…and especially home schooling.

we will continue our mission “to teach each student the social and academic skills needed to become a responsible and productive citizen.”

And the definition of “responsible and productive” along with necessary “social and academic skills” are defined by the governmental authorities.

Which means that what parents (or private schools) teach their children will have to conform to this mission, or the children will be taken away so as to be properly educated.

Which essentially translates to children are the property of the state and parents only get act as custodians for a while so long as they follow their job description as laid out by the state.

Compare Superintendent’s Mos quote above with this statement by a German count education Heinz Kohler director: (bolding mine)

Heinz Kohler, the county education director, dismissed the families’ beliefs, stating, “you and your children are not living in isolation on some island but rather in an environment posing intra- and extracurricular situations where you’ll have to accept that your world view will be curtailed.” Mr. Kohler further explained that homeschooling could not be allowed as “children should not be encapsulated or kept apart from the outside world. In these cases, the parents’ rights to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society…”

More information about Germany here.

Interestingly, last year one homeschooling family from Germany ended up in the U.S. and was awarded political asylum last year:

US grants home schooling German family political asylum

They wouldn’t find any asylum, I would fear, if they had ended up in Lee County, North Carolina

First, Rep Stone should not be upset that it was his daughter dragooned into lobbying for the NCEA (union), but that any 8-year-old should be spoon-fed the party line and used in such a fashion. As inappropriate as the Wisconsin teachers skipping school and dragging their students out to the picket line.

And second, that it’s really nothing new. I remember decades ago walking the legislative halls in Richmond and seeing the youngsters’ “artwork” on the theme “Save our wetlands”. ( This was about the time they stopped calling them “swamps”.) These drawings were done at the direction of liberal teachers and sent, by direction, to the Legislators.

Seems the wall coming down did not get rid of all the Communist, just let them spread out more. The Germans are not good at learning lessons (WW I and WW II) are they?
No wonder they outlawed the Nazi’s. They didn’t want the competition for the kids.

Overheard on the internet:
It’s not the size of the Stalin, but the motion of the Marx…

I still remember in high school when my commie-lib English teacher (as part of an exercise in diagramming sentences, mind you) had us all write faux letters to the French Prime Minister in response to the sinking of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior.

I wrote him an extensive “Thank You” letter. While I got an “A” for proper diagramming, my mother (a school board member) received a nasty letter from the teacher about my “poor attitude”.

Joyous times.

http://lee.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=dcc36a2c3be68dde4bd7272e51abfb6d&pageid=131537&sessionid=dcc36a2c3be68dde4bd7272e51abfb6d

Open for questions. Let’s be creative…. even if it never gets published on the site.

I would have responded as follows:

Moss said, “If you’re not interested in receiving letters from people in your district, don’t run for public office,”

I would have said “I’m interested in receiving letters from people who are writing by their own free will.”

Moss said he doesn’t see a problem with a writing exercise that has students supporting public education.

I would have said, “If it was just an exercise, then the letters should have been written only to you, Mr. Moss. And in what way can an eight year old support anything in a meaningful way when they pay no taxes and don’t as yet vote?”

Moss said, “With the community’s support and involvement, we will continue our mission “to teach each student the social and academic skills needed to become a responsible and productive citizen.”

I would have said, “By ‘community’ do you mean eight year old children whom you gave no choice, or their parents whom you never involved?”

It’s weird that they have a logo, anyway, but come on? Didn’t someone look at that and think… ya know? Maybe this sucker needs another arrow? Or one less arrow? Just so it doesn’t look so… I dunno, Nazi-ish?

of children and political propagandizing.

I was always told I should encourage students and their parents to vote, but that in class I could not suggest a candidate or issue they should vote for or against. TO DO SO WOULD HAVE BEEN UNETHICAL, which is also why I wondered how principals allowed busloads of students to be taken to Madison to demonstrate in WI’s brouhaha over union powers.

I’m in NJ, but I will guess that there are not that many differences in contracts among the states and localities.

Her organization, Eagle Forum, has been documenting the left-wing takeover of public education for years. So has David Horowitz’s FrontPageMagazine. This has been going on in plain sight for anyone who was paying attention. The brilliant Dr. Thomas Sowell said in 2000, “”The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?” The 45 Communist Goals, first brought to public attention in the early 60s, show how the Communists planned to systematically undermine American culture and values. They’ve all been accomplished. Why is anyone surprised by this latest totalitarian tactic?

Does that principal have children?

If they do, do they discuss all their family budget issues with their children?

Do they try to get their children to lobby the other parents and choose sides about how the family money should be spent?

Since the answers by any responsible parent would be “No, I do not burden my children with the problems and worries of our family budget.”…

Why do they think it’s okay to inflict government budget issues that children have no understanding of or control over on those same children?

All educators that engage in such troubling, abusive behavior should be prohibited from contact with All children.