| | There are a few good teachers in the public schools and some teachers try hard to do their jobs. Unfortunately, the government run schools, like any other institution, always want more money. If they are friendly to the concept of more and more government control, they are likely to receive more money. Indeed, they are very good at directly lobbying for additional funds to provide ever more essential programs to take care of our most valuable resource, our children.
In the interest of being government friendly or licking the hand that feeds, we have universal instruction that the Constitution is built around "The Elastic Clause". If a politician says money is to be spent for the public welfare, then the program it funds is Constitutional. Since government growth depends on altruism, altruism is the philosophy that will always be favored in the public schools. While I think that the education of the young should be directed at teaching them to think rationally and for themselves, the public schools prefer that children accept the school propaganda line and simply do as they are told. I would favor wide-ranging discussions of ethics, but the schools prefer a common denominator ethics of altruism, diversity, and egalitarianism, which only disturbs those they think of as rednecks. They minimize teaching about religions or those things the major religions may have disagreements about. There is no point in stirring up the slumbering parents.
Do the schools want parents to play an active role in the education of their children? Many do not. Why? Because the parents are likely to be rednecks! They might not like altruism, the government favoring some races over others and calling it diversity, and they might not believe in equal economic outcomes for everyone. The parents are bound to be more old-fashioned than the commonly socialist teachers. This is the story in socialist Montgomery County, Maryland in any case. We have good schools here. They teach science and math fairly well. Now the arts and humanities are a disaster. They have the better graduates of the education schools teaching here, so they are leading the way. The way is the way to a socialist, egalitarian, anti-white male society.
My 3 daughters went to these schools. I never entered their schools without the feeling that the barred doors had clanged behind me. It did not help that most of the doors really did have chains and locks on them. One of my daughters felt much the same way and still has not recovered. These schools are not providing an education, they are largely preparing future socialists who will know their place as cogs of the machine.
This is my stand. I am the man who is usually criticized here as too tolerant and too benevolent. But on this issue you are peering deep into a terrible wound. On this issue, I am furious.
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