"I have one life to live...let me live it as a blond"
I was pondering about the enthusiasm for socialism and collectivism in todays youth.
One of The major causes is a lack of honest information taught to students , not studying both sides of issues or all angles I believe it is the public and the collegiate schools that promote those "ism's". Essentially students being brainwashed. These young folks and old folks who really never grew up can't connect or won't in the case of the latter , The forfeiting of their individualism and rights
but more importantly mine and of course yours.
Thinking about the sacrificing of the individual ,if these folks related that and the evidence of increased poverty and dispare (to be short with the list of failures) with their political leanings would they change their minds?
If they thought about their one life.
Then the ad campaign from the 60's popped into my head.
Is that also a result of brainwashing?
One of The major causes is a lack of honest information taught to students , not studying both sides of issues or all angles I believe it is the public and the collegiate schools that promote those "ism's". Essentially students being brainwashed. These young folks and old folks who really never grew up can't connect or won't in the case of the latter , The forfeiting of their individualism and rights
but more importantly mine and of course yours.
Thinking about the sacrificing of the individual ,if these folks related that and the evidence of increased poverty and dispare (to be short with the list of failures) with their political leanings would they change their minds?
If they thought about their one life.
Then the ad campaign from the 60's popped into my head.
Is that also a result of brainwashing?
So, naturally this is the mode of economics that they are familiar with, it's the world they live in. They teach this to their students.
And the students get sixteen years living in a world where their needs are provided because they "deserve them". They might take out student loans but they are theoretical future things -- which should be provided for free anyway. Certainly their teachers think so. And so, socialism makes perfect sense to them. It's the way they've lived their entire life to that point.
Some of them go out into the world and begin to see a different reality. Others of them go to work for the government or even become teachers.
The federal govt controls the education purse strings. Mandating this and that , virtual control over curriculum , making obsolete and " yes men" of the school boards.
How do we put a stop to this self-perpetuating system?
Sincerely.dob
It's like a director of a department asking for less money in a budget request. I suppose that has happened without a mandate from superiors. It is likely very rare.
Are you an early childhood educator?
I guess it has to get bad enough that the socialism pundits cant blame the failures on anyone else. Look at Venezuela- how bad does it have to get before they just abandon socialism. Its incredible its gone this far.
I'm also thinking about that saying about history ignored repeating itself.
Pity the people in Venezuela. Its going to get harder and harder for them to dump Maduro. Being hungry makes it harder to fight.
Needs for an equalizer can arise and sometimes unexpectedly.
Don't know what the gun laws are in your state, but maybe you could at least get a shotgun.
I have a 12-guage pump gun that I consider to be my primary home defense weapon.
Thing to remember is to pull it very tight into the small of your shoulder to reduce the recoil.
A 20-guage may be better for the inexperienced. I never fired one of those. .
As for socialism getting a pass, I find myself thinking of the Chairman Mao ornament photographed on the first Obamanation White House Christmas tree.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/...
2 + for Trump
#1 he does not care about PC
#2 Whats his name doesn't like him!
a few more points
and I may have to reconsider NOTA.
Have a positive day!
I kid you not that some Muslim cleric overseas decreed it to be okay for a true follower of Islam to use toilet paper.
Some may whine that this late in his royal highness's two terms this decree comes as too little too late, but I'm certain that White House staff in the laundry room are still rejoicing.
King Kaka from kooksville.
Me dino got an A in creative writing a long time ago, a three hour drive away.
Particularly enjoy the old Dino's perspective.
I'm rewriting a large portion and then will come the final draft.
I hope.
Education is a mess. I think I got in at a point in which I can escape with some decent knowledge. I did elementary school before they boggled up the hard sciences and socialized the humanities. I've also had the benefits of some great teachers; my eighth grade English teacher introduced me to Ayn Rand and I've never looked back. (He was super proud to see me reading The Fountainhead just months after the class had finished Anthem.)
Question is how to change this education system designed to 'dumb down the populace.
on the rugged individual and down play their successes in this land. They were flatly refused. So they created through fellowships and endowments, professors who would toe the line for them.
Soon after authorities announced Monday that a grand jury had decided against indicting white police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man,
St Paul Public Schools Superintendent Valeria Silva tweeted:
“No indictment for officer Wilson! Very sad day in America. How do I explain this to my black students?”
