- Sometimes a single incident can reveal the widespread
rot that has affected the nation's school systems as they strive to indoctrinate
the children entrusted to their care while neglecting to teach them the
Three R's.
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- In Inverness, Florida, a 12-year-old boy was cuffed,
arrested, and taken in a patrol car to jail where he was held for two hours.
His crime? You aren't going to believe it!
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- Kyle Fredrikson was walking back to class from lunch
when Deputy Tim Langer saw the boy "purposely stomping in the water"
after being told numerous times by school personnel to stay with the group
and out of the rain. Little boys like to stomp on puddles. Always have
and always will.
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- He didn't comply and Officer Langer took the sixth-grader
to a school office where he was handcuffed and taken to jail. Kyle was
charged with disruption of an educational institution, a misdemeanor. After
sitting for two hours by himself in a police holding room, the police released
the boy to his mother and grandmother.
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- His parents were understandably outraged. "The inmates
had access to him. Can you imagine that for stomping in a mud puddle?"
said his father. Lt. James Martone, who oversees the school resource officer
program, said Langer made a proper arrest. "He did his job,"
Martone said. "It's a fine line any officer in the schools walks."
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- Why was it a good arrest? Why do these things happen
to children today, when earlier generations of children never faced such
lunacy? The answer is that the school "curriculum" today is 100
percent behavior modification, not academics. Kyle was being a little boy,
expressing his individuality and his indifference to overzealous authority.
In today's educational environment, both are affronts to the "system"
and must be dealt with quickly and severely. To the system, students are
intended to be properly trained human resources. In the world of education
today there are no children anymore.
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- An item from the Education Reporter reveals how, under
the Socialist concept of Sustainable Development, schools are being restructured
to enforce "cradle-to-grave life-long learning." Preschool, formally
known as kindergarten, is becoming mandatory. Parents are told it gives
children a head start, but it only gives schools a head start in their
mission to indoctrinate them. It gives the school the priority of determining
the children's values.
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- Retired educator and former Fulbright scholar Margaret
Brogley who spent nearly 40 years in the classroom says public education
is failing because of the methods and materials used, not because there
aren't enough toddlers enrolled in preschool.
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- Mrs. Brogley noted that, over the past 40 years, education
has been dumbed down, from fuzzy math to the dearth of phonics reading
instruction to the inability of many students to use cursive handwriting.
"For 50 years, we have heard of the necessity to improve education,"
she wrote to Arkansas state education leaders, "How long will it take?
Every time the 'experts' fix the situation, it becomes worse. Now the child
is to learn to read by the 4th grade. Why so long? I am no genius, but
I learned to read before the first year was over."
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- "Will education be improved (by enrolling young
children in pre-school)?" Brogley asked rhetorically, then answered
her own question: "No, but it will cost billions of dollars·adding
more school years to a child's life will accomplish nothing."
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- With preschool showing poor results, it should come as
no surprise that the more than one billion dollars a year of federal aid
for after-school programs in 7,500 public schools nationwide has not helped
most children academically, according to a federally funded study.
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- The report, "When Schools Stay Open Late,"
conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., said children who attend
after-school activities at public elementary and middle schools are more
likely to encounter bullies, vandals, thieves and drug users than those
who do not. The after school centers, says the report, have limited influence
on academic performance, no influence on feelings of safety or on the number
of "latch-key children; and some negative influence on behavior. Middle
school participants are "more likely to report that they had sold
drugs and were somewhat more likely to report that they smoked marijuana."
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- >From being arrested for stomping on a rain puddle
to the ineffectiveness of both preschool and after school programs, and
everything in between, the failure of the US education system continues
to demonstrate how thoroughly trashed it has been in the past half century
of "reform." The reform that is necessary now is the return of
control to local school boards, the reduction of the control that teacher's
unions exercise, and an end to the disastrous federal involvement in the
nation's educational systems.
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- It has been several decades since a government study
revealed the failure of the nation's education system and nothing has changed,
except for the worse. A new American Revolution is needed to take our schools
back from those who have been deliberately dumbing down our students. We
need real teachers in our classrooms, not "facilitators." We
need a renewed emphasis on the basics, not the judgement-neutral curriculum
that is more concerned with "self-esteem" than teaching children
anything.
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- This article comes from Arkansas Publik Skulz
- http://www.gohotsprings.com/school/
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- http://www.gohotsprings.com/school/modules.php
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- Comment
Alton Raines
3-14-03
This story gave me a flashback to a film with John Candy called "Uncle
Buck." Long story short, unemployed sluggard, but all around nice
guy, 'Unlce Buck' is house/kid-sitting for his sister while she is out
of town. Buck gets a call from the school principle for a meeting regarding
the youngest girl, age 6. When he arrives he finds the principle as a classically
dried up old busybody with a massive, protruding mole on her chin and one
terribly frightened child sitting outside her office awaiting his grim
fate. She procedes to explain the "problem" with the little girl
to Buck...
"... She's a day dreamer... a silly heart... and she doesn't take
her student career seriously in the least!"
Buck retorts, "You know... I don't think I want to know a six-year-old
who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one
who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree.
I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because
they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag
them down and convince them they're no good. And if you so much as scowl
at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and
I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a
rat gnaw that thing (her mole) off your face! Good day to you, madam!"
Boys are supposed to disrupt single file lines, and punch little girls
in the arm when they like them but don't dare express it; they're supposed
to stomp mud puddles, make paper airplanes that find their way into the
ears of others on a lofty, unpredictable flight. They're supposed to be
unpredictable creatures, full of imagination, coloring outside the lines
and making fart noises under their arms! When it becomes a crime to be
what comes natural, it's time to take back the schools... for the kids.
For the future. For the hope of the future. Or we're seriously doomed.
The reading, writing and 'rithmatic will fall in line with simple discipline.
Cops aren't needed to police students, especially elementary students.
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