Taking off the woke glasses
American Thinker,
by
Alison Tempestilli
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
11/15/2019 6:14:34 AM
Sadly, common sense is not at all common in this day and age. Even the most “commonest” of sense is lacking. Take bad behavior. When I was a kid, anything “fresh” towards my parents was hastily squelched. Once, my mom overheard me utter a remark geared towards her to a neighborhood playmate. “What she doesn’t know, won’t hurt her,” was voiced secretively in regard to spending lunch money allocations on something other than lunch. Well, by my mother’s reaction, one would think I had committed high treason. Punishment was both swift and harsh enough to produce its objective. That was, in this case, respect for your mother
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 11/15/2019 7:20:54 AM (No. 235595)
I am very happy that I live in a rural setting. The law is enforced here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/15/2019 8:31:41 AM (No. 235669)
Both of my sisters taught in the public schools, one in Wisconsin who teaches special Ed (junior high kids with ADD & ADHD) and the other taught in the four corners area of Colorado at the fourth and fifth grade level. While the administrators of the Wisconsin schools are more woke, that sister (who has MS) has had books and chairs hurled at her not so much due to misbehaved kids, but, because their elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor and school administration lacked the competency to invoke some sort of a common sense approach for the teacher's protection. However, the other sister in southwest Colorado (Cortez public schools) saw the worst of the worst (kids from the Navajo and Hopi reservations) and the school administration was completely unwoke and frankly didn't have their own common sense how to manage these out of control kids who were prone to spontaneous acts of violence toward their teacher. These out of control kids come from very disfunctional families who would see violence in their own homes each and every day. Being an educator in today's environment is very very tough duty. Very sad but true.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
little guy 11/15/2019 9:16:39 AM (No. 235725)
The article has no point, really. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone behaved and were punished for doing wrong? Yes. But it ain't happening anytime soon.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/15/2019 9:20:49 AM (No. 235733)
"Educators", who were more effective when merely teachers, bought this through their unions. Parents traded money for "child raising" by the profesionals. They demanded things like sex ed, values and civility be taught, all while mainstreaming kids that are disruptive in hopes that the lowest common denominator effect would be avoided.
While I hear whining about the public schools, no one dare take on this sacred cow. It is a huge political loser to try. Parents, especially the esteemed "single parent", depend on schools for child care. Discipline? You're kidding, right? They get little/none at home, especially as an only child, which so many are. It doesn't matter that Johnny or Mary are social disasters, unlearned in basic life skills, unable to think or fend for themselves after 13 years of "education". They're chasing their passions...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/15/2019 10:39:47 AM (No. 235848)
Free public education in the US should be done away with; then the Department of Education should be dismantled. After which Jimmy Carter should be hung in effigy.
Any parent wishing to educate their child should be required to pay for it and not with just their sales, income and property taxes. Home education and survival training is easily afforded. But public school is ''free babysitting.''
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
4Justice 11/15/2019 12:10:41 PM (No. 235932)
There is no public education. Our schools (with help from the media and entertainment industry) have become leftist indoctrination centers that de-educate (dumb-down) the public to create empty robots that do not know how to think, reason or learn. The robots are programmed to parrot only what they are told by their leaders and close their minds to anything different. It started with Dewey and has expanded from simple ideological brainwashing to all out psychological warfare damaging people by pushing and encouraging gender dysphoria onto little children. We need to tear down all centralization and the layers of public education and start over locally. If each city or town wants to create their own locally run schools again, that's fine, but take the federal and state governments out if the equation. We would probably all be better off privatizing education. At this point, children would probably learn more by not going to today's indoctrination centers.
Btw, has anyone else noticed how illiterate people are nowadays? Most can't even spell simple words, even with autocorrect.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 11/15/2019 2:13:48 PM (No. 236039)
We need “critical thinking” instructors!
Not drag queens!
Teach the fundamentals!
Teach GOD!
Teach respect!’
Teach pride of your country!
Teach gratefulness and grace!
Ditch the politics!
Wake up!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Wendybird 11/15/2019 5:08:06 PM (No. 236166)
Please stop saying “congenital” and “existential”. Using a big word that few people know the definition of, attempting to make a point, is stupid. Just call Hillary a “Born Liar” and inferring that this is the “most of the most” is not helpful. We deplorables recognize this, that is why Trump is going to win the next election in a record landslide.
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