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Saturday, March 13, 2010

On the LAUSD and Public mis-eduaction.

I read many opinions regarding ways to make the current system better. Regulate this, change that, more parent involvement, better pay for teachers, etc.

Did it occur to anyone that the entire educational system itself is designed to fail?

I believe that in this day and age, especially in a megalopolis like Los Angeles, The ONLY option if you want your children to receive a real education is either private schooling or home schooling.

I grew up traveling a lot and attended schools in Los Angeles, Oregon and Mexico City. In large cities and small towns. The worst schools were the ones in Los Angeles. The best were in Mexico City where I attended 2 different private schools and in Oregon where we lived in a very small town and I attended the local public school. I learned the most in elementary school in Mexico and Oregon. Middle school and high school were a complete waste of time and I honestly cannot say I learned anything there. However, my parents always took the time to teach us at home. They taught us geography, world literature (he would read to us almost every night, not childrens books but adult literature) and world history.

To this day I remember most of the lessons my parents taught us. I remember literally nothing of the nonsense I learned in school because school is not meant to teach you to think...it is meant to teach you to repeat. The exception to this rule were the schools in Mexico City which while flawed in their own way, were easily 2-3 years ahead of the same grade level in the US.

This is just my opinion based on my experience. The modern US educational system has nothing to do with educating children to think and reason. Its only purpose is to guide them down a path of "servitude acceptance" which they will walk the rest of their lives.

Some may say: "Well you went to public schools and you turned out fine" or "you have public schooling to thank for the person you have become". To them I say that "I made it IN SPITE of the brainwashing I was exposed to in the American educational system".

I do have some positive things to say though. For example, I would like to thank Mr. Mays. He was my Middle School English teacher for 2 years and a man I respected greatly because he used big words and was a genuine good person. He's the only teacher I remember fondly from that school. High School was fun but I learned nothing there that I did not already know.

At present, LAUSD is beyond repair. The standards will continue to be lowered as more immigrants continue to overfill our schools. The media will continue to rot the brains of the young with materialism, violence and pornography (one and the same). In a couple decades this country will be just another third world nation with an intellectual minority running everything and majority of ignorant debt-ridden slaves doing their bidding, this cannot be avoided. The so-called educated marxist fools that are churned out by universities have been brainwashed to the extent that it is now the norm for them to riot DEMANDING more entitlements like what happened in Berkley recently.

It was always the plan of course. The only light at the end of the tunnel is that we are still free to opt out from participating in this system. The caveat being that sacrifices, both financial and lifestyle related must be made.

Living truly free is not easy but nothing worthwhile is.