My answer is tell ALL your students not to strong arm another human to steal their whatever. Oh and BTW students if you try to strong arm a cop you could end up dead.
Then this.
Earlier Monday, the district’s Office of Equity posted resources that teachers could use to talk about the case in their classrooms. The materials instructed teachers to “refrain from offering your personal beliefs on what happened” and “refrain from taking a position.”
And this.
The most dangerous places in St. Paul, Minnesota, these days may not be the city’s tough East Side or Frogtown neighborhoods, but its public schools.
At Como Park and Humboldt high schools, police have been called to quell riots involving dozens of students. At Central High School, a teacher was body-slammed by a student and hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury. "Classroom invasions" by students settling private scores have become a fact of life.
At elementary schools, meanwhile, out-of-control kids overturn chairs and attack their classmates, as teachers stand by helplessly. A teacher caught in a fistfight between two fifth-grade girls was knocked to the ground with a concussion.
The transformation dates from 2011, when superintendent Valeria Silva launched her "Strong Schools, Strong Communities" initiative. The plan sought to engineer a dramatic reduction in the suspension rate for black students, who here, as nationally, are far more likely to be suspended than white students.
Silva's "Strong Schools" initiative was at the forefront of the crusade for racial "equity"—a top priority of the Barack Obama administration's Department of Education. Equity in this context does not mean fairness, but racial statistical parity in school discipline rates, regardless of students' actual conduct.Silva's campaign to eliminate racial disparities had two components. First, she retained a "diversity" consultant called the Pacific Educational Group—at a cost of at least $2 million to date—to compel teachers to confront their "white privilege" and develop "a true appreciation" of their students' cultural "differences."
The Obama administration now aims to impose Silva-style discipline policies at schools across the nation. Longtime secretary of education Arne Duncan made clear that his department considered racial differences in discipline rates "simply unacceptable" and a violation of "the principle of equity." "It is adult behavior that needs to change," he declared in 2014. The Department of Education is investigating a number of school districts on equity grounds and threatens to sue or withhold federal funds if racial numbers don't match up.
The results of this campaign are on display in St. Paul. In the words of one teacher: "We have a segment of kids who consider themselves untouchable."
At the city's high schools, packs of kids—who come to school for free breakfasts, lunches, and WiFi—roam uncontrolled through the halls. A City Pages article related this revealing anecdote: At Harding Senior High School, a petite female teacher—who has been attacked, threatened with death, and smashed into a shelf by marauding teens—now instructs her students to use a "secret knock" to enter her classroom to keep invaders at bay.
At elementary schools, kids spew obscenities, beat up classmates, and upend trash cans. One parent told City Pages that on a visit to her second-grader's classroom, she saw anarchy so extreme that it took the teacher an hour and a half to read two pages to the class.
This all coming to a school near you soon!
No wonder teachers can't teach.. A generalization because I know their are many, many excellent teachers but symptomatic of todays collectivism. .
Thanks for your patience reading this nasty news.
Sincerely,
dob
My grandson, now 22 informed me that what you described is worse than here in western Florida but not by much.I used to be at the schools complaining every month or so about varied subject. I should have been accompanied by dozens more parents, but I was too involved with keeping my business going than to organize a sort of anti-PTA.
non-board member opinions. To speak you must inform them of your intent, topic and your name, address phone # ,email address . You must limit your talk to 3 minutes. If you have spoken to the board in the last three months You will get to speak only if no other speakers have reserved their time . You cannot say the name of any school employee, can't say the name of the school or even talk about a subject like math or science.
It is insanity.
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A bit far fetched maybe.
I've always preferred Brunettes with blue eyes but don't know why.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
both male and female! -- j
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Rand took a "side" which was unique. -- j
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My friend never went to college until much later in his life. (Exeter grads are supposed to attend Harvard.) Regardless, he always left people with the impression that he did have a college history degree because of how well he spoke. When he finally went to college, in his 40s or 50s, it was as a faculty member.
Oh, at Exeter he also studied ancient Greek, and published the first translations of some obscure Greek poets.
Prose.
They melt my heart.
Sincerely,
dob