Thats a tough one.
The social workers either go to far or they dont do enough.
Then you have the people that will take care of a kid or two for the money and some end up being pedos.
Same goes for churches,they have a history of child abuse as well.
I dont think there's a magic one solution to the problem. But orphanages may be the best all around solution.
One thing, that is not mentioned in that article, which I have no doubt is the case, is the mother and father probably both abused alcohol and drugs, and were both victims themselves of broken homes.
Folks that come from loving, and whole families and lives, don't have this psychic pain, where does THAT come from?
This is from the prologue. The man who wrote this book was awarded NY state school teacher of the year, and NYC school teacher of the year. The system also conspired to try to fire him as well . . .
By
John Taylor Gatto
August 23, 2010
The preface to The Underground History of American Public Education Our problem in understanding forced schooling stems from an inconvenient fact: that the wrong it does from a human perspective is right from a systems perspective. You can see this in the case of six-year-old Bianca, who came to...
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The preface to The Underground History of American Public Education
" . . . Most of us tacitly accept the pragmatic terms of public school which allow every kind of psychic violence to be inflicted on Bianca in order to fulfill the prime directive of the system: putting children in their place. It’s called "social efficiency." But I get this precognition, this flash-forward to a moment far in the future when your little girl Jane, having left her comfortable home, wakes up to a world where Bianca is her enraged meter maid, or the passport clerk Jane counts on for her emergency ticket out of the country, or the strange lady who lives next door.
I picture this animal Bianca grown large and mean, the same Bianca who didn’t go to school for a month after her little friends took to whispering, "Bianca is an animal, Bianca is an animal," while Bianca, only seconds earlier a human being like themselves, sat choking back tears, struggling her way through a reading selection by guessing what the words meant.
In my dream I see Bianca as a fiend manufactured by schooling who now regards Janey as a vehicle for vengeance. In a transport of passion she:
- Gives Jane’s car a ticket before the meter runs out.
- Throws away Jane’s passport application after Jane leaves the office.
- Plays heavy metal music through the thin partition which separates Bianca’s apartment from Jane’s while Jane pounds frantically on the wall for relief.
- All the above.
You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood, even though one in every nine schoolchildren is terrified of physical harm happening to them in school, terrified with good cause; about thirty-three are murdered there every year. Your great-great-grandmother didn’t have to surrender her children. What happened?
If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher? . . . "
IMO, a complete change of the culture is the best solution. We have drifted from the culture and nation that we once were.
Folks care too much about materialism, success and power, and not enough about family, friends, society or the nation.
This is the complete book, and it is all addressed in;
The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling
They way humans evolved, in tribal societies, and pre-industrial societies, the mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, IOW? Adults in their prime, went out and made society run. This does not matter if it is in the city, town, or rural districts, or in hunter gather societies, or advanced societies, it works the same. Folks in their prime, are the producers, they make the products, i.e., clothing, housing, and food, for the rest of the populations.
And the children? Traditionally, throughout all of human history, have been cared for, and instructed by, the old women and old men, the disabled, and those who could not produce efficiently for society.
This all changed when human productivity increased and the managerial class needed to create more jobs, and more industries. It also was a result of the desire to create a standardized product/education in how the children were trained, creating, "human resources." This is when the whole notion of compulsory education was introduced. Folks in New England in the mid nineteenth century even resisted this change with arms, it was such a radical departure of social engineering.
Taking children from the family, and the grandparents, the extended family, to train them in the STATE run schools, for the purposes of the nation and the corporations, with a formal pedagogy. This, then, has made children a resource, an input for industry and the STATE. They are no longer part of their families. They are no longer a sovereign spiritual individual, who knows they have other needs, besides material wants and desires. Most kids today, won't think twice to move half way across the nation, away from their family & friends, to make twice as much money.
And if they marry, have children? What then if no family is around? It is a sad story, it really is.
Most of these folks that act like they have been dehumanized? Have been. Quite purposely.
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