1) Sorry I just don't see what kind of political slant could be made for getting a good education that EVERYONE needs in order to land a job later on in life to put food in their mouths. Reading, Writing & Arithmetic are needed to survive in the world, and these essentials have NOTHING to do with politics!
2) Without them, you won't be an intelligent Democrat or Republican. You will simply be an uneducated, ignorant useless waste of space that ALL of our tax dollars will get wasted on supporting through welfare.
3) Well hopefully if the parents did their jobs correctly, their children WILL grow up to think for themselves & that will mean that they will not ALWAYS agree with what their parents think. Times change & so do ways of thinking about various things in life. And a good portion of that comes from a good education & being exposed to different ideas, cultures, and people.
4) Would you really want a racist or whatever to raise children to think that racism is ok? Or would you rather those children learn in school & in life that it is wrong. No doubt children were raised like this, but as they went on to HS & colleges hopefully learned otherwise.
1) I meant that the teachers, who tend to be liberal, beat that agenda into the heads of the students all day, every day. Assuming that some of the kids' parents aren't liberal, that isn't going to fly if what they're told and taught doesn't include other viewpoints. Liberal parents would scream about conservative teachers doing the same thing to their kids and anyone who denies it is lying to themselves and anyone they tell that to.
There's nothing wrong with telling students that they should get a good education. Since when
haven't they heard this?
2) How has this not been happening for decades?
3) Ditto- parents haven't been doing their job if kids hanging out in gangs, dropping out of school at incredibly early ages and being in the kinds of trouble they are is any indication. Clearly, not all kids will do this without outside influence and if they know the difference between right & wrong/legal/illegal and have any shred of morals, they wouldn't do this stuff but all someone has to do it read the paper, watch the news or go online for a few minutes to see that it's in every city, town and village.
4) This still happens. Also, like minded people congregate, so that bunch of losers who never hang out with other kids may just be the next Columbine shooters.
I don't know why, but your post makes it seem that you think I'm
against kids getting a good education, staying in school, applying themselves and staying out of trouble. That couldn't be farther from the truth.
The disgusting way people treat each other should never be tolerated and when the courts are so backlogged that they can't spend the time needed to try people and convict on the real crime, people who have plead to a lesser crime are too often back out in a matter of hours, committing new and bigger crimes. If people would just stop to think that maybe what they're contemplating is wrong,...never mind. Some of these people will never do that and change their minds.
"school should be about educating people to handle themselves and be productive in society. Not indoctrinating them to a specific worldview."
This was my point. As an example, we had someone who went on to become a very liberal State Representative teaching history and social studies at my high school. She was rabidly liberal and at least one student was equally conservative. They got into some very loud arguments and could be heard far down the halls and around corners. It was somewhat amusing but also interesting to listen to. I don't remember hearing that she offered the opposing viewpoints and I don't remember hearing many versions of the way things are, either.
