Schools, Rules, Tools, and Fools (Issue 180)

 Despite the fact I no longer have any children in school, I recall the time when I did have school age children, and the battles I fought in the system. One incident which comes to mind is the time my daughter came home from school and said she had an assignment to write a paper on, “How to be a good loser.” I was cooking dinner, and probably dropped the frying pan and told her I would help her with that project.

I sat her down and explained to her, it was not part of her education to learn how to be a good loser. We talked about what the teacher wanted in order to get a good grade, but her focus should be on being a winner, not a loser. At the time I recall being so incensed at the requirement to write a paper on losing. Of all the millions of subjects of interest to write about, this public school required a paper and focus on losing.

I told my daughter if it would get her a good grade, she could title the paper, “What Fools Ye Mortals Be” but such a title would assure her a failing grade. Then, I explained what the teacher wanted, then explained what I wanted her to focus on, which was a notion of winning, no matter what she did in life.

It was several years before I discovered the schools were intent on indoctrinating and not educating. But once I did then I would help with their studies and do what I called counter-brainwashing. Until I reached a time when it was so intolerable to allow them to continue in the system and removed them.

It is not easy to home school. It is particularly hard now days when so many families require two incomes to get along. However, many improvements have been made in methods of home schooling. Many parents have a networking among friends in the same communities and help each other out exchanging times with each other on certain days.

My grandchildren are home schooled and quite advanced compared to other children in the socialized system of the same age and grade. They have a number of extracurricular activities like ballet, piano, art, volleyball and other activities they participate in. They therefore have a well rounded education. My three year old grandson attends a church operated preschool. And absolutely loves it.

I recall one of my grown sons remarking years ago, how he appreciated the things I taught him. To that I replied, what I actually taught you was a love of learning. I’m one who believes education is simply an acquisition of knowledge, no matter where you acquire it.

Teaching and educating ones child is not that difficult. A child can teach a child. What is difficult are all the requirements and demands on parents relative to lifestyles. One must live life in the fast lane to keep up with the Joneses, so to speak. It all depends upon ones priorities. Not a case of being self-sacrificing, but simply a case of placing the education of one’s child above other values. The parent is the natural teacher of the child.

Plus the role of the parent is to protect the child. In this connection all one has to do is read the newspaper or listen to the news to know all the undesirable stuff that goes on in the schools today from drugs to abuse. Aside from the undesirable teachings, there’s a lot more taking place in the socialized school system. The school bus stops in front of my house everyday and I sometimes see children fighting when they get off the bus. Then I wonder what took place in school that day to cause the children to be angry and upset and fighting each other.

What I know about the socialized school system is not a figment of my imagination. I write about what I have seen and experienced firsthand. And do not suggest I have all the answers.

I actually raised two families, and sometimes they were in the system and sometimes I home schooled or placed in private schools. Many, many times, over the years I would go to the teacher or principal, regarding a variety of situations in the school, as I recall and look back, I never really got any satisfactory results from any conferences. It is not in the scheme of things in the system to accommodate the wishes of the parent.

Plus other parents I spoke with experienced the same frustrations I did. It all boils down to a simple fact, there’s nothing parents can do to improve the system. The compulsory school laws require attendance of one’s children. We have elected politicians on federal, state, county, and city levels who make the laws parents and children must abide by then we are forced to pay all these salaried people, to rule and over-rule.

Whether we have any children in school or not we are all affected by this generation of school children as well as the past generations coming out of the socialized system, plus all are required to pay for the system.

In this once great country, where there was a great love of freedom and respect for the boundaries and property ownership of others, we are now living in a different era, where Universal Principles are ignored, and many have value systems and beliefs which disregard and ignore the rights of others.

Living in this country we were once the envy of the world. We had so much. We created and produced so much. There was a general healthy respect for each other. We honored individual freedom and respected the property rights of others at one time. We wanted to live and let live. We believed in order to have we must work. We stood for something and stood by certain principles. The mantra was, “root hog or die.” Or “Let Freedom Ring,” or “Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead.” Now we are at a different place in a different time.

The cry is, “Take from the haves to give to the have nots.” And we do not assume the responsibility of doing that, but elect politicians who do it for us. Who cream for themselves off the top? Many write letters and send e-mails, which they ignore.

It’s not necessary to ask ourselves whether or not this is wrong? We innately know it’s wrong. Another more important question to ask ourselves is this: Where along the line in this course of human events, did we decide we had the luxury of abandoning our children and turning them over to a socialist system of indoctrination? Which prevents them from having the same degree of individual freedom, and the same ownership of personal property rights we inherited?

Surely, there are many loving parents in this country, who teach their children, stealing is wrong. Then at the same time enroll their children in a system for twelve years which is totally based upon a system of thievery. A compulsory system which requires the child to attend and requires all those who work and produce to pay makes no difference whether or not one has a school age child or not. That’s a system which is wrong on its surface.

We now wake up in the morning checking to see what the stock market did. Listening to hear what the new President said. Checking to see who has been appointed to what seat of power. Listening to the amount of the latest bailout money. Flipping the stations to learn which bank failed overnight.

Yesterday, March 10th, we got the news from a speech by the new president, unfolding his package for schooling. And there-in lays the crux of the problem. All masked by fancy rhetoric and promises of a better world. No, no, no, dear hearts and gentle people, it is not the answer; it is the cause of the dilemma we face. More money has gone into the socialist school system than into wars.

It’s a manifestation of what Lenin said in the mid twenties, when he said “The United States, we shall not have to attack, it will fall into our hands like over-ripe fruit.” The crumbling from within has been accomplished by the indoctrination of young minds via the socialized school system over a period of several generations. This is now on the verge of a new boost of money from the new regime.

LET FREEDOM RING

JUST ME

AC

The Freedom Lady

Email annecleveland@bellsouth.net

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