If President Obama’s proposed increase of $1 billion per year is passed, students would get their way.This seems to be the norm in public schools these days: indoctrinating kids and politically using kids. Children are being forced to listen to people like Ms. Richardson promoting a particular political agenda instead of drilling times tables, diagramming sentences, or learning geography. . . And our tax money is being used to keep people like Ms. Richardson in their jobs.
On Wednesday morning, Debra Richardson, program director for Leaf, Loaf & Ladle at the Resource Center for Independent Living, spoke to fifth-graders about the bill and how it would affect what they’d eat each day at school.
Don't worry about the food the students are being fed. Worry about the indoctrination they are being fed.
Instead of telling our students what to believe, give them knowledge of science, civics, and other subjects, starting with the simple and working to the complex. They will then have the tools to figure out for themselves what to believe and what requires action.
Give them knowledge so they will be able to figure out when they are being manipulated or used by their government.
4 comments:
Strikeslip touches on a most valid connection. Our now public medical system will soon mirror our wonderful public educational system. We've watched our schools spend more and more while the quality of education has steadily declined. Government expansion and control of the medical sector will result in the same; higher cost, more taxes and less service. As our leadership elites have private schools to which they send their kids, they will have private physician service.
Higher costs, more taxes, less service. Sounds like what we have now as a result of our current health care system. When was the last time your health ins. premiums went down? Or your taxes?
The private health system does not tax; only the government has that power. Health cost rose under our now old system due to governemnt regulations including restricting the abilty to shop for insurance, mandating comprehensive coverage and the failure to legislate tort reform. Add the fact that governemnt ecourages a third party system separating treatment from cost understanding and control. At least, to date, we have the most advanced medical system in the world as it relates to medications, devices and surgery techniques. Kiss all that goodbye within 5 years.We now have a legislative bill that failed to control cost while negatively effecting service providers; the worst of all worlds.
"Promoting a particular political agenda" and "politically using kids" seems to me to be a bit of an exaggeration. If the goal is to provide more nutritional lunches in PUBLIC schools, where else would you turn to besides the government? A child's diet does make a contribution to their academic performance. I agree that our public school systems are lacking in many ways, but shouldn't we also teach them the importance of nutrition as well as the other subjects?
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