My blood is boiling! That's why we've chosen to 100% homeschool and teach, protect, prepare our children to be responsible, hard working, socially and spiritually happy, God-loving citizens. Many mistakes but we learn and correct our failings doing what's always right. Never vaccinated nor drugged our children.
I could almost write a book on all the things in this thread that I agree with. What they're doing to the children now and for a long time back. I have one son who graduated high school in Ca without being able to read. I have another son that I had to send out of state to school because they trying to take him away when I wouldn't give him meds daily. He learned to read in jr high when I sent him to school in Wisconsin. It isn't the teachers although I fought with a few when they would send my kids home rather than deal with them, even lying to get them sent home. I had to go to the school board to get my son kept back a grade when he wasn't up with the rest of his class. I better stop for now because my temper flares just discussing this.
Good point on the bromine/iodine situation. Bromine is added to flour in the U.S., but I think it is forbidden in the E.U. Iron has recently (a number of years ago) now been linked to thyroid function as well. I have seen good vaccines and bad vaccines. Many doctors now agree that children receive too many vaccines, but it is the standard of care, and they have to push them. MMR and DPT seem to be the most often linked to autism, but I think it is the NUMBER of vaccinations, not any individual vaccine that is the problem. I could go into my reasoning, but that is not this thread. HIB vaccine is one of the good ones. Diet is important in many ways, and without adding a number of ocean products to you diet (seafood, kelp, etc.) it is now impossible to attain complete nutrition IMHO.
We homeschooled our 6 children over 22 years. We were real freaks when we started, but were accepted as normal by the time the last of our kids left home.
I wasn't aware of the agendas involved in our public education system when my son was in school. However, while he was in junior high school in Long Beach, he was having trouble with algebra. I have mentioned on this forum before that I had a lot of trouble with algebra when I was in school. Of course, I suggested he let his teacher know that he was having trouble understanding it and ask for help. He said that he had, but that his teacher would simply point him to the book. Looking at his book, I could see that they would show a very easy problem and then present more difficult ones for the students to figure out. Finally, I went to talk to his teacher and he pretty much told me that most of his students could figure it out so it wasn't his problem. He said that he had fifty students in his class and couldn't be expected to spend extra time with all of them. I pointed out that he had just told me that most of his students didn't need extra help. The end result was he wasn't any help. I ended up ordering the teacher's edition of his book and figuring algebra out for myself so I could help him figure it out at home. That wasn't an agenda, though. That was a lazy teacher.
@Chris Ladewig Keep in mind temper flare goes hand in hand with rising blood pressure, neither are good at all! Frank
I recommend this book – "Abduction: How Liberalism Steals Our Childrens Hearts And Minds" by Steve Feazel, Dr. Carol M. Swain.
According to Michiu Kaku, we have one of the poorest education systems in the world nowdays, which would seem to fit in with the epidemic of students graduating and not learning much in the process. Living here in the South, it seems like we see more people who can’t pronounce words correctly, making it hard to even understand the speech of some people. If they don’t know how to pronounce a word, and they haven’t learned spelling, then about the only “language” they are capable of is the one used in texting, which actually is mostly symbols for phrases (LOL, etc), and the words used are often misspelled (b4, etc). Even television programs used to be educational, such as Jacques Cousteau ocean explorations, or they at least had some moral concept that they were teaching, even in cartoons. I have noticed that a lot of the doctors we have been to were from other countries, but I really didn’t understand what was happening until I listened to this explanation by Michiu Kaku. I don’t always agree with what he says about things; but I do think that he is probably right on this subject.
I couldn't agree more, Yvonne. He is right on the money. It is so sad what has happened to the educational system here. The decline began with the elimination of Tracking, and was accelerated after the creation of the Education Department and the takeover of education by the Federal Government. Unfortunately, my son (a recent graduate of college) claims that the university education in the U.S. is following the public schools down the toilet.
Tonight, I think that I might have found yet another piece of the puzzle about why (or at least part of the how) America is being dumbed down. I was watching a video about how exercise affects our brain. We usually think about exercise as something to help condition and strengthen our body, help us get (back) in shape, and maybe even lose some extra weight. We don’t usually think about it as having a big effect on our brain, although most of us have at least heard about what is called “runner’s high”, which is when the endorphins kick in after you have exercised. I know that I always feel just wonderful, relaxed and happy, after I have been at the fitness center and swimming for an hour, and I am sure that is part of the reason that I enjoy the swimming so much. Anyway, back to the subject..... apparently exercise also makes our brain “wake up” and perform better, because it needed to keep people alert back when life preservation was more dependent on physical action than it is today. When we are not exercising, then the brain relaxes and doesn’t work as hard. Back when I was in school, we not only had PE just about every day, we always went outside and played on the playground equipment at the school yard, or at least ran around and played games together. I walked to school and home again, and after school, most of the kids played outside unless it was pouring down rain and we couldn’t go out. Kids got a lot more exercise before we had all of the video games and PlayStations , and now most kids don’t even begin to spend the time outside playing that we used to do, and very little time exercising, even at school. So, this is probably another factor in why our younger generation of people are perhaps getting dumber and less able to make good decisions in life.
Good video, Yvonne, but if movement were the only reason for a brain, I know a lot of millennials who would have no brain left, and a cheetah might have the biggest brain ever.