I have been meaning to write about this for a while now. My daughter attends public school, which I aim to have her out of this year so she can be home-schooled (we’ll see). Anyhow, over dinner conversations I ask her about her day and what she learned. She usually says she went to the library, played on the computer, read, or made something. Recently she said she did “Sustainability.” My wife, who knew about this, hesitated to tell me because she knew what my reaction would be.
Now I absolutely loathe public schooling, both for its dumbing down of above-average students and making below-average students feel incompetent, and for its slave-like relationship, forcing children to be separated from their families for 6-8 hours a day, 5 days a week. However, I can somewhat understand a desire for kids to learn what I thought the State was supposed to be teaching, i.e., the three R’s: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Now it seems to be anything but.
How does the State justify teaching anything, much less “Sustainability”?
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“How does the state justify teaching anything”. Texas justifies it by saying that it’s good for the state:
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/extracts-from-the-texas-education-codelaw/
(note the hilarious reference to a “free enterprise society”. If only)
Schools are state indoctrination camps and sustainability is part of the state’s green religion that is taught in schools:
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/the-liberal-left-agenda-in-new-zealand/
There’s more about the true agenda of state schooling here:
http://kiwipolemicist.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/finding-out-which-politicians-are-family-friendly-and-why-the-rest-arent/