I just read the article from the pentagon that seven out of ten youths were unfit for military service. What else can you expect from a government-run educational program? First, they take a child away from parents at the earliest possible age, which is now as young as three years. Then, they spent fifteen years indoctrinating, forcing, humiliating, grading, and intimidating him, until finally, he escapes with his life, or what's left of it, and he tries to find a better life. At this point he feels that even war would be better than federal educational prison, so he enlists in the system again. Unfit? Who made them that way? Parents have almost no say in their child's education anymore. Women are liberated from motherhood, and parents from parenthood, and feel almost no responsibility for their children. Just hand them to the state as soon as they will take them, and wait fifteen years for the results. But the truth is, that seven out of ten who are unfit for the military are also unfit for life in general. Can't read? Great, you can be a mechanic, maybe, but only if you can run a computer. Without reading?!
Who is responsible then, for letting these children grow up in utter ignorance? Who can change this? One of the stupidest things that legislators and people alike agree on is that more money will solve our educational problems! The absurdity of the premise is colossal! Yes, throw more money at the government and they will suddenly become better, more effective and more caring. Silly people, you can't expect “Government” to love, nurture, teach, train and guide your children any more than you can expect them to cut their own throats. The more money you send their way, the more they will want to keep you as their captive host. They want nothing more than for you to believe that it is more money they need in order to teach your children to read. I will tell you a secret. It doesn't take money to teach a child to read. It takes time. Time that the public school system will not and cannot give to anyone. If a child learns to read, it is because they had parents who cared enough to teach them. Schools take credit for every child that leaves the school with a diploma, and every child that reads. But when it comes to the children who didn't learn to read, they always, ALWAYS lay the blame on the parents. Then, they lobby for legislation to get those children away from their parents sooner, so they can have more time to “teach” them, (and more money, by the way). But the fact is, the more time a child spends away from his parents, the less likely he is to read, or learn, or do anything worthwhile.
The real problem here is not ultimately the schools. It is the parents. Parents have been taught all their lives that in order for their child to have an education, they have to go to school.
Lie # 1.
Parents believe that they are incapable of providing any kind of instruction for their children because they are not “qualified professionals”. (As if twelve years of education were not enough.)
Lie # 2.
And parents think that the school, or the government, or social services or anyone else is responsible but themselves.
Lie # 3
How can we save the rising generation from the ignorance of it's parents if not by breaking the cycle of abuse and stopping the insane forced, humiliation called public school. The only reason there were schools, to begin with was because books were not available to everyone. School made possible the use of books by those who could not buy them. Today is different. Books, libraries and the internet are as available as air. No parent is without the resources to provide education for all their children. But parents have been fed on the lies of the state for so long that they actually believe that you have to be a professional “teacher” in order to teach and you have to have a “teacher” in order to learn! Public education thrives on the concept of 'granted' knowledge. We 'grant' your diploma, we 'give' your grade. We 'offer' education.
That is Lie # 4.
No one 'gives' you knowledge. If you don't learn it, no amount of giving will educate you. But Public School is not about learning. It is all about doing time. They don't care whether or not you learn, whether or not you read, whether or not you succeed, whether or not you are happy. They care only that you did your time. You do your time, we'll graduate you, one way or another. And that's no lie.
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