Sunday, August 20, 2006

Communism In Kindergarten

My daughter starts to kindergarten this year. I have worried about putting her in the public school system for some time, but we had some hope since we know most of the teachers at her school. Surely the government would hold off a year or two before they began assaulting our values, beliefs and ideals. What could they do in kindergarten to begin the brainwashing? That was before we got the supply list.

After listing the usual, pencils, paper, binders and crayons; there was a note on the bottom of the page: "All supplies will be shared by all students." In other words all the supplies we buy for our daughter become the property of the collective to be shared with every other student. Yes, my friends, the public school system is now teaching communism. I think Lenin himself said something about controlling the education system and controlling society.

Instead of teaching personal responsibility and the importance of private ownership, my daughter’s school is teaching children to believe that all property belongs to the government and is distributed "from each according to his ability to each according to his need."

My daughter’s teacher had a reasonable benign reason for doing this. Something about controlling what is used during class time. The bottom line, though, is it teaches communism. It teaches government dependence. It discourages self reliance. It teaches that a forced equality should be the norm.

After a few years of this, European style socialism will seem like a good thing. Young malleable brains will be convinced that they should feel guilty if they have more than their neighbor. Pretty soon libertarian capitalism and individualism will be concepts as foreign to most students as Latin.

I quickly remembered why I hate government schools.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't worry too much about this.  In my area this is done in kindergarten because it just makes things easier for everyone.  Students sit at long tables instead of individual desks with a big pot of crayons in the middle and the papers, pencils, etc. organized in shelves or baskets.  Students learn to share and they learn to put things back in place, and clean up their spots.  Most of kindergarten is fun and games and learning social skills.  By first grade they have their own notebooks and crayons and pencils and they start getting real grades.  The competition begins then and it never ends.  Or, as some of my high school students have told me, "after kindergarten, it's all down hill."

Anonymous said...

My wife, a public school teacher confirms what KTZFER said, that in first grade, they all get their own desk and their own stuff to take care of.  But, I understand your concern for the subliminal message.

Anonymous said...

It was only a matter of time before this happened, Steve, and I guess they figured the time is now. After all, young minds are like sponges - they "soak up" what is put in front of them and therefore, can be "conditioned" at a younger age to accept what we know to be "radical ideology." God forbid they be taught self-reliance, personal responsibility and the importance of PRIVATE ownership (the things that made America a GREAT Nation). No, we must do like the Borg on STAR TREK - be "assimilated" in to the "collective," wiping out all traces of individuality. In other words, it is "political correctness" - on steroids.
I have no doubt that if our forefathers were alive today to see this, they would start ANOTHER revolution - one to save us from ourselves.

Anonymous said...

ktzefr may be correct as to kids having their 'own' stuff after kindergarten, but I beg to differ about the competitiveness factor these days.  when schools don't want to hold deficient students back in order not to harm their self esteem (along with doing away with dodge ball and monkey bars for their 'protection') and having games with no winners or losers it's still part of the collectivist agenda.  or when one group  or another whines that standardized testing is 'unfair' to some.  or our culture that says if you don't like it, sue.  (don't even get me started on the revisionist history they're propagating in schools these days.)
 

Anonymous said...

The school is grooming the child in the Communist philosophy of sharing rather than private ownership, otherwise the parent would pay a fee, and the teacher would purchase supplies suitable for projected classroom projects.  Americans have been groomed by the media and the ACLU to become very PC (politically correct), rather than standing up for our rights, apathy has replaced moral and patriotic indignation. The Leftwing fanatics have used Liberal professors and teachers to brainwash and confiscate the mindset of our young so they can be used to further their anti-American, anti-Military ideology. Can we stop this?  When all Americans recognize the cunning manipulation going on to take over our Nation and  an outcry is heard here in America and around the world that real Americans have not lost their will to fight! We will follow our Forefather's example in defending our borders, our soverighnty, our morals, and our freedom of religion. We will defend to the death our children's right to education without left-wing propaganda robbing them of their American heritage.
Junesticky