Comments on: Open letter to parents http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9238 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Comeoncomcast (aka Andrew) http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9238/comment-page-1#comment-994017 Comeoncomcast (aka Andrew) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:42 +0000 #comment-994017 "Our daughter, Emma, who’ll be 10 this month, has never been to school. Liz and I are teaching her ourselves. This way, we know what she’s learning and perhaps more importantly, we know where the subject matter is coming from. Because one of the things we don’t want is for her to be exposed to the empty and often moronic hogwash being force-fed to pupils at junior and senior schools around the world as a standard part of lessons, thanks to entertainment and software corporations who are are farming it out disguised as ‘educational’ material." Thats the best thing you could of done Jon. :) Public Schools -- Not the greatest place for a young mind. :( “Our daughter, Emma, who’ll be 10 this month, has never been to school. Liz and I are teaching her ourselves. This way, we know what she’s learning and perhaps more importantly, we know where the subject matter is coming from.

Because one of the things we don’t want is for her to be exposed to the empty and often moronic hogwash being force-fed to pupils at junior and senior schools around the world as a standard part of lessons, thanks to entertainment and software corporations who are are farming it out disguised as ‘educational’ material.”

Thats the best thing you could of done Jon. :)

Public Schools — Not the greatest place for a young mind. :(

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9238/comment-page-1#comment-57614 Reader's Write Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:03:19 +0000 #comment-57614 I wanted to post a link to an interview with a Toronto high-school computer teacher who's principal unilaterally dismantled a Linux lab, telling the teacher that they were only allowed to teach Microsoft. http://www.cluecan.ca/node/307 While home-schooling (or un-schooling, etc) is an option for some parents (see http://www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/ for more information), I don't think it is available to most parents. I believe it is incumbent upon us to become active in our local schools and in educational politics generally so that we can ensure that all our children get a fair education and not have the propaganda of special economic interests forced on them uncritically. I wanted to post a link to an interview with a Toronto high-school computer teacher who’s principal unilaterally dismantled a Linux lab, telling the teacher that they were only allowed to teach Microsoft.

http://www.cluecan.ca/node/307

While home-schooling (or un-schooling, etc) is an option for some parents (see http://www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/ for more information), I don’t think it is available to most parents. I believe it is incumbent upon us to become active in our local schools and in educational politics generally so that we can ensure that all our children get a fair education and not have the propaganda of special economic interests forced on them uncritically.

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