the marginalized children and their feelings!).
They will cause a great deal of destruction until the inevitable Thermidor arrives.
Well said. I also remember writing a college paper in favor of a global philosopher-king based on Plato's Republic, and against national democracy. It earned high praise from my professor. The indoctrination is overwhelming, and only getting more extreme. I think I was only able to see through it because I spent most of my adult life outside of the bubble I grew up in, working in Asia and the rural mountain west. Had I remained in progressive cities (as most people raised in progressive cities tend to do), I would in all likelihood still be an unwitting believer in this ever-more ludicrous religion, like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot.
Yes! Same! I barely escaped. Grew up in honolulu in the eighties and had lots of conservation scaremongering. The former is fine with me, the later not so much. But it’s hard to separate the two until you leave. I ended up in the Netherlands where it is arguably worse at the moment, but at least the move provided a moment of clarity. And instead of the exasperation my mother responded with to all the antagonism I brought home, I can laugh and talk to my kids about what really matters. And it’s not wearing a fucking purple shirt on sexual diversity day. 🙄
If I were to put a year on it, I would say 1968. Prior to that, the established religion was American nationalism, featuring belief in progress, freedom, democracy, fair play, and a down-home style. That was a religion too, with its own faults, but it did have the virtue of being inclusive of all reasonably loyal Americans.
The Social Justice religion was one I instinctively loathed, even as a child. Its takeover wasn't instantaneous, and there remained outspokenly conservative teachers even into the 1970s. But one by one, you noticed its poisonous tendrils inserting themselves into our institutions, choking off the roots of our culture. Suddenly, every want-ad in the newspaper concludes with the obligatorily-asserted oxymoron of being an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Now, at the start of a new year, the school has dropped our old children's book club vendor that sold warm, broadening, exciting stories, histories, science, and humor, in favor of a new one that sells nothing but disheartening accounts of discrimination and suffering. In the cartoons and movies, every featured circle of white people must now contain a token black person, as a hat on the pole, to cow any organic community feeling into nonexistence. Heroes that used to be fun and hearty have all turned into cold, resentful SJWs.
Since the end of the 1960s, it's been pretty much all imposed 'woke'. What David describes from elementary school in the 1980s sickens me, but doesn't surprise me. Being out of school, I could no longer see it directly, and could only hope that it wasn't that bad.
Agree. Larry Fink, of BlackRock went to high school in a suburb of Los Angeles. The same school I went to and I can't find my yearbook. IF I am remembering correctly, he was one of a few kids who were *obsessed* with Nixon, and then, Watergate. By "obsessed" it was this groups ONLY topic of discussion and not even "Earth Day" (April, 1970) mattered to them - then. Now, ESG to install Socialism is what Fink is all about.
Yes! As I state elsewhere, but bears repeating (perhaps more concisely). A core tenet of Marxism and its cousin philosophies is that man is a blank slate, that humans are basically all the same. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Humans vary enormously in many traits, and among those is educational aptitude. The only way one can have equality of outcome is by lowering standards until anyone passes. "No child left behind" in practice, then, can only occur if no one is allowed to advance. The result is stagnation.
A corollary to the above: many of society's problems are due the attempt of ideology to deny underlying realities. The Left is by no means the sole possessor of this flaw, but they sure are its prime exponents for the past century or more. Magical thinking doesn't work very well. Long ago (Grandma's time, maybe) a high school diploma meant something. Turns out the secret is not solely in the piece of paper however. Apparently if Little Johnny can't read or do sums, even a piece of paper attesting that he "graduated" doesn't confer those abilities.
The Blank Slate is holy dogma for Leftists because it allows for maximum social engineering. Remember, their religious crusade is based on the idea/fantasy that they are egalitarian philosopher-kings who will create a world of pure and total equality where no one goes to bed hungry or ever has their feelings hurt if only we hand them total power.
If they had to acknowledge barriers or limitations based on biology, psychology, individuality etc, that would set inherent limits on their project and force them to debate instead of damning and denouncing. Thus everyone who presents a challenge to their sacred narrative (see what they did to EO Wilson, Napoleon Chagnon or Steven Pinker) must be mercilessly attacked and destroyed.
My husband had to leave the room when I was reading him some of this. INSANE. Anyone who still has their kids in a public school... I can't even. We homeschooled ours before it was "in." Even then I wouldn't have put one in public school. Now? NO FREAKING WAY.
The sacrifice is worth it. My family discovered that 2 or 3 cars, a boat, a four wheeler, a motorcycle, a bathroom for every bedroom, a camper, and a whole bunch of other material crap isn't necessary or can wait until the kids are educated properly.
Yup, we were perpetually broke while our kids were being homeschooled. I wouldn't have it any other way! They learned the value of hard work and money, along with actual school subjects, and we never spent a minute on gender, sexuality, race, etc.
that's one of the main problems. I love how they're tied to real estate property taxes. hidden as a line item that most people don't know how to calculate. biggest scam
Just like the "Current Thing," getting people to think outside the parameters they are given is an exercise in frustration. Getting a parent to realize that they could receive an exponentially better outcome for half the expenditure, and further, that they could pay for it themselves without government's help, is a daunting task. I believe there can be no incrementalism, mainly due to the fact that people's memories are too short. In 5 years, they will be back to building the system again. It is better to force everyone out of the system COLD TURKEY, demolish the machinery, then let the free market solutions rush to fill the vacuum.
Probably less than half. Some private schools' tuition is a small fraction of what the average cost per student of the local pubic system is. Of course I'm not talking about the boutique schools of the super-rich like DC's Sidwell Friends (~$50K/year), etc. But all else equal, any random student is likely to get a better education at Our Lady of Interminable Flatulence than Public School #99 in the big city, and at considerably lower cost.
