Do our children belong to us? I don’t mean to suggest that kids are the property of their parents. But, at least until a certain age, parents are responsible for their care. That care includes their well-being, education, housing, and so on.
I would think that of late public educators have been given too much latitude outside what they are paid to do, I don't think it is a teachers place to question discuss sexuality with a seven year old student. Really I think more transparency is the answer. We as a society send kids to classrooms and parents don't really have a good window of what is going on in their lives in the classroom.
Liberals argued (correctly in my view) that schools shouldn't be used for religious indoctrination, but what have the democrats gone and done, they just replaced religion with they own Dogma. The public schools are supposed to be agnostic in such things but like most everything in our society right now the education system is caught in the tug of war of the culture war. It isn't health for kids.
The truth is as a old fashioned liberal and a former Democrat voter (2008) I am incensed at what has been being done with the education system. I was always of the opinion that the education system particularly as it pertains to the youngest and most impressionable should be focused on the core curriculum, reading, writing, math, science and history. I take it as a very personal affront that they took Christianity of public schools (which was fine by me) and turned around and started doing all this stuff they are doing now with indoctrination. It made me feel used and betrayed.
A long time ago there were three professions, lawyers! clergymen, and teachers as the criteria of being a professional is to be objective what we see today is people on a personal mission like media reporters. I am not impressed, if the majority of teachers who belong to unions wanted they could make their voices heard to correct this.
I agree that sometimes situations or issues randomly arise where teacher intreactions with children will stray from the purpose of said interactions. That's the way things were when I was in school decades ago. However that is not what the current fiction is about.
Teachers, not all, but a significant number actually believe it is their job to shape young minds in a market that fits with their own personal ideologies. Hence @LibsOfTikToc, and school shut downs and mandatory & unscientific isolation and masking.
I think parents have had enough and it's about time.
Public schooling is an entire system: teachers, unions, textbook publishers, colleges of education. It is all stacked against a conservative parent. Yes, there are effective, caring teachers within the system. But they face an uphill battle. See "An Underground History of American Education," free download, from three decades ago. It has only gotten worse.
The alternatives for a parent who is not up to homeschooling and cannot afford private school are grim.
While I am not familiar with the Canadian public school system, your southern cousins have a school system in need of a rapid re-evaluation.
Pre-K, K and 1-3 are generally directed to multisensory and wrote instruction. These are the years that the brain is developing, maturing. Nature is not perfect, and children develop at different rates and different directions. It's a glorious fishing expedition and most teachers keep in close contact with parents these days -- e-mails, texts and even videos. Learning plans are discussed in conferences, and often pre-screened at summer curricula events. Yes, I preferred private schools.
Public schools are often overcrowded, understaffed with parents' jobs overshadowing the importance of child rearing. I do not know one parent that wants their babies being embarrassed by gender discussions ages 4-8...Middle school and high schoolers are already talking about queerbots and trans tooshies (not my terms!) because regardless of the conversation in class, outside is where it's happening. Pubescent kids can be really mean, petty and wonderful in a moment's time.
My kids belong to the world --- or at least I supported education, travel, diligence and honesty during their school years -- and thus far they are good citizens (bias acknowledged). Their morality is Judeo-Christian and over the years they still leave me in awe. Private and public schools worked out well for us, but each parent must find their best path, even with the pebbles and puddles along the way. Thanks so much for asking!
As I was exiting public school the debate was basically the left saying morality (in particular Christian morality) was not the point of school -- they said lessons in morality and Christian ideals needed to be removed from state funded and law mandated schools. Christians in large part agreed, as the arguments (though secular) were sound.
Now, leftists violate all those same arguments and insist that their personal morality must be taught in public schools -- from k-12 and beyond. All the arguments about making schools strictly about education were a lie.
The Christmas play was replaced has been replaced with drag queen story hour.
I would think that of late public educators have been given too much latitude outside what they are paid to do, I don't think it is a teachers place to question discuss sexuality with a seven year old student. Really I think more transparency is the answer. We as a society send kids to classrooms and parents don't really have a good window of what is going on in their lives in the classroom.
Liberals argued (correctly in my view) that schools shouldn't be used for religious indoctrination, but what have the democrats gone and done, they just replaced religion with they own Dogma. The public schools are supposed to be agnostic in such things but like most everything in our society right now the education system is caught in the tug of war of the culture war. It isn't health for kids.
The truth is as a old fashioned liberal and a former Democrat voter (2008) I am incensed at what has been being done with the education system. I was always of the opinion that the education system particularly as it pertains to the youngest and most impressionable should be focused on the core curriculum, reading, writing, math, science and history. I take it as a very personal affront that they took Christianity of public schools (which was fine by me) and turned around and started doing all this stuff they are doing now with indoctrination. It made me feel used and betrayed.
A long time ago there were three professions, lawyers! clergymen, and teachers as the criteria of being a professional is to be objective what we see today is people on a personal mission like media reporters. I am not impressed, if the majority of teachers who belong to unions wanted they could make their voices heard to correct this.
I agree that sometimes situations or issues randomly arise where teacher intreactions with children will stray from the purpose of said interactions. That's the way things were when I was in school decades ago. However that is not what the current fiction is about.
Teachers, not all, but a significant number actually believe it is their job to shape young minds in a market that fits with their own personal ideologies. Hence @LibsOfTikToc, and school shut downs and mandatory & unscientific isolation and masking.
I think parents have had enough and it's about time.
Public schooling is an entire system: teachers, unions, textbook publishers, colleges of education. It is all stacked against a conservative parent. Yes, there are effective, caring teachers within the system. But they face an uphill battle. See "An Underground History of American Education," free download, from three decades ago. It has only gotten worse.
The alternatives for a parent who is not up to homeschooling and cannot afford private school are grim.
While I am not familiar with the Canadian public school system, your southern cousins have a school system in need of a rapid re-evaluation.
Pre-K, K and 1-3 are generally directed to multisensory and wrote instruction. These are the years that the brain is developing, maturing. Nature is not perfect, and children develop at different rates and different directions. It's a glorious fishing expedition and most teachers keep in close contact with parents these days -- e-mails, texts and even videos. Learning plans are discussed in conferences, and often pre-screened at summer curricula events. Yes, I preferred private schools.
Public schools are often overcrowded, understaffed with parents' jobs overshadowing the importance of child rearing. I do not know one parent that wants their babies being embarrassed by gender discussions ages 4-8...Middle school and high schoolers are already talking about queerbots and trans tooshies (not my terms!) because regardless of the conversation in class, outside is where it's happening. Pubescent kids can be really mean, petty and wonderful in a moment's time.
My kids belong to the world --- or at least I supported education, travel, diligence and honesty during their school years -- and thus far they are good citizens (bias acknowledged). Their morality is Judeo-Christian and over the years they still leave me in awe. Private and public schools worked out well for us, but each parent must find their best path, even with the pebbles and puddles along the way. Thanks so much for asking!
As I was exiting public school the debate was basically the left saying morality (in particular Christian morality) was not the point of school -- they said lessons in morality and Christian ideals needed to be removed from state funded and law mandated schools. Christians in large part agreed, as the arguments (though secular) were sound.
Now, leftists violate all those same arguments and insist that their personal morality must be taught in public schools -- from k-12 and beyond. All the arguments about making schools strictly about education were a lie.
The Christmas play was replaced has been replaced with drag queen story hour.