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Our children are the future of America, and our public schools are systematically training them to become accustomed to living in a “Big Brother” police state. All across the United States today, public schools have essentially become “prison grids” that are run by control freaks that are absolutely obsessed with micromanaging the lives of their students down to the smallest detail. As you will read about below, students all over the country are now being monitored by RFID microchips, their lunches are being inspected on a daily basis by school administrators, and the social media accounts of students are being constantly monitored even when they are at home. Of course these sorts of things do not happen everywhere just yet, but on the path that we are on it is just a matter of time. At this point, many of our public schools very closely resemble “totalitarian dictatorships”, and so if the United States ever slips into totalitarianism the students of today will actually feel very comfortable under that political system.
I went to public schools all my life, so I have experience in this area. Sadly, things have gone downhill quite a bit since those days. For example, one thing that was unheard of back when I was in high school was “active shooter drills”. They are being held in school districts all over the nation today, and they often involve the firing of blanks and the use of fake blood.
Who Thinks-up this Stuff ?
nomoregmo
This sort of goes along with the subject... what would you make of this?
Wyoming legislature passes bill to arm school personnel:
www.wyomingnews.com...
The future dictator's subjects will be painlessly regimented by a corps of highly trained social engineers. For this purpose all the resources of psychology and the social sciences are mobilized and set to work. The scientific dictator of tomorrow will set up his whispering machines and subliminal projectors in schools and hospitals (children and the sick are highly suggestible), and in all public places where audiences can be given a preliminary softening up by suggestibility-increasing oratory or rituals.
Children, as might be expected, are highly susceptible to propaganda. Remember that the dictators and the would-be dictators have been thinking about this sort of thing for years, and that millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of children are in process of growing up to buy the local despot's ideological product and, like well-trained soldiers, to respond with appropriate behavior to the trigger words implanted in those young minds by the despot's propagandists.
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they possess a really effective system of mind-manipulation. In the past, free-thinkers and revolutionaries were often the products of the most piously orthodox (basic) education. This is not surprising. The methods employed by orthodox educators were and still are extremely inefficient. Under a scientific dictator education will really work -- with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
How can we preserve the integrity and reassert the value of the human individual? This is a question that can still be asked and perhaps effectively answered. A generation from now it may be too late to find an answer and perhaps impossible, in the stifling collective climate of that future time, even to ask the question.
Trained and competent school personnel should have the option to be armed. We wouldn't have situations like Columbine or Sandy Hook if the freaks who went and shot up the schools knew the would met an armed response.
They are all met with an armed response. Which is why school shooters usually kill themselves at the end, or get killed by police. Not very often do they make it out alive, but that's not their intent. If you read books on the subject you will find most of them are suicidal, but don't want to go out alone.
Bassago
reply to post by boncho
They are all met with an armed response. Which is why school shooters usually kill themselves at the end, or get killed by police. Not very often do they make it out alive, but that's not their intent. If you read books on the subject you will find most of them are suicidal, but don't want to go out alone.
True but I'd rather they be met with an armed response at the start of their shooting spree than after there are bodies on the floor. Just seems that more people would have a chance that way. Never been one to like waiting for the Cavalry or even thinking it was a good plan.
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In the 1800s anyone who knew a little about math, history, reading and writing could teach school. Many teachers with only an eighth-grade education taught students a few years younger than themselves.
People stumble when asked to name a few things in the Bill of Rights.
College students on top of it !!!
Bill of Rights Quiz FAIL - College Students Don't Know Their Basic Rights
In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm." -