Broadly agree. If the State is going to fund education, it should do so with as few strings as possible. A flat amount per year, per student. Realistically, that will never happen, simply because the teacher and government employee unions get a large slice of the education pie, and they're not about to relinquish that position without a fight.
There's also going to be the reaction of, "But what about the parents who take the money and spend it on drugs instead of education? Think of the children!!!".
But it's also not easy to regulate against things like that without adding more and more strings attached and red tape, which someone will inevitably take charge of and manipulate to their own benefit like teachers' unions.
Just cash payments to parents to spend as they will on their child's education. The great thing about this is that it is CASH to families with children. What that means is that many parents would actually vote for it because it would be CASH in their pockets. Those on the Left can buy in because it is a CASH payment from government to families that are poor or BIPOC. the Right can buy in because it would subsidize both home school and religious school. So no vouchers. Just CASH to parents with children, for "education".
I appreciate the frustration with schools merely teaching kids *what* to think, but the Marxists absolutely do want to teach kids *how* to think too. It's just that the "how" in their case involves both inverting and perverting healthy societies until there is nothing left except ashes from which their utopia is imagined to rise.
They're not just teaching them the Critical Social Justice lingo of today; they're teaching them an epistomelogical framework that will have them championing and even creating the Critical Social Justice lingo of tomorrow too.
It's usefully compared to the hijack-reproduce pattern of a literal virus (ironically enough).
the teachers I know don't excel at anything. Even the English teacher in tech makes truly awful grammatical mistakes. the biology teacher I know seems to know less than I do, only went till 17. No one seems to study on regular basis of what is changing. Schools in US seem to be way worse than what I remember from Europe, but family there says it got way worse there too
Think of all the science teachers that "followed the science" and agreed that schools should be closed. More on the list of "those who should be taken into account." It's amazing how uneducated the educators are.
Or radicalized. That trend began in the 1970s in California. I know, because my late Mom taught in LAUSD for many years, saw her good friends turn against her and for the Union's political stance.
Actually US students ARE quite comparable to those from most European nations IF one "controls" for ethnic origin. In other words, if you consider the average performance of Americans of European ancestry, they are broadly comparable to European students. This holds true for other rather important norms, like earning power, family net worth and crime rates. These matters are quite controversial, to the point where they are seldom discussed even when it might be relevant (e.g. school performance.) In fact, if anyone has the temerity to broach them, it probably will not go well for his career or at least his future cocktail party invitations. But they are well-documented by decades of research. The problem is the facts don't fit the desired narrative.
All you have to do to see the fruits of decades of “education” indoctrination from kindergarten through college, is just look at the brainwashed masses of Antifa
Yes and D's don't "see" that. D's don't see reality, they see "causes." The Great Society of LBJ's was meant to get inner cities addicted to welfare, with NO way up or out.
The irony is Oprah having a special (NO, I didn't watch) about how "racist" health care is. Well, those are Dem run cities! Perfect example of blindness to D's problems.
If no one obeys, no one can rule. Likewise, if people pull their kids out of public schools, they won’t be able to be indoctrinated. Of course, this is difficult. But then, most of life is.
If born in the 90s or beyond, my husband would’ve been medicated out of existence. His report cards are completely glorious to read, with one half to 2/3 attendance, barely passing each grade, and zero attention span or work ethic according to the teachers.. Grades behind on reading and so on.
he was a bored genius. And had big problems with authority. He became a high school dropout, went into the military, eventually did get a BS, and was one class short of a masters from Stanford, but didn’t finish it Because he had a big argument with the professor teaching the last class. 😂🤣
The lack of credentials didn’t seem to matter in terms of what he was able to accomplish, so who cares.
It is odd how the public systems including schools have turned everything upside down. For instance, boredom and questioning authority was pathologized into something else and treated as a mental illness. And yet often the mental illnesses are then normalized into "identities." And of course now they want to force others to adhere to the rules of that pathology.
This has been going on for a long time. Boys get in more trouble because they have a harder time sitting still. Like over 100 years. Ha ha
I went to a public school but it was in large rural central school districts with many good teachers who had their own independent streaks.
I rebelled, but only intellectually. For instance, if we were given an assignment to explain why X character was a hero, I would write a paper on why the character was not a hero. 😇😈
they didn’t seem to care because I wasn’t disrupting the classroom. I usually got A’s because they were no doubt board to tears with the rest of the papers
Actually, I didn’t get a lot of attempted thought control in school. I actually got more of that at home.
It took me a little longer to start making bigger waves.
years ago, I made friends with an Amish guy about my age, who was so isolated from the outside world because his father had pulled them away even from other members of the Amish community. The way that he learned about the outside world is that his father would get old magazines for mulch for the vegetables. He would sneak the most interesting of the magazines and hide them and read them. He ran away from home in his teens.
Of course I am sure that he inherited some of his rebellious spirit genetically from his father, but the intention backfired.
amazing individual.
