Education

Surprising? Children of ‘Progressive,’ $32K-Per-Year ‘Blue School’ in Manhattan Can’t Read

Students at Manhattans Progressive Blue School, Founded by Blue Man Group Performers, Cant Read at 32K a Year

Members of the 'Blue Man Group' (Photo: AP)

Parents are stunned to find that their children can’t read after enrolling them in the “progressive” Blue School of Manhattan, founded by Blue Man Group performers and their wives.

Costing close to $32,000 a year, the exclusive school– which has been featured by CNN and the New York Times– describes its mission as being “to cultivate creative, joyful and passionate inquirers who use courageous and innovative thinking to build a harmonious and sustainable world.”

(Related: State of U.S. Education Now Ranks Behind…Slovakia)

The New York Times described institution: “From the beginning, the founders wanted to incorporate scientific research about childhood development into the classroom. Having rapidly grown to more than 200 students in preschool through third grade, the school has become a kind of national laboratory for integrating cognitive neuroscience and cutting-edge educational theory into curriculum, professional development and school design.”

But after some concern over the loose structure of the school, where there are is no set curriculum and no start time, parents started requesting formal examinations– and they were stunned by the results.

Students at Manhattans Progressive Blue School, Founded by Blue Man Group Performers, Cant Read at 32K a Year

A screen shot of the Blue School's website where, ironically, children are seemingly depicted writing (Photo: The Blue School)

“It’s all fun and games until you realize your second-grader can’t read,” a parent wrote on Urbanbaby.com, while another said “it’s true” that her child was struggling.

The aforementioned New York Times article may help explain why, though not intentionally.

While explaining how innovative the school’s “no set curriculum” program is, the Times explained that at one point the students chose to study sharks and leaves.

Now, the New York Post reports, parents are withdrawing their children in droves and teachers are leaving en masse.

“A majority of my Upper East Side clients, if they took a look down there, their heads would explode,” education adviser Terri Decker of Smart City Kids explained. “Literally, their brains would be on the pavement.”

But Steve Nelson, head of the Calhoun School, advised parents to remain calm.

“Parents are understandably anxious about being patient if their child is developing at a slightly later time…” he said.

Check out TIME’s profile of the school, from 2008:

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

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  • wolverine
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:41pm

    Progressive = cancer we must destroy this cancer. At one time I was against raising taxes on the rich but if they can spend that kind of money on something like this we need to take their money away from them and give it to some wino

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:22pm

      My youngest child could read at 24 months, could add and subtract double digit negative numbers at three and is learning multiplication at 4 years old. My others read at 3 and 4 and are on or above grade level in every subject.

      Home-schooled/charter-schooled conservatives rule!!!!!

      hahