Education & Things 2

Public schools are in a steady decline.  Some even treat kids like criminals.  Quote: "If you want a nation of criminals, treat the citizenry like criminals. If you want young people who grow up seeing themselves as prisoners, run the schools like prisons. But if you want to raise up a generation of freedom fighters, who will actually operate with justice, fairness, accountability and equality towards each other and their government, then run the schools like freedom forums. Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation’s young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state."   http://constitutionalrightspac.com/articles/public-school-students-are-the-new-inmates-in-the-american-police-state

A part of the issue here is a consequence of the left/progressive led broad based destruction of civil society, our heritage and culture.  Among the consequential specifics are declining individual self discipline, moral and religious values, two parent families, civility, respect for others and the law.  This is producing far too many children searching for answers in all the wrong places.  

Comparing home schooling to public schooling shows a sharp contrast between the two.  Students home schooled outperform public schooled students.  And they are safer too.  Quote: "In terms of academic achievement, home-schoolers beat out their public school counterparts. In reading, language, math, science and social studies, the average home-schooler scores somewhere near the 80th percentile. The average public school student taking these standardized tests scores at the 50th percentile in each subject area. Home-schoolers also tend to score higher than their public school counterparts on college admittance tests, such as the ACT and SAT."    http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/09/02/why-home-schooling-n2045972/page/full

This item discusses the attacks that teachers suffer from their students.  This is but one outcome of the permissiveness of today's leftist progressive culture.  Respect for others, and for kids their elders, is no longer something pervasive throughout our culture.  It is particularly problematic in the black culture.  Quote: Walter Williams speaking of current day black leaders he asks "... them whether their parents or kin would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing teachers or any other adult. Ask them what would have happened to them had they assaulted or cursed a teacher or adult. Ask whether their parents would have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen among many black youngsters in public places -- for example, using foul language and racial epithets. I'd bet the rent money that they won't tell you that their parents would have called for a "timeout." Instead, they will tell you that they would have felt pain in their hind parts. Then ask these leaders why today's blacks should accept behavior that previous generations would not."  And,  "The sorry and tragic state of black education and its attendant problems will not be turned around until there's a change in what's acceptable behavior and what's unacceptable behavior. That change must come from within the black community. By the way, it is an idiotic argument to suggest that white teachers are problematic for black students because they don't know the culture. I'm nearly 80 years old, and during my North Philadelphia school years, in schools that were predominantly black, at best there may have been three black teachers."   http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/09/16/attack-on-teachers-n2051723/page/full

Now consider this.  I wonder if this piece makes liberals feel good about their openness to different ideas, treating others with respect and dealing honestly with facts when they do not comport with their fantasies.  Bear in mind that this is not an isolated incident. http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24271/   

Overall teachers unions protect the interests of teachers far more than they support students.  This is just one example.  Quote: "“Unions prevent school leadership from making personnel decisions that are in the best interests of the children in the school,” Burke said. “In this case, Roosevelt Elementary wanted to dismiss the perpetually tardy teacher, but a union arbitrator blocked the school’s ability to do so.”"   http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/02/math-teacher-who-arrived-late-to-work-111-times-allowed-to-keep-his-job/?   Here is what has happened in Seattle, Washington where their union supporting, left leaning state Supreme Court incredibly ruled Charter Schools to be unconstitutional.  State supported teachers are on strike while charter school teachers are working despite being cut off from state funds.  Note the demands of the union.   http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/14/in-washington-state-thousands-of-kids-arent-returning-to-school/?u

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