Even in places like North Korea, some human minds still want to be free.
i met an amish farmer who gave the best, most concise and comprehensible explanation of the 2008 financial collapse i had ever heard. out there on his farm with his wife, 10 wonderful children and all his animals and with no radio, television, internet or electricity, he seemed to be as up on current events as anyone
There are many different types of Amish people. Some can be extremely isolated, including secluding themselves from the wider local Amish community itself because they feel it’s too worldly. Others use technology pretty heavily. It’s definitely not a monolith: your experience bears witness.
i stayed with a different amish family over night and slept out on the porch (it was VERY hot inside) with their daughters on little mattresses. the mother said that the boys didn't mind the heat and slept inside. a massive storm blew in and one by one, the daughters picked up their bedding and went in. one came back out to fetch me but i wouldn't have missed that storm for all the world!
the next day, neighboring farmers came over and sought me out. "we heard you slept on the porch during the storm; you're very brave" they would say.
i was helping them prepare for a big lunch of their Weston Price food co-op members from NYC and had gotten there the night before. when you are doing something, the children will size you up and see how they can help. without a word, they join in and you form a little assembly line, you and a 5 year old.
they appear in the barn at milking time, by magic they are in the farm store when you are ready to purchase. the eggs get collected. when the farmer asks you to put the chairs away, you turn and a little 7 year old girl is right behind you to help. when you are chopping celery for the salad, a 4 year old boy is there to hand you the next stalk and his older (not by much) sister is out in the garden gathering more.
they have cast off toys- incongruous things like toy trucks and toy telephones!
at the end of the event, a couple of young girls got in their buggy to go home. my boyfriend, himself the father of daughters and concerned for these two managing a horse drawn buggy by themselves, asked the farmer's wife if they got licenses from the State to drive those things. "no parent would give their child more than they knew the child could handle" she answered.
the greatest amish experience i ever had was on 21st St in NYC. we were packing up after a food delivery. the driver had gone upstairs to collect the checks and i was standing out on the street so as not to leave Raymond, a 16 year old amish boy, alone.
the driver of a sleek car started cursing at Raymond for parking the delivery truck too close to his precious vehicle. the truck was parked in the delivery lane as it should have been. the irate driver was parked a foot and a half away from the curb, which did put him close to the truck.
"sir, please calm down" i said. "this is an amish boy; he is not the driver." more profanity. "sir! if you hadn't parked your car so far from the curb, you'd have plenty of room. please stop cursing."
the man sputtered, got in his car and easily pulled away.
Raymond looked at me with a wisdom well beyond his years and said "that man has too much pride in his car." i still tear up when i think of this moment.
months later, our food group took a trip to his family's farm and Raymond expertly drove a hay wagon full of us city slickers, navigating hills and sharp turns.
when we run out of oil or when the grid goes down, our social justice gender non-conforming internet addicted kids won't have a clue. Raymond and his people know how to coax food from the ground; they are better educated than all of us.
I agree that it has been happening for years, but I believe early on, it was seen as normal behavior. A boy who can't sit still in class is not something that needs to be drugged or treated necessarily, but coping skills should be taught to address it. I'm not saying that all behavior is normal, but i will say that drugs have been over-prescribed.
I had this problem as well and instead of being drugged (we had a student that was hyperactive at the time and attended SLD class and took Ritalin) I learned to entertain myself when I had "downtime."
The great thing about English papers is that there is a lot of latitude in answering a topic. For instance, you could argue that Lenny in "Of Mice and Men" was the hero or a villain of the story, and it wouldn't take much to support either opinion. The thing is, you weren't rebelling, you were actually answering the spirit of what the paper would tell the teacher: that you read the book and comprehended it. Now, sure there are teachers out there that are very legalistic in their handling of topics, but I think most of them would have loved your independent thinking streak. But what do i know, you're the one with the PhD.
As far as thought control, I don't think I had much of that either. School was more of a malaise for me. It was more about memorizing dates and facts, terminology, and vocabulary. There was no critical thinking going on in elementary school, and not much more going on in high school. I didn't get schooled in critical thinking until I attended college. School intellectually was a low-grade fever. The few standout moments I had were I got to paint a "fireplace" for the school play one year and a teacher in fourth grade took an interest in my artistic skill/talent.
That doesn't mean I didn't think indepdently though. I could have burned a ton of calories in high school and probably could have become popular, but for whatever reason, I did not. I enjoyed being the passively non conforming kid I was that enjoyed D&D, artistic endeavors, and viewed himself as an artist/writer even then. My parents were concerned for my socialization and had me "tutored" by a child psychologist. One of the things he told me was that a lot of bullying I faced was due to the fact that I was different and did not conform. I think that was part of the problem, another part was I just did what my parents told me and "ignored it and they will go away," That didn't work.
I never made friends with the Amish, but my Uncle employed one to work on his house renovations. He was a very hard and skilled worker from what I remember.
I do think that most poeple's minds want to be free, but we have ways of coping with it that either sublimate or otherwise placate that desire.
This sounds like my husband - and now my oldest who just turned 17. He has been homeschooled/unschooled so nothing has been beat out of him, I just hope he gets out there and does something.
'any bureaucracy tends to become its own primary constituency. that’s just human nature and org structure.'
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You nailed it like usual! Political bodies make decisions based on political reasons! That's why they don't care what you need or want -- you're not part of the equation!
Time for a Brick In The Wall revision:
We don't need no drag queen nation
We don't need no thought control
No dark woke teachin' in the classroom
Groomers leave those kids alone
Hey! Groomers! Leave them kids alone!
…all in all, you're just another dick in the hall…
LIKE!!!!
epic....
Exactly!
💜 perfect remake!
Hahahaha. Mine was Anaheim Stadium in 1977 for their Animals tour. Can’t remember one song they played. But I do recall a double rainbow that was over the stadium. That, as they said in the vernacular of the times, “blew me away!”
Milwaukee county stadium I thought it was 1978, but it might have been 77. I was at the Animal concert. It was The first concert I ever attended.
I'm somewhat sure I was there. But, you know, were were doing shots of tequila and....
oh man!
Been there, done that...in the recesses of my memory lies Dark Side of the Moon concert.
So many stories start with "We were doing shots of tequila...and I don't remember much after that".
