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How the Government uses School to Control
Posted 05-06-2008 at 12:31 AM by Mavi
While I go about my life I try my best to always ask myself various questions before everything I do.
How will doing this help me progress mentally or physically? How will this better my knowledge? How will this strengthen my belief in god? Hell How will this make me more money if it's a thing I'm being forced to do to get money (School).
In doing so that actually allows me to feel much better of what I do, and allows me to fully concentrate on those thing's without regretting my decision's later down the road.
One major problem that came to mind while thinking "how is this bettering me" was School. Not any school but the public school sytem that most americans have to go through in order to "move forward in life", or so they make us believe after 12 years of hellish waste.
If you've noticed after learning the alphabet's in 1st grade all you learn from there out is general knowledge that you will almost never use. This ranges from high level math, most sciences, to english literature. Which later on you tend to forget when you actually have a job.
My parent's try to have me believe that school is for me, to better myself, and to make me a better person. But sadly as i've grown through the U.S School system all i've seen is mostly bad peer influences, making fun of for anything that the public feels is different, lack of choices of what to study, and the mindset that if you drop out of school you'll be doomed for your entire life.
Now when we talk about school most people associate it with learning but to be honest I associate it with control. When the government want's the people to think in one way, they just change the learning materials from the ground up, and people from childhood will be raised to believe whatever they are taught in school. For instance let's take something totally random as an example.
Say for instance that the government wants to ban guns,knives, swords, or weapons from the states because they want more control over the country, and don't want anyone thinking that they are allowed to revolt if the government get's too corrupt and unstable. What they would do is simply change the school history books a bit to change sentences like:
The american's used their natural right to bear arms to destroy the english redcoats to The american's used guns to destroy the english redcoats, which were later used to cause the civil war that killed millions of people including their own brothers and family members.
The end moral would make kid's believe that guns were the cause of the problem, so heck all usages of gun's are bad because they cause war.
Well then what's the point of this blog rant? It's to tell you guy's what I believe school is all about. That is exactly why I will homeschool my kid's when I have kids, and that is exactly why I dislike all K-12 school system except HomeSchooling. What I do like though is the College/Uni system as that is geared just towards your interests rather then the interests of the government.
Some people say public school is good for progressing a child's social skills, but welcome to the world of bullshit my friends that's not true. A HomeSchool kid actually has MORE social skills then kid's who go to school as they are generally more open to views of other kid's rather then being manipulated in having a set mindset of what makes a person wierd or normal. Plus the fact that they can skip all the useless classes, have more freedom to do as they want throughout the day, and best of all they can get out of school at a pace much faster then the "normal child".
How will doing this help me progress mentally or physically? How will this better my knowledge? How will this strengthen my belief in god? Hell How will this make me more money if it's a thing I'm being forced to do to get money (School).
In doing so that actually allows me to feel much better of what I do, and allows me to fully concentrate on those thing's without regretting my decision's later down the road.
One major problem that came to mind while thinking "how is this bettering me" was School. Not any school but the public school sytem that most americans have to go through in order to "move forward in life", or so they make us believe after 12 years of hellish waste.
If you've noticed after learning the alphabet's in 1st grade all you learn from there out is general knowledge that you will almost never use. This ranges from high level math, most sciences, to english literature. Which later on you tend to forget when you actually have a job.
My parent's try to have me believe that school is for me, to better myself, and to make me a better person. But sadly as i've grown through the U.S School system all i've seen is mostly bad peer influences, making fun of for anything that the public feels is different, lack of choices of what to study, and the mindset that if you drop out of school you'll be doomed for your entire life.
Now when we talk about school most people associate it with learning but to be honest I associate it with control. When the government want's the people to think in one way, they just change the learning materials from the ground up, and people from childhood will be raised to believe whatever they are taught in school. For instance let's take something totally random as an example.
Say for instance that the government wants to ban guns,knives, swords, or weapons from the states because they want more control over the country, and don't want anyone thinking that they are allowed to revolt if the government get's too corrupt and unstable. What they would do is simply change the school history books a bit to change sentences like:
The american's used their natural right to bear arms to destroy the english redcoats to The american's used guns to destroy the english redcoats, which were later used to cause the civil war that killed millions of people including their own brothers and family members.
The end moral would make kid's believe that guns were the cause of the problem, so heck all usages of gun's are bad because they cause war.
Well then what's the point of this blog rant? It's to tell you guy's what I believe school is all about. That is exactly why I will homeschool my kid's when I have kids, and that is exactly why I dislike all K-12 school system except HomeSchooling. What I do like though is the College/Uni system as that is geared just towards your interests rather then the interests of the government.
Some people say public school is good for progressing a child's social skills, but welcome to the world of bullshit my friends that's not true. A HomeSchool kid actually has MORE social skills then kid's who go to school as they are generally more open to views of other kid's rather then being manipulated in having a set mindset of what makes a person wierd or normal. Plus the fact that they can skip all the useless classes, have more freedom to do as they want throughout the day, and best of all they can get out of school at a pace much faster then the "normal child".
