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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!eaglet!neon!fasttech!zeke
- From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Subject: Re: educational system (was: Re: new initiative)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.230305.6532@fasttech.com>
- Organization: Fast Technology Beaverton, OR
- References: <1jdh9qINN1br@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <C12LvD.Cq5@slipknot.rain.com> <1jgderINNjv1@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <C17CCL.HwB@slipknot.rain.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:03:05 GMT
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- In <C17CCL.HwB@slipknot.rain.com> robert@slipknot.rain.com (Robert Reed) writes:
-
- >Our society has gotten too complex for the educational system to stop after
- >teaching "the three Rs." It certainly should do a good job in teaching these
- >basics, but it needs to do much more to prepare children to deal with the
- >problems they may expect to face in their lifetimes.
-
- First, fix the school system so that it DOES teach the three Rs. Then, and
- only then, talk to us about everything else you want the school system,
- instead of parents, to do.
-
- >Inner city youth suffer primarily from living on the small
- >end of the economic system, where it is easy to see how rage, despair and
- >criminality can fester.
-
- This is pure liberal bullshit. It's completely wrong.
-
- I grew up as lower-middle-class in the 60's in New York. All around me were
- kids much poorer than me, most of whom did NOT have any "rage, despair, or
- criminality".
-
- My parents and these other parents were very hard working. Many managed
- to move their families out of the city and achieve a better life for
- themselves and their children. Even those parents that couldn't move made
- sure their kids got an education that would let them lead a better life.
-
- How did the parents accomplish this? Thru hard work. Thru avoidance of
- conspicuous consumption. Thru two-parent households. In many families
- the father worked at a relatively low paying job during the day and often
- worked evenings at a second job. The mother often cleaned offices for
- minimum wage at night.
-
- The one way they DIDN'T accomplish this is thru welfare (or public assistance,
- or whatever PC euphemism is in vogue these days).
-
- The Republicans have this right. Being poor isn't what makes it easy for
- "rage, despair, and criminality to fester". It's the lack of family values.
- Such as a work ethic. Such as two-parent families. Such as respect for basic
- societal and religious laws like "thou shall not steal". The biggest cause of
- the collapse of the inner cites is the complete breakdown of family values,
- accelerated by if not directly caused by the ascendency of the welfare state.
-