I recently heard a story of how a certain young rock god tweeted a comment along the lines of... 'if you have work or school today, DITCH IT and have some fun! Live life!'
This of course.... OF COOOOURSE was met with the reply of a mature adult saying 'don't say that! encourage them to stay in school!!!'
And hearing this story inspired me to blog...
Why must we encourage children to stay in school?
Why.........?
education
1. the act or process of acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
Parenting (or child rearing)
1. the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship. Davies, Martin (2000).
The Blackwell encyclopedia of social work. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-631-21451-9.]
school
1. an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age.
Well there are very pristine places in the world where the "ideal" of education thru the school system is intact. But those places are very few and far between and completely inaccessible to most.
For the masses, there's "school".
For example, looking down my fb friends list.... only a very literal few may have had the privilege of a genuinely great academic education. Alllllll the rest.... are average, "normal" people who are surviving now like they survived school. Surviving meaning you just need to make it thru, because you don't really care what you do or don't learn - you have to be there or you wouldn't be! So just make it thru....
Maybe school was great for some. Some (myself included) may have made exceptional grades.
But that is by no means an indication that we learned any of the things everyone believes school is intended to teach the population of youth that pours thru the hallways.
The real lesson children are taught in "school" is how to conform. How to evaluate themselves based on test scores and peer popularity.
I'm not saying they didn't learn anything!
I'm saying they didn't learn academically what "society" professes "school" to be responsible for teaching them...
These young people don't know shit as far as the basic skills previous generations gained from basic primary school. They have no grasp of geography. Math is a cryptic practical joke. Language has no meaning whatsoever, hence no sense of grammar, phonetics or spelling. Science.... second only to math. Health - joke. PE - traumatizing. History..... Ahhh history! The one thing that sticks like glue! Convoluted stories of bullshit that are used to program each generation into more conformity. The truth of history is not taught in schools! The truth about most subjects is not taught in school....
Intellects are not being enriched by schools.
School is to be "survived".... It is not an academically educational experience.
Socially, YES, there is a lot being learned!!! How to judge, how to criticize, how to compare, how to get ahead, how to hide, how to conform, how to rebel because no one sees you or hears you, how to conform, how to lie, cheat, accuse.... how to manipulate.... how to belittle others... how to conform...
Camaraderie. Class systems. Cliques...
that adults are just like me only legal!!!
Drugs anyone???
Sex...? Love...? Acceptance? Performance... Rejection... Humiliation. How to conform.
Get real. School is NOT what it's made out to be by the few.
Yes, certain people excel no matter where they are or what conditions they're in. But "the system", the public school system, the current "acceptable" educational model is critically flawed! And it always has been. It has done much more harm than good from my perspective.
Yes, there are good families with good parents and Yes there are a few good schools in a few good areas and Yes there are a few brave communities who have taken their children's education into their own hands and created their own model and are insanely successful...
BUT..... these are the exceptions, not the norm, not the majority, not the reality.
Real education starts at home. This is obvious and any real public school teacher will tell you this. They can't teach a kid who didn't sleep the night before because of what was happening at home. They can't teach a kid who's hungry, or malnourished from eating nothing but crap food. They can't teach a kid who's afraid. They can't teach a kid who's abused, or has to take care of their brothers and sisters because the "parent" is unavailable and they have other shit on their minds.
And most teachers feel they can't help these kids because its against the law to "love" and "care" about them in the way that a good teacher knows they need. It would most likely incur a law suit.
There are too many generations that have been neglected, skipped over, abandoned, judged and misjudged.... and these became parents..... and had no foundation from which to teach their kids.... who became parents too.... and they had even less to give.... and so on and so on and here we are.
I pledge allegiance... to the flag.... of the United States of America... and to the Republic for which it stands............
Take into account evolution - poor nutrition, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and genetically altered food sources, pollution, synthetic materials including plastic, toxic waste, fluoride in the water system.... ADD, ADHD, Autism, PDD, PTSD, etc, etc - hence meds.... lots and lots of meds.... Equals altered states of mind, body and spirit..... VACCINATIONS! And no parents. I'm not talking about no adults that gave birth to you, no adult supervision, no other people living in your house.... No, I mean no one is parenting. The very people who decided to bring you into this world don't give you the time of day. Because they're busy "being responsible". Or worse. They just aren't there. So there is no act of parenting going on. And this is almost every kid in the Westernized world....... That's a lot. But Stay in school.....!
Deny it.
This may not be your dot in the world, but it is the majority.
Perpetuate negativity? Absolutely not!