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
This sums up my one and only time drinking tequila.
I hear that! Tequila turns me into a chimpanzee on methamphetamine.
My first concert!...:)
Yo.. 1973 Ummagumma
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene.", Winterland, San Francisco
Gilmore was amazing.
You've been taught to forget. ;)
Take your kids out of school. If enough do, the parents will learn they are in charge.
We did. School Boards couldn't care less about students. It's all politics.
Yes it is politics, but money leaves with each student, so when you hit that critical number, they have no choice.
Yep. Seattle is freaking out because so many kids are leaving.
L.A. also. Both San Diego and Los Angeles school districts lost for forced vax as unconstitutional.
That it is. But sad that they didn't lose because it's stupid and dangerous.
If only that mattered :-(
The West Coast is now the Worst Coast... Daaaaamn. But I hope AngrySenior means the jab mandate was unConstitutional...
Yes, oddly enough, same Judge reversed himself. It IS unconstitutional.
Here's the ruling from a web site: https://elamerican.com/judge-strikes-down-l-a-schools-vaccine-mandate-as-illegal-blocks-it-from-segregating-kids-into-independent-study/
NO local news reported this at all yesterday, when the decision came down at about 3:00 p.m. I haven't had time to look today. Major local L.A. station still didn't as of 24 hours later. (KTLA)
Since so many police are leaving due to the forced Jabberwocky, I propose we repurpose that glut of idle 'teachers' to don the blue and hit the streets. They can coach violent criminals the ins & outs of proper pronoun usage.
Is that Jabberwocky or jabberwacky?
It all seems rather wacky to me
Great idea. And because they're enlightened, they won't need weapons.
That's what they've been teaching our kids - right?
Good idea. And people like me that are good teachers but didn't want to get into the soul crush of the Teaching Industrial Complex can take over now...
Wait, the jab cannot be forced, right?
It is being forced. There's many forms of coercion. Some folks are able to resist. For some the "choice" is take it or lose your job and/or not be allowed to work at all in the field. That is pretty much my situation, indirectly: no jabs, no travel. No travel, no making a buck the way I make bucks.
I could have said no, and found a completely different way to make a living. So that was a choice. But not one anyone should be forced to make IMO.
It still can. Over 40,000 soldiers are about to be kicked out of the military.
Really? I hope so. My extremely woke friend who can’t wait for everlasting boosters lives there. I wonder if it will wake her up a bit.
More likely to put her to sleep, permanently. :(
Although, I'm not exactly sure how you tell that Seattle is freaking out. That's just SSDD for that cesspool. LOL
I remember when Seattle was kinda cool. But I was a baby. ;)
Seattle is freakin out, period.
For good reason. It's gone from crown jewel of the northwest to laughable shithole in under 20 years.
So has California. Remember the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics? Very few were homeless, and then, concentrated around "The Nickel" - 5th street downtown. Now, they're everywhere. Garcetti during his first election said he'd "look into it" and the count then was between 28 and 30k. Now it's over 80k.
Really? That’s awesome
https://www.king5.com/article/news/education/seattle-public-schools-enrollment-dip-28-million-loss-funding/281-84a72938-7a5f-4926-98c4-54a768a82dc5
Seattle Public Schools' enrollment dip to cause $28 million loss in state funding
It's supposed to be even worse for the upcoming year affecting 2023-24, though I can't find the article I recently read on the subject. :/
Edit: Here we go!
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/student-enrollment-in-seattle-continues-to-drop-heres-what-it-means/
Seattle Public Schools is projecting its lowest enrollment numbers for the 2022-23 school year since at least 2015.
In the last two years, Seattle had a 6.4% enrollment drop, Berge said, almost double the state’s 3.4% decline.
Clearly they're afraid of SPS's inability to protect their children from COVID, and that's why they're pulling their kids.
Vermont here. Same.
We pay tuition for our grandchildren. C'mon grannies! Step up if you can...
Collapse the government education system. Any education for children would be an improvement.
School boards care about money.
In California it's illegal to take your kid out of school without proving that you have either enrolled them in a private school approved by the state, or you are home-schooling according to the state approved and provided curriculum - which is approved by the NEA.
They will fight you for the money, and they have resources. Been there, done that, got stories.
That is not true. We are in California and homeschooling through high school, we file psa once a year and we are left strictly alone. Kids who want to homeschool through a charter actually get funds to spend on their education (although the charter then tells you what you can or cannot do.) California has very good homeschool laws.
Thanks for the update. The process has changed. Just looked and it seems the law is the same in that all kids under 16 must be enrolled in a public school, a private school approved by the state, or an approved home schooling or alternative education program. It sounds like the process for "approved" home schooling has changed so as to be more reasonable.
Back when my son was of school age (more than a decade back) it was more difficult. The "program" had to at least claim to comply with NEA approved curriculum. When my son was in high school, "experts" at his high school declared he had learning disability and was due to this so called disability failing. The disability turned out to be he was bored by the pathetic pace of his classes. Got him into an program in which he could work at a more reasonable pace, and finished 2 and a half years of high school curriculum in 4 months. That program was made possible by the charter program but was administered by a local district, who viewed it primarily as a way to shuffle off problem students out of sight and thus out of mind. Thanks to a dedicated teacher/mentor/coach, it worked.
In an imperfect system both can be true. From a UK HomeEd forum experience about 80% of parents sailed through with a letter or an F U, 20% seemed to get caught up in some frightful protracted battle with some council officials, home inspections.
I think the LEA (Local Education Authority) smell blood and fear and go for anyone who hasn't got a clear picture.
