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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

What you are missing, Lynda, is the point that I am making.  While I wish 
everyone the best with their children-- I really don't care how they are 
educated/indoctrinated--I really don't--It's not my concern.
.  I pay high property taxes (in more than one state), in large part, to 
cover the education of other people's children.  All I'm asking in return is 
that they act toward me in a civil manner.  If it takes indoctrination for 
that result to occur; I'm at an age where I'm okay with that. ...bobford 


--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] Un/homeschooling:  A Challenge
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 4:44 PM
> I challenge those who purport to think the public education
> system does no 
> damage, that it does good, that it is needed, to read the
> following:
> 
> Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Public Education
> 
> Designing Education for the Future
> 
> Behavioral Teacher Education Project
> 
> Now, being a realist, I know no one will accept that
> challenge, therefore, I 
> will give you a few quotes from the above:
> 
> "to lose their identity as well as their authority in
> order to form a 
> partnership with the Federal Government"
> 
> "act as Federal enforcers insuring compliance of local
> schools with Federal 
> directives"
> 
> "each state education department must be an agent of
> change" (anyone 
> remember my quotes from Delphi Technique and Alinksy
> Method?)
> 
> "change must be institutionalized"
> 
> "the impersonal manipulation through schooling of a
> future America in which 
> few will be able to maintain control over their own
> opinions"
> 
> "each individual receives at birth, a multipurpose
> identification number 
> which enables employers and other controllers to keep track
> of and to expose 
> them to the directors of subliminal influence of the state
> education 
> department and the federal department acting through those
> whenever 
> necessary"
> 
> Documents where the future is defined "in which a
> small league would control 
> all important matters, one in which participatory democracy
> would largely 
> disappear"
> 
> "a tool to classify the ways individuals are to act,
> think or feel as a 
> result of participating in some unit instruction"
> 
> Because "workers in America live in a constant state
> of panic, a panic 
> against being left out, they know that companies owe them
> nothing, there is 
> no power to appeal to for managment's decicions.  Fear
> is our secret 
> supercharger, it give management the flexibility other
> nations will never 
> have"
> 
> And, I'll leave you with a quote from a German
> philosopher who best 
> summarizes the end result of unschooling "He is
> educated who knows how to 
> find out what he doesn't know."
> 
> Lynda 
> 
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