Education Nazis are still at it.
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The Education Nazis Are Coming, by Karen De Coster.
The State-funded Education Nazis are up to their same old tricks:
de-legitimizing home schooling and destroying the sovereign family.
Recent news stories portray the advocates of publicly-funded indoctrination
to be shaking in their boots over the upcoming 2002 National Spelling Bee in
May. Why is that so?
Well, recent year's competitions have launched home schooled kids into the
limelight after winning top spots in our country's annual geography and
spelling bees. These young, scholarly-minded, home schooled kids are
kicking the butts of public school drones year after year, and as a result,
public education mouthpieces are furious, and seek to rationalize why this
is happening.
A recent Detroit News article presents various concerns voiced by those
defending their public school status quo. The thesis is that home schooled
students "have the advantage because they can spend more time studying
spelling during their school days." Ummm, yeah, did I miss the logic in
that one?
Maybe if the public schools were not so busy disciplining lifelong daycare
brats, teaching self-esteem falsehoods, and pushing alternative lifestyle
agendas, they would make the time to teach educational literacy. However,
such a statement cannot be alleged by public education critics without
having the collective education establishment launching a tirade in defense
of its egalitarian ethos. After all, it's about "what's best for our
children", as they like to tell us. Witness the Nanny State in full force.
And what's best, according to The Education Peoples, is that students not
be allowed to "eschew normal school activities in favor of preparation for
spelling bees." Unbelievably, this is an actual Scripps Howard Spelling Bee
rule, intended to place greater oversight upon the home schooled whiz kids
that smash their inferior competitors. A direct quote from the Detroit News
article reads: Spelling Bee director Paige Kimble admits it's a hard rule to
enforce, but "we have never had any single thought or occasion to believe
home schoolers or their parents were being irresponsible about their
education."
We read this as meaning that focused and individualized study to advance
one's scholastic skills is considered "irresponsible"! Therefore, the
enemies of real education have determined that it is "irresponsible" for
13-year-old kids to be home nurturing themselves academically instead of
engaging in "normal school activities", like enduring 3 hours of group
activity time in the public school's Latch-Key program; hanging out at a
friend's house gazing at South Park or The Simpsons on the tube; or
indulging in the harassing of adult shoppers at the local mall while
skipping classes like Great Feminist Philosophers 101.
Another noted critic, Paul Houston, executive director of the American
Association of School Administrators, has decreed that home schoolers are
not necessarily more scholarly or focused, but rather, home schooling
parents just happen to emphasize memorization more than public schools do.
Hence, it's not a brain game that wins the accolades of a spelling bee, it's
an illegitimate memorization technique foisted upon these unfortunate,
unsocial children by overly-competitive parents.
Whatever techniques appear to explain away the inferiority blues, these
folks will find a way to exploit them. The complaints are illegitimate and
downright embarrassing. It's like witnessing the stomping up-and-down of a
child, at the local retailer, who doesn't get Momma to buy him that new toy.
The notion is that unless The Education Peoples can effectively collectivize
all children into one huge groupthink lump under their charges, they cannot
effectively control the largesse of public money that is so desperately
needed to fund their sociological experiments. That being said, a
self-educated family is a threat to the immediate goals of financing and
ruling their managerial State revolution.
In essence, the Education Nazis just can't stand the concept of the
sovereign family, now, can they? However, the "unfair advantage" modus
operandi used by them is old and worn, and fundamentally dishonest. One
wonders just how more far-reaching and ridiculous the anti-homeschool agenda
can get.
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"I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the
most corrupt government on earth." Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1800.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt speech to the
House of Commons.
"You shall have one world government, whether or not you like it, by consent
or by conquest." Former FDR aide, James Warburg CFR/TC, in testimony before
the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 17 Feb 1950.