Interestingly most of the anglosphere supports/allows HomeEd and it's literally illegal in most of Continental Europe.
I cannot comment on Europe. In California, a home inspection can be made (but is virtually unheard of) but there are clear guidelines about what they can and cannot ask for (basically they can see attendance records and a psa letter filed with the department of education.)
I am reminded of one of those bloody moments when I was involved in education reform here in California. As part of our due diligence we had 3 CPAs who audited the budgets of a dozen districts, including our local district. The state law mandates each district publish at least annually a budget and full accounting of spending. The problem is few actually do. The state provides a document template. Districts file the document but don't bother to fill in most of the blanks in the template. Have all the chapter headings, but no content. Really.
In a local district "open" meeting, the accountants presented the reports filed by the district for the prior 5 years. Mostly blank documents. The superintendent could not explain this. The staff would not explain this. None had any idea how much money they received nor how they spent what they had. This followed a pitch by the superintendent for more funding - another sales tax add on "for education". When asked how much of the existing sales tax add ons supposed to be "for education" actually made it to the district, the answer was...wait for it....we don't know exactly. Exactly? Well, not imprecisely. In fact, not at all. But we're sure we need more.
At that time, state taxpayers were paying around $20,000 per year per student on K through 12.
WTF.
So right!
Absolutely!
And money.
Los Angeles' LAUSD lost over 100k enrollments. Yesterday, LAUSD lost a ruling (sued in 2021) to force kids to be vaxxed - unconstitutional.
Money & lawsuits talk - it’s amazing the creativity of parents who care for their kids - co-ops, home-schooling, great courses & curriculums available ... takes about one to
two years of vacating the abysmal system & parents who are willing to
bite the bullet & invest in their kids schooling outside of the system. Best thing we ever did with ours. When
you realize there were no “public” govt schools in this country until the later part of 1800’s (Horace Mann, Massachusetts public school system. And not nationwide until
the “father” of “regressive” education, the awful socialistic, John Dewey got his hooks into the promotion & propagation & indoctrination of the system. Because we all can see how horribly illiterate our Founding Fathers & even Honest Abe Lincoln & Grover Cleveland, etc, etc were!
Yes and then the Montessori schools took hold here - and things accelerated going downhill. 1970s to 1980s began the "everyone gets a trophy" and no kid learned responsibility, taking ownership of failure and trying to do better.
Ah, good for them!
Yep. Read John Taylor Gatto
RIP
"a trans 6 year old is like a vegan cat. you know it was not either the child or the feline making that decision."
YES!!!! Sometimes the truth is just so obvious that even a Leftist cannot deny it! This line is perfect and I think I am going to start stealing it, if I may?
I may blow that up and frame it.
Excellent analogy. And it’s as if our host knows a thing or two about cats.
Although for completeness, my cat does love vegetables. Like she will slit your throat for broccoli. She drinks a green smoothie every morning. Full disclosure we switched to vegan yogurt at some point and she was pissed, but eventually adjusted so she could enjoy all that green goodness. The point still stands. She would make other decisions if she could buy groceries.
I recently went through some old elementary school homework (1980s) in a box buried in my parent's basement. Almost every assignment dealt with the evils of environmental destruction, racism, industrial growth, etc., in a not at all nuanced fashion. I was just parroting my teachers, with no apparent ability to critically assess their claims.
The ideological indoctrination only increased through high school and university. Only more recently did I realize the extent to which this was all religious. Progressivism, secular humanism, liberalism, wokeism, scientism, are all names variously applied to this religion. This is not only a religion, but one dominated by fundamentalism and extremism. The followers believe that the tenets of this religion are unassailable objective reality, giving them a level of conviction exceeding even traditional faith-based religions.
Vaccination is their purification ritual. BLM, pussy hat, and pro-abortion protests are there religious festivals. Masks are their talismans or rosaries. Universities and public schools are their madrassas. "Trust the experts" and "follow the science" are their version of "what would Jesus do?"
The zealous followers of this religion over the ensuing decades have taken over universities, public schools, government agencies, courts, and, more recently, major corporations. At the same time, they have amassed tremendous power to impose their religion on all Americans, and even proselytize overseas, far more aggressively than any Christian missionaries. They operate outside of democratic accountability because they dominate all of the institutions, and thus have effective veto power over legislative dictates with which they disagree. We saw this starkly with the Trump administration. He had no power because the woke institutions were united against him.
This ideology needs to be recognized for the religion it is and the democratic process needs to firmly assert itself against its rising influence and control. This is a religion and, like any other religion, they do not have the right to impose it on us anymore.
Thanks! Great comment!
The Social Justice religion is a postmodern stew of previous egalitarian religions/ideologies: a definite base of Marxism, with a splash of punitive Puritanism, seasoned with a few dashes of Bolshevism and Jacobinism. Makes for a potent yet toxic meal!
Left Egalitarianism has been the de facto religion (or secular theology) of our educated class since maybe the 60s, but after a 50-yr-campaign they have at last seized the means of cultural production and are salivating at the chance to brainwash an entire generation and at last fulfill their destiny as omnipotent infallible philosopher-kings.
They are a committed band of fanatics who seem to have seized the moral high ground (as in, You can't disagree w me, think of the marginalized children and their feelings!).
They will cause a great deal of destruction until the inevitable Thermidor arrives.
Well said. I also remember writing a college paper in favor of a global philosopher-king based on Plato's Republic, and against national democracy. It earned high praise from my professor. The indoctrination is overwhelming, and only getting more extreme. I think I was only able to see through it because I spent most of my adult life outside of the bubble I grew up in, working in Asia and the rural mountain west. Had I remained in progressive cities (as most people raised in progressive cities tend to do), I would in all likelihood still be an unwitting believer in this ever-more ludicrous religion, like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot.
