06 July 2011

Why Top-Down Methods Fail, Reason 12,754,325,094,327....

Midwest Chick lays it down for us.  Whether you're all about the Pray Away the Gay and Young-Earth Creationism, or rockin' the Gender-Neutral Darwinist look, you really might want to read this and engage in some contemplation.

It is not government's place to control the educational process.  School districts will stand or fall on their merits.  If they are teaching their students a curriculum that will get them to college and beyond and that's what the parents want, yippee!  If they choose to not, then over the course of time, either they will, if that's what the locals want, or they will become ghost systems as people either move, homeschool, or start their own schools that will teach their children what the local populace feels is necessary.  If students go into the wide world and find out they've not been given a proper education, they will learn on their own.

When governments become involved in this process, they can't help but include indoctrination into certain mindsets--be they Christian, atheist, gay-friendly, gay-bashing, whatever.  And it's the children that ultimately lose, just like those kids in Atlanta.


RTWT.  That's how you get 'schooled' for realz.  ;)

2 comments:

  1. It's a good point. Inappropriate indoctrination can occur from any side of the political and/or religious spectrum.

    Seems like the left side is quicker to cry out "propaganda!" than the right is, though I have no real evidence of this.

    Me, I'm wondering how bad the indoctrination will have to get before more parents are willing to retake the responsibility of their kids' educations.

    For ex, in the Catholic school my boys attended last year, the social studies "curriculum" was 100% pure multi-culti propaganda. And even a conservative friend of mine who plans to use that school longterm was turning a blind eye. All because the traditional thinking is that school is good for socialization.

    Frustrating.

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