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I don't know why it was so obvious to me. School was prison for kids. That's the way I saw it. But as I looked at my fellow school inmates around me they didn't seem to notice.
By the time I reached high school I had resigned myself to just getting a passing grade to make my parents happy and move on. My goal: 50%. I didn't want 51%... if I got that, I was trying too hard. I'd rarely show up. And when I did I'd sit in the back row listening to the horse race reports from the warmup sessions at the track where I would go each evening and, in nearly 100 visits, perhaps recorded a loss at the end of each evening once or twice.
As for school, I'd really only go for the tests. I'd go two hours early and speed read the textbook and make sure I knew just enough to pass. I was quite good at it, to the point where on my final exam of high school I had planned it perfectly so passing the course would give me just enough to graduate and I even knew the exact score I needed on the test to pass: 62%.
It was social studies, which I detested for having to memorize obvious propaganda, but it was easy enough to pass the exam. I'd short-term memorize as much as I could and the dates and places that I couldn't remember I'd write on my forearm, or my leg, or on any number of cheat sheets I had. It was a two hour exam and there were multiple choice questions worth 70% and essays worth 30%. I went through the multiple choice in about 30 minutes and knew I had enough to get 62% so I didn't even bother with the essay section. I got up to leave and was informed that there was a "minimum time requirement of 1 hour".
"A minimum time requirement," I complained! "But, I'm done!"
"Go sit until the hour is up," they admonished. Servitude to unworthy authoritarian figures is the real goal of schooling in the west. Angry, and bored for the next 30 minutes, I went on to write some of the more disturbing and outright erroneous essay answer questions probably ever recorded in social studies history.
But, finally the hour was up and I could escape. And I did pass that course and finally was allowed out of child prison.
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
Even back in the 1980s school was atrocious. But when I look at what is going on today I can only come to one conclusion: sending your child to public school in the US is child abuse.
Think I'm exagerrating? Hear me out.
Let's just start with all the injections your child will receive if you force them to go for their government training. The fascist US Government which is one in the same with the pharmaceutical industry continues to want to inject more and more heinous chemicals into your children while they have them under their "care".
In one instance, a 14 year old girl was forced to take vaccinations for hepatitis A, seasonal influenza, meningitis, and HPV (Gardasil) in a Detroit area school despite her parents previously-stated opposition to their daughter receiving medical treatments from the school (see story here).
This is just standard operating procedure at most school's nowadays. "Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school," said Melinda Harmon, a US Federal Judge, recently.
Giving multiple vaccines is "like a sudden onslaught to the body’s immune system", according to this Australian Government study. And, when given to youngsters whose immune system hasn't yet fully formed, it can be catastrophic for health... which is probably the point. Remember, people like Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Al Gore and more are trying to do as much as possible to reduce the global population. Bill Gates has even stated publicly that vaccines are one of the best way to do this.
Now, in a new amendment to California's Health and Safety Code as it relates to vaccinations will take effect this fall for the 2012-2013 school year, and will require all incoming seventh graders, as well as eighth and twelfth graders for the first year, to get a Tdap booster vaccination for pertussis (whooping cough) before being admitted to school. Mandatory.
"A number of clinical laboratory studies demonstrate that vaccines may cause chronic damage to the G.I. tract, immune system, brain, and other organs," says Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., an American research psychologist, writer, lecturer and advocate for autistic children.
And, once your child has had their immune system attacked by countless unnecessary and dangerous vaccines (autism has increased 1000% since 1990 due to vaccines) then the government will be looking to give them all manner of other chemicals.
Your child has a little too much energy and doesn't want to sit and listen to complete morons trying to brainwash them with garbage? They'll be sent home with a prescription for the highly addictive and dangerous chemical, adderall.
PRISON ENVIRONMENT
When they aren't being dumbed down by drugs or having their immune system destroyed by vaccines they have to actually deal with their Lord of the Flies type environment.
Many parents actually are aware of this environment and will support it stating it is good... it will toughen them up, they say. We're not so sure sending your five, ten or fifteen year old into something that is not that different than a high security prison to avoid getting shivved in the bathroom is the best way to teach them about life. You could just rent Oz for them and save them some terrible emotional scars.
TDV subscriber and correspondent, David Giessel, sent us these photos of a maximum security prison in Oakland recently:
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And this:
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Well, maximum security child prison. That's an elementary school in Oakland. Your kids will have such warm memories of their time interned, no doubt!
