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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Schools
  • Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:13:47 -0800

----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>

Well, try as one might, there are some people who are never going to get it.
It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing with the premise, it's whether
one understands it to beging with. It would be more frustrating if it weren't
so amusing the number of times one hears, "I went to PS and it did me no
harm" and yet the indoctrination is so deep and permeating that they still can't
get past the notion that any critique of the idea of government schools is
saying that they are broken down, deteriorated, in need of repair.

It's not that government schools are doing a bad job or manned by bad people.
In fact the ones doing the "best" job (by their standards) and have the best
people are doing the worst harm.

This is why PS is a good thing. Millions of kids in this country have
parents like Bev had who don't care.

The reason there are so many parents who dont' care is because over the past
centruy and a half we've created an institution that allows, encourages,
promotes, and fosters parents not to care. If you want to have kids and largely
ignore them, fine, the government schools will take care of the problem.

Saying that we need government schools because of what would happen to
children with the bad parents the government shcools created in such numbers in the
first place is the same argument that was used to perpetuate slavery. Turn
them all loose???? Why, that would create social chaos, those slaves don't know
how to take care of themselves. Freedom might work for some people, but it's
a good thing we have the plantations for those for whom it doesn't work.


O.K., we have to stop this agreeing business <g>

So, people, read what James/Denise wrote and then read again what the founders of the p.s. system had to say:

"Our schools of learning by producing one general and uniform system of education, will RENDER THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE MORE HOMOGENOUS and THEREBY FIT THEM MORE EASILY FOR UNIFORM AND PEACEABLE GOVERNMENT."

"LET OUR PUPIL BE TAUGHT THAT HE DOES NOT BELONG TO HIMSELF, BUT THAT HE IS PUBLIC PROPERTY."

"We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look
upon all PARENTS AS HAVING GIVEN HOSTAGES TO OUR CAUSE."

"Third, the state was posited as the TRUE PARENT of children."

Lynda





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