From Arizona, where a legislator wants to turn schools into propaganda mills:
Arizona public schools would be barred from any teachings considered counter to democracy or Western civilization under a proposal endorsed Wednesday by a legislative panel.
Additionally, the measure would prohibit students of the state’s universities and community colleges from forming groups based in whole or part on the race of their members, such as the Black Business Students Association at Arizona State University or Native Americans United at Northern Arizona University. Those groups would be forbidden from operating on campus.
Pearce, a Mesa Republican, said his target isn’t diversity instruction, but schools that use taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate students in what he characterized as anti-American or seditious thinking..
SB 1108 states, “A primary purpose of public education is to inculcate values of American citizenship. Public tax dollars used in public schools should not be used to denigrate American values and the teachings of Western civilization.”
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Rep. John Kavanagh, a member of the Appropriations Committee, said he hopes the measure helps return cultural studies in the state’s schools to a “melting pot” model.
“This bill basically says, ‘You’re here. Adopt American values,’ ” said Kavanagh, a Fountain Hills Republican. “If you want a different culture, then fine, go back to that culture.”
In other words, get out of our country you damn non-Americans.
Apparently, the Know Nothing Party is coming back into fashion.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Doug, what makes you think that the government schools are OTHER THAN “propaganda mills”?
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Sending your kid to a public school is like passing him a crack pipe and offering him a light. There is so much revisionist history and so much social indoctrination going on in our public schools, it is a miracle the kids can think at all, after twelve years of all of that political correctness crap.
If you meet a home schooled teen of about sixteen, that boy will harbor none of the anxiety about learning or seeking truth that strikes fear into the hearts of the politically indoctrinated public schooler. The home schooler will be well read, well spoken, polite and engaged in the world around him. He will seem mature beyond his years.
While this is a generalization, I have seen enough of a pattern to wish that I had never subjected my four children to the mental cesspools we call public schools.
I am hopeful that some schools are still traditional, but I doubt that many exist anymore, given the evidence of the numerous graduates who are adept only at reciting the rights of homosexuals, the supposed evils of White men and the imagined damaging effects of patriarchy. No, public school Johnny can’t read or do math, but he can regurgitate the lesbo-feminazi agenda that has been beaten into his mind since kindergarten.
If you can home school, do it. If you can’t, do all you can to secure a GOOD private school education for your kids; just don’t subject them to the political correctness indoctrination mills of the public school system.
When they are ready for college, choose carefully. Do not throw away fifty thousand a year at cloistered sewers of leftist indoctrination like the University of Richmond, where dogma is now held supreme over truth.