Face it, if you have a degree in Chemistry and Monsanto offers you a job for $90,000 a year, you probably won't care to quit that job even when you
find out about some of their more nefarious doings. After all, you're a nice person and just making a living right?
Until things get REALLY bad the average person will do most
anything before giving up their job.
But, there has been a HUGE change brewing (other than Occupying the street) that is being overlooked by the MSM.
(This thread is using U.S. numbers and focusing on the U.S. If people from other countries are seeing similar trends please comment!)
In the 1950s we all know there was the typical 1950s house with a stay-at-home Mom, Dad worked and they had a couple kids, a white picket fence, and a
dog.
In the 1960s we got Rock n Roll, followed by the 70s with Free Love and the drug scene.
Something happened by the 1990s that, as Stanford University and Cal Berkeley called "one of the most significant educational movements ever to occur
in the United States"
Alternative schools represent one of the most significant educational movements ever to occur in the United States. According to a 1999
study from the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, between 1993 and
1996 the number of students attending public schools of choice rose from 11 percent to 13 percent.
emphasis added
Source
What do we have control over... RIGHT NOW.... as adults trying to stand against elite controls over us?
We can control how we raise and educate our children!
Gone are the days where every person went to public school except the tiny few rich kids. Gone are the days that being homeschooled had a stigma to it
- oh, he must be a slow learner. Gone are the days that George Bush's No Child Left Behind
fiasco can bring our children to the lowest common
denominator in classrooms filled with 35 children and one teacher!
(For those not in the U.S.: "public" school is paid for by local, state, and Federal funds, mostly local and state property taxes, with no charge to
the attending students' families. A "private" school in the U.S. is one that you pay a hefty amount to attend.)
Take a look at these numbers!!
but first a small caveat: Within the public schools numbers are hidden the "magnet" and "charter" schools, noted in the above quote as
schools of
choice. Most studies that make Mainstream news INCLUDE these together in the public schools saying there hasn't been much change.
here's an example:
From 1985 to 2009, total public and private school enrollment rates changed by 2 percentage points or less
a .gov FastFacts page
==> Why is this fact important?
The government reports a 2% change, but in actuality maybe 18% of those public school kids now attend a Charter or Magnet school!
We're seeing a HUGE change in what our children are getting!
a sidenote on Magnet schools:
Admission to individual public schools is usually based on residency. To compensate for differences in school quality based on geography, school
systems serving large cities and portions of large cities often have "magnet schools" that provide enrollment to a specified number of non-resident
students in addition to serving all resident students. This special enrollment is usually decided by lottery with equal numbers of males and females
chosen. Some magnet schools cater to gifted students or to students with special interests, such as the sciences or performing arts.
Wikipedia
a sidenote on Charter schools:
Charter schools are primary or secondary schools that receive public money (and like other schools, may also receive private donations) but are
not subject to some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for
producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter. Charter schools are opened and attended by choice.
Wikipedia
so, back to some numbers (hidden and overt):
Homeschooling was first tracked by the Department of Education in 1999. At that time 850,000 kids were schooled at home.
By 2003 it was 1,100,000
.... 2007 it was 1,500,000
and by 2010 it was 2,500,000 kids whose parents refused to let the schools indoctrinate their children into servitude (this ATS author's opinion),
among other reasons.
Source: Lloyd, Janice, Gannett News Service (January 5, 2008). Home-schooling numbers rise. Burlington Free Press.
and
National Center for Educational Statistics
It's proving difficult to find numbers for specific Charter and Magnet groups and when found they're broken up into small incremental age groups. But
here's the basics on Magnet and Charter schools; refrences at end.
From 1999/2000 to 2008/2009 the total number of students onrolled in Charter schools more than tripled.
National Center for Educational Statistics
A current breakdown by state,
available here,
shows a wide variance among states with some states with as high as 22% of students in magnet and charter schools, and a few as low as 2%. With the
average population showing roughly 15% of our
public school children attending some sort of alternative school.
edit on 18-11-2011 by Thermo Klein because: minor tweeks and adding links
