My daughter just won the Empathy Award at her school. There is a little girl that has special needs, and the teachers recognized that my daughter has been helping
her this month. I’m proud of her. I also couldn’t help but notice the greatest liberty painting I’ve ever seen painted in a school. Between my daughter and this painting, I have a tiny bit of hope for the future.
What I don’t have hope in, is the public education system. Lucky my kids go to a good charter school that still say the pledge, and still have voluntary prayer. Sending our children into the public school system, and then to college nowadays, is equivalent to playing Russian Roulette with their values. If we don’t teach them properly in the home, there may not be a road to recovery once out of the system we call school. Isn’t it amazing that most schools are the very thing that’s destroying our society? All in the name of education.
One of my friends, Josh Aaron, posted this to my Facebook wall today with regards to my thoughts above on the Public Education System, “This will offend some, but I feel like our school system is child abuse. No, I don’t believe that parents who send their kids to school love their children any less than I love mine. I just think that most school choices are terrible choices (in many different ways) and subject our children to great evil, and I think the family unit has been bullied by policy makers in America to the point that most families feel they have no better alternatives. School was bad when I was a kid. It is so much worse today. There is no way I’m sending my kids to public school. For us, homeschool or a certain kind of private school are the only options. And one of us will be directly involved. When it comes to schooling (tangent, but I think this also applies to sending our children into the homes of other families, regardless of whether those families are friends or relatives or of the same faith), parents need to be as wise as serpents.”
This is nothing compared to what video games are doing in our homes. And because when all the kids gather together at school and talk about their video games, they come home and want to do what? Makes me want to vomit, then chuck the Xbox that I battled my wife to get, into the garbage. Yes, I’m as guilty as they get. I brought it in, and I feel like I’m under a spell that I can’t get it out. Why can’t I? I see how much time my children play on the thing and I realize if I don’t step up my game, the GAME will takeover my own family. And then that moment when you realize the last 3 days of constant email “spam” from Microsoft, was actually a fun friendly reminder that your 8 yr old just ordered over $150.00 of credits for a stupid video game. Let us pray that George Smith from India can translate my desperate HELP email for a refund. (Update- We go the refund 😉
John Adams once said, “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams once said, “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
I wonder what John Adams would think knowing the result of him studying politics and war, would lead to hours upon hours of Facebook and Fortnight ? Let’s think about starting over. Seems we’re do for a reset.
