Straight out of the Marxist playbook:
‘Dad banned from kids over excessive homework approach
A FATHER obsessed with his children’s education has been banned from parenting decisions because he’s too iron-fisted.
The father of three pushed his two daughters to complete homework above their academic level. He tutored them in the hope of winning private school scholarships.
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The court, sitting in Melbourne, ruled the father was too “rigid and obsessive” in his parenting.
His demands were driven by a desire for his children to have the best education because he came from an impoverished background in Vietnam, court documents show.
“It is apparent that he is obsessive about wanting his children to achieve academically at the highest level to maximise their opportunities in life, and for them to have the opportunities that were denied him,” the judge said.

The dad’s hard-nosed parenting style was exposed when his estranged wife sought sole parental responsibility for the girls and a younger son.’

It just gets worse…
‘University of Melbourne education Prof Richard Teese said a good relationship was the best way for parents to help their children achieve good marks.

”The kids will work better and work more and will do it by themselves if the quality of the relationship with their parents is strong,” Prof Teese said.
“It’s not up to the parent to impose even more than the school wants,” he said.’

State skools and the courts and  leftist academics know better, you see….

‘“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
– Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU.

Monty Pelerin, commenting on an article by Ambrose Evans Pritchard:
‘The actual number of jobs contracted by 260,000 to 153,690,000. The “labour participation rate” for working-age men over 20 dropped to 73.6pc, the lowest the since the data series began in 1948. My guess is that this figure exceeds the average for the Great Depression (minus the cruellest year of 1932).

….This schism continues to widen in American society. The well-off are doing just fine thank you. Many of the rest continue to descend into the abyss of joblessness, hopelessness, homelessness, poverty and bankruptcy. Social cohesion will not hold on our current path. (bold mine)

The sense of entitlement cultivated by government over the years may be as intractable as the debt problem. It has corrupted the spirits and souls of men. It has destroyed the family structure. It has left a generation or two without skills and no reason to obtain them. It has transformed human beings into zombie-like creatures with little purpose in their lives. Removing them from the government teat is equivalent of separating a new-born from its mother…’

‘A “grid of streets” on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis has been spotted on Google Ocean.
The network of criss-cross lines is 620 miles off the coast of north west Africa near the Canary Islands on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant’s underwater exploration tool by an aeronautical engineer who claims it looks like an “aerial map” of a city.
The underwater image can be found at the co-ordinates 31 15’15.53N 24 15’30.53W.
Last night Atlantis experts said that the unexplained grid is located at one of the possible sites of the legendary island, which was described by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.’   source

‘30,000 pupils branded as bigots: Teachers log ‘racist’ and ‘homophobic’ jibes in playground… even at nursery
Pupils are being penalised for so-called hate crimes such as using the words ‘white trash’ or ‘gaylord’ with schools forced to report their language to education authorities, who keep a register of the incidents. A school can also keep the pupil’s name and ‘offence’ on file and the record can be passed from primaries to secondaries or when a pupil moves between schools…’   source

Isn’t the so-called “opposition” to the last socialist government doing well? I invite any Brit to name one significant freedom they’ve restored since taking power.

via Gotcha!

‘…We have seen this movie before.  Today’s incivility gambit expands the left’s shopworn tactic of charging conservatives with racism and discrimination against various minorities i.e., making them enemies of certain classes of people.  Post-Tucson, they simply began tarring the right as enemies of all the people.  Pasternak shows that, once begun, such witch hunts gain a grim momentum that feeds on itself.  In the American context, with the onset of an epic policy struggle between the branches of government and a presidential election, the libeling of the right will surely continue.  Progressives and their media supporters will be further motivated by a desperate need to dictate the terms of a debate they cannot win on their agenda or their record.  After their midterm debacle, keeping conservatives on the defensive is an existential imperative…’   American Thinker
Update: Redbaiter has an interesting post up, pointing out that some German people towards the end of WW2 behaved much the same way, and for the same reasons.

‘A Firebomb for the Mural Man in Sydney?
Sergio Redegalli, the Australian artist who caused all the uproar with his “Say No To Burqas” mural, is facing a possible escalation of the attacks on his mural. It seems the leftist terrorists who have been agitating against him have decided to put a stop to his “racism” once and for all by firebombing his studio in Sydney.

This note came in from several sources in Australia this morning:

Sergio is in big trouble. The police have told him that the word is out on the street that these radical loonies, who are financed by the Social Alliance group, are going to firebomb his studio, and they cannot protect him. We are seriously concerned for his safety…’        Gates of Vienna

Here we are once again on the Earth Wide Web. And this program will be centered on Blues. Ain’t nobody except “mericans got the Blues and you know that. So HIT IT! Continue reading →

‘..By identifying science and reason with themselves, our rulers delegitimize opposition. Though they cannot prevent Americans from worshiping God, they can make it as socially disabling as smoking — to be done furtively and with a bad social conscience. Though they cannot make Americans wish they were Europeans, they continue to press upon this nation of refugees from the rest of the world the notion that Americans ought to live by “world standards.” Each day, the ruling class produces new “studies” that show that one or another of Americans’ habits is in need of reform, and that those Americans most resistant to reform are pitiably, perhaps criminally, wrong. Thus does it go about disaggregating and dispiriting the ruled…’       Angelo M. Codevilla