Perpetual Education for Perpetual Indoctrination
The Obama administration already wants every child to go to preschool and everyone to go to college. Yesterday I noticed a cover article in Time magazine taking aim at summer vacation. It seems our leaders want all young Americans in school, all the time. Forgive my skepticism, given the long track record of failure when it comes to policies endorsed by the educational establishment. But there is one thing our public schools have come to excel at: indoctrinating students in political correctness. Maybe that helps explain the current enthusiasm for perpetual education. A generation subjected to PC brainwashing from preschool through college will have very few members who can still think for themselves.
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Exactly right. President Obama only wants to put the Deweyite and Gramscian program on steroids.
They were going on about year round schooling back when I was in grade school in the 90s. It was a state thing rather than a federal issue, ostensibly to help kids retain what they learned over the summer. I think our summer vacation in KY was down to about 6 weeks before I graduated.
It is more simple. The neighboring town just went to full day kindergarten (public school of course) and the mom's were ecstatic since their schedule would be that much easier. Why they talk this way in from of my wife or myself, I simply have no idea, but that is beside the point.
The notion of free summer day care is practically a tax cut, or an offer of adult summer vacation, for the core Obama suburban type--all in the name of education.
I've always thought that one reason America used to lead the world in discoveries and innovation was the long summer vacation. Kids had time to play and dream.
It also was a relief for Moms, who of course stayed at home. In summer, the kids would go out to play with the other kids in the neighborhood, coming back only for lunch, then going out again until dinner. So Mom could catch up on her housework or take a nap.
Now, kids go to computer camp, or baseball camp, or some other camp or summer school, and are directed by "educators." And Mom is at work in some office.
"Now, kids go to computer camp, or baseball camp, or some other camp or summer school, and are directed by “educators.” And Mom is at work in some office."
Yep, and this all started in the Northeast only later to infest our own beloved states in the South and West. Why do we continue to allow this nonsense to fester, mtastasize,and continue to be impo
sed upon that once living thing ---our home and neighborhoods!!
Robert;
Who pushed for "child labor laws" in alliance with the forced public schooling crowd but Southern women who wanted those promised textile factory jobs? Go take another look at Mr. Piatak's Summer Jobs post and put it together.
The Obama administration already wants every child to go to preschool and everyone to go to college.
Great... since K through 12 haven't already destroyed the imaginations and prowess of American youth so thoroughly, why not inflict five more years on them all??
This is terrorism, pure and simple. Barak Obama and any think-tank feeding him should be prosecuted for flagrant abuse of minors. And if I weren't paranoid, I'd say far more than that.
That is only a fraction of the issue--the education system as it is, including 'higher ed' is a mask for mass unemployment.
The push for child labor laws came more from northern unions than from Southern women whose families had been driven to poverty and despair by Yankee aggression, conquest, subjugation, and exploitation.
My school has a little over three months for summer vacation. We have numerous one-day holidays, including Southern Heritage Day which "happens" to fall on 19 January; two full weeks at Christmas; a week of winter break (Mardi Gras usually); and one week at Easter. We run a four-day week, giving our kids, faculty and staff a three-day weekend.
We live, of course, in modernity, the anti-culture; however, we struggle against it. We encourage our graduates to enter professions, vocations and trades which reflect the traditions, habits and customs of their families. We have had graduates go to military academies. Some enlist in the military. Others go to college. Yet, others go to trade schools. Many go directly into business with their parents: carpenters, plumbers, etc.
We have several families which as entire families participate in rodeos. We gladly give them time to pursue those interests.
The pressures from federal and state authorities on private schools is growing stronger. Far too often, parents bring the paradigm of state expectations to private schools. All too often, private schools are becoming very expensive public schools.
Pray that those of us who are in this struggle, a struggle which we are likely to lose over the long haul, will, nevertheless, stay in the struggle. At the end of WWII, elements of the German army formed what was known as "den wandernden Kessel" (the moving or wandering kettle), military formations and operations usually carried out by a full division, a corps or even an army. Surrounded by the enemy, the entire massive unit, roughly in the form of a kettle, would keep its perimeters intact and move, sometimes up to one hundred kilometers, to the relative safety of established defense lines, thereby saving the unit to fight another day. The one at the end of the war, had a treasure within its perimeter: thousands of civilians who wanted to get to the relative safety of the lines of the Western Allies and escape the encircling Red Army. I sometime see my school as a wandernden Kessel without, however, any distant lines which might offer us relative safety if we were to reach them.