August 12, 2019
The Drone Factory
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a long erticle - a speech by one Nancy Carlsson Page, an early childhood development researcher. While I suspect she's probably a liberal, she thinks the schools are not just tough on little kids, especially the Kindergartners, but are downright abusive.
From the article:
At any rate, the article continues:
The reality is this is not about education but about obedience. There is a real purpose served for the Progressives; they are making compliant, obediant future subjects. These are not going to be the old line Americans who were self-reliant and inventive, but rather they will be the types of people we see in over-bureaucratized countries, docile, uncreative, obedient, and dense. A child must be encouraged to explore his or her environment if they are to become self-reliant and creative. Forcing them into heavy scholasticism while in kindergarten is guaranteed to make them into drones.
Which is exactly what the Left has always wanted. Read Aldous Huxley if you doubt that; Huxley was a socialist who saw how things were going. He knew they wanted a stratified caste system similar to what existed in India (it's no surprise that England was the epicenter for much of this, as Britain had perfeted the system of dominating peoples.)
If anyone wanted to break the spirit of our youth, this is exactly how one would go about it.
Children today are suffering like overstressed adults. They are getting all sorts of adult illnesses, the kind traditionally tied to stress. Why? They aren't being allowed to be kids. They are being pushed into a grim existence, a black iron prison. And when some of them rebel they are doped up with Ritalin or some other psychotropic drug.
Id it any surprise that these kids sometimes go and shoot up the schools? We used to joke about that when I was a boy. In fact, there was a song sung to theBattle Hymn of the Republic that went "glory, glory hallaluyer, teacher hit me with a ruler, I met her at the door with me trusty forty four and she don't teach no more".
If a kid sang that today he would find himself in handcuffs and being taken away. The myopia of the education establishment has made it so. Instead of realizing that this is justa playful wway to blow off steam, the gurus of smart will bring the hammer of God down on these kids. So they can't even joke about things they find oppressive. The pressure builds.
It is disgraceful the way we allow these jackbooted educatonal thugs to abuse our children. And it is all designed to make them into good little liberals for the next iteration. Education reform is absolutely necessary if we are to save America.
Read Daren Jonescu's book The Case Against Public Education.
Here is a long erticle - a speech by one Nancy Carlsson Page, an early childhood development researcher. While I suspect she's probably a liberal, she thinks the schools are not just tough on little kids, especially the Kindergartners, but are downright abusive.
From the article:
So never in my wildest dreams could I have foreseen the situation we find ourselves in today.
Where education policies that do not reflect what we know about how young children learn could be mandated and followed. We have decades of research in child development and neuroscience that tell us that young children learn actively — they have to move, use their senses, get their hands on things, interact with other kids and teachers, create, invent. But in this twisted time, young children starting public pre-K at the age of 4 are expected to learn through "rigorous instruction.â€
And never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that we would have to defend children’s right to play.
I agree; we are demanding too much of the younger kids, certainly. I hear parents complain all the time about the mountains of homework their children have to do, and how stressed out the little kids are. That is not a good thing; the whole concept of childhood, not as a matter of age but as an institution, was predicated on shielding children from certain hardness until they were emotionally mature enough. It is at least part of the reason why schools take so many vacations - and take that long summer one. Yes, the summer vacation was designed to allow farm kids to help around the farm, but it was also intended as a means to give the children some freedom. My fondest memories were never in school, but during that wonderful time after Memorial Day when you were free. Our modern educrats have tried very hard to steal that. My niece, for instance, is going back to school next week (she's in high school). That is just too early, but the Teacher's Union wants the extra money, and the Progressives want extra time to brainwash the kids. Where education policies that do not reflect what we know about how young children learn could be mandated and followed. We have decades of research in child development and neuroscience that tell us that young children learn actively — they have to move, use their senses, get their hands on things, interact with other kids and teachers, create, invent. But in this twisted time, young children starting public pre-K at the age of 4 are expected to learn through "rigorous instruction.â€
And never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that we would have to defend children’s right to play.