So what started this conversation?
A popular celebrity encouraging (positivity!) people, all people, to stop and smell the frikken roses.
He did NOT say Be a loser! Don't learn anything! Waste your life! Hate everything! Give up! Run away from home! Be dumb!
He did not say any of those things....
So again.... Why encourage children to stay "in school"?
Why not just encourage them?
Why not just teach them?
Why "school".... schools are deadly places and they've been that way almost since inception - qualifying that I'm referring to the standardized modern mandatory school "system". No child should be forced to spend the majority of their day, the majority of their week, the majority of a month, the majority of a year, the majority of their childhood..... away from their parents.
PARENTS are the primary teachers.
Parents are what's missing from the equation.
Parents. And today the thought of most parents teaching their kids anything is horrifying to them!
We've actually been programmed to believe that we (parents) aren't qualified to teach our children...!!!
??? But I went to the same school my kids did, and passed. How am I not qualified...???
Think back on all your teachers.... What special qualifications did you see in them that your parents didn't have...?
I'll tell you what special qualifications they had.... They got paid to babysit your ass... your parents don't.
WTH!?
A lotta parents don't even like their children, much less do they know what to do with them.
I'd say the "school system" has worked like a charm. Mission accomplished.
A house divided against itself.........
Parents don't like children, children don't like parents, their's no family, no unity, no "like" much less love, no loyalty, no legacy to pass down, no bond.
There is no bond between parents and children....
Parents don't look into their kids' eyes....
They don't feel their heartbeat... they don't see their soul....
They have no idea who these people are.
The school system has destroyed the family. Parents have to work now in order to survive, work at jobs that they cannot take their children to, jobs that their children cannot participate in and maybe LEARN TO DO THEMSELVES so that when they grow up they will actually know what they're doing and be good at something.... no. No... keep them as separate as possible! They can learn all they need to know in school!
Divide and conquer.
Mission accomplished.
Now with this perfect disarray of the minions, control is a piece of cake.
They no longer have to "enforce" control... we beg for it.
Yes.
Stay in school.
You'll grow up to be an irresponsible idiot if you don't.
You don't want to be ignorant all your life, do ya?
And if they don't want to stay in school.... why do you think that is??
Because they don't want to conform?
Because they crave that family bond and its missing?
For some reason, "adults" think there is something wrong when a child won't conform, or when they want to cling to their mother.
Why? Why is that wrong? Is conformity what you want? Is that what you want instilled in your child?
What is the alternative to conformity?
Originality? Genuincity? Authenticity?
Are these wrong? Then why the demand to conform...?
YOU were programmed to believe that if you do not conform that you're being irresponsible and lazy. That you are making yourself a burden on others. That you are bad.
Question: Just how long can any one person actually sit and do nothing.....? Days, weeks, months.... years...? Name the person who "sat" and did nothing their entire life without contributing anything to the world whatsoever. Immediately you have an image in your mind!
An image of a fat lazy unshowered slob who cares about nothing but TV, playing video games, eating, sleeping and complaining about other people.... A high school drop out!
An image created by Hollywood...
Name one that you actually know.
One.
Just one.
If "school" is so great and necessary, then why don't the people around you know anything!?
What did YOU learn in school?
Here's a better one.... What did you want to learn in school???
What do you feel you should have learned in school but you didn't? And why didn't you?
And yes, to you "very few" who are insane (amazing) parents! Yes, you got it! And your kids reflect that. But you are a minority. What about everybody else.....?
When I was 14 I actively expressed my desire to quit school (because it was stupid...! and yes I made A's...!!!!!!!) and become a writer. (I was good. Really!)
I was met with ridicule and anger. I was met with the "programmed" notion that if I really wanted to be a writer the thing I needed to do was "stay in school", go to college and learn how to be a writer. Obviously he never read anything I wrote... now did he? (I'm being completely serious, not sarcastic.) Out of 10 years of schooling - mostly public, some private - there were only 2.... TWO teachers who recognized my writing skills with more than a "Hm!", a head nod and an A. One in the third grade, one in ninth. And so what became of that? Of me? Of my writing career?
Well.... Here it is. I've learned notta damn thing else about writing. I spell creatively by choice, not by ignorance. (I won every spelling bee they could throw at me in school.)
Can I still write.... Of course. And I have the entire world as my audience.
I hated school. I missed my parents. I'm still really smart. I still don't socialize much. I still miss my parents. And I still hate the concept of the modern model of the mandatory school system.