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Really, College/uni is geared towards your interests? What about the 2 years of junk General ed courses you have to take?Posted 05-06-2008 at 12:55 AM by DarkUmagon
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Lol
Actually your right about that lol
General Ed classes make college the same deal, BUT after 2 years you can do your useful classes. So let me rephrase that lol: The ratio of junk classes:good classes are much higher in College/Uni.Posted 05-06-2008 at 01:53 AM by Mavi -
kids learn easier when their young THEY should be learning advanced science/math/English
however i do agree that they want everyone to think the same
look at art classes! art is meant to be different , and mean different things to different people but they stick it into categories and classify it as good or badPosted 05-06-2008 at 02:48 AM by shinigami_assassin - So when you were a child you wish you could have been learning chemistry, calculus, and advanced lit? Well whatever suits you I guess. I'd rather be out learning how to make web sites, reading up on the history of the middle east (rather then being forced to read only about the western hemispere), and not being forced to believe that if your a virgin then something is wrong with you.Quote:kids learn easier when their young THEY should be learning advanced science/math/English
however i do agree that they want everyone to think the same
look at art classes! art is meant to be different , and mean different things to different people but they stick it into categories and classify it as good or bad
Art in school is like probably 3 classes total throughout 12 years of the school system, and even those are to closed ended. They were as useful to me now as my the money I spent on a Seen it on TV game(it's long been trashed.)Posted 05-06-2008 at 02:55 AM by Mavi -
man i totally agree with you psp crazy, i was talking about ww2 and the assistant principal sent me down to the office and i got in school suspension, i was like this is bull shit. sorry for swearing but thats how i feel. also i constantly disagree with are goverment books becuese it try's to make are country (amrica that is where i live in just to be clear) look like it has never done anything wrong in its whole entire
history they also try to say that the soviets never fed thier civillans which is also lies
in other words im trying to say psp YOU ARE RIGHT 1000000000000% about the goverment trying to control us by useing the school.Posted 05-06-2008 at 03:16 AM by thegodoflight - Pspcrazy not everyone would want to learn how to make websites. That being said the American Education System is way too constricted. Kids are not free to learn what they want to learn. They are forced to learn things they are not good at.Posted 05-06-2008 at 03:18 AM by DarkUmagon
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cant really say that home schooling is good, if you are a super fast learner or have a parent that is a good teacher then your fine, but that is unlikly, and that would lead to a spiral that keeps going down. But i do have to agree that it is annouying how the school system forces you to learn some subjects you dont need to know in real life.Posted 05-06-2008 at 07:15 AM by gaara's wrath - Personally, a reason i think homeschooling is great is because you do waste 2-3 hours talking about say the latest movies or doing gay warm ups. You guys who were in the public education system know what i mean. The first 5-10 minutes of each class as well as the last 5-10 minutes of each class were a waste of time..Posted 05-06-2008 at 08:15 PM by DarkUmagon
- well thats true dark, but amazingly all of my teachers this quater for school are young my oldest teacher is my math teacher and i would say that he is around 35 and all of the rest are under 30 years old and also my physical edication teeacher gave me 50 cents today and i gave it to my friend eric, who is also raos on here its his birthday.Posted 05-06-2008 at 08:46 PM by thegodoflight
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You're right though I figured this out several years ago and was punished for it. On more than 1 occasion.Posted 05-06-2008 at 09:48 PM by Raos - hahaha raosPosted 05-06-2008 at 11:02 PM by thegodoflight
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There's a great book by Robert Fulghum called Everything I know I Learned in Kindergarten. I love that book. Your post reminds me a little of it just much more angry or should I say disheartened.Posted 05-07-2008 at 10:56 PM by Engima -
You are onto something here, PSP. Government does seek to control th individual with crap that beginns in kindergarten. My son is 12 years old and I have always questioned him about what he learns in school. I have to correct about half of it. We Americans are not the evil ones, as my son is being taught. Its really frustrating. Nothing like when I was in school (old an monologue jutsu...)Posted 06-13-2008 at 09:48 PM by dougbert - Here in the Uk there is a similar problem with kids being pressured to take courses they dont want or need to take.
My brother is not a smart cookie, and he wanted to take on an aprenticeship for woodworking in canada (because he is very talented with his hands).
However, the english schooling system forced him to continue working until he was 16. At this point he attained average grades and was pressurised to continue his education.
Two years on he has finally had the sense to quit and has now taken the apprenticeshp in Canada and become a talented worksman rather than remaining an average student.
I feel its such a shame that my brother was not able to take his apprenticeship earlier in his life (at the age of 16 for example) thus saving both time and college funds.
So he regularly thanks the UK government for the debt he is now in as well as the knowledge he will never use.
If he was never very academic, but was very skilled with his hands, shouldnt the governent be encouraging to do what hes good at rather then forcing him on to higher education and more debts to fill their quotas?
Its a shame we live in such a world.Posted 08-22-2008 at 12:45 PM by Glory -
yea you do have a point i being a student feel like half the crap they teach you we never use and if we could change the time we use learning that bull crap and changing it to something we need to know how different would this world be?? tsk tsk now ask yourself and your buddys that. p.s great post totally agree with youPosted 09-18-2008 at 08:53 PM by xetachi -
while i agree that the us is government s corrupt i doubt that they will say that and waht you say of the homeschooling giving better is true for some but not all also there are actually many more classes that are avaiblabe than whenever you were in school im in ROTC which is basically an air force military class and while its said to teach me discipline and will change most it has not changed me at all i still act the same way i used to before i got into the ROTC program but hwat you say is true about us not needing these things since most of the things i learn that i use are from t.v. personal expirience and reasearch and things that ihave been taught from eldersPosted 10-02-2008 at 11:45 PM by elvispacman
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