And, if you try to get out, microchips implanted in your child's school uniform will notify the authorities, if this technique used in Brazil catches on... and it is sure to.
And that is when the state isn't trying to trap your kids into victimless crimes to bust them. A 22 year old cop in Exiter California wasted eight months of stolen taxpayer money trying to trap little kids into buying something, anything which would take away the pain of 12 years of being imprisoned in their formative years. Nearly a year later he had ruined the lives of twelve high school prisoners and all but ensured their graduation to adult prison... or as they call it, prison.
The cop was almost giddy as he stated, "A lot of jaws dropped when they saw me. They knew me as that kid at school that they hung around with, and then the next thing they're in handcuffs and I'm in a uniform."
And when they aren't being beaten up or entrapped into prison sentences by the state, they are being prepared for their future FEMA camp internment.
According to "The End Of The American Dream":
All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills. These exercises are often called "evacuation drills" or "relocation drills" and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where the kids are being taken and sometimes they are only told that the children are being taken to an "undisclosed location". In the years since 9/11 and the Columbine school shootings, there has been a concerted effort to make school emergency drills much more "realistic" and much more intense. Unfortunately, the fact that many of these drills are deeply traumatizing many children does not seem to bother too many people. Do we really need to have "active shooter" drills where men point guns at our kids and fire blanks at them? Do we really need to have "relocation drills" where kids are rapidly herded on to buses and told that they must surrender their cell phones because they will not be allowed to call anyone? Our schools more closely resemble prison camps every single day, and it is our children that are suffering because of it.
Or, like at an elementary school in Baltimore recently, three nine-year-old girls and an eight-year-old boy were arrested for fighting and marched out of their elementary school in handcuffs. In New Haven, Connecticut a 10-year-old boy was actually arrested by police for giving another student "a wedgie" on a school bus. Or, in San Mateo, California a few months ago a 7-year-old special education student was blasted in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture. Police were then able to subdue the boy and he was "committed for a psychiatric evaluation".
And, when they aren't being arrested or handcuffed, the school will be working to ensure your child adheres to the will of the collective and does not try to be an individual and use their own mind independently as this teacher's letter reinforces:

CHILD ABUSE
You can state that you have been the victim of theft and are forced to pay for these schools. And, yes, you are. But nothing can justify actually sending your children off everyday to this type of environment. If you do, you are a child abuser. Especially when homeschooling and unschooling have been made so eminently possible thanks to the internet.
You can then state that thanks to the socialist/fascist government and the central banks you've been so impoverished that you and your wife must work 18 hour days just to survive... and that is why you send your kids to prison camp. But, even that is not justification enough to do this to your own children. If this is the case and you cannot find any other way then leave where you live and search for a place with better opportunities.
It's hard. I know. It was hard for your ancestors to get on that boat and survive scurvy and come to a foreign land to make a living too. But they did it.
Here, at TDV, we are working on all manner of ways to help people in that situation. We are helping people get out of the western world through foreign residencies and second passports (TDVPassports.com)... and the TDV newsletter regularly covers all these subjects.
The latest thing we are working on is a liberty-minded enclave, likely in Mexico to start (and then other locations through Asia, Africa and Central/South America afterwards) which will be built in co-housing style. Our top priority will be self-sufficiency and a true community environment where the occupants live, work and co-operate with each other to build a prosperous community. And the other main factor is price. We want to make it as cheap as possible to attract young, freedom-minded families. We are talking under $50,000 for a complete family unit and total daily living costs of under $5, using economies of scale to efficiently provide organic food and homeschooling/unschooling opportunities for all. Not anarcho-communism... that is seriously stupid. But a community of anarchists who believe in property rights and the non-aggression principle.
This is the type of thing we are working on here at TDV. Stay tuned for more. In the meantime, don't be a fool, get your child out of school.













Comments (25)
@mavaPlease elaborate, I'm interested in your opinion!