Yes! Same! I barely escaped. Grew up in honolulu in the eighties and had lots of conservation scaremongering. The former is fine with me, the later not so much. But it’s hard to separate the two until you leave. I ended up in the Netherlands where it is arguably worse at the moment, but at least the move provided a moment of clarity. And instead of the exasperation my mother responded with to all the antagonism I brought home, I can laugh and talk to my kids about what really matters. And it’s not wearing a fucking purple shirt on sexual diversity day. 🙄
If I were to put a year on it, I would say 1968. Prior to that, the established religion was American nationalism, featuring belief in progress, freedom, democracy, fair play, and a down-home style. That was a religion too, with its own faults, but it did have the virtue of being inclusive of all reasonably loyal Americans.
The Social Justice religion was one I instinctively loathed, even as a child. Its takeover wasn't instantaneous, and there remained outspokenly conservative teachers even into the 1970s. But one by one, you noticed its poisonous tendrils inserting themselves into our institutions, choking off the roots of our culture. Suddenly, every want-ad in the newspaper concludes with the obligatorily-asserted oxymoron of being an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Now, at the start of a new year, the school has dropped our old children's book club vendor that sold warm, broadening, exciting stories, histories, science, and humor, in favor of a new one that sells nothing but disheartening accounts of discrimination and suffering. In the cartoons and movies, every featured circle of white people must now contain a token black person, as a hat on the pole, to cow any organic community feeling into nonexistence. Heroes that used to be fun and hearty have all turned into cold, resentful SJWs.
Since the end of the 1960s, it's been pretty much all imposed 'woke'. What David describes from elementary school in the 1980s sickens me, but doesn't surprise me. Being out of school, I could no longer see it directly, and could only hope that it wasn't that bad.
Agree. Larry Fink, of BlackRock went to high school in a suburb of Los Angeles. The same school I went to and I can't find my yearbook. IF I am remembering correctly, he was one of a few kids who were *obsessed* with Nixon, and then, Watergate. By "obsessed" it was this groups ONLY topic of discussion and not even "Earth Day" (April, 1970) mattered to them - then. Now, ESG to install Socialism is what Fink is all about.
Nailed it
Yes! As I state elsewhere, but bears repeating (perhaps more concisely). A core tenet of Marxism and its cousin philosophies is that man is a blank slate, that humans are basically all the same. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Humans vary enormously in many traits, and among those is educational aptitude. The only way one can have equality of outcome is by lowering standards until anyone passes. "No child left behind" in practice, then, can only occur if no one is allowed to advance. The result is stagnation.
A corollary to the above: many of society's problems are due the attempt of ideology to deny underlying realities. The Left is by no means the sole possessor of this flaw, but they sure are its prime exponents for the past century or more. Magical thinking doesn't work very well. Long ago (Grandma's time, maybe) a high school diploma meant something. Turns out the secret is not solely in the piece of paper however. Apparently if Little Johnny can't read or do sums, even a piece of paper attesting that he "graduated" doesn't confer those abilities.
The Blank Slate is holy dogma for Leftists because it allows for maximum social engineering. Remember, their religious crusade is based on the idea/fantasy that they are egalitarian philosopher-kings who will create a world of pure and total equality where no one goes to bed hungry or ever has their feelings hurt if only we hand them total power.
If they had to acknowledge barriers or limitations based on biology, psychology, individuality etc, that would set inherent limits on their project and force them to debate instead of damning and denouncing. Thus everyone who presents a challenge to their sacred narrative (see what they did to EO Wilson, Napoleon Chagnon or Steven Pinker) must be mercilessly attacked and destroyed.
they've boiled the frog over a long time, right?
I think it's revealing itself. I hope people stand up, because the politicians will not.
I think the frogs have been boiled to death and turned into a zombie-frog army by this point.
hahaha. The zombie-frogs wear mask too!
Dismantle the entire Administrative State. It is beyond pathological. It cannot be saved.
My husband had to leave the room when I was reading him some of this. INSANE. Anyone who still has their kids in a public school... I can't even. We homeschooled ours before it was "in." Even then I wouldn't have put one in public school. Now? NO FREAKING WAY.
The sacrifice is worth it. My family discovered that 2 or 3 cars, a boat, a four wheeler, a motorcycle, a bathroom for every bedroom, a camper, and a whole bunch of other material crap isn't necessary or can wait until the kids are educated properly.
Yup, we were perpetually broke while our kids were being homeschooled. I wouldn't have it any other way! They learned the value of hard work and money, along with actual school subjects, and we never spent a minute on gender, sexuality, race, etc.
Excellent article. Parents, don’t wish for a redo. Do it now. Or the late teens and twenties will be your next hell. Trust me.
Amen.
Privatize it all and let schools compete for students and their tuition money, no matter the source...
agree.
i just suspect that "vouchers" are the only feasible next step.
i'd like to see the state out of this biz altogether, but i doubt there is any way we could sell that.
yet.
give this ecosystem 15 years to mature and quite possibly we could.
School property taxes need to be eliminated.
that's one of the main problems. I love how they're tied to real estate property taxes. hidden as a line item that most people don't know how to calculate. biggest scam
Just like the "Current Thing," getting people to think outside the parameters they are given is an exercise in frustration. Getting a parent to realize that they could receive an exponentially better outcome for half the expenditure, and further, that they could pay for it themselves without government's help, is a daunting task. I believe there can be no incrementalism, mainly due to the fact that people's memories are too short. In 5 years, they will be back to building the system again. It is better to force everyone out of the system COLD TURKEY, demolish the machinery, then let the free market solutions rush to fill the vacuum.