My opinion. My perspective. Be open for dialogue. Because communication is our vehicle with which to navigate this world.
This of course.... OF COOOOURSE was met with the reply of a mature adult saying 'don't say that! encourage them to stay in school!!!'
And hearing this story inspired me to blog...
Why must we encourage children to stay in school?
Why.........?
education
1. the act or process of acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
Parenting (or child rearing)
1. the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship. Davies, Martin (2000).
The Blackwell encyclopedia of social work. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-631-21451-9.]
school
1. an institution where instruction is given, especially to persons under college age.
Well there are very pristine places in the world where the "ideal" of education thru the school system is intact. But those places are very few and far between and completely inaccessible to most.
For the masses, there's "school".
For example, looking down my fb friends list.... only a very literal few may have had the privilege of a genuinely great academic education. Alllllll the rest.... are average, "normal" people who are surviving now like they survived school. Surviving meaning you just need to make it thru, because you don't really care what you do or don't learn - you have to be there or you wouldn't be! So just make it thru....
Maybe school was great for some. Some (myself included) may have made exceptional grades.
But that is by no means an indication that we learned any of the things everyone believes school is intended to teach the population of youth that pours thru the hallways.
The real lesson children are taught in "school" is how to conform. How to evaluate themselves based on test scores and peer popularity.
I'm not saying they didn't learn anything!
I'm saying they didn't learn academically what "society" professes "school" to be responsible for teaching them...
These young people don't know shit as far as the basic skills previous generations gained from basic primary school. They have no grasp of geography. Math is a cryptic practical joke. Language has no meaning whatsoever, hence no sense of grammar, phonetics or spelling. Science.... second only to math. Health - joke. PE - traumatizing. History..... Ahhh history! The one thing that sticks like glue! Convoluted stories of bullshit that are used to program each generation into more conformity. The truth of history is not taught in schools! The truth about most subjects is not taught in school....
Intellects are not being enriched by schools.
School is to be "survived".... It is not an academically educational experience.
Socially, YES, there is a lot being learned!!! How to judge, how to criticize, how to compare, how to get ahead, how to hide, how to conform, how to rebel because no one sees you or hears you, how to conform, how to lie, cheat, accuse.... how to manipulate.... how to belittle others... how to conform...
Camaraderie. Class systems. Cliques...
that adults are just like me only legal!!!
Drugs anyone???
Sex...? Love...? Acceptance? Performance... Rejection... Humiliation. How to conform.
Get real. School is NOT what it's made out to be by the few.
Yes, certain people excel no matter where they are or what conditions they're in. But "the system", the public school system, the current "acceptable" educational model is critically flawed! And it always has been. It has done much more harm than good from my perspective.
Yes, there are good families with good parents and Yes there are a few good schools in a few good areas and Yes there are a few brave communities who have taken their children's education into their own hands and created their own model and are insanely successful...
BUT..... these are the exceptions, not the norm, not the majority, not the reality.
Real education starts at home. This is obvious and any real public school teacher will tell you this. They can't teach a kid who didn't sleep the night before because of what was happening at home. They can't teach a kid who's hungry, or malnourished from eating nothing but crap food. They can't teach a kid who's afraid. They can't teach a kid who's abused, or has to take care of their brothers and sisters because the "parent" is unavailable and they have other shit on their minds.
And most teachers feel they can't help these kids because its against the law to "love" and "care" about them in the way that a good teacher knows they need. It would most likely incur a law suit.
There are too many generations that have been neglected, skipped over, abandoned, judged and misjudged.... and these became parents..... and had no foundation from which to teach their kids.... who became parents too.... and they had even less to give.... and so on and so on and here we are.
I pledge allegiance... to the flag.... of the United States of America... and to the Republic for which it stands............
Take into account evolution - poor nutrition, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and genetically altered food sources, pollution, synthetic materials including plastic, toxic waste, fluoride in the water system.... ADD, ADHD, Autism, PDD, PTSD, etc, etc - hence meds.... lots and lots of meds.... Equals altered states of mind, body and spirit..... VACCINATIONS! And no parents. I'm not talking about no adults that gave birth to you, no adult supervision, no other people living in your house.... No, I mean no one is parenting. The very people who decided to bring you into this world don't give you the time of day. Because they're busy "being responsible". Or worse. They just aren't there. So there is no act of parenting going on. And this is almost every kid in the Westernized world....... That's a lot. But Stay in school.....!
Deny it.
This may not be your dot in the world, but it is the majority.
Perpetuate negativity? Absolutely not!
So what started this conversation?
