Friday, November 18, 2005

HOW THE BRITISH LEFT HATE GIFTED CHILDREN!

They upset that treasured but mythical "equality"

"Gifted children are missing out on a scheme to help them because of ideological opposition to selection, according to a shadow education minister. Some local authorities are denying valuable opportunities to young people because they are not putting them forward for membership of a national academy that serves the top five per cent of the ability range, says Nick Gibb, the Conservative shadow schools minister.

Figures from the Department for Education this week show that membership of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth differs widely between local authorities. Islington in north London has no members while Reading in Berkshire has enrolled more than 15 per cent of the school population. Children who are considered to be in the top five per cent can be put forward by their schools and local authorities for membership of the academy. The academy requires proof that the children have reached the standard expected of the top five per cent in national curriculum tests or exams. Alternatively, pupils can use scores on recognised diagnostic tests or submit their work. "The wide variation in the take-up of this scheme demonstrates the ambivalence some local authorities have in striving for excellence and rigour in our education system," said Mr Gibb. "Denying valuable opportunities either out of indolence or ideology is unacceptable."

The academy, based at Warwick University, provides on-line activities and hosts regular lectures and seminars. It also runs residential weekend and holiday schools. It has 70,982 members aged 11 to 19, representing 1.78 per cent of secondary pupils.... Peter Corker, the senior manager of the academy's student section, said there was still some ideological opposition in schools to picking out the able students but not as much as in past years.

A spokesman for Islington council said it participated in other schemes for gifted and talented children based in London. "We have plenty of facilities here for them," she said".

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EDUCATIONAL TYRANNY

Lean's "Collectanea," a 19th-century collection of Elizabethan proverbs, contains a maxim it ascribes to the Jesuits: "Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards." In like manner, Vladimir Lenin said: "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." All around the world, parents are stunned and dismayed by the actions of the educational bureaucracy. Germans are again fleeing from their government into France and Switzerland as officials announce they will take children away from parents who refuse to turn their children over to the state-mandated schools. California parents are reeling from the recent decision by the a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which asserts that parents' have no right to control how the public schools educate their children. In Texas, parents are angrily protesting their children being medicated by school personnel against their wishes.

However, these despicable actions should come as a surprise only to the ignorant - who are clearly the great majority - since only an ignoramus or a fool would voluntarily pass his children through the pagan fires of the public schools.

The Association of California School Administrators is reported to have issued the following statement:

"Parent choice" proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained.

It is perhaps apocryphal - I could not find an original publication to cite here - but in it one hears a distinct echo of the man who established the first public kindergarten and was the U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1899 to 1906. In "The Philosophy of Education," William Torey Harris let the cat out of the bag by asserting that the entire point of public education is "the subsumption of the individual."

This is why Marx, Lenin and Hitler were all supporters of public schooling in their attempts to permanently secure the individual's services for the State. The standing in line, the bullying, the drudgery and boredom of the mind-numbing daily school routine is not incidental to the education of the schoolchild, it is the education. Contrary to what most parents believe, it is actually reading, writing and arithmetic that are entirely incidental to the true purpose of public school - subservience is the "socialization" of which educationists correctly complain that homeschooled children lack.

The homeschooling movement was inevitable, as it is only a symptom of the fundamental conflict between Christianity and the utilitarian collectivism that lies below the surface of the public-school system. The little girl who raises her hands to praise the Son of God who loved her enough to die for her will never buy into the lie that she is nothing more than an insignificant and eminently replaceable cog in the great machine of the collective. She is an immortal soul, a creature of eternity who cannot be subsumed.

The latest battle for the minds of the next generation's schoolchildren has barely begun, but the result is already certain. Nero failed. Lenin failed. Hitler failed, and so, too, will the American educationists and their evil school system. If the gates of Hell will not triumph against the Church, then what chance do the NEA minions infesting your local Molochian altar have?

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How awful: Illegality finally penalized: "The high school teacher was appalled that so many of her bright students were not planning for college. They told her it was no use trying because they were here illegally. The teacher ended up literally walking a few students through the admissions process, proving that colleges didn't question someone's legal status. But after all that encouragement, the teacher is finding maybe her students were right after all. For someone unauthorized to be here, college is of little use. The teacher, Sonya Kim, watched one of her former students, Rosa Olivares, attend Scottsdale Community College and then earn her education degree at Arizona State University. Olivares now has her teaching certificate. But it's of no use without another document: a valid Social Security number, something they didn't hand to Olivares when she dashed across the border near Nogales as a child. 'It's like having a key to the door and still not being able to use it,' Kim said, after letting kids out of her class for the day."

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For greatest efficiency, lowest cost and maximum choice, ALL schools should be privately owned and run -- with government-paid vouchers for the poor and minimal regulation.

The NEA and similar unions worldwide believe that children should be thoroughly indoctrinated with Green/Left, feminist/homosexual ideology but the "3 R's" are something that kids should just be allowed to "discover"


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