IMO this is the teacher's union rearing its ugly head.
Perhaps. I won't deny it. I graduated in '94 from a very large public high school in Indianapolis. I can't remember a single incident of a teacher using his/her position to influence a student's opinion to subvert the parental teachings (if it contradicted them). Not even in my World Lit class when we studied the holy writings of the various major world religions.
Of course it wasn't like one day the schools are just suddenly staffed with these kinds of teachers. The advance was incremental. It's possible it was in the earlier stages of the advance during my tenure and just hadn't reached my school/district yet.
Neither am I saying that it never occurred prior to a particular point in time. But there's no denying that it didn't used to be the systemic problem of proselytizing that we're seeing today. Or that there aren't still schools/districts where this isn't a problem. But I'm not taking the chance with my kids.
Our public education system changed in the 1920's to mirror Nazi Germany's education system. They are taught to regurgitate knowledge, but not how to think. That is why my kids are home schooled and will never go to public school.
- Horace Mann, Father of Public Schooling in the U.S.We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
- John Dewey, founder of modern public schooling philosophyChildren who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
I think you're reading too much into it. It was a teacher campaigning for who they thought would help [STRIKE]education[/STRIKE] the teacher's union the most.
IMO this is the teacher's union rearing its ugly head.
Were they threats or predictions of what is to come? Just because you don't like what someone is trying to tell you, does not make it a threat. Especially when they were right.I still don't see what is wrong, although I probably wouldn't have talked to students about the presidential election but rather focused on the Superintendent of Edu and Governor of Indiana.
And threatening people about their jobs isn't cool, period.
PervertAs often as 88GT and I disagree, I am still wildly entertained when I see her jump into a thread about public education and tear it to shreds.
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Perhaps. I won't deny it. I graduated in '94 from a very large public high school in Indianapolis. I can't remember a single incident of a teacher using his/her position to influence a student's opinion to subvert the parental teachings (if it contradicted them). Not even in my World Lit class when we studied the holy writings of the various major world religions.
Of course it wasn't like one day the schools are just suddenly staffed with these kinds of teachers. The advance was incremental. It's possible it was in the earlier stages of the advance during my tenure and just hadn't reached my school/district yet.
Neither am I saying that it never occurred prior to a particular point in time. But there's no denying that it didn't used to be the systemic problem of proselytizing that we're seeing today. Or that there aren't still schools/districts where this isn't a problem. But I'm not taking the chance with my kids.
Our public education system changed in the 1920's to mirror Nazi Germany's education system. They are taught to regurgitate knowledge, but not how to think. That is why my kids are home schooled and will never go to public school.
As often as 88GT and I disagree, I am still wildly entertained when I see her jump into a thread about public education and tear it to shreds.
The thread or public education?
Both, in equal measures. As soon as someone bashes homeschooling I'm like 'Oh no he di'int!!' then I wait for you to arrive and take him to school.
Our public education system changed in the 1920's to mirror Nazi Germany's education system. They are taught to regurgitate knowledge, but not how to think. That is why my kids are home schooled and will never go to public school.
...But that's what is different today. Parents, in general, don't care enough to actually TEACH their children morals, right/wrong and the basics in life. They expect the schools to do it for them....