A popular celebrity encouraging (positivity!) people, all people, to stop and smell the frikken roses.
He did NOT say Be a loser! Don't learn anything! Waste your life! Hate everything! Give up! Run away from home! Be dumb!
He did not say any of those things....
So again.... Why encourage children to stay "in school"?
Why not just encourage them?
Why not just teach them?
Why "school".... schools are deadly places and they've been that way almost since inception - qualifying that I'm referring to the standardized modern mandatory school "system". No child should be forced to spend the majority of their day, the majority of their week, the majority of a month, the majority of a year, the majority of their childhood..... away from their parents.
PARENTS are the primary teachers.
Parents are what's missing from the equation.
Parents. And today the thought of most parents teaching their kids anything is horrifying to them!
We've actually been programmed to believe that we (parents) aren't qualified to teach our children...!!!
??? But I went to the same school my kids did, and passed. How am I not qualified...???
Think back on all your teachers.... What special qualifications did you see in them that your parents didn't have...?
I'll tell you what special qualifications they had.... They got paid to babysit your ass... your parents don't.
WTH!?
A lotta parents don't even like their children, much less do they know what to do with them.
I'd say the "school system" has worked like a charm. Mission accomplished.
A house divided against itself.........
Parents don't like children, children don't like parents, their's no family, no unity, no "like" much less love, no loyalty, no legacy to pass down, no bond.
There is no bond between parents and children....
Parents don't look into their kids' eyes....
They don't feel their heartbeat... they don't see their soul....
They have no idea who these people are.
The school system has destroyed the family. Parents have to work now in order to survive, work at jobs that they cannot take their children to, jobs that their children cannot participate in and maybe LEARN TO DO THEMSELVES so that when they grow up they will actually know what they're doing and be good at something.... no. No... keep them as separate as possible! They can learn all they need to know in school!
Divide and conquer.
Mission accomplished.
Now with this perfect disarray of the minions, control is a piece of cake.
They no longer have to "enforce" control... we beg for it.
Yes.
Stay in school.
You'll grow up to be an irresponsible idiot if you don't.
You don't want to be ignorant all your life, do ya?
And if they don't want to stay in school.... why do you think that is??
Because they don't want to conform?
Because they crave that family bond and its missing?
For some reason, "adults" think there is something wrong when a child won't conform, or when they want to cling to their mother.
Why? Why is that wrong? Is conformity what you want? Is that what you want instilled in your child?
What is the alternative to conformity?
Originality? Genuincity? Authenticity?
Are these wrong? Then why the demand to conform...?
YOU were programmed to believe that if you do not conform that you're being irresponsible and lazy. That you are making yourself a burden on others. That you are bad.
Question: Just how long can any one person actually sit and do nothing.....? Days, weeks, months.... years...? Name the person who "sat" and did nothing their entire life without contributing anything to the world whatsoever. Immediately you have an image in your mind!
An image of a fat lazy unshowered slob who cares about nothing but TV, playing video games, eating, sleeping and complaining about other people.... A high school drop out!
An image created by Hollywood...
Name one that you actually know.
One.
Just one.
If "school" is so great and necessary, then why don't the people around you know anything!?
What did YOU learn in school?
Here's a better one.... What did you want to learn in school???
What do you feel you should have learned in school but you didn't? And why didn't you?
And yes, to you "very few" who are insane (amazing) parents! Yes, you got it! And your kids reflect that. But you are a minority. What about everybody else.....?
When I was 14 I actively expressed my desire to quit school (because it was stupid...! and yes I made A's...!!!!!!!) and become a writer. (I was good. Really!)
I was met with ridicule and anger. I was met with the "programmed" notion that if I really wanted to be a writer the thing I needed to do was "stay in school", go to college and learn how to be a writer. Obviously he never read anything I wrote... now did he? (I'm being completely serious, not sarcastic.) Out of 10 years of schooling - mostly public, some private - there were only 2.... TWO teachers who recognized my writing skills with more than a "Hm!", a head nod and an A. One in the third grade, one in ninth. And so what became of that? Of me? Of my writing career?
Well.... Here it is. I've learned notta damn thing else about writing. I spell creatively by choice, not by ignorance. (I won every spelling bee they could throw at me in school.)
Can I still write.... Of course. And I have the entire world as my audience.
I hated school. I missed my parents. I'm still really smart. I still don't socialize much. I still miss my parents. And I still hate the concept of the modern model of the mandatory school system.
My opinion. My perspective. Be open for dialogue. Because communication is our vehicle with which to navigate this world.
