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    Monday, May 21st, 2012 9:16 pm

    “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” Thucydides

    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

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    "God pardons like a mother,
    who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."
    Henry Ward Beecher

    • Canadian Parent Alert

    | March 8, 2012

    Alberta backtracks: Parents can teach beliefs on homosexuality, but homeschoolers still concerned
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/alberta-gvmt-backtracks-parents-can-teach-gay-sex-is-a-sin-but-homeschooler

    “…Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk has distanced himself from his spokeswoman’s statements that homeschoolers would be forbidden to teach controversial aspects of their religious beliefs as part of their curriculum…”

    Ontario education official says teachers are ‘co-parents’
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ontario-education-official-says-teachers-are-co-parents

    “The recent case where the father of a pre-kindergarten student was arrested, strip searched and told he was being charged with illegal possession of a firearm because his daughter had drawn a picture of a gun, was perfectly acceptable because educators are “co-parents,” a school official in Waterloo told an interviewer from Sun News.”

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    Santorum: “There are good, decent people… that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them.”

    | February 26, 2012

    Santorum Obama’s a snob who wants to send everyone to college » The Right Scoop

    “There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them…”

    “Oh I understand why he wants you to go to college, he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.”

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    Homeschoolers and Equal Rights

    | February 22, 2012

    Tim Tebow Debate: Should Homeschoolers Be Allowed on Public-School Sports Teams?
    http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/16/tim-tebow-debate-should-homeschoolers-be-allowed-to-play-sports/

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    Public School Children’s Freedom Denied

    | February 17, 2012

    I still can’t believe this. Government telling people what they can and cannot eat. Schools even provide lists of food that is allowed! Wow.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/exclusive-2nd-n-c-mother-says-daughters-school-lunch-replaced-for-not-being-healthy-enough/

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    SCOC: Six-Year-Olds Forced to Learn Islam, Aboriginal Spirituality, etc.

    | February 17, 2012

    Catholic students must take Quebec religion and ethics class: Supreme Court
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/17/catholic-parents-cant-keep-kids-out-of-quebecs-mandatory-religion-and-ethics-class-supreme-court-rules/

    “A controversial Quebec school course teaching children about ethics and world religions does not infringe on the freedom of parents seeking to raise their children as Catholics, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled…”

    “The course’s 2008 introduction was the final step in the secularization of Quebec schooling that began with a 1997 constitutional amendment replacing denominational school boards with linguistic ones.”

    “It was met with protest marches in some cities, and about 1,700 parents asked that their children be exempted from attending the class. All such requests were refused.”

    “The curriculum covers a broad range of world religions, with particular emphasis on Quebec’s religious heritage — Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism and aboriginal spirituality. It is taught from Grade 1 through Grade 11…”

    “…The state was imposing a form of relativism, in which all beliefs are equally valid…”

    “In other words, is it a program that will provide all students with better knowledge of society’s diversity and teach them to be open to differences? Or is it an educational tool designed to get religion out of children’s heads by taking an essentially agnostic or atheistic approach that denies any theoretical validity to the religious experience and religious values?’ Judge LeBel asked.”

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    ARROGANCE

    | February 11, 2012

    Member of Education Establishment: Parents Don’t Know What’s Best for Their Children
    http://biggovernment.com/eagtv/2012/02/10/member-of-education-establishment-parents-dont-know-whats-best-for-their-children/

    Public School Official Says Parents Don’t Deserve Choice

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    PARENTS: Protect your minor children from sexual exploitation at school

    | February 7, 2012

    Girls, 13, given contraceptive implants at school
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9065998/Girls-13-given-contraceptive-implants-at-school.html

    “Norman Wells, director of the trust, has urged health chiefs to look at ways of discouraging sexual activity amongst children in the first place.”

    “He said: ‘Schemes like these inevitably lead to boys putting pressure on girls to have sex.’

    “‘They can now tell their girlfriends: You can get the school clinic to give you an implant, so you don’t have to worry about getting pregnant.’”

    “‘They’ll tell them they don’t have to face the embarrassment of going to see their doctor, and it’s all confidential so their mum doesn’t need to know a thing.’”

    “‘Parents send their children to school to receive a good education, not to be undermined by health workers who give their children contraceptives behind their backs.‘”

    “‘Health authorities should be looking for ways of discouraging young people from engaging in sexual activity in the first place.’”

    “‘The last thing they should be doing is fueling the flames of promiscuity and the sexual health crisis with schemes that treat parents, the law and basic moral principles with contempt.’”

    Category: Family Planning, Public School, Sex Education | No Comments »
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    Catholic Bishop: Hitler And Mussolini “Would Love Our [Public School] System”

    | February 6, 2012

    Pa. Bishop Does Not Recant Saying that Hitler And Mussolini ‘Would Love Our (Public School) System’
    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pa-bishop-does-not-recant-saying-hitler-and-mussolini-would-love-our-public-school

    “In the totalitarian government, they would love our system,” [Bishop Joseph] McFadden said. “This is what Hitler and Mussolini and all them tried to establish — a monolith; so all the children would be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things.”

    Reminds me of the following quotes:

    “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

    “Destroy the family, you destroy the country.”
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

    “The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”
    Karl Marx

    “Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
    Josef Stalin

    “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future.”
    Adolf Hitler, 1935

    “The state will take youth and will give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. Your child already belongs to us… What are you?”
    Adolf Hitler

    “Give me the children and the country will follow.”
    Fidel Castro

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    Public Schools Rock! Sarcasm Much?

    | February 3, 2012

    Lunch Scholars

    Hat Tip:
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-video-of-teens-failing-miserably-at-a-civics-quiz-is-so-depressing-its-funny/

    “Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?”
    C.S.Lewis

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    Public Education: Are you getting your money’s worth?

    | January 23, 2012

    A quarter of children aged 10 to 12 can’t do basic addition and one in five don’t know the difference between ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090618/A-quarter-children-aged-10-12-t-basic-addition-don-t-know-difference–re.html#ixzz1kLMKvuU4

    “Half of children aged between 10 and 12 do not know what a noun is or cannot identify an adverb – while almost a third, 31 per cent, cannot use apostrophes correctly.”

    “More than one in five – 22 per cent – could not use the correct version of ‘they’re’, ‘there’ and ‘their’ in a sentence and more than four in 10 couldn’t spell the word ‘secretaries’ correctly…”

    “… More than a quarter of children being unable to add two small sums of money without using a calculator as they can’t do division and basic algebra.”

    “Twenty-seven per cent of children surveyed could not add £2.36 and £1.49 to get £3.85. In addition, more than a third, 36 per cent, could not divide 415 by five and a quarter did not know the answer to seven multiplied by six..”

    “The survey of 1,000 children aged between 10 and 12 found that one in four did not know their times tables, a quarter could not use decimal points and two in five could not spell simple plurals.”

    The results are scandalous, but what I found most ridiculous about the article was that they talked in depth about the parents’ responsibility, when in fact, the parents are generously paying teachers to do this job for them. The children are in the care of teachers for many hours of many days of many months of many years. If the teachers can’t teach the children multiplication, then what good are they? Ahhhhhh…. babysitting.

    I better check to see if my ten-year-old can spell ‘secretaries’. LOL Then again, maybe I should just test some teachers!

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