These crazy Marxist Teachers all need to be fired immediately. Poisoning the minds of Sonoma County children. If all intelligent people show up at the next local board meetings and demand they teach about the God-given rights we’re all born with, to which the Constitution refers, and teach the Constitution and the Godly principles like faith and courage and fearlessness and humility, upon which this nation was founded.
To the America Haters reading this comment, there was good and bad, about the Founders - teach it all. It was a different time in the world, with worldwide slavery and women had no rights yet, but the Christian men who founded this nation knew they had a right to freedom and freedom from tyranny and were willing to risk their very lives and fight for it. Which they did.
Today’s Americans appear so afraid of this tyrannical government that they not only refuse to fight for our rights and freedom but are even afraid to talk about it!
That’s what public schools have done to American children, though not ALL American children. I, for one, am not afraid to exercise my First Amendment right to speak freely. We’re not ALL afraid, but many Americans suffer from a form of Stockholm Syndrome, so afraid of this nation’s tyrants that they actually SUPPORT their freedom being taken from them, and support this nation’s terrorist Tyrants who clearly are not “of the people, for the people” or “by the people”.
It’s time for brave Americans to stand up for ourselves and exercise our God-given rights, for a change. We can start at these local School Board meetings. I’ll be attending as many as possible now. I hope to see many of you there, too. We can make schools American again. We can identify and demand the Board’s fire the Communists and the Marxist ‘educators’ and ‘teachers’ and go back to teaching American principles and values, like how to develop a good work ethic, speak up for yourself, have faith, be brave and courageous, how to be strong and independent and build your OWN business, not work for the tyrants and make the tyrants rich, like many of us were conned into doing.
I hope many of you will consider showing up at your local School Board meetings too, even if you have no children or grandchildren attending right now. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.” Edmund Burke
At last someone is showing concern over what I would say is mediocre to poor performance by local schools. May I add this to the discussion? 1. It's not that the students are not aware of the mediocre to poor preparation they are receiving. In a 2023 survey, 24% of Analy (and Laguna?) students thought their high school experience prepared them well for college or post high school careers. And this low percentage ranked in the bottom quarter of all schools nationally. (When I read about this result [in the Sebastopol Times] I was astonished at the lack of community concern. I mean - only 24% of students think their high school is preparing them well!! 2. Despite a median family income ranking well above the State level, (using family income as a surrogate for socio-economic status, a commonly accepted indicator for academic proficiency), Sonoma County has an acceptance rate at California State Colleges and Universities below the statewide level.
Tough decisions to make. And what was the last price tag I saw for improvements needed for the Analy campus? >$40 million?
'Not good news' barely tells this awful story....and AI is likely to make it even worse. I have to assume that all parents hope for good opportunities for their children. But I hear from teachers that students can't be 'disciplined' in any real way and that most parents either won't or don't have the time or the English skills to take an active interest in their kids' education. Given that this trend is likely to continue, we are going to need more foreign born workers (whether the 'other' party likes it or not not) to fill the shrinking number of decent paying jobs. Physically hard, low paying jobs in SoCo are already mostly filled by the foreign born. I have few answers, other than to give incentives to people NOT to have children they can't support financially, educationally, and emotionally. The fact that over 50% of children born in the US are WIC eligible says a lot. These parents can't even afford diapers and baby formula/food. I'd be very surprised if students' failing test scores aren't correlated with this. Poverty doesn't make you a good person but it makes being an effective parent extremely hard, especially if you have multiple children making demands on your time and energy. So, let's not just blame 'the system' for this mess. It's also parents and social media/pressure.
Thank you for this informative essay. A select group of the next generation will be involved with excellent peers, having Asian seriousness. But the remainder will be susceptible to political propaganda about the “them” creating “problems “.
With ever diminishing employment for under skilled people, expectations will be forcefully realigned, to our society’s detriment.
This generational challenge has been apparent for decades, to a few parents.
Again, thank you Sebastopol Times.
And per the editorial in Science, 27 November, only 42% of Americans support higher education which is nearly identical to the percentage with a college degree. A college education has now become the single factor that best describes how a person votes.
As a parent of an elementary aged child in a Sonoma County public school, I have always been dubious about standardized testing. I know it has slightly improved since I was stressing over them as a child, but why is this one of the few measures of success that we are holding over our children?
My child is fairly average for their age, is collaborated with constantly by us as parents, and has consistently good feedback on performance from teachers, yet year over year is only shown to be “approaching standard” or barely “meeting standard”.
I’m not saying that there isn’t a trend in lack of literacy or competency by children, but it makes you wonder if the system and testing is what is failing children and not the children failing it.