Probably less than half. Some private schools' tuition is a small fraction of what the average cost per student of the local pubic system is. Of course I'm not talking about the boutique schools of the super-rich like DC's Sidwell Friends (~$50K/year), etc. But all else equal, any random student is likely to get a better education at Our Lady of Interminable Flatulence than Public School #99 in the big city, and at considerably lower cost.
Broadly agree. If the State is going to fund education, it should do so with as few strings as possible. A flat amount per year, per student. Realistically, that will never happen, simply because the teacher and government employee unions get a large slice of the education pie, and they're not about to relinquish that position without a fight.
There's also going to be the reaction of, "But what about the parents who take the money and spend it on drugs instead of education? Think of the children!!!".
But it's also not easy to regulate against things like that without adding more and more strings attached and red tape, which someone will inevitably take charge of and manipulate to their own benefit like teachers' unions.
Just cash payments to parents to spend as they will on their child's education. The great thing about this is that it is CASH to families with children. What that means is that many parents would actually vote for it because it would be CASH in their pockets. Those on the Left can buy in because it is a CASH payment from government to families that are poor or BIPOC. the Right can buy in because it would subsidize both home school and religious school. So no vouchers. Just CASH to parents with children, for "education".
I appreciate the frustration with schools merely teaching kids *what* to think, but the Marxists absolutely do want to teach kids *how* to think too. It's just that the "how" in their case involves both inverting and perverting healthy societies until there is nothing left except ashes from which their utopia is imagined to rise.
They're not just teaching them the Critical Social Justice lingo of today; they're teaching them an epistomelogical framework that will have them championing and even creating the Critical Social Justice lingo of tomorrow too.
It's usefully compared to the hijack-reproduce pattern of a literal virus (ironically enough).
Good point, you're quite right.
the teachers I know don't excel at anything. Even the English teacher in tech makes truly awful grammatical mistakes. the biology teacher I know seems to know less than I do, only went till 17. No one seems to study on regular basis of what is changing. Schools in US seem to be way worse than what I remember from Europe, but family there says it got way worse there too
Think of all the science teachers that "followed the science" and agreed that schools should be closed. More on the list of "those who should be taken into account." It's amazing how uneducated the educators are.
Or radicalized. That trend began in the 1970s in California. I know, because my late Mom taught in LAUSD for many years, saw her good friends turn against her and for the Union's political stance.
Actually US students ARE quite comparable to those from most European nations IF one "controls" for ethnic origin. In other words, if you consider the average performance of Americans of European ancestry, they are broadly comparable to European students. This holds true for other rather important norms, like earning power, family net worth and crime rates. These matters are quite controversial, to the point where they are seldom discussed even when it might be relevant (e.g. school performance.) In fact, if anyone has the temerity to broach them, it probably will not go well for his career or at least his future cocktail party invitations. But they are well-documented by decades of research. The problem is the facts don't fit the desired narrative.
All you have to do to see the fruits of decades of “education” indoctrination from kindergarten through college, is just look at the brainwashed masses of Antifa
just another plantation...like the inner cities.
Yes and D's don't "see" that. D's don't see reality, they see "causes." The Great Society of LBJ's was meant to get inner cities addicted to welfare, with NO way up or out.
The irony is Oprah having a special (NO, I didn't watch) about how "racist" health care is. Well, those are Dem run cities! Perfect example of blindness to D's problems.
Another glorious rant. I love it.
If no one obeys, no one can rule. Likewise, if people pull their kids out of public schools, they won’t be able to be indoctrinated. Of course, this is difficult. But then, most of life is.
If born in the 90s or beyond, my husband would’ve been medicated out of existence. His report cards are completely glorious to read, with one half to 2/3 attendance, barely passing each grade, and zero attention span or work ethic according to the teachers.. Grades behind on reading and so on.
he was a bored genius. And had big problems with authority. He became a high school dropout, went into the military, eventually did get a BS, and was one class short of a masters from Stanford, but didn’t finish it Because he had a big argument with the professor teaching the last class. 😂🤣
The lack of credentials didn’t seem to matter in terms of what he was able to accomplish, so who cares.
It is odd how the public systems including schools have turned everything upside down. For instance, boredom and questioning authority was pathologized into something else and treated as a mental illness. And yet often the mental illnesses are then normalized into "identities." And of course now they want to force others to adhere to the rules of that pathology.
How about no.
This has been going on for a long time. Boys get in more trouble because they have a harder time sitting still. Like over 100 years. Ha ha
I went to a public school but it was in large rural central school districts with many good teachers who had their own independent streaks.
I rebelled, but only intellectually. For instance, if we were given an assignment to explain why X character was a hero, I would write a paper on why the character was not a hero. 😇😈
they didn’t seem to care because I wasn’t disrupting the classroom. I usually got A’s because they were no doubt board to tears with the rest of the papers
Actually, I didn’t get a lot of attempted thought control in school. I actually got more of that at home.
It took me a little longer to start making bigger waves.
years ago, I made friends with an Amish guy about my age, who was so isolated from the outside world because his father had pulled them away even from other members of the Amish community. The way that he learned about the outside world is that his father would get old magazines for mulch for the vegetables. He would sneak the most interesting of the magazines and hide them and read them. He ran away from home in his teens.
Of course I am sure that he inherited some of his rebellious spirit genetically from his father, but the intention backfired.
amazing individual.
