Public School Curriculum Teaches Kindergartners to Unionize

[rambone]

Public school children are being taught collectivist dogma through puppet shows. Think twice before sending your kids off to socialist bootcamps that barely prepare them for a substantive academic future.


Indoctrination Fridays: Curriculum Teaches Kindergartners to Unionize

Henrietta (the hen): Farmer Brown, we have something to say. This is what we chickens want:
1. More and better food. No mold, no sand in our corn.
2. Freedom to walk around outside and a bigger hen house.
3. Each hen will lay an average of four eggs a week.
4. Stop punishing us. Let Hortensia come back.
Farmer: No way! Who ever heard of chickens telling the farmer what to do? Shut up and get back to the henhouse!
Chickens: No, Farmer Brown, not this time! And besides those things, you have to recognize our union, Hens United, or we’ll all stop laying eggs!
Farmer: OK, OK, if I have no eggs to sell, I’ll go bankrupt. We’d all starve, so I guess I’ll have to do what you say. Since you’re all together, what can I do?
Chickens: We won! We stuck together and we won! Si, Se puede.*

 

[turnandshoot4]

Public schools are a choice.

 

[SEIndSAM]

IN real life the Farmer would send the chickens to the butcher and raise some new hens.

 

[Kitty]

At that age they can't even understand "unions". As far as I'm concerned this is just teaching it ok to bully if you are in a group (ok, kind of what unions do).

I would ask what are they thinking, but it is obvious that they are not.

 

[RockofStrength]

"If I have no eggs to sell, I'd go bankrupt. We'd all starve..."

Said to a bunch of chickens who are now refusing to lay eggs. Considering what any farmer tends to do when the hens stop laying...


I have never understood how it is any more right for a large group of workers to oppress a small number of managers/employers than the other way around.

 

[PatriotPride]

Public schools are a choice.

Yes, to an extent. Taxes are taken from our pay to go towards public education. However, should you choose to send your child to a private school that cost comes directly out of your pocket in addition to your taxes. For others, it's simply NOT feasible to homeschool your children.

 

[Kitty]

Public schools are a choice.

Not always - I was a single mom with a disabled son. My only choice was public school. Even remarried, I have to keep him in school until 18 unless my hubby can get a special ed degree in the next 2 yrs.

 

[RockofStrength]

Public schools are a choice.

That you pay for, regardless of whether you choose them or not.

 

[eldirector]

Two scenarios they left out:

1) the hens all died from being "egg bound" during their strike
2) the farmer decided to get into the "chicken nugget" business for a while

Kind of a fine line to walk between teaching kids to work cooperatively (a good thing) and teaching kids to withhold a groups "services" to bully your way.

Noticed this was California, so I'm not too terribly surprised. I'll have to see what Indiana's Academic Standards (Print Library - Indiana Standards & Resources) have.

 

[mrjarrell]

Indiana's no better and neither are private schools. My kids private pre-K school taught the "Rainbow Fish", and so do the public schools. It's a bit of collectivist twaddle and they all teach it.

 

[eldirector]

Indiana's "standards" on Economics for Kindergartners:
http://dc.doe.in.gov/Standards/AcademicStandards/PrintLibrary/docs-socialstudies/2007-ss-grade0k.pdf

Standard 4
Economics
Students explain that people do different jobs and work to meet basic economic wants.
K.4.1 Explain that people work to earn money to buy the things they want.
K.4.2 Identify and describe different kinds of jobs that people do and the tools or
equipment used in these jobs.
Example: Use picture books, stories and software programs to illustrate and
identify different types of jobs, as well as tools and materials used in different
jobs.
K.4.3 Explain why people in a community choose different jobs.
Example: People may have different types of jobs because they like doing
different things or because they are better at doing one particular type of job.
K.4.4 Give examples of work activities that people do at home.

Now, how schools choose to fulfill these standards is anyone's guess!

