Public Schools - the Worst Case of Child Abuse in American History


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Sending your children to public school is equivalent to the worst form of child abuse; we disable our children by enabling them, allowing them to run amok through the hallways of our schools all in the name of self-esteem. Our children are doomed to a mediocre existence.The Worst Case of Child Abuse in American History: Your Public Schoolsis a book that reveals what is really taking place in our classrooms today, and academics is the last thing on the to-do list. According to the experts, "reading" is less relevant than the child's social calendar and could initiate anarchy in America. This book specifies these so-called experts' names, it is blunt and to the point.Years ago America's education leaders had an agenda for our education system, and they were warned by numerous knowledgeable specialists on the dangers of that agenda. Utilizing the research and facts of those specialists and my twenty-two years of experience teaching in the public school classroom, I expose the truth of why America's education system is decomposing at such an alarming rate.




PUBLIC SCHOOLS


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Education can educate us or indoctrinate us. Is the latter what is currently taking place? One might discern America's school system is deteriorating when those individuals who successfully fulfill the necessary requirements to acquire a diploma do not possess the ability to think logically. I recently discovered in an October 2014 Fox News poll that 84 percent of Americans believed President Obama deceives from time to time concerning important issues. This brings to light that a mere 16 percent of us believe he tells the truth. This has no logic considering in a Fox News Poll taken in 2014, there was an excess of 40 percent of Americans who approve of him. This indicates nearly a quarter of Americans either do not care if the president is a liar concerning important issues, or they are merely so inadequately educated or conditioned they are incapable of reasoning logically. Either mode is a feeble tribute for our education system. There are numerous additional surveys procured over the past years exemplifying a similar outcome. As you will realize, I am not a huge enthusiast of polls; however, I do pay attention to individuals in the community, when their comments overwhelmingly substantiate those conclusions. Individuals pronounce their belief that President Obama is executing his responsibilities inadequately when it purports to the economy, health care, jobs, and foreign policy, especially the military and how he has handled terrorism and the Middle East. In spite of that, they pronounce him as a good president. Americans have ceased questioning the government and its politicians. We allow the media to be our proxy, and the majority of them perform dreadfully. One of the reasons America developed into a nation in the first place was taxes were excessive, and nowadays we actually vote for additional taxes. I speculate our Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves. How many of us realize that the US Supreme Court or the state supreme courts are not allowed to create law? It actually could be labeled treason if it transpires. This was why Thomas Jefferson detested the higher courts; he discerned they could literally usurp that responsibility effortlessly.




A History of Child Protection in America


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A History of Child Protection in America is the first comprehensive history of American efforts to protect children from abuse and neglect. The book begins in colonial times and chronicles child protection into the twenty-first century. Among the important nineteenth century events detailed in these pages are the rise of orphanages for "dependent" children, the "orphan trains" operated by the New York Children's Aid Society, the birth of the juvenile court, the reforms of the Children's Progressive Era, and the dramatic rescue of Mary Ellen Wilson, which led to the creation of the world's first organization devoted entirely to child protection, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Twentieth century milestones include the gradual transition from private child protection societies to government operated child protection, the obscurity of child abuse from the 1920's to the 1960's, the "discovery" of child abuse in 1962, and the creation of the child protection system we know today.




The Death and Life of the Great American School System


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Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.




A Survivor's Closet


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"One of the most unbelievable child abuse stories in Missouri's history!" "...a heart throbbing, gripping story of child abuse that you just can't stop reading..." Debra Luptak's first non-fiction is a miraculous true story that exposes her childhood life as she was faced with daily torment and several times nearly killed by her mother. Living with her mother's hatred, Debra was brutally tortured, beat and confined to a small dark closet. Debra's inner determination and perseverance kept her filled with courage if she was to survive her mother's persistence that she was a devil's child. After years of attempted suffocations, confined to a straitjacket, cigarette burns, electrical shocks from a cattle prod, forced to eat horse manure, her own feces spread on her face to dry, fed adult sedatives to keep her immobile, the incidents continued to be life threatening for Debra, forcing her to flee into the deserts of Arizona in an attempt to escape and survive her mother and step-father's animal torture. Search no more for a non-fiction, edge of your seat story that ends with four chapters of a very powerful message of love, hope and inspiration for every reader, you have just found the perfect book. This must read true story contains elements of suspense, shocking experiences and the journey of a child's life struggle for internal peace as the author shares her extraordinary autobiography that has never been revealed until now -- 40-years later.




New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research


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Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves-they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains-including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems-and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.




Ghosts in the Schoolyard


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“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.




The Violence of Work


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From mining to sex work and from the classroom to the docks, violence has always been a part of work. This collection of essays highlights the many different forms and expressions of violence that have arisen under capitalism in the last two hundred years, as well as how historians of working-class life and labour have understood violence. The editors draw together diverse case studies, integrating analysis of class, age, gender, sexuality, and race into the scholarship. Essays span the United States and Canadian border, exploring gender violence, sexual harassment, the violent kidnapping of union organizers, the violence of inadequate health and safety protections, the culture of violence in state institutions, the mythology of working-class violence, and the changing nature of violence in extractive industries. The Violence of Work theorizes and historicizes violence as an integral part of working life, making it possible to understand the full scope and causes of workplace violence over time.




American Behavioral History


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From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new levels, presenting new insights into how people have lived and thought through the ages. Having established the history of emotions as a major subfield of social history, Stearns and his collaborators are poised to do the same thing with the study of human behavior. This is their manifesto. American Behavioral History deals with specific uses of historical data and analysis to illuminate American behavior patterns, ranging from car buying rituals to sexuality, and from funeral practices to contemporary grandparenting. The anthology illustrates the advantages and parameters of analyzing the ways in which people behave, and adds significantly to our social understanding while developing innovative methods for historical teaching and research. At its core, the collection demonstrates how the study of the past can be directly used to understand current behaviors in the United States. Throughout, contributors discuss not only specific behavioral patterns but, importantly, how to consider and interpret them as vital historical sources. Contributors include Gary Cross, Paula Fass, Linda Rosenzweig, Susan Matt, Steven M. Gelber, Peter N. Stearns, Suzanne Smith, Mark M. Smith, Kevin White.




Families, History And Social Change


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One of the prevailing myths about the American family is that there once existed a harmonious family with three generations living together, and that this "ideal" family broke down under the impact of urbanization and industralization. The essays in this volume challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family. Based on detailed research in a variety of sources, including extensive oral history interviews of ordinary people, these essays examine major changes in family life, dispel myths about the past, and offer new directions in research and interpretation. The essays cover a wide spectrum of issues and topics, ranging from the organization of the family and household, to the networks available to children as they grow up, to the role of the family in the process of industralization, to the division of labor in the family along gender lines, and to the relations between the generations in the later years of life. While discussing family relations in the past and revising prevailing notions of social change, these interdisciplinary essays also provide important perspectives on the present.