I've heard the arguments time and time again bashing the public school system. What never seems to make the case, however, is what alternative they prefer (other than maybe homeschooling). I mean, sure, public schools can be bad. But is a private education really that much better? Are they teaching them Austrian economics in private school? Are they learning about the evils of the Fed and fractional reserve banking in private schools? Are they questioning the official story of 9/11 in the private school system? Are the private schools teaching kids all of the dirty little wars we've been involved in during the 20th century that public schools gloss over? Are private schools providing real world, current day examples of how our leaders in both parties grossly and continually violate the Constitution and have been for many decades when they do their high school civics lesson? Is the corporal punishment allowed by many private schools more humane and less prison like than dosing kids with meds? Do private schools not require vaccinations? What, pray tell, is so exceptional about a private school education other than the price tag? Sure, the lunches might be better, teachers supposedly more qualified, lots of extracurricular activities that look good on the old college application, but seriously, what do private schools do that is so much better than the public schools? Somehow I think that the author of this article would have been just as miserable in his private school prison as he was in his public school prison, he'd just be better dressed probably.
@mava And if an expat doesn't have any accounts, then the role of the bank can easily be played by the local government, and again, which government will be willing to tell Obama "FU"? Russian Banks, Chinese Banks, Indian banks, Iranian Banks, South Asian banks, maybe??
Claymore,Well, you think it will worth trying to hide out in a Russian or whatever bank, if US declares that you owe them. I am saying this with a think slavic accent: "Good Luck". Those government circles are just whores, if you didn't already know it. If swiss had thrown their honesty, integrity, everything that uniquely made them special into a trash can in an effort to whore themselves out to the dollars, then who, exactly, can be trusted?You know, no offense, but to even suppose that there is or could be a government that would not waste someones life in exchange for some favors or indulgencies (in an old Iberian meaning), to my subjective mind is an admittance that the suggestee assumes that thre is some sort of a principle that rules the world, or at least one country. It's like actually believing that the King Piar or Troj was as good of a king as he was shown in the recent blockbuster. It is like believing that the God is actually sitting on the cloud with a white body wrap and fatty cherubims floating around him (notice that I am making absolutely no point regarding whether there exist God).It is the same force, the same cause that causes taxes (the spill-ower of a theft onto a voting population) that is making sure you will be sold. Because you (or I) are nothing, and morals mean nothing to them, and what they get or don't get means something. A principal-agent conflict of interest.You are in horror at me, as to how can I not care for children, and what if I am not even willing to show some respect (nope, why should I? respect is deserved, never inherited, isn't it?), while I make no attempt to rob anyone or cause any harm to anyone (against their own will...hehe). And at the same time, these are the people you would actually trust? If push comes to shove, and you must pick a side, you'd turn your back to them and your barrel to me?I always state that I could not care less. And that I wish not plot no harm. This is because I want to take the lower ground to allow my opponent to beat me mercilessly. And while this should be enough of an explanation for a (not an insult, but subjective opinion) brainwashed (note the passive voice - I have been there too and felt what you feel), but an intelligent man who is in the nightmarish process of waking up withdrawal (you), as to why I always state that, rest assured that there is also a reason for why I would want to be on a disadvantaged side, which I wish not to elaborate on.
Spot on post. Glorified prisons. Speaking of drills-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRy0yiax2m8
Claymore,They are going to tax former citizens in exactly the same way as they made foreign banks close accounts of current citizens. You decide, who's side a foreign bank is going to take... a side of US Government or of some good person with an account. And if an expat doesn't have any accounts, then the role of the bank can easily be played by the local government, and again, which government will be willing to tell Obama "FU"? US doesn't need to drop the bomb on them, no, the bombs go on a layer below. Once the "friendly" government is fomented by the use of bombs, then no more bombs are necessary.------------------------------------------------------------This sentence is just a test of something that bothers me and I think I have to test it, pay no attention.------------------------------------------------------------
Claymore, But how about you? Do u care for these kids?
@mavaYes mava, I do care... What frustrates me the most is that I'm unable to help even more people than the ones I have already helped... I know that I can't save them all but it doesn't mean that we should just despise them like the way you just did by stating that you didn't care... At least and I ask you in a humble way, show a bit of respect for them...