These crazy Marxist Teachers all need to be fired immediately. Poisoning the minds of Sonoma County children. If all intelligent people show up at the next local board meetings and demand they teach about the God-given rights we’re all born with, to which the Constitution refers, and teach the Constitution and the Godly principles like faith and courage and fearlessness and humility, upon which this nation was founded.
To the America Haters reading this comment, there was good and bad, about the Founders - teach it all. It was a different time in the world, with worldwide slavery and women had no rights yet, but the Christian men who founded this nation knew they had a right to freedom and freedom from tyranny and were willing to risk their very lives and fight for it. Which they did.
Today’s Americans appear so afraid of this tyrannical government that they not only refuse to fight for our rights and freedom but are even afraid to talk about it!
That’s what public schools have done to American children, though not ALL American children. I, for one, am not afraid to exercise my First Amendment right to speak freely. We’re not ALL afraid, but many Americans suffer from a form of Stockholm Syndrome, so afraid of this nation’s tyrants that they actually SUPPORT their freedom being taken from them, and support this nation’s terrorist Tyrants who clearly are not “of the people, for the people” or “by the people”.
It’s time for brave Americans to stand up for ourselves and exercise our God-given rights, for a change. We can start at these local School Board meetings. I’ll be attending as many as possible now. I hope to see many of you there, too. We can make schools American again. We can identify and demand the Board’s fire the Communists and the Marxist ‘educators’ and ‘teachers’ and go back to teaching American principles and values, like how to develop a good work ethic, speak up for yourself, have faith, be brave and courageous, how to be strong and independent and build your OWN business, not work for the tyrants and make the tyrants rich, like many of us were conned into doing.
I hope many of you will consider showing up at your local School Board meetings too, even if you have no children or grandchildren attending right now. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.” Edmund Burke
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At last someone is showing concern over what I would say is mediocre to poor performance by local schools. May I add this to the discussion? 1. It's not that the students are not aware of the mediocre to poor preparation they are receiving. In a 2023 survey, 24% of Analy (and Laguna?) students thought their high school experience prepared them well for college or post high school careers. And this low percentage ranked in the bottom quarter of all schools nationally. (When I read about this result [in the Sebastopol Times] I was astonished at the lack of community concern. I mean - only 24% of students think their high school is preparing them well!! 2. Despite a median family income ranking well above the State level, (using family income as a surrogate for socio-economic status, a commonly accepted indicator for academic proficiency), Sonoma County has an acceptance rate at California State Colleges and Universities below the statewide level.
Tough decisions to make. And what was the last price tag I saw for improvements needed for the Analy campus? >$40 million?
'Not good news' barely tells this awful story....and AI is likely to make it even worse. I have to assume that all parents hope for good opportunities for their children. But I hear from teachers that students can't be 'disciplined' in any real way and that most parents either won't or don't have the time or the English skills to take an active interest in their kids' education. Given that this trend is likely to continue, we are going to need more foreign born workers (whether the 'other' party likes it or not not) to fill the shrinking number of decent paying jobs. Physically hard, low paying jobs in SoCo are already mostly filled by the foreign born. I have few answers, other than to give incentives to people NOT to have children they can't support financially, educationally, and emotionally. The fact that over 50% of children born in the US are WIC eligible says a lot. These parents can't even afford diapers and baby formula/food. I'd be very surprised if students' failing test scores aren't correlated with this. Poverty doesn't make you a good person but it makes being an effective parent extremely hard, especially if you have multiple children making demands on your time and energy. So, let's not just blame 'the system' for this mess. It's also parents and social media/pressure.
Thank you for this informative essay. A select group of the next generation will be involved with excellent peers, having Asian seriousness. But the remainder will be susceptible to political propaganda about the “them” creating “problems “.
With ever diminishing employment for under skilled people, expectations will be forcefully realigned, to our society’s detriment.
This generational challenge has been apparent for decades, to a few parents.
Again, thank you Sebastopol Times.
And per the editorial in Science, 27 November, only 42% of Americans support higher education which is nearly identical to the percentage with a college degree. A college education has now become the single factor that best describes how a person votes.
We are growing a future of science doubters.
As a parent of an elementary aged child in a Sonoma County public school, I have always been dubious about standardized testing. I know it has slightly improved since I was stressing over them as a child, but why is this one of the few measures of success that we are holding over our children?
My child is fairly average for their age, is collaborated with constantly by us as parents, and has consistently good feedback on performance from teachers, yet year over year is only shown to be “approaching standard” or barely “meeting standard”.
I’m not saying that there isn’t a trend in lack of literacy or competency by children, but it makes you wonder if the system and testing is what is failing children and not the children failing it.