…public school doesn’t remove that wisdom from your kids.

Here at home since he was old enough to be politically aware. He’s 15 now, and I have trouble keeping him motivated in school with mostly liberals for teachers; he’s very intellectually discriminating about what he’s being taught.

I think much of what has happened to our youth (collective) is that parents send their kids to school and then don’t really pay that much attention to what is being crammed into their heads.

I remember when my son was in the 4th grade, he came home and told me we had to stop GWB from sending a troop surge into Iraq. We had a discussion about troops who had already given the ultimate sacrifice for the cause, that the President says he needs to have more troops to get the job done, and what it would mean if we didn’t do it. It’s one thing to be against the war in the first place, but once it has already started, it would have a devastating impact for everyone to sabotage it. And were many other things like that that came up that have another side to the story to be explored, like the treatment of the Indians, slavery, and segregation. It can be challenging sometimes to undo some of the damage the schools do to the kids, and it takes motivated parents to raise kids to be informed and don’t just take everything at face value.

The whole class warfare thing is just choc full of economic fallacies, and because the base theories have some superficial plausibility, it’s easy for kids to be lead astray. And of course that has been the latest thing I’ve had to deal with concerning my son’s honors history class that is now covering the industrial revolution. You would not believe the worksheet he brought home that had a premade list of the pluses and minuses of it for society that he had to use to write a paper on. I had to help him use them as instructed, but we put a libertarian twist on it. He felt much better about it when it was done, but I hope that I do not have to get into it with the teacher over whatever grade he might get on it.