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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I agree.
It is silly to blame schools. It is ultimately the parents responsibility to teach values. But the teachers that I know and my children and grandchildren had were mostly wonderful examples. I know that because even as a grandparent I stayed personally involved with our school system....which was and is...drum roll please, Lakota Local in West Chester, Ohio. It is worth a google.
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So, do you know what the children are learning today in the subjects of American History and Social Sciences? I'll wager they're not learning the same history with a reverence for individual achievement as we did from what I gather.
Parents do need to stay involved, but they are almost powerless when it comes to the texts that their children are taught. Many children are not taught that their country is the greatest nation on earth because of the achievements of it's peoples which were forged by freedoms never before bestowed on a nation's citizens, as we were taught when we were children.
Today's children are too often not taught about patriotism and allegiance to a cause bigger than themselves, which is the cause of personal freedom and rights of private property, which were a rare thing before the birth of our nation.
This is why we have a generation of young adults who think the government owes them a free college education, a job, a prosperous retirement and a redistribution of others wealth for which they should be required to expend little effort to achieve.
It's not a good place we're going unless we have the courage and fortitude to stop it.