Just in case you had any lingering doubt about the uselessness of many U.S. public schools, I bring to you Marinette Middle School. Yes, the administrators of this school thought it would be a fantastic idea to gather sixth graders around and ask them in front of all their classmates questions like; if their parents are alcoholics, use drugs or are divorced.
This story emerge only a week after I published the very disturbing article: Lunches Seized and Tossed in Trash at Salt Lake City Elementary School for Kids with Unpaid Balances.
Now, from local station NBC26 we discover that:
MARINETTE, Wis. — Several parents with students attending Marinette Middle School are outraged over a recent game that they say is inappropriate and leads to bullying.
The parents tell NBC26 school leaders forced their kids to play the game called ‘Cross the Line’ which calls on the students to reveal personal information about themselves and their families.
“Those are questions that no child should have to answer,” said Janette Sadowski, a parent of a 6th grader.
She said her daughter chose not to play, and was threatened with an in-school suspension.
Classy. It seems the school system is teaching the small slaves to behave and listen to irrational orders at a young age
“She stood her ground, half her class stood their ground,” said Sadowski.
Students line up and answer questions by taking a step forward. The Parents say it’s the nature of the questions that has them upset. Some ask the group if they’ve experienced suicidal thoughts and if they feel one or both of their parents are alcoholics.
In a statement from the Marinette Middle School Principal, Shawn Limberg, it says students had the choice to participate, and this was part of a bullying prevention program. Limberg said the intent was to “build stronger, more respectful relationships among students.”
Right you moron, because exposing to the entire class that a child’s parents are drunks is going to reduce bullying. Yes, these are the people “educating” your children.
Full article here.
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Terrorism is the buzzword the federal gov’t relies on to justify it’s encroachment into our liberties. Bullying is the parallel for school systems.
BTW, here is a link to a pdf from UNC that describes the “game.” As I suspected, it has nothing to do with bullying.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/scale/programs/arfiles/crossing_the_line.pdf
Oh where to begin,
first off children and teens go to school to learn what they need to be able to function in life as adults basic fundamental’s, the thing is our school system is so dysfunctional at just teaching the basics they are way out of the program to be trying to deal in psychology that said they have NO business asking their students if their parents have drinking or drug problems and another thing their are many different ways to deal with learning about how to treat each other and see each person as we all are and what they are doing isn’t that. Years ago I remember them asking children that were in their first years of school questions about what their parents do at home all those questions led to was families being torn apart by other people that decided they know what is better for everyone else the fact that the idea that governments county workers and anyone else that believes they should decide what other people should and shouldn’t do in their lives. There is another game some adults play that are sick with power, the prisons are full of them and every parent that was outraged should be more then that, alot more should wake up and start paying attention, and be damn scared at what they are up to.
Teachers doing that kind of stuff to kids obviously care more about their department’s social engineering agenda than the relationships they have with the children in their care. Furthermore, they are, quite simply, village-idiot stupid to put children in that kind of position. Callous, unthinking corporate zombies, the lot.