[kitchencabinetforum] DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL IS A SMART STRATEGY!

There will be no classes in Chicago public schools on Monday and Tuesday, affecting 350,000 kindergarten, elementary and high school students. For years, kleptocrats have been doing their best to further blur the distinction by giving public-school officials the same powers as the warden of San Quentin. There are many
abridgments of freedom and invasions of privacy inflicted on children. Children
are looking for a Moses to liberate them from the jails of classes, and lead
them to the promised land of real life.

Mayor Emanuel calls the strike illegal and he will go to court to seek an injunction to block the labor action. The socialistic feature of public schooling that dooms it to fail is that at
every level, the system relies on compulsion instead of voluntary consent. The
curriculum is politicized to reflect the socialistic cancer of kleptocrats in
power.

Standards are continually dumbed down to the least common denominator.
The brightest children are not permitted to achieve their potential, the
special-needs of individual children are neglected, and the mid-level learners
become little more than socialistic cogs in a kleptocratic machine.

Teachers revolted last week against sweeping education reforms sought by Emanuel, especially evaluating teachers based on the standardized test scores of their students. Generations of dumbing-down and educational indoctrination have brainwashed hoi
polloi. Perhaps citizens will wake up quickly to their peril, perhaps not. They
must be taught the value of freedom. Many do not even know what it is, and many
don't put a value on it.

Where the Founders had the advantage of the spread of
Graecoroman ideas, and a population receptive to them, we have the disadvantage
of the decline of those ideas, and a population largely indifferent to or
ignorant of them. This is quite an obstacle.

School Board President David Vitale says: We are extremely disappointed that after 10 months of discussion reaching an honest and fair compromise that the union decided to continue their strike of choice and keep our children out of the classroom.

The Chicago strike has shone a bright light on a fierce national debate over how to reform failing inner-city schools. The union believes that more money and resources should be given to neighborhood public schools to help them improve. Schools dumbdown children. It's ridiculous to jail children in schools for
sixteen years! No wonder children revolt violently.

Homeschooling is the
education of children at home. Homeschooling is a legal option in many places
for parents to provide their children with a learning environment as an
alternative to publicly-provided schools.

Parents cite numerous reasons as
motivations to home school, including better academic test results, poor public
school environment, improved character, and objections to what is taught locally
in public school. It is also an alternative for families living in isolated
rural locations or living temporarily abroad. Homeschooling is legal in many
countries, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and
the United States.

Emanuel and a legion of financiers and philanthropists believe that failing schools should be closed and reopened with new staff to give the students the best chance of improving. Average per-student spending in American public schools is $13,000 per year.

Han Han, a high-school dropout born in 1982, is a Chinese professional rally driver, best-selling author, singer, creator of Party magazine, and China's most popular blogger. He has published ten novels to date, and he is also involved in music production. The Han Han story proves that schooling must be abolished. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Dropping out of school is a smart strategy of cutting losses short! Public schools are filled with eager, fresh-faced youngsters, and prisons contain many rough-looking adults with uninviting personalities. They are both kleptocrat-run facilities where individuals are held for a specific number of years without their consent, at the mercy of their custodians.

Unschooling is a curriculum-free philosophy of homeschooling. Unschoolers
believe that the use of standard curricula and conventional grading methods, as
well as other features of traditional schooling, are counterproductive to the
goal of maximizing the education of each child. Instead, unschoolers typically
allow children to learn through their natural life experiences, including game
play, household responsibilities, and social interaction. Exploring activities
is often led by the children themselves, facilitated by the adults. Child
directed play is a key tenet of the unschooling philosophy.

We should abolish schooling, to end the ugly and inhuman business of
people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves. Learning is not
the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.
The teacher gives explanations, not learning. If a child is left to himself, he
will think more and better. Be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that
you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.

Unschooling is based upon and built around the growth of the child and the
success that is an inherent part of a self-actualizing life.
The notion of teaching people to become better thinkers is such a basic concept
that most people would assume the goal has always been a vital part of
educators' tool kits. But the concept is fairly new on the education landscape,
and it has yet to accurately address some tricky cognitive terrain.

LIB THE KIDS
By Basil Venitis

Children locked in all these classes
Dumbing down our kids
Boring teachers with glasses
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Kids are looking for a Moses
To liberate them from all these freaks
To lead them to the promised land of chosen
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Eager fresh-faced youngsters
Bored to hell and tired lids
Are in classes like gangsters
Unschool now and lib the kids.

Abolish schooling right now
Abolish all these stupid grids
Fire all these teachers anyhow
Unschool now and lib the kids.