 

[dross]

Henrietta (the hen): Farmer Brown, we have something to say. This is what we chickens want:
1. More and better food. No mold, no sand in our corn.
2. Freedom to walk around outside and a bigger hen house.
3. Each hen will lay an average of four eggs a week.
4. Stop punishing us. Let Hortensia come back.
Farmer: No way! Who ever heard of chickens telling the farmer what to do? Shut up and get back to the henhouse!
Chickens: No, Farmer Brown, not this time! And besides those things, you have to recognize our union, Hens United, or we’ll all stop laying eggs!
Farmer: OK, OK, if I have no eggs to sell, I’ll go bankrupt. We’d all starve, so I guess I’ll have to do what you say. Since you’re all together, what can I do?
Chickens: We won! We stuck together and we won! Si, Se puede.*

Alternative version:

Henrietta (the hen): Farmer Brown, we have something to say. This is what we chickens want:
1. More and better food. No mold, no sand in our corn.
2. Freedom to walk around outside and a bigger hen house.
3. Each hen will lay an average of four eggs a week.
4. Stop punishing us. Let Hortensia come back.
Farmer: No way! Who ever heard of chickens telling the farmer what to do? Shut up and get back to the henhouse!
Chickens: No, Farmer Brown, not this time! And besides those things, you have to recognize our union, Hens United, or we’ll all stop laying eggs!
Farmer: This egg business is getting tough. If I agree to your demands, eggs will get more expensive and people will buy other kinds of food. Whatever should I do?
Chickens: That's not our problem.
Farmer: I know, I'll open a new business, "Farmer Brown's Fried Chicken."

 

[NYFelon]

...and the farmer lived happily ever after

 

[96firephoenix]

Indiana's no better and neither are private schools. My kids private pre-K school taught the "Rainbow Fish", and so do the public schools. It's a bit of collectivist twaddle and they all teach it.

it was a very nice book with shiny pages, but no way in hell will I read it to my children. Time to find a woman who wants to homeschool kids.

 

[miguel]

Counter-revolutionary version:

Henrietta (the hen): Farmer Brown, we have something to say. This is what we chickens want:

1. More and better food. No mold, no sand in our corn.
2. Freedom to walk around outside and a bigger hen house.
3. Each hen will lay an average of four eggs a week.
4. Stop punishing us. Let Hortensia come back.

Farmer: <BANG!>

 

[88GT]

Yes, to an extent. Taxes are taken from our pay to go towards public education. However, should you choose to send your child to a private school that cost comes directly out of your pocket in addition to your taxes. For others, it's simply NOT feasible to homeschool your children.

Why does everybody keep bringing this up? I pay for a lot of stuff I choose not to use. Doesn't change the fact that it's still a choice.

The number of families for whom homeschooling really and truly is not feasible is a heck of a lot smaller than the number who claim it to be IMO. Just like the "We can't live on one income" claim. Some can't. Some truly can't. But most could. It's always a choice.

Not always - I was a single mom with a disabled son. My only choice was public school. Even remarried, I have to keep him in school until 18 unless my hubby can get a special ed degree in the next 2 yrs.

Yes, always.

There are opportunity costs, and those may be impractical or highly undesirable which makes government schools the better one all things considered, but there is always a choice. There's a homeschooling single mom on my email list that works full time. Lots of parents with special needs kids. In fact, having special needs children is one of primary reasons many choose to home educate.

No special degrees are needed to homeschool your children, regardless of their abilities.

 

[Cherryspringer]

Kindergarten union

Our country is a union. People banding together is not a bad thing in all cases.

 

[RockofStrength]

Our country is a union. People banding together is not a bad thing in all cases.

Indeed. Labor unions, however, have acquired a rather poor reputation owing to the fact that their demands become so extreme and ridiculous that many American companies either lose money or stop hiring American workers.

 

[Principal Skinr]

We have our kids read Animal Farm. Do public schools get props for that?