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Truancy Laws and Working Moms

Posted by: Deep Dad Nine on October 16, 1999 at 11:58:42:

In Reply to: You can do better, DDN. posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on October 13, 1999 at 12:40:20:

DDN: c) Until the class action suit is resolved, cut federal public education spending down to a fraction of where its currently at, turn control of public school facilities over to the states or the local communities in which they reside, and cut federal taxes accordingly.

:SDF: The truancy laws will then require children to go to understaffed and undereqipped zoos, where the agenda will be "play all day because we can't afford to have you do anything else."

1) Not necessarily. There’s also a law in Tennessee that says you can’t where “funny hats” on Tuesday while playing a stringed instrument. But, of course, it wouldn’t be enforced because its ridiculously obsolete. Wouldn’t truancy laws would be in the same boat in my scenario?

2) And if not, how is law enforcement going to track down, arrest, detain, and prosecute potentially millions of dissenters? Ah, perhaps the trick would be to get lots of people in the same jurisdictions to withdrawal simultaneously. We could start by assailing just one unstable, problematic school district with anti public education propaganda and information packets containing information about education alternatives and help them plan a mass withdrawal just within that district. Barring a possible media blackout, a domino effect might ensue. [Drooling and wringing my hands]

3) Besides, what's wrong with "playing all day"? We're talking about gradeschool kids also, right? Are gradeschool kids really better off sitting in a desk staring at a chalk board 5 days a week to get the same bad math and reading lessons over and over again, or are they better off outside in the sunshine and fresh air (essentials to human health) playing all day (also necessary for healthy normal development)? I HAVE read about studies that demonstrate how shoving rote math lessons down a seven year old's throat day in and day out fucks his head up. Are you aware such research?


:Sam: ……If you want to deal with public schools, you will have to create alternative institutions to deal with the basic needs of those who currently rely upon public schools to meet those needs, the most basic of which is that the schools provide day care for parents who must earn wages during daylight hours.

DDN: Yes Sam, I know. (We’ve been here before, haven’t we?). I think you’ve put your finger on an equally serious travesty: the proliferation of households where both parents work. But there’s a flaw in your position here and it lies with the word “must”, as in “MUST earn wages”. Why must both parents earn wages?

Sure there are some families whose combined salaries barely cover the costs of a very modest lifestyle and home for their children. But what I see when I look around are mostly moms and dads that would rather work their ass off for a new Ford Taurus, a bigger house, and lots of unnecessary material crap rather spend some quality time with their children. In fact I see moms and dads that don’t really even WANT to be moms and dads. There’s an epidemic of parents that, for reason we should probably discuss, crave the independence of a life outside of their family structure and have no qualms about fulfilling those desires at the expense of their kids, especially if it will buy them some new toys. This rampant sickness is particularly noticeable in the wives of these families who get pregnant and have kids but see staying at home with their children as nothing more than indentured servitude or even slavery. Working on their “careers” is often not a survival necessity as much as it is a way to establish an identity outside of motherhood, stock their closets full of new clothes, and compare dicks with their husbands.

In short, the alternative institution or “daycare” you are looking for is called “At Home With Mom”.

Can we blame working moms for the mass public school brainwashing of our kids. I don’t know. Parents were still happily sending their kids to school when moms were staying at home. Maybe the problem is just with moms IN GENERAL. What has happened to our women!? I’d like to bang this around some more. Any thoughts?


:Sam: …..And where are you going to get the BUILDINGS to create such alternative institutions, except with the public schools? (Would you be able to buy the property to create alternatives to schooling out of your own wallet? I didn't think so.)

DDN: Like I said, at home with mom. We’re already paying for the necessary buildings out of our own wallets if we don’t already own them outright.




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