Re: 2242 - homework = control
Luz Shosie and Ned Vare
on 8/14/02 8:38 AM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:
First, government schools have, as one of their primary objectives
(unwritten, of course -- see Gatto) to emotionally separate children from
their parents. That makes it easier to do the indoctrination about how they
should all become "employees" and "economic resources" and consumers. Thus,
the estrangement you speak of is INTENTIONAL.
Homework makes the parents work for the school -- and against their child.
Result: Resentment; estrangement, a conflict of loyalty...Schools call a
subject, Values Clarification, when the course is intended to challenge the
moral views that parents teach their kids.
Schools make fun of parents, even while the schools claim to want to
"involve" them. But schools never allow parents to have a say in school
policies that affect their children or anything else that's important. (the
PTA / PTO is controlled by the teacher unions) Schools want parents to do
their bidding. For example: make sure the kids go door to door collecting
money for the band uniforms (or whatever -- it's always something) , get the
parents to come to school and paint the teachers' lounge.....use them,
control them, make them pass the next budget with its raises for all the
teachers (good and bad teachers), but never let them control the school --
even though we tell the world there is this wonderful thing, Local Control
of public schools...it's all a big lie, there is no such thing. The teacher
union runs the school and the school system controls the town, today.
Elected school boards are puppets (rubber stamps) of the administrators.
Homework is one of the mechanisms that the public school use in order to
control, not just the children when they're not in the school building, but
also the parents -- their time and energies must be directed toward the
child and the school.
When schools say they want "parent involvement" this is what they mean --
helping the school control the children, even if it means giving the family
NO time to do things on their own, no time to take walks, etc. Time is taken
up with school demands.
Ironically, homework makes parents part of the school program, and makes
them feel partly responsible for how their child does. It also allows the
school to blame the parents when IT is found to be failing to educate
children. Public schools often blame parents and society for the schools'
failure. Blame the victims. How convenient, but totally dishonest.
It's another reversal...When schools fail, they blame parents, and raise
their own budgets. The truly weird part is that no one complains. What a
country.
Schools know that if they can make everyone preoccupied with demands, then
parents and the public will come to believe that the school is doing
something that "must" be important, and therefore worth all that money it
costs everyone.
As we know, it's not. But until that ship sinks, it is getting bigger and
more expensive and more consuming every day.
[email protected] wrote:
> Message: 10Ned responds to Betsy:
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:57:32 -0700
> From: Betsy <ecsamhill@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: 2236 - No age requirements
> Estrangement and distance in the family may not even be the worst
> effects of schooling.... The idea that
> often a school parent may "take sides" and act in favor of the school
> and against their own child is just repulsive to me.
>
> My bias is showing, but I find the stronger and stronger emphasis on
> having very young children do homework to be hideous. ...
> :::: grimace ::::
>
> Betsy
First, government schools have, as one of their primary objectives
(unwritten, of course -- see Gatto) to emotionally separate children from
their parents. That makes it easier to do the indoctrination about how they
should all become "employees" and "economic resources" and consumers. Thus,
the estrangement you speak of is INTENTIONAL.
Homework makes the parents work for the school -- and against their child.
Result: Resentment; estrangement, a conflict of loyalty...Schools call a
subject, Values Clarification, when the course is intended to challenge the
moral views that parents teach their kids.
Schools make fun of parents, even while the schools claim to want to
"involve" them. But schools never allow parents to have a say in school
policies that affect their children or anything else that's important. (the
PTA / PTO is controlled by the teacher unions) Schools want parents to do
their bidding. For example: make sure the kids go door to door collecting
money for the band uniforms (or whatever -- it's always something) , get the
parents to come to school and paint the teachers' lounge.....use them,
control them, make them pass the next budget with its raises for all the
teachers (good and bad teachers), but never let them control the school --
even though we tell the world there is this wonderful thing, Local Control
of public schools...it's all a big lie, there is no such thing. The teacher
union runs the school and the school system controls the town, today.
Elected school boards are puppets (rubber stamps) of the administrators.
Homework is one of the mechanisms that the public school use in order to
control, not just the children when they're not in the school building, but
also the parents -- their time and energies must be directed toward the
child and the school.
When schools say they want "parent involvement" this is what they mean --
helping the school control the children, even if it means giving the family
NO time to do things on their own, no time to take walks, etc. Time is taken
up with school demands.
Ironically, homework makes parents part of the school program, and makes
them feel partly responsible for how their child does. It also allows the
school to blame the parents when IT is found to be failing to educate
children. Public schools often blame parents and society for the schools'
failure. Blame the victims. How convenient, but totally dishonest.
It's another reversal...When schools fail, they blame parents, and raise
their own budgets. The truly weird part is that no one complains. What a
country.
Schools know that if they can make everyone preoccupied with demands, then
parents and the public will come to believe that the school is doing
something that "must" be important, and therefore worth all that money it
costs everyone.
As we know, it's not. But until that ship sinks, it is getting bigger and
more expensive and more consuming every day.