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Apr 24, 2021Liked by Techno Fog

Thank you for your article. I see many valid points. I am a public school teacher. I am also a strong religious conservative woman who has never peddled any anti-family or critical race theory on my students.

I simply want to point out what I believe to be good about public education. We serve the very poor and needy. We opened our school the third week of August and never closed. However, over 1/2 the students didn’t return due to the extensive fear mongering by the media. Little by little the students have been returning and what we are seeing is devastating. Their parents for the most part have not been teaching them. We have students who will be 2nd graders in 6 weeks who know 2 vowels and 4 consonants. We have kindergarteners who are addicted to devices and cry and scream because they need a fix. We are painstakingly under staffed with those who can help provide reading interventions as the gap widens! Every single day of my life is spent advocating for those children who need an education, who deserve to learn to read so that they can rise out of poverty and access the tools they need to not just survive, but thrive!

I’m aware of the evils inherent in education, I just wanted you to know that there are many, many of us “boots on the ground” professional teachers who get up each day to educate, not indoctrinate, our children because we love them! We care for them. We hope for them to have a bright future!

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Apr 24, 2021Liked by Techno Fog

Thank you again for another amazing article!!!

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"What happens when “education” transforms from reading, writing, and arithmetic to critical race theory and the LGBTQ agenda?" What should also happen when ideology replaces competency is the students will suffer. They will fall behind in various ways. Parent's will eventually, even if quietly in some of the more progressive parts of the country, start looking for alternatives. I am planning to quit my job and start a charter school in deep blue Chicago. The challenges I see are all regulatory, how to get parents tax vouchers for education, and how to get past licensing restrictions to teach. Hurdles, but not impossible. I've already had conversations with interested funders and parents and teachers who want out of these city systems. If only Trump's education dept. had another 4 more years to promote the decentralization of public education...

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This is why my wife and I made the decision 25 years ago to home-school our six children. Bad then, worse now.

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Government has no place in the education industry.

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I agree with you. At what point does the authority of the state in mandatory public education essentially make children no less than subjects of the state? Mandatory public education gives the state the power to teach you what and how to think. If a parent disagrees, they can home school, but then there are so many families who cannot afford this or there’s only a single parent who has to work. Public schools exist because not everyone can afford to educate their child. So those who oppose school choice or public money funded for a parent to select a private school for their children is what’s holding our liberty back. What would happen to public schools if parents could use public money to send their child to the school of their choice? Public school systems are a big eyed hairy monster that seems impossible to defeat.

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Your article is well written, as is all of your work. Have you considered writing about parental rights being removed with regard to the medical field? I have considered obtaining a medical health directive and power of attorney to stop them from removing me from the room for conversations or making medical decisions. At the age of 13, they won't even provide test results to me (the parent). All of this is frightening and repulsive. Parents (unless it is proven parents are a danger to the child or are absent) should be able to be involved, guide and teach their children on how to navigate important medical decisions that may affect them for the rest of their life. San Francisco has already empowered the schools to vaccinate children for COVID without parental consent or knowledge. Nevermind that precedent has been made with schools being able to take your child for an abortion without parental knowledge or consent. under the guise of possible abuse. Wouldn't that make the school complicit in COVERING potential CRIMES?! How do we take our power back?!

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Cut funding to the government for education . No more taxes for that purpose . Start up small business with people that have credentials to teach . Rebuild a system governed by the people in each small business. Hours of education time could differ , Volunteer time could be part of the business model . What subjects could be taught in each small business . Main subjects .. reading , math , spelling , etc .. Leave the arts up to other small business . The moral fabric of our lives can be formed at home and in churches . Institutionalized learning needs to stop being funded . We could also use more private trade schools for all kinds of hands on learning for older students .

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As always, you hit the mail on the head! The fact that the Radical Leftest Marxist Democrats and their “Yes” people, can turn you from a Parent who cares about your child’s education, into a declared unfit parent, because you don’t agree with the fact that today, the Public Schools are embracing Racism, they flip it on you, declaring you the Racist and a danger to all living beings!