At any rate, the article continues:
I could not have foreseen in my wildest dreams that we would have to fight for classrooms for young kids that are developmentally appropriate. Instead of active, hands-on learning, children now sit in chairs for far too much time getting drilled on letters and numbers. Stress levels are up among young kids. Parents and teachers tell me: children worry that they don’t know the right answers; they have nightmares, they pull out their eyelashes, they cry because they don’t want to go to school. Some people call this child abuse and I can’t disagree.
I could not have foreseen in my wildest dreams that we would be up against pressure to test and assess young kids throughout the year often in great excess — often administering multiple tests to children in kindergarten and even pre-K. Now, when young children start school, they often spend their first days not getting to know their classroom and making friends. They spend their first days getting tested. Here are words from one mother as this school year began:
I have no doubt that's true. What is the end result? Kids come to despise learning. It becomes a horrible chore, a burden, something that they are forced to endure. Instead of developing an inquisative nature, a curious nature, they think of learning as a grim exercise. I could not have foreseen in my wildest dreams that we would be up against pressure to test and assess young kids throughout the year often in great excess — often administering multiple tests to children in kindergarten and even pre-K. Now, when young children start school, they often spend their first days not getting to know their classroom and making friends. They spend their first days getting tested. Here are words from one mother as this school year began:
"My daughter’s first day of kindergarten — her very first introduction to elementary school — consisted almost entirely of assessment. She was due at school at 9:30, and I picked her up at 11:45. In between, she was assessed by five different teachers, each a stranger, asking her to perform some task.
"By the time I picked her up, she did not want to talk about what she had done in school, but she did say that she did not want to go back. She did not know the teachers’ names. She did not make any friends. Later that afternoon, as she played with her animals in her room, I overheard her drilling them on their numbers and letters.â€
"By the time I picked her up, she did not want to talk about what she had done in school, but she did say that she did not want to go back. She did not know the teachers’ names. She did not make any friends. Later that afternoon, as she played with her animals in her room, I overheard her drilling them on their numbers and letters.â€
The reality is this is not about education but about obedience. There is a real purpose served for the Progressives; they are making compliant, obediant future subjects. These are not going to be the old line Americans who were self-reliant and inventive, but rather they will be the types of people we see in over-bureaucratized countries, docile, uncreative, obedient, and dense. A child must be encouraged to explore his or her environment if they are to become self-reliant and creative. Forcing them into heavy scholasticism while in kindergarten is guaranteed to make them into drones.
Which is exactly what the Left has always wanted. Read Aldous Huxley if you doubt that; Huxley was a socialist who saw how things were going. He knew they wanted a stratified caste system similar to what existed in India (it's no surprise that England was the epicenter for much of this, as Britain had perfeted the system of dominating peoples.)
If anyone wanted to break the spirit of our youth, this is exactly how one would go about it.
Children today are suffering like overstressed adults. They are getting all sorts of adult illnesses, the kind traditionally tied to stress. Why? They aren't being allowed to be kids. They are being pushed into a grim existence, a black iron prison. And when some of them rebel they are doped up with Ritalin or some other psychotropic drug.
Id it any surprise that these kids sometimes go and shoot up the schools? We used to joke about that when I was a boy. In fact, there was a song sung to theBattle Hymn of the Republic that went "glory, glory hallaluyer, teacher hit me with a ruler, I met her at the door with me trusty forty four and she don't teach no more".
If a kid sang that today he would find himself in handcuffs and being taken away. The myopia of the education establishment has made it so. Instead of realizing that this is justa playful wway to blow off steam, the gurus of smart will bring the hammer of God down on these kids. So they can't even joke about things they find oppressive. The pressure builds.
It is disgraceful the way we allow these jackbooted educatonal thugs to abuse our children. And it is all designed to make them into good little liberals for the next iteration. Education reform is absolutely necessary if we are to save America.
Read Daren Jonescu's book The Case Against Public Education.
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