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Michigan Democrats: ‘All Your Children Are Belong to Us’
Hey, you know how some people refer to public schools as “government schools” and say that their mission isn’t really education, but social indoctrination and enforcing social conformity? And how other people say, “That’s kook talk. Get away from me, you kook! With your crazy kook talk.” Well, the Democrat Party of Michigan has firmly weighed in on the side of the kooks.
“The purpose of a public education is … to teach them what society needs them to know. The client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire community.” But the wealthy and privileged are exempt from this for some reason, according to the Michigan Democratic Party, because they can send their kids to private schools.
I really hope that Governor Whitmer runs for re-election on this theme.
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Yeah, about that.
There are some people who still brag about voting for this guy.
This is just his way of thanking George Floyd for his vote last November.
I did my student teaching at a NYC vocational high school, Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational. Originally it was the Manhattan Trade School for Girls…a block or two north of Gramercy Park. Nice neighborhood. We had children of police officers and other hard working parents who wanted something better for their children. I taught economics…practical economics. The fun part was watching the transformation from “taxes are what you get back on April 15” to “Why is that phone bill so high? Why do they charge all those fees?”
The school had the only program for students (co-ed) to become Licensed Practical Nurses upon graduation. One hundred percent of the kids who finished that LPN program decided to continue their education and become an RN, i.e., go to college.
Now Mabel Dean is called “High School of the Future.” No more LPN program, no more shop or drafting. Now you can take a required course called “Overcoming Obstacles” to prepare you for 11th and 12th grade. The future of education is here.
She just might get “Youngkined” . . .
I could watch this a thousand times and not get tired of it…
It would be a mistake to think that Michigan Democrats are outliers. The idiots are everywhere and their goal is the destruction of the American family.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2022/01/16/kooky-columnist-parents-must-give-away-their-children-achieve
He didn’t get trounced, though. I was a very narrow win for Youngkin. And if Democrats in Fairfax county had not made the mistake of reporting how many uncounted ballots they had before the election was over, he might not have won. In New Jersey, the Bergen County Democrats claimed they forgot to count how many uncounted ballots had been received as of election day, which gave them a lot more leeway to come up with the votes they needed.
When your ideology cannot exist without redefining words, you have no need for a dictionary.
We’ve been selective about schools. We’ve broken the bank getting our kids to a private preschool. We got our oldest in a charter because the school our kids would be assigned to is near the bottom. We applied to and actually got accepted into the top-rated public school, only to keep in the below-average rated charter because during the summer info about CRT being snuck into various programs in that school and others in its district was leaked out by concerned parents.
There’s a lot of people who assume everything is just okay because they’re in a red state or district with a high-rated school. Fortunately our family’s trust issues actually worked in our favor here. There’s little we take for granted.
I think the process, like so much other as the communists work their takeover, is like the frog being brought to a boil.
A teacher at Lehi High School, where my lovely wife graduated from, was recently outed as one of her students caught her on video making rather disparaging remarks about their parents and their values in general. Lehi, as my wife would tell you, was once the most Mormon town in the most Mormon county in the state of Utah, and has been at least until recently, comfortably red. That teacher is gone now, but as C. A. Amanda notes, “That’s just who they’ve found talking like that.”
I had three grandchildren grads of Lone Peak and one entering so I know how surprising this stuff can be. When I lived in Alpine I did work in my precinct for Mike Lee and helped some others supporting Jason Chaffetz and Michael Kennedy and then they imported Romney, I guess with Hatch’s support. It’s like a disease that creeps up on you.
Who decides what society needs the children of the commoners to know ?
Compulsory government schooling was always about molding the children the government wanted: from factory workers in the early days to conduits for student loan money today. And a means to peddle ideology.
And of course a government institution was captured (well, was designed by and for) the statists.
There is no reforming compulsory government schooling. It must be abolished.
Lehi and all points south are in the process of being swallowed whole by the California tech invasion and lack of planning by the powers-that-be in SLC and the state level. As an outsider, it is hard to watch.
Also troubling, the fired chemistry teacher, Leah Kinyon, was a graduate of BYU. This starts in the Ed. Schools.
Here is her rant:
White pill: people are waking up to this garbage. Home schooling no longer has the stigma of being for weird anti-social kids (public schools have a monopoly on that stigma now). Plus, all the gender-fluids, narcissist Bolsheviks and cat ladies don’t breed anyway. This ship can be turned around.
I have a proposition and then a question.
We appear to have created a shift within our culture and our population wherein the needed balance between production and consumption by individuals has moved more towards consumption. Our technological age has facilitated this process and has possibly even created an environment where aggregate production easily meets total aggregate needs making additional production optional and mainly to meet demand for play and pleasure rather than survival. Our modern society is having trouble coping with this. There is much pressure on our cultural values in this environment.
I’m not deeply backgrounded in these matters, I’m operating on life experience and what I think I see but I do see this happening in my own extended family. So far, in my family, we have been able to contain this without totally disrupting our family value system and producing good individuals but I am noticing some reduction in the traditional drive to work and produce but no lessening of pushing for fun and pleasure.
My question is how accurate is what I think I’m seeing and what important aspects am I possibly missing?.
Amanda despairs at the loss of the Lehi she grew up in, the small rural town. Yes, the Tech industry has swooped into the northern Utah County region and bringing all their problems with them it seems. A lot of the historic town is being dismantled as the city council is more interested in the revenue from bigger buildings than history. Amanda’s talking more and more about leaving Utah for good.
Great comment about how dissatisfied parents have the option to send their kids to private schools.
Why not just say “Let them eat cake”?