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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

1.  Public schools have not accomplished their *stated* goal which is a 
"more literate" society.

The U.S. is less literate and becomes more illiterate the longer we have 
public schools.

That alone should be sufficient unto the argument against public schools.

2.  Contrary to popular mythology, public schools are not places of 
mandatory education, they are place which have mandatory attendance.  They 
are not required to educate your children, they require that your children 
appear and warm a seat.  That is the law.  Read it in your own state.  They 
have lots of high and glorious sounding goals but the only law out there is 
that your child be in attendance.

3.  New Freedom Commission and Teen Screen.  If you have children in the 
public school system and don't know what this is, then IMNSHO, you are a 
negligent parent! 
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=HL0608/S00010.htm

4.  UNESCO, need I say more?!

5.  EDMS and Wested.  Again, if you don't know about this and have children 
in p.s OR work in a public school, it is time to do your homework.  There 
are at least SEVEN HUNDRED identifiers collected about students AND 
employees.  Some of the questions asked of children are:  a) do your parents 
do drugs, b) do you know any adults who do drugs, c) has your parent or any 
other adult family member ever hit you, d) has anyone ever touched you 
inappropriately (please define inappropriate to a 5 year old!), and the list 
goes on.  Along with that the schools are collecting information for a 
national data base which collects all health information on your child.

6.  NAEP

7.   School-To-Work, National Goals, Goals 2000, NCLB.  Those dots all have 
to be connected inorder to understand what is happening to public education.

8.  KIPP.

9.  Some statistics from public schools:

30% of all children murdered are at school when it happens.

33% of all violent crimes against children occur at school.

Students are more likely to be victims of theft at school.

5% of all public school children reported being victimized at school during 
a 6 month period.

12% of male and 6% of female students reported being threated or injured 
with a weapon on school property.

71% of public schools experienced one or more violent incidents.

36% of public schools reported violent incidents to the police.

20% of the public schools experienced one or more serious violent incidents.

15% of public schools reported serious violent incidents to the police.

21% of students reported gangs in their schools.

29% reported that someone had offered, sold or givent hem an illegal drug on 
school property.

5% consumed alcohol on school property and 6% used marijuana on school 
property.

O.K., so you say that doesn't "really" sound all that bad.  UNTIL you know 
that 80% of all incidents are reported!

10.  Safety of the buildings and the teachers:

Annually, teachers are the victims of approximately 183,000 nonfatal crimes 
at school, 119,000 thefts and 65,000 violent crimes; 8-11% are threatened 
with injury, 5% have been attacked by students, 13% of schools report verbal 
abuse of teachers, 19% report student acts of disrespect and 3% report 
widespread disorder in classrooms.

43% of middle schools report daily or weekly reports of student bullying, 
26% in primary and 25% in secondary.

54% of schools took at least one serious disciplinary action against 
students (1,163,000 actions).

75% of schools control access to the school buildings by locking or 
monitoring doors;  34% control access to school ground with locked or 
monitored gates.

14% of primary, 20% of middle and 39% of secondary schools used one or more 
security cameras to monitor school.

And, I have barely scratched the surface.  I can go on and on.  I worked for 
the schools, as did DH.  I also worked for the feds.  I know what is going 
on in your school from the inside out!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VAN DELL JORDAN" <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Schooling issues


> It isn't clear what you think is wrong with the public
> schools or what you think the alternative would be or
> what you base these opinions on.
> So far I'm just hearing that "schools are bad and
> anyone who thinks otherwise is just making excuses for
> the status quo"
> At this point I'm not even questioning that point of
> view, but I haven't seen any evidence yet to
> substantiate that.
> Van dell
>
>
>
>
> --- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> > >
> > The edges of the indoctrination bubble are
> > impenetrable.  Any attempt to to
> > explain the nature, purpose, and function of
> > schooling is bounced back from the
> > walls of the bubble as "Not all schools are bad."
> > "I know some teachers and
> > they are good people."
>
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