Little Manchurian Candidates, page 1

If you have children in your life this article is a must read - including the comments!

www.informationliberation.com...

I’ve been looking for answers, answers to why children are the way they are today.
I wanted to blame the economy - not one parent being able to stay home to raise the children, both needing to work.
I wanted to blame divorce, broken homes the lack of (Grand) parental influence.
I wanted to blame drugs, the government, television, video games, everything and anything.
I even wanted to blame, and ended up, (in part), blaming Disney but that’s for another post.
But I never thought to blame Dick and Jane and Kindergarten.
Please give this article a read.

It has occurred to me that the cause of America's illiteracy crisis has been discovered. It is the reading curriculum in our schools. Unfortunately, the damage to children appears to extend way beyond reading failure. One wonders if the hidden agenda in the readers has created our victim culture, a generation of withdrawn and resentful children, alienated from themselves, their parents, society, books and ideas.

When reviewing the school readers, I had noticed an impoverished vocabulary, composed mostly of three and four letter words. I brought this up with the teacher. She explained that the readers were integrated into a district policy that no more than five hundred new words be introduced to students during any grade level. The idea was to protect children from the dizzying and confusing effects of an overabundance of words and ideas.

Now after reading this next quote, go to next post for questions... See how well you do without looking back...

Example textbook: Once upon a time there was a little green mouse who hopped after a tiger onto a yellow airplane. The plane turned into a big red bird in flight, and the mouse turned into a blue pumpkin. The pumpkin fell to the ground and its seeds grew into pots and pans.

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[edit on 8-9-2008 by silo13]

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Excellent post. In less than 8 years, my outlook on homeschooling has completely changed. I really don't know what to think.

ColoradoJens

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I just wanted to add the following to your conversation if I may.
It's a copy of an old post of mine from a now obsolete thread:

"This opinion may not comes as news to ATS members but I thought it's a worthwhile thought to share with you.

Congress, the president, and the department of education are only grandstanding when they declare that they want to improve the American educational system. In fact the American system of democracy can only function efficiently if the general population, especially the middle class has a medium amount of education. That is to say, the middle class must be educated only to the degree that is as little as possible to allow them to reach consensus in a simplified two party system. Too much education would breed independent thought and to little generates an apathetic poverty class.

We are often reminded of how ignorant the ordinary American citizen is. Not only through statistics but also through those "man on the street" kind of media clips where no one knows their state capital.

This state of relative ignorance is by intent. It is what allows not only for a two party system and oversimplifications like red state/blue state, but also for a population to be easily manipulated and placated by it's government. A middle class disinclined to question it's government as long that they have the relative safety of their green backyards.

From birth the American educational system breeds mediocrity, intellectual laziness, discourages inquisitiveness, creativity and independent thought. I'd like to point out that this dynamic does not make the American" public any smarter or dumber than anywhere else in the world. That is not a issue here. The issue is it to recognize the systemic conditioning of the American population from childhood which discourages and marginalizes questioning and intellectual ambition. I call it the "so you think you're better than me?" syndrome.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

This thread might also be helpful: www.abovetopsecret.com...





[edit on 9/9/2008 by schrodingers dog]

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