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What are prisons? They are places were people are locked up
against their will for crimes they have committed.
What is life like for a prisoner? The warden and prison guards,
in effect, take away the prisoner’s life and freedom. They force
a prisoner to live in a small cell he doesn’t want to live in,
eat food he may hate, work at a job he detests, associate with
other prisoners who may be dangerous, and remove him from
everyone and everything he loved in the outside world when he
was free.
So why have we put our children into educational prisons called
public schools? What crimes have they committed? Why do we
condemn almost 45 million innocent children to this punishment?
Do I exaggerate by calling these schools “prisons?” Well, let’s
compare prisons and public schools.
Like prisons, public schools impose their will by force, by
compulsion. Local governments force parents to send their
children to public schools just as the police drag convicted
criminals into prison (even though many parents are not aware of
this and voluntarily send their kids to these schools). A parent
can be convicted of alleged child abuse and sent to prison if
she disobeys the school authority’s order to send her child to
the local public school.
Local governments then force parents to pay school taxes for
these education prisons. If they don’t pay these taxes, their
local government will foreclose on their home and throw them out
on the street.
School authorities force children to stay in school until they
are 16 years old or graduate high school (these age limits vary
by state). In effect, most children get a 10-year education
prison sentence if they start school at age six.
School authorities force millions of children to sit in boxes
called classrooms with 20 other children-inmates for six to
eight hours a day, five days a week, for up to ten years. The
children must obey the adult education wardens (teachers and
principals), who they may fear or dislike. They must study
subjects they may hate or that bore them to death. They must
associate only with other children their same age who may be
bullies, violent, or emotionally disturbed. They must do
homework and study for tests they must pass or be left back in
school.
The children are removed from their loving parents and put under
the control of teacher-wardens who may not love them, care for
them, or simply even have the time to pay attention to them.
They are stopped from being a free and free-spirited child. They
are told to keep quiet. They are told to obey the rules. They
are told to march from classroom cell to classroom cell every 50
minutes to study different subject that may mean nothing to them.
Parents, if you don’t think this is harsh punishment for your
innocent child, ask yourself this. When your spouse pressures
you to attend some event you hate, whether a ballet, lecture, or
football game, how do you feel? After sitting at that event for
only an hour, how do you feel? You are probably angry,
irritated, and frustrated. You squirm in your seat or doze off.
You can’t wait to get out of there. You can’t wait to get back
to your life and doing the things you love to do.
Well, millions of kids, and probably your child, must sit
through this agony of boredom or frustration for 6 to 8 hours a
day for 10 years in public-school classrooms. Yet, to repeat,
what crimes have your children committed to warrant this
horrible punishment?
In fact, they have committed no crime whatsoever. They are
simply innocent victims of local governments and public-school
authorities who think they own your children, who think they
have the right to put your children into education prisons for
10 years for “their own good.”
Parents, if a rogue cop came and took your child to prison for
no reason whatsoever, except for saying it would be for your
child’s “own good,” would you not fight to the death to stop
him? So why do you let school authorities take your innocent
children and punish them for ten years?
Parents, if you thought you had no choice, you are wrong.
Happily, you can homeschool your child or give your child a fun,
quality, rewarding, low-cost education with Internet private
schools. You have many education options. If your child hates
school, listen to him or her. Don’t let school authorities put
your child in a public-school prison for ten years. You have a
choice, and your child’s life is at stake.
You can find out about all your education options in Joel
Turtel’s book, “Public Schools, Public Menace.” Please take
advantage of the Resources in this book, for your children’s
sake.
About the author:
Joel Turtel is the author of “Public Schools, Public Menace: How
Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children." Website:
www.mykidsdeservebetter.com, Email: lbooksusa@aol.com, Phone:
718-447-7348. Article Copyrighted © 2005 by Joel Turtel. NOTE:
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