We Don’t Need No Thought Control
We have started getting the packets for school. Yes it is right around the corner. I am once again astounded by the fees I am expected to pay to a public school. My property taxes are astronomical but that does not cover the cost of my children’s education. We are to be at an orientation the week before school to get pictures taken, get class schedules and pay the fees. I would not mind fees for music, or art, or even a towel fee for gym. What I am getting is a fee for an English workbook or a math workbook. There are not even textbooks provided by the school. I am now paying for the educational materials as well as the education. What the Hell is up with that? At least with home schooling I can control the curriculum.
Where did the textbooks go? Why aren’t the tax dollars going for the books? It would appear that this is another opportunity for the school system to indoctrinate my children. Since textbooks are a static item and can be used year after year, they do not allow for changes in information and ideas to be easily affected. When I went to school, we had textbooks that were 10 years old. Gee, I am sure that math and grammar change a lot in 10 years. And since we were just getting out of Vietnam, our textbooks only went to WWII, the big one. It was a war that we won, resoundingly. It was a victory for America instead Vietnam which was a humiliation for our Armed Services. The Vietnam story is now a badge of pride for the generation that protested against it. They stopped a war and do not even realize how badly they hurt American foreign policy and opinion. It opened the doors to the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to flaunt their petty wants in front of the world thinking the US would do nothing about it.
It is messages like these that are being fed into my children’s workbooks. The socialist indoctrination where America is the bad guy trying to destroy the environment and dictate to the world. Heaven forbid that we try to maintain our way of life and the freedom we enjoy. Keep our children focused on the negative ideas of the socialist way of life. Help them to see that only through uniformity can we all progress. It is a load of crap. “We don’t need no thought control.” I understand that there need to be standard practices for teaching so everyone gets the same opportunity. But keep the social commentary to yourself and just teach the facts. I don’t want myth (global warming) or social perspective (Bill and Bob are room mates with two children) taught to my children.
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Cobb
Where did the textbooks go? Why aren’t the tax dollars going for the books? It would appear that this is another opportunity for the school system to indoctrinate my children. Since textbooks are a static item and can be used year after year, they do not allow for changes in information and ideas to be easily affected. When I went to school, we had textbooks that were 10 years old. Gee, I am sure that math and grammar change a lot in 10 years. And since we were just getting out of Vietnam, our textbooks only went to WWII, the big one. It was a war that we won, resoundingly. It was a victory for America instead Vietnam which was a humiliation for our Armed Services. The Vietnam story is now a badge of pride for the generation that protested against it. They stopped a war and do not even realize how badly they hurt American foreign policy and opinion. It opened the doors to the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to flaunt their petty wants in front of the world thinking the US would do nothing about it.
It is messages like these that are being fed into my children’s workbooks. The socialist indoctrination where America is the bad guy trying to destroy the environment and dictate to the world. Heaven forbid that we try to maintain our way of life and the freedom we enjoy. Keep our children focused on the negative ideas of the socialist way of life. Help them to see that only through uniformity can we all progress. It is a load of crap. “We don’t need no thought control.” I understand that there need to be standard practices for teaching so everyone gets the same opportunity. But keep the social commentary to yourself and just teach the facts. I don’t want myth (global warming) or social perspective (Bill and Bob are room mates with two children) taught to my children.
Icool
Cobb
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