@ed He is now 35 years old and a professional auto mechanic, earning less than the median income but satisfied with it, well adjusted and reasonably happy.I also was like your son... did not want to go to school. My parents of course, disagreed at the time. Now I'm a Telecommunications Engineer and a Researcher, and I'm very happy with it :) Your advice is not a very good advice. Kids whine every day... but that's what kids do!@mavaNow, I don't care for those children.That's why I disagree so much with you... because you never care about anything except yourself. So how can I believe that you have good intentions? Don't do not get me wrong but you seem to be the kind of guy that if saw someone asking for help, the first thing that would come out of your mouth would be "I charge $10 by the minute, otherwise have a good life or what is left of it"....He is simply asking to have a a choice. He already has that choice, that's why he decided to live in Mexico... Only ppl that live in North Korea don't have a choice because if they try to leave, they get shot and that's the end of it.Everyone that lives in the US, have the choice to leave....
Jakob, Ignorant parenting is a flawed idea and for a lot of kids, it's the best thing that ever happened to them. It sent them to you and others like you. On the other hand, my own son never spent one day in a classroom and did not want to learn a thing from me, so I did not force him. He was willing to let his mother teach him to read, which she did. He is now 35 years old and a professional auto mechanic, earning less than the median income but satisfied with it, well adjusted and reasonably happy. So perhaps you have a good idea for providing a good, non coercive education for those who want it. Jeff certainly indicated his choice and you demand he do better. Now I want to hear your solution.
Taxing us after we renounce? Amazing..."
Jacob,I don't thing Jeff has to prove that. Because, he does not making an argument for forcing everyone into what he might think would be a better life. He is simply asking to have a a choice. That is all.A choice to go or not to go to school, which school, when, for how long and to study what.A choice of a parent to make that choice for his child, and no one else's child.A choice of not being forced to pay your salary.Now, I don't care for those children. And I suspect you don't either. For if you do, then there is absolutely no problem with scrapping the system , you can still go and educate them, and give them all that wonderful stuff you mentioned. Can't you?All that comes from the heart can be done voluntarily, and everything that is not of that kind has to be forced.
your blog brought back some fond and not so fond memories from when I was 9 to 11. I was at privatte , in english class studying shakepears plays and I could not understand that we were being tested on what shakespear meant in his plays. it made no sense to me as an artist would only be the one that would now, so I never beleived anything my teacher told us. I was in private school getting 90% in all other subjects but only 65 percent in english, I never got an A in english until university where the profs reading may papers would except that I was disagreeing with an expert. it was the same with my degree in economics, in my thesis i predicted that capitalsm with all its governemnt controlled cartells and bad politicans could very likely cause capitalism to fail in America. my paper was America is an embarrasment to the model of capitals that they were trying. I never really meant it but I was arguing the stance. I was told by my prof that an A if I wrote a paper titled America is an abarrasement to the Economic theory that I have studyed. teachers seem to think they are intelligent sometimes to the point that they are ignorant.
@to allThere's a thing that I still cannot understand... Maybe you guys could help me, since I'm not American.How will they tax Eduardo, if he has already moved is assets to outside the US and he is not living any more within the US boundaries...How can the US Government force someone that is not living within the US, does not work within the US borders and no longer is a US citizen?Will they send the Seal's to collect taxes during the night?? I don't get it...
But don't make your story THE story for everyone. You have to put a lot more thought into this if you're going to try to diagnose the problem with public education and prescribe the country something better. Yeah, I've heard how we should just scrap the whole idea. Maybe that's what you want, but you have to prove that with more than a lousy personal story. You have to prove why that's the best possible option. You have to show how all those kids with crappy home lives and parents who despise their existence are going to be better off.Very good opinion Jakob! Very Good indeed!
LOL. This letter is actually funny. But, it looks like the teacher did it on purpose, to celebrate his great holiday:look at the date... it's April 22! Vladimir Lenin birthday!The teacher is so obvious in his intentions.
Hey, sorry school was awful for you. It is for many. But to try to take your story, a couple other random anecdotes, and pretend that you're diagnosing a real systemic problem is going too far.Just so everyone knows, I'm a small government guy who supports Ron Paul, buys precious metals, and knows that the welfare state we live in based on fiat currency is destined for disaster.I have also been in public and private education throughout my whole life. I have been in the student's desk and the teacher's desk. I've come away know that there are good teachers and bad ones. There are good principals and bad ones. And there are good and bad students, too.Public education, as we know it, is a very complicated and flawed idea. But for a lot of kids, it's the best thing that ever happened to them. I've seen kids with nothing good in their home life...actually pure neglect and/or abuse in their home life...I've seen those kids come to a good classroom (mine and other teachers') and find success, develop critical thinking skills, and learn how to live and thrive in the world.I'm guessing for you, you had a very strong mind growing up. You probably had parents who cared a lot about you. If so, that's great. Or maybe you have had horrible parents and you single-handedly overcame both them AND a crappy school experience. I don't know.But don't make your story THE story for everyone. You have to put a lot more thought into this if you're going to try to diagnose the problem with public education and prescribe the country something better. Yeah, I've heard how we should just scrap the whole idea. Maybe that's what you want, but you have to prove that with more than a lousy personal story. You have to prove why that's the best possible option. You have to show how all those kids with crappy home lives and parents who despise their existence are going to be better off.
