Children, like women and minorities, are simply useful
BTW, I realize that I loaded this with a lot of hyperbole and exaggerations and yet - and yet - it just doesn't seem so far removed from the reality as it might have seemed even ten years ago. That alone should speak volumes.
Oh, and Rod Dreher posts a letter from a reader that explains why we are becoming a Leftist police state. Our indoctrination camps, that once were schools, have been preening our young'uns to become thralls of the State for a couple generations now. Upon arriving at colleges today, they've learned that only by complete fealty to the Leftist State will they be rewarded. One need only see the collapse of other civilizations into tyranny and totalitarianism to understand what is plainly happening in our own nation today.
This is something a few of us were talking about before. That the news etc is all a standardized test nowadays.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant observation, and so true. It reminds me of the main reason we homeschool. When my son objected for being told he could retake the standardized test that he outscored most of the grade on, but failed in some strange metric, he cited his all-As in school. He was told his classroom work didn't matter. It was his test scores that mattered. What we are seeing is likely the result of that stellar approach to education.
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