Is this how public school socialists brainwash children & destroy America?

Question

Source: http://forums.christiansunite.com/index.php?topic=14363.0


"Well, our public-school "graduates" are now voters, and their socialist-indoctrinated mind-set now attracts them to Democrats like moths to a flame. God help this country, because public schools turn out millions of these child-adults who haven't the faintest conception about the values this country was founded on, or have little respect or contempt for those values."

Answer 1

News Flash. School boards are elected officials. Just about all school board members are fine Christian conservatives. The article you linked to is hogwash. It simply is not happening.

Answer 2

No surprise here. Public schools are obviously not held in high regard by those with your point of view. So why would you expect public school graduates to support your candidate? Not to mention that public schools are affordable to most parenst, and not every parent has the luxury of sending their kid to a private school -- unless the conservatives are willing to fork over the money to send more kids to private school. Public funds, private funds, I don't care. Milwaukee sends 22,000 kids a year on state funds to private schools, so why don't you and your cronies send them a huge check so you can regain the majority. (I should add that sending kids to private school is costing taxpayers more than public schools -- so which one are you going to support -- instilling your values in our children through private schools and increasing property taxes, or stick to the original principles of the GOP and keep taxes low and stay the heck out of people's personal affairs)? You lost because the GOP has a bad case of schizophrenia. Independents voted overwhelmingly for Democrats.

P.S. I don't see anywhere in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution that we all need to vote for the Grand Oil Party to support the values that this country was founded on. I distinctly remember them not being fond of having to support the Church of England.

Answer 3

This person's overwrought and hysterical sounding opinion doesn't turn conjecture into fact. There are thousands of teachers committed to turning out educationally well-rounded young people. They have to work around those who think their personal value systems should be installed in our public schools like vending machines. It isn't the job of public schools to instill political rhetoric for one party or the other, religious values, or to promote one group's value system above all others. That is the job of parents, not teachers. Their job is to teach the subject they have studied in, and to pass that knowledge along to our children. If you disagree with your school's curriculum then become active in your PTA, or attend school board meetings, to voice your opposing views. It's amazing these days the power that people want to attribute to teachers. There is nothing stronger to a child than a parent's teachings about basic values. That comes from the home, not the schools. Sometimes it seems that people want to give over their own parental responsibilities to our teachers these days. They are teachers, not substitute parents. Take responsibility for teaching your children the values you wish them to grow up with and stop trying to blame our public school system for not acting like parents, it isn't their job!

Answer 4

So ok - public schools are 'communist institutions run by the government to produce an army of drones' - and you as the president have done away with them. Now what? Nobody is educated? People are educated by their parents? People go to private schools, and therefore keep the rich rich and the poor poor (as the rich get the best education, and therefore the best - and best paid jobs, and can therefore afford to send their children to the best schools, etc)? What do you suggest?

Answer 5

needless to say some do experience that way. and a few instructors, like it or no longer, do demonize pupils who do no longer share their evaluations on issues. i've got seen it ensue. in actuality, there became into a minimum of one instructor at my previous extreme college who became into extremely antagonistic to Christians (it did no longer trojan horse me then with the aid of fact I wasn't a Christian, yet I see now how terrible it became into). And confident, that could desire to be seen brainwashing. youngsters are vulnerable. If we demonize them for his or her evaluations, they start to experience that they are actually not allowed to have those evaluations. the comparable is going for oldsters who demonize evaluations different than their very own. that's a sort of indoctrination. the superb element to do, contained in the living house and in school, is to coach toddlers that that's okay to have their very own evaluations, and that it is likewise ok for individuals to disagree with them. To do otherwise is maximum actually an attempt to indoctrinate them. Peace and advantages!

Answer 6

It would be such a shame for children to come out of school with an education that was not indoctrinated in them based upon religious thinking and laws that violate our freedoms that for years have been forced upon a free people in an effort to control the masses to promote the growing wealth of 1% of Americans .
With most of the Television preachers going to jail or coming out of the closet it is no wonder Americans are turning away from religion .Child abuse ,theft and lies have been the way of to many religious institutions .
It is about time people toss of the shackles of ones mind and begin to see the truth .
It is all about money and power and if we all worshipped at the alter of money and power more of the wealth of this nation would be in the hands of the majority of people .
The meek the poor and those who devote a life to others have been cheated by the very people who they trusted to lead them and educate them .
The poor live a crapy life and die .Just like the rich live a live of self indulgence and die .
No heaven or hell just the knowledge handed down for thousands of years that the one with all the money makes his own rules .

Answer 7

What a crock of crap.
Narrow-minded religious control freaks are the ones who want to "control" how children think. That the majority of 18-25 year olds voted democratic shows not that they have been "brainwashed," but that they know how to think for themselves and aren't buying the mind-control "god will punish you if you don't do what I say" garbage the religious right is pushing.

The article writer calls public schools "brainwashing" (which you apparently agree with) -- how does that compare to religious schools, where kids are FORCED to pray, FORCED to accept every word in the bible as literal truth, FORCED to swallow non-scientific fairy-tales about the creation of the world and humans with no evidence for it whatsoever, etc. It's no wonder kids who finally get some small taste of what it feels like to actually think for themselves are rebelling against that sort of mind-control, and are finally seeing for themselves that there is no evidence for any of this mythology.

Values this country was built on? Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, rebelling against and questioning EVERY authority, no religion in public institutions, rebellion against tyranny in all forms, political and religious. That's what this country was founded on, and I for one am very glad the religious nutcases can't keep our schools from teaching those values to our children.

Answer 8

So, you're opposed to school nurses, special education classes, "Say No to Drugs" campaigns (which have the Reagan stamp of approval), and school lunches? So you hate kids, huh?

This article is nothing but propaganda with a bunch of buzz-words and no evidence to back it up. Has the author reviewed textbooks used in public schools? Has the author sat in any public school classrooms? Where's his evidence?

Answer 9

Maybe their parents taught them values in all sectors. I raised mine to be a Democrat. Now, at 16 - she asks - "Mom why don't they put George Bush up for war crimes? Regardless is your Demo, or Rep., it's the parents job to explain what the dirrerent parites stand for. My child has a mind of her own and is more capable of making a informed decision, she was taught to research and not follow the herd.

Answer 10

Yeah, that site isn't biased at all now, is it?

It's up to people to make up their own mind. When I graduated from HS, I voted democrat but most of my friends who happened to go to the same school I did in a conservative town, voted conservative.

Also, if you want YOUR kids given a Christian education, I suggest you send them to a Christian school.