Today in California and other Leftest Marxist States,( thanks to Barbara Bushes “No on left Behind) teachers are refusing to return to the classroom, under the ridiculous guise of being forcibly exposed to Children , who may infect them with Covis19 even though it has been proven that the virus is not readily carried by young Children and even after all the Teachers have been vaccinated! Backed and nudged by the Teacher’s Union, which I might add, eats up the vast monetary purse of the educational funds, instead of assuring that each and every student, has a book for the various courses of education they are meant to learn, rather than sharing 1 book, among 4-5 students!

What this tells us, it’s long past time to remove the Schools in question from the grip of the Union and see them, either returned to the Parent’s PTA’s or close them altogether! Recently, Dan Bongino, in one of his Rumble Casts, encouraged Parents to start being proactive. If you can’t regain control over the Union run Schools and the indoctrinating Teachers, it was time for Parent’s of like minds and communities, to start forming their own School’s and hiring Teacher’s that meet their qualifications and expectations! In following Bongino’s idea, we will take power away from Union’s and their genuflecting Teacher’s, leaving them right where the should be, standing dumbfounded with their greedy mouths hanging open, wondering what happened!

In short, the only way to approach the education and the re-education of Our Children, is by acting quickly and ripping off the Bandaid of Govt Education, allowing our kids to breathe and grow in a open clean environment! It’s time to take back what was Ours all along!

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Very well said. Children should go to school because they love it and they want to. It should be so fun and interesting that they will be so happy to learn interesting things. But the school is far from what it should be. Parents are not aware that the children are losing precious time from their life in school doing nothing that will help them in life. After compulsatory learning education, children are lost in a destructive system trying to find a way out.

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Anyone that is not elderly is unfortunate

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I've thought this for a long long time.

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Excellent points, facts and proofs offered as to why we must destroy the destroyers ASAP!

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I asked a senior aide for a very powerful US Senator in the Northeast why he doesn't send his children to public schools, it was because of the Unions and the lack of education to prepare them for the real world. They live in a very affluent suburban area, yet use most of the wife's salary to put their three children through private education.

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The flavor of much needed reform is called "unschooling." I went through the public school prison myself and graduated from high school as an average student (a decent feat) with no clue who I was or what I liked. From this, I instinctively knew I did not want my kids to go through that indoctrinating, distracting, waste of time and energy, humiliating bull. When it came time, I unschooled my three children until each one chose the next step... and the next... and the next. Each of my children has become the adult who I prayed for all those years: they are fundamentally kind, happy and productive people, and each is their own person.

Every child is born unique (snowflakes aren't the only ones) and infinitely curious. I have had to rediscover myself once I got into my adulthood. Anybody else? A fundamental problem within the school system, as with pretty much any large group, is the herding aspect, ie, treating everyone as if they are the same--by this age you should be like (fill in the blank) in many areas of your life; each day you must do this and think about that until a bell rings or someone says to stop and go do this other thing now...on and on and on... with little to no regard as to what each person would choose, including in your "free time," over years throughout childhood. Treating everyone the same makes them easier to control. Through unschooling we can nurture our children's interests by providing a rich environment while staying out of their way, aka, avoiding overburdening them with our own agendas.

https://unschoolers.org/why-unschool/ https://www.naturalchild.org/articles/guest/earl_stevens.html

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OK, we've established the major premise. You alluded to possible alternatives - but it's not enough to identify the problem (though that's always the start), you have to propose a solution.

We all know (the argument of "everybody knows') that left unschooled, our cities will - like Chicago, Detroit &c - be overrun by feral children carrying guns and knives.

Everybody also knows that one of the reasons for that is the disintegration of the family, It may well be that that's the problem that should be attacked first.

But most importantly, kids need to be taught. Parents can go only so far.

But there's no argument that children need to be taught reading, writing, higher math, and especially history. Up until 3rd or 4th grade, those can all be taught by one teacher. Past that, teachers need to concentrate on their subjects.

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