Who is the best guide for your children? You or their teacher? Have you been duped, consumerized, sucked in by the political hype? Teachers have been disposaled for years. After being confined for 17 years in square cells called classrooms, young men and women actually begin teaching careers! Why? The reasons vary. Probably high on the list is that it is the easiest degree to pursue. It requires taking only the easiest courses. Fast and easy - good reasons both! I'm sure I will get a lot of flack for that statement. But it was true when I went to a state teachers college in Arkansas in the 60's and it was true when I went to a state college in Louisiana in the 90's. Some teachers have short-lived aspirations of actually changing things, helping others, making a difference. Some do make a difference in individual lives, but few have any effect at all on the monolithic system of public education. They become statistics in a vast, failing, political system. They are pawns of public policy. Most of the policies and procedures are simply and undemocratically put into place to fill the coffers of large corporations. When teachers try bucking the system, they either lose their job, their position, or they are moved somewhere else.
Now this chaotic, deceitful, political system called the Department of Education has its sights set on the 0 through 4 category. Of course, this has been the plan for decades and now we are seeing it come to fruition! Soon parents will be told where to go and what to do with their(?) children. If they refuse then - no rewards, no tax breaks. Parents lives will be an open book accessed through their children at day care and at school. Some would call this an invasion of privacy but the terminology will make it seem like it's all for the good of the children. If you really believe that then you will fall prey to the DOE's plan.
Family values bashing in our society and in our school system is unconscionable! Parents are no longer considered relevant! The state must take over that role in order to "manage" society. Of course this is supposed to be for our protection and that of our children. Yet, when you read the fine print of the new Quality Rating System based on ITERS and ECERS your mouth will fall open at the audacity of the government. Their officials are assuming the parental role, plain and simple, and they have no fear of putting it in print! To go along with this plan is simply a gutless climbing in bed with the devil! Oh, I know those words curl the hair and sear the ears of many, but in 10 years, when this plan is in full force, you will witness the results, the chaos, the utter vile nature of a world where parents have no legal voice.
Don't believe it? Check the courts. Parents have been prosecuted for spanking their own children, for taking them out of public school, for over-disciplining (whose definition?), for refusing medical care, etc. Parents have already lost control. So the next step will be easy. You know the step! That of state approved medication prescriptions for ADD, ADHD, etc. without parental consent! Watch for it in school-based health centers. Are schools already giving free exams to your children in school and Headstart clinics? Parent Beware. Children will end up ever more uncontrollable, angry, and insolent in public care and therefore they will be(and are) drugged senseless. For more info check out the qrsmess.com link in the sidebar.
