Elimination of Private Schools within the United States

[TheMaroon]

Private schools are a bastion for fascist indoctrination and right wing propaganda. At most private schools students are not allowed to form their own opinion or beliefs simply because some of them are not moral. At the private school I attended I witnessed two atheists get expelled, simply for being atheists. Further more private schools do not seem to enforce the anti-corporal punishment laws that are in act within the united states as I have seen multiple students get picked up by their shirt collars and pushed against a wall and yelled at. Along with the fact that most private schools, I can name three, spend more money on making the school look nice than it does on learning material and equipment for the students and teachers. At the last internment camp I attended, which they so boldly called a school, we were reading text books from 1963, and using computers older than some of the teachers. At all three, and according to first hand accounts; hippie, gay, and socialist/communist bashing is the trend in most private school history classes. The school I attended went so far as assaulting the personal lives of great men such as Chavez, Che, Trotsky, Lenin, and even Father Marx and Engels. When I made the bold switch to a public school, (which might I add the teachers at private school made public sound like Sodom and Gomorrah) it was obvious that public schools are better equipped for teaching and molding young adults.

With all of that said, what is the opinion of anybody who wasted their time to read this.

Thank you very much,
The Maroon

[Sinister Intents]

These situations are set up in Schools to be like this, Schools are set up to train you to be good employees, not good people. Schools are massive indoctrination centers to maintain the system we live under because they normalize the system.

[TheMaroon]

Yes, but at least at public school, our minds aren't being pushed toward the dark ages. At public school we are trained and tempered, you are right. I however say that public school is training for the real world. You have diverse people, diverse beliefs, diverse orientations. At private you are given right wing ideals and a false since of duty to country.

[Sinister Intents]

I've never been to a private school, unless a Catholic school counts. At the Public school I went to in the small town I live nearby to, I've noticed the teachers still try to maintain the same compliance, It's still the same push to prepare students for the work force. At the public school I was at I got several detentions for not doing the pledge to the flag, and the school books suck.

[BIXX]

I don't know why but some part of me wanted to post a picture of a weird looking dog captioned "lol what's school?"

Anyway, I think that private schools (analyzed separate from the educational system throughout the world) are no where near as fucked up as they are when analyzed in relation to the rest of the educational system, which itself is even more horrific. School smashes thoughts that don't fall into the lines that civilization follows, so individuals who have ideas regarding communism and anarchism are constantly at odds with the educational system. Individuals who do not fit within civilization's lines (aka anyone who is oppressed) cannot express themselves fully and truthfully.

[Nemo]

Private schools are hard to generalize as an institution because private schools are not an institution. They operate independently of each other.

Considering the poor state of public education in most of the United States, private schools can serve as a reprieve. But because of their inherently elitist nature (by virtue of the fact that they cost money), you run into pretty horrendous problems, e.g:

Why should certain people (namely rich people) have access to better education than others? Why are populations of most private schools overwhelmingly white?

It comes back around to be a pretty caustic indicator of tired, deep-rooted issues in the macrocosm. Quite sickening, actually.

[tallguy]

a hidden bind to blind the minds
of those too young to see
we educate
to dissipate
all curiosity

[Bala Perdida]

Im guessing private schools attack differences more aggressively in order to purge any "undesirables" from what is to become the ruling class. The public school system does the same, but focuses on the work force. Even if a teacher goes in with certain intentions, they are then told to teach subjects with which they have little to no experience in. So, it's easier to follow the manipulating manual instead of actually teaching. The teachers at my school that have found me with a book by Kropotkin or Chomsky have not questioned me much, they just seemed glad I was reading. The teachers did look some what concerned, they're liberal so I basically destroy their conforming way of thinking with my so called "radical" way of thinking.

[BIXX]

Im guessing private schools attack differences more aggressively in order to purge any "undesirables" from what is to become the ruling class. The public school system does the same, but focuses on the work force. Even if a teacher goes in with certain intentions, they are then told to teach subjects with which they have little to no experience in. So, it's easier to follow the manipulating manual instead of actually teaching. The teachers at my school that have found me with a book by Kropotkin or Chomsky have not questioned me much, they just seemed glad I was reading. The teachers did look some what concerned, they're liberal so I basically destroy their conforming way of thinking with my so called "radical" way of thinking.


Being an open anarchist is balls when you're in school, tbh. Teachers spend a lot more of their time trying to discredit you.

[Positivist]

Abolishing private schools would not solve the US's education problems. Course schedules, curricula, and disciplinary policies in public schools subvert creativity and foster abuse at least as much as their corollaries in private schools do, and on top of that public schools don't invest as much in preparing their students for college. At least private schools, relying on good reviews and successful alumni as they do, have an interest in their clients' success. Education is a superstructure, and like any other, its content will be dependent upon that of its base. Capitalist economy is totalizing and uncompassionate, ergo education under capitalism, whether it be funded by the corporatist state or by wealthy individuals, will always stifle individuality and disregard personal growth.

[Fourth Internationalist]

"Father Marx"? I hope that's a joke.

And, I went to a private Catholic school from K - 8th grade. While the school did teach Catholicism and pray and stuff, the teachers here were always very open-minded. My history teacher knew I was an atheist, and the only thing she told me to do was to consider other religions rather than give up on them all. My English teacher, she saw my "The God Delusion" book (back in those days I was into Dawkins), and she essentially said that it is good to read what other people thought about it. In her home room class (my brother had her), they had a "Social Justice" class and talked about discrimination and stuff, and she was very open about how words like "gay" should never be used as an insult. While not an endorsement of gay marriage, that's pretty good. Though, my (awesome) science teacher did tell us that zygotes were one-celled humans and that abortion was like a holocaust in America, but it really was not hounded on like one would have expected.

Personally, I miss my small private Catholic school. I think bad private schools are still in existence, just like bad public schools are.

[CaptainCool309]

The Moline Maroons are Trash! The Alleman Pioneers have Jesus on our side and we will crush the Maroons every time we see them on the sports field! Onward to Victory Pioneers! :thumbup:

Hello Maroon! I go to Alleman Catholic High School, which is pretty close to your Moline High school. In my view Alleman does have an elitist sentiment to it, but for the most part I've enjoyed my time at Alleman. We are a close knit community with a lot of great kids and staff, and I feel I've gained a good education through it.

The dress code is enforced, but it's pretty chillax and a lot of kids find ways to sort of knit-pick around it. Corporal punishment is non-existent (expect for a couple of Nuns who like to joke around with it) and most kids are simply punished through detentions or suspensions. The curriculum and teaching equipment is pretty modern and not too outdated, and the teachers don't generally force a political agenda down your throat. My biggest problem with Alleman are some of the kids (But you can expect that from just about any high school) Some kids do have bit of an elitist and right-wing attitude there, but I've known plenty of down-to-earth people of which I have become friends with.

So how do you feel about Alleman? And how would compare it to Moline? Cause I've had a few friends who went to Moline or know a lot about it, and their takes on it range from being just "okay", from it being a "paradise" compared to Alleman.