Anita Hoge does a great job of portraying where education is headed in this country. Unfortunately, it's just more pearls before swine. Americans, by and large, have been so dumbed-down they wouldn't know the difference between a quality education and state sponsored indoctrination.
I'm certain many of the posters here are old enough to remember an election in which one of the platforms was to dismantle the Dept. of Education, what ever became of that initiative? Were it proposed today, I'm certain that many would protest that it would be robbing their children of a superior education.
Americans, by and large, have been so dumbed-down they wouldn't know the difference between a quality education and state sponsored indoctrination.
You got that right!
I'm certain many of the posters here are old enough to remember an election in which one of the platforms was to dismantle the Dept. of Education, what ever became of that initiative? Were it proposed today, I'm certain that many would protest that it would be robbing their children of a superior education.
Most people are clueless when it comes to this. John Whitehead recently published a piece about how the TV is the primary distractoin, so true.
The bottom line is that Americans were foolish and stupid enough, largely driven by a lack of morality in our age of vanquished christian morality with what passes for christian morality not being Christ-ian at all, to have bought into this life-of-ease thing with "free" public education and all kinds of other shit that is hardly free at all, either monetarily or from a moral perspective.
As long as most Americans have their "hard-working" jobs where they can play on facebook and screw around for a good portion of the time, and a paycheck that's largely more than it should be given what the average person does, that they can send their kids away for the days so that both parents can work, another undermining thing that grew exponentially in popularity in the '80s, all in the name of wealth in another grand trade of morality, nothing will change.
I can't even begin to mention the number of people that suggest that there's something wrong, but none of them ever think that it's going on in their own school districts.