Even in places like North Korea, some human minds still want to be free.
i met an amish farmer who gave the best, most concise and comprehensible explanation of the 2008 financial collapse i had ever heard. out there on his farm with his wife, 10 wonderful children and all his animals and with no radio, television, internet or electricity, he seemed to be as up on current events as anyone
There are many different types of Amish people. Some can be extremely isolated, including secluding themselves from the wider local Amish community itself because they feel it’s too worldly. Others use technology pretty heavily. It’s definitely not a monolith: your experience bears witness.
i stayed with a different amish family over night and slept out on the porch (it was VERY hot inside) with their daughters on little mattresses. the mother said that the boys didn't mind the heat and slept inside. a massive storm blew in and one by one, the daughters picked up their bedding and went in. one came back out to fetch me but i wouldn't have missed that storm for all the world!
the next day, neighboring farmers came over and sought me out. "we heard you slept on the porch during the storm; you're very brave" they would say.
i was helping them prepare for a big lunch of their Weston Price food co-op members from NYC and had gotten there the night before. when you are doing something, the children will size you up and see how they can help. without a word, they join in and you form a little assembly line, you and a 5 year old.
they appear in the barn at milking time, by magic they are in the farm store when you are ready to purchase. the eggs get collected. when the farmer asks you to put the chairs away, you turn and a little 7 year old girl is right behind you to help. when you are chopping celery for the salad, a 4 year old boy is there to hand you the next stalk and his older (not by much) sister is out in the garden gathering more.
they have cast off toys- incongruous things like toy trucks and toy telephones!
at the end of the event, a couple of young girls got in their buggy to go home. my boyfriend, himself the father of daughters and concerned for these two managing a horse drawn buggy by themselves, asked the farmer's wife if they got licenses from the State to drive those things. "no parent would give their child more than they knew the child could handle" she answered.
the greatest amish experience i ever had was on 21st St in NYC. we were packing up after a food delivery. the driver had gone upstairs to collect the checks and i was standing out on the street so as not to leave Raymond, a 16 year old amish boy, alone.
the driver of a sleek car started cursing at Raymond for parking the delivery truck too close to his precious vehicle. the truck was parked in the delivery lane as it should have been. the irate driver was parked a foot and a half away from the curb, which did put him close to the truck.
"sir, please calm down" i said. "this is an amish boy; he is not the driver." more profanity. "sir! if you hadn't parked your car so far from the curb, you'd have plenty of room. please stop cursing."
the man sputtered, got in his car and easily pulled away.
Raymond looked at me with a wisdom well beyond his years and said "that man has too much pride in his car." i still tear up when i think of this moment.
months later, our food group took a trip to his family's farm and Raymond expertly drove a hay wagon full of us city slickers, navigating hills and sharp turns.
when we run out of oil or when the grid goes down, our social justice gender non-conforming internet addicted kids won't have a clue. Raymond and his people know how to coax food from the ground; they are better educated than all of us.
100%!
I agree that it has been happening for years, but I believe early on, it was seen as normal behavior. A boy who can't sit still in class is not something that needs to be drugged or treated necessarily, but coping skills should be taught to address it. I'm not saying that all behavior is normal, but i will say that drugs have been over-prescribed.
I had this problem as well and instead of being drugged (we had a student that was hyperactive at the time and attended SLD class and took Ritalin) I learned to entertain myself when I had "downtime."
The great thing about English papers is that there is a lot of latitude in answering a topic. For instance, you could argue that Lenny in "Of Mice and Men" was the hero or a villain of the story, and it wouldn't take much to support either opinion. The thing is, you weren't rebelling, you were actually answering the spirit of what the paper would tell the teacher: that you read the book and comprehended it. Now, sure there are teachers out there that are very legalistic in their handling of topics, but I think most of them would have loved your independent thinking streak. But what do i know, you're the one with the PhD.
As far as thought control, I don't think I had much of that either. School was more of a malaise for me. It was more about memorizing dates and facts, terminology, and vocabulary. There was no critical thinking going on in elementary school, and not much more going on in high school. I didn't get schooled in critical thinking until I attended college. School intellectually was a low-grade fever. The few standout moments I had were I got to paint a "fireplace" for the school play one year and a teacher in fourth grade took an interest in my artistic skill/talent.
That doesn't mean I didn't think indepdently though. I could have burned a ton of calories in high school and probably could have become popular, but for whatever reason, I did not. I enjoyed being the passively non conforming kid I was that enjoyed D&D, artistic endeavors, and viewed himself as an artist/writer even then. My parents were concerned for my socialization and had me "tutored" by a child psychologist. One of the things he told me was that a lot of bullying I faced was due to the fact that I was different and did not conform. I think that was part of the problem, another part was I just did what my parents told me and "ignored it and they will go away," That didn't work.
I never made friends with the Amish, but my Uncle employed one to work on his house renovations. He was a very hard and skilled worker from what I remember.
I do think that most poeple's minds want to be free, but we have ways of coping with it that either sublimate or otherwise placate that desire.
*bored
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Not in the app, Unless I need to download an update.
This sounds like my husband - and now my oldest who just turned 17. He has been homeschooled/unschooled so nothing has been beat out of him, I just hope he gets out there and does something.
Public School = Child Abuse. End of story.
Indoctrination, manipulation and endless reinforcement to bring Americans down to the lowest common denominator.
'any bureaucracy tends to become its own primary constituency. that’s just human nature and org structure.'
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You nailed it like usual! Political bodies make decisions based on political reasons! That's why they don't care what you need or want -- you're not part of the equation!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/politicians-are-the-referees-of-america
The teachers want to be Principals. The Principals want to be Superintendents.
This is the principle problem with schools these days. The children are just a means to an end.
That's why they've had no problem being mean to children these last two years. In the end, the children lose meaningful education.
Mao’s Red Guards 2.0