Define "brainwashing".
In this context, it just means any form of education which the person using the word happens to dislike.
It's another of those irregular verbs. "We educate, you indoctrinate, they brainwash".
Define "brainwashing".
The understanding about dyslexia, Aspergers-Autism Spectrum, attention deficit disorder, etc, could have come much earlier.. . . to disability, . . .
So, if 'enough' liberal parents are willing to talk freely with religious parents, if the progressive strain of American evangelicalism more plays out,
if unions are more successful talking about lost manufacturing jobs, if Tip O'Neill has a more successful tenure as Speaker of the House (Jan. '77 through ? '87)
I envision very small numbers. Say with an elementary school with 250 kiddoes total, about a half dozen students are doing homeschooling. Maybe two or three students who have learning differences, the school being a stick-in-the-mud, and at least one parent has the time to homeschool.. . . if liberals are the ones promoting home-schooling, that's gonna alienate the teachers' unions big time, . . .
Ah, if only my fellow liberals had focused like a laser beam on working conditions, and told honest, heart-felt story after honest, heart-felt story. Some of which happened in 1985, '86, but too much jumping to ready made conclusions.But instead in OTL we ended up with liberals and evangelicals getting together at anti-pornography meetings . . .
Not so much the content, but rather the whole "he must learn to stay in his seat!", reciting back memorized infirmation for a test, the stilted way papers are required to be written, that is, the whole authoritarian atmosphere of 'school' that the institution seemingly can hardly get away from even if it tried!. . . and history lessons that go a little too easy on General Custer. . .
Not so much the content, but rather the whole "he must learn to stay in his seat!", reciting back memorized infirmation for a test, the stilted way papers are required to be written, that is, the whole authoritarian atmosphere of 'school' that the institution seemingly can hardly get away from even if it tried!
Yes, I think this is what some liberals would be more likely to object to.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/9460/election-polls-vote-groups-19761980.aspx
Catholics
1976
Carter 57%
Ford 41%
Eugene McCarthy 1%
1980
Carter 46%
Reagan 47%
Anderson 6%
So, the big difference in presidential politics from '76 to '80 was mostly among Catholics. Meaning the whole theory about evangelical citizens coming alive is only partially confirmed by the evidence, or at by least this particular batch of survey data.Protestants
1976
Carter 46%
Ford 53%
Eugene McCarthy *
1980
Carter 39%
Reagan 54%
Anderson 6%
yes, no, maybe.. . . Not just wearing the hair long, smoking pot and listening to Ravi Shankar after a long day at the office, but REALLY serious about the whole non-hierarchical social-structure thing, . . .
Yes, I can certainly go with this as one of the threads. But I'm kind of settling on the idea that dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, autism spectrum, and perhaps other learning disorders and merely learning differences are understood decades earlier. And some of these feisty parents fight major battles with the schools, unnecessarily, but the schools are being sticks-in-the-mud.. . . progressive parents reacting against the standard test obsession? . . .
One, Christians are people, too. That's the most important conclusion. They can hurt just like everyone else.I Was The Original CFC Fuck-Up: R.L. Stollar’s Story
July 3, 2013
https://homeschoolersanonymous.org/2013/07/03/i-was-the-original-cfc-fuck-up-r-l-stollars-story/
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But as time progressed, as month after month of touring and teaching went by, as the months became years and I finally couldn’t take it any longer, my spirit began to twitch. I began to lose my ability to just shrug everything off like it was nothing. It was not nothing. It was something and there was a reason why I hurt. And when I began to lose control over my external placidity, when my soul split from years of parents looking down on me in my youth while I taught their youth to not be looked down upon, I snapped.
It happened at the very last conference, in Hawaii, during my third and final year of touring. It happened over something completely inane, something about going to a movie with friends after the conference. But it happened. And it was one of the only two times in my entire life when I yelled. I yelled at Teresa and she yelled back. And we kept yelling. And at some point we stopped talking to each other at all. She sent Wendell after me, to be our messenger because we were done talking with one another. And I refused to talk to Wendell then, too. I refused to talk to him and he was my best friend for the last three years.
I am not proud of that. I am not proud of my anger. I am not proud of the hurt I caused either my teacher or my friend. But I couldn’t control my psyche any longer. I had a full-blown nervous breakdown. Following that night, I would descend into a major depression marked by self-injury and consistent suicidal thoughts that I continue to fight to this day.
I don’t think I can summon a cogent narrative of how I got to that point. But I can relay some interesting stories to lighten the mood. Like how the very first time I got wasted was on a CFC tour.
The beginning of that story is that I didn’t get wasted with fellow CFC interns (not that time, that is; CFC interns did not start getting wasted together until the third year). I got wasted with the children of homeschooling leaders from around the country.
The second year I taught with CFC (I was 15 at the time), which was the first year we officially “toured” around the country in the Moons’ motor home, we stopped at Regent University. HSLDA was holding their National Leadership Convention. This convention was an invite-only event for recognized leaders in the conservative Christian homeschooling world: the directors of all the state homeschool organizations, for example. CFC was tasked with teaching the leaders’ kids about speech and debate.
So, pretty much our job was to babysit the kids while the parents got inspired. During the day, we taught our peers. During the evening, while the parents mingled together like God’s chosen socialites, the kids roamed the university, unsupervised. One of those nights I was offered hard alcohol by the son of a national homeschool leader. I accepted. I was too scared to follow up the shots with a prescription-level painkiller, but I watched as he and his friends — the children of some of the other leaders — all took shots and popped various types of pills. They commiserated with each other, and found solace in their mutual disdain for each other’s parents: “____ cares more about the idea of homeschooling than homeschooling his own fucking kids.”
I could name names that would shock you, but that is not the point of this particular story. The point of this story is that, the higher you climb the power structures of the homeschooling world, the more they resemble the power structures in any other world.
I can tell you other stories, like what it was like living in a motor home for months on end. How traveling in a motor home with David Moon was like traveling with Jekyll and Hyde. One moment he was the lighthearted, lovable counterpart to Teresa’s professionalism. Then he’d snap and turn into a completely different person — red-faced, terrifying, and raging — and Teresa would silently turn the other way until his “episode” subsided.
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And no, I don't think Christian homeschooling parents would be all that likely to be great friends with liberal/leftie homeschooling parents or disability rights advocacy parents, but there might be some areas of overlap.
I'm glad they meet with the prospective parents, if just to let them know that a person with Down Syndrome can have a rich and full life, even though it will be a different life from what the parents first expected.I know some parents of disabled kids have a real problem with abortions undertaken to eliminate certain "abnormalities", especially Down Syndrome, and actually meet with expectant parents who are considering terminations for that reason, . . .