Hi Michael and Tyler - we will have an article on this tonight.Thanks for the tips! keep em coming!
Tyler, The one-time exit tax already exists (unfairly already). What they are proposing is that you must pay tax on any capital gains earned *in the future* even after renouncing! In other words, renounce today and you'll still be liable for what you earn tomorrow even though you don't live in the US and are not a US citizen! Makes me sick to my stomach. This country is dead today. Something so outrageous should never even be proposed in a 'free country.'This is going to keep so many talented, potential entrepreneurs from ever coming to the US, lest they too then become owned by the US for life. And current, natural-born Americans, this to me, is "the wake up call", "slap across the face", "cold bucket of water" sobering realization that NOW is the time to GTFO b/c it will only get worse and worse and less free. I don't understand how these politicians can be SO DUMB as to not understand that this will be *harmful* to our economic future. Savrin created jobs and wealth in America. For that they should be thankful. The only fair article on Savrin in the MSM: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/05/renouncing-cit... The US should be aiming to *be* one of those countries that attracts entrepreneurs and the businesses, wealth and jobs they create. This is sickening. So horribly, horribly sickening.And they plan to make it retroactive 10 yrs to apply to anyone who renounced in the last 10 yrs. Changing the rules even after the fact for those individuals. So if you are under the asset and income thresholds presently, as I am, the day has come.
But a community of anarchists who believe in property rights and the non-aggression principle.Btw, how to you obtain that? Wherever you go, you will find a Government. How can you guarantee that the land will actually be yours and how will you defend it against a State possible expropriation?
Hey Jeff, my question is kinda off topic but would love for you to weigh in.The U.S. is trying to pass an Ex-Patriot Act. It involves a 30% capital gains tax for those leaving America. Does this mean a one-time exit tax, or a tax of 30% on all future capital gains, even if the person is not an U.S. citizen? Would also be interested in examples to make it easier to understand. Thanks!
Alert Jeff!US senators propose a law to tax Americans for life *even after renouncing US citizenship*! America as a prison state is here today. "As long as an individual does not pay his or her taxes under the scheme, he/she will be barred from entering the U.S., forever."http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76440.htmlhttp://techcrunch.com/2012/05/17/still-smiling-eduardo-senators-schumer-...
Well done Jeff! Excellent piece. Looks like our schooling was on parallel tracks on different timelines or I somehow set an example for you on mine. Decided homework was a waste of my personal time which would only gain me one grade point I did not require. Anger and resentment grew from the end of my first week until graduation. I can thank the gulag for a lifetime of anger and I was none too pleased with my parents for putting me through that either. Since we never discussed the matter, they never quite understood my attitude of ingratitude. My greatest regret was not seizing on the social opportunities presented, but then, I did not want to be a 17 year old father. 8) Sharing this one at Facebook!!!
And, if you try to get out, microchips implanted in your child's school uniform will notify the authorities, if this technique used in Brazil catches on... and it is sure to.While I belive in what you stated about the US school system, Brazil is a completely different scenario...We are talking about a very different country with a completely different culture. A microchip in the child's uniform is not such a bad thing, specially when kid's kidnapping in Brazil is quite high. There is also problems about parents knowing were kids are and I thing parents have the right to know that.I remember a photo from a girlfriend of mine's house, when she was studding there. her house was surrounded with barbed wire and electrified because if they didn't do that, they would get robbed...Anyway, it's in the clothes... the US had a worse idea which was putting a micro-chip in ppl's hand...
It is true that the strict rules and regulations of public schols have harassed many students at times. There are many disciplinary rules that creates a kind of fear among students and it affects their mental state. So it is high time to review such rules and find a solution to the problem. Students must learn discipline but in a better way and methodolgy where they can express themselves without fear and can achieve the academic goals.
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