Anyone can take a shot at the public school system. They take in tons of money, have multiple layers of bureaucracy, they pass people that cannot read or write, and then they say the solution is more money. It’s the definition of insanity1.
Why is it that a stay at home mother who pays $1000 or less for a curriculum’s worth of books, $15 to join an area group for sports, recreation and activities, and spends $100 for a sport and then pays school taxes for services that they can’t take advantage of (instead of getting paid by the government) can end up training children that have great academics and are an asset to our community, but New York state can spend $7,642 per pupil with the average teacher salary of $46, 800 and can graduate students that cannot read? [Education Backgrounder]
Where our country and our world is going can easily be seen in what is being taught to our children. The Roman Catholic’s knew it. The Marxists knew it. Plato knew it. The Pro-Life movement knows it.
What children are taught and who should be doing the teaching is, therefore, a big issue.
It’s not the first time that a President has addressed public school kids. When President George W. Bush was in office he addressed public school children from a high school setting, encouraging them to study hard and get good grades.
The message isn’t all bad. We have sports stars, actors, and other people on the television and in print ads encouraging children to do their best.
So what has everyone so riled up about President Obama addressing children this time?1
I believe that it’s the current political climate, the idea that the schools are supposed to be under state/local jurisdiction, and the fact that it is a closed environment.
For the longest time the left has used the education system to attempt to hijack the next generation’s beliefs on numerous social issues. Using the pulpit of the school teacher’s classroom, the public school system espouses the values of the Secular Humanist, knowing that if they are patient, the seed that they are planting every day will bring forth fruit.
And in most cases it has paid off well for them.
A program in Greensboro, NC has added a financial incentive to keeping pure– $1 a day for ever day that they keep from getting pregnant.
Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend weekly meetings.
The program is funded by a four-year grant from the state.
A few weeks ago we talked about Morality in education using as a springboard the whole topic of homosexuality in the public school system. Core to the premise that the school is a proper place to teach right and wrong is the concept that the children belong to the state, not to the parents.
What’s strange is the parallels between this concept of “it takes a village” to raise children and Plato’s Republic. Two portions of Plato’s Republic I find scary (especially when you consider that Plato is thought to have lived between 427 and 347 BC).
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