The flight from Government skools

16 Responses to The flight from Government skools

1. D.T. says:

   July 6, 2015 at 11:16

   The funniest one was where the person is taking advice from their 7 year old….I’m not a religious person but I did go to a Catholic Private school ( Marist Brothers ) and a then to a public school. The difference was like chalk and cheese and I did receive a better education with the Private School. Lots of hate from the tolerant left in those comments.
   They talk about fairy tales and such but believe in The Big Bang…..ummmmm all those galaxies and matter created from nothing ? How does that work ?
   D.T.
   • SWMINZ says:

     July 7, 2015 at 22:34

     Maybe if you tried this new fangled thing called science you’d get an idea of how it worked.
     • Darin says:

       July 8, 2015 at 01:12

       The problem with Science is too many people “believe” in it.When objective science becomes religious dogma it goes off the rails and no longer can even be called science.

       Such is the case with Global Warming/climate change indoctrination being pushed forward in the public school system.It’s become a religious cult lacking in fact and populated by high priest’s,faith healers and it’s own sin,forgiveness and holy indulgences.
       It has been blown out of proportion and in many school districts has starved real science education into a passing mention.Meanwhile Al Gore’s book is fed and passed off as science wholesale to grade schoolers like it’s the koran being preached at a madrasa.
       The end result is a class of AGW indoctrinated robots who mindlessly repeat the mantra and end up almost completely science illiterate.
       • KG says:

         July 8, 2015 at 01:38

         
2. Ronbo says:

   July 6, 2015 at 11:36

   Catholic schools are very popular in America especially with the Jews, but the best education IMHO is home schooling, at least up to a high school level.

   The stats prove that home schooled students have the highest SAT scores for college.
   • C-CS says:

     July 7, 2015 at 04:01

     indeed-
     my homeschooled off spring was accepted to two military academies -USMA and USAFA..
     it works!
     C-CS
3. Wombat says:

   July 6, 2015 at 15:34

   Bah. Knocking these dingbats down is like shooting fish in a barrel.
4. Darin says:

   July 6, 2015 at 17:01

   Mr Cohen gets called in by his son’s principal.”Mr Cohen,I am sorry to inform you,but your son can no longer attend school here.He is mean,disrespectful of his teachers and spends his time terrorizing the other students.I am afraid there is nothing more we have to offer him”

   “I see says Mr Cohen,but what do suggest I do with him?””Well maybe sending him to school at the Synagogue would be the best?””Great idea he says and off to enroll him he goes.

   A week passes and he gets a call from the Rabbi.”Mr Cohen,your son he’s no good,he’s rotten,he beats up the other kids and cusses out the teachers.He can no longer attend school here”

   ‘Well says Mr Cohen,you were my last hope,what should I do now?””Send him to Catholic school,they have good luck with straightening out rough kids”

   Off he goes and enrolls his son in Catholic school.From day one,not a single complaint and the boy even manages to get straight A’s in all subjects.On the last day of school Mr Cohen picks his son up for the ride home when he asks his son”Levi,why were you so much trouble at public school and the Synagogue,but here you’re no trouble and you get perfect grades here?

   “Well you know Pop,that first day here when I walked in and saw the statue of the guy they nailed to the Cross,I figured these guys mean business.”
   • KG says:

     July 6, 2015 at 17:15

     
     • Ronbo says:

       July 7, 2015 at 05:25

       SO NOW WE KNOW!
5. Oswald bastable says:

   July 6, 2015 at 19:42

   My youngest goes to a Catholic college. Every time I go there, I note that there is not a single piece of rubbish on the ground, zero graffiti and the place is generally spotless.

   That says a lot to me.
   • KG says:

     July 6, 2015 at 21:22

     It speaks of values Oswald. Something sadly lacking elsewhere.
     • Wombat says:

       July 7, 2015 at 01:13

       I know a community nurse who occasionally does hand hygiene courses at the local (public) high school.

       She reports that any given classroom she’s gives her presentation to generally has about five of thirty students paying attention with the remaining 25 undertaking their own conversations with each other to the point she finds herself raising her voice just to be heard.

       The teacher sits in the corner and typically attends to his iPhone.

       After the first such incidence she approached the teacher and asked why he didn’t take control of the classroom.

       “It can’t be done anymore”, he explained. “The only discipline we can affect is to have them removed from the classroom and in rare instances suspend them. They’d rather be at home or in detention anyway so that doesn’t work. If they get punished the teacher gets the blame because ‘you’re obviously not reaching them’. They can’t be given failing grades because that would be seen as a failure of the school to educate them. So the principal says to me ‘keep your head down, go through the motions and grade on a curve that bottoms out at C’. What’s more, the talented and disciplined students become jaded because they know that when diplomas are given out like door prizes then their efforts are worth zilch.”

       Chilling stuff.
       • Ronbo says:

         July 7, 2015 at 05:31

         I was a high school history teacher in Florida from 1986 to 1989…now you understand why I quit…

         I did tell you folks that I got hit in the back of the head with a block of wood on my first day of class, didn’t I?

         Teacher Rule Number One: Never turn your back on young wild animals.
         • Darin says:

           July 7, 2015 at 11:58

           Same here,if we cut up in class we were called up front to the teachers desk and made familiar with the board of education which was usually made out of Pine.
           • Wombat says:

             July 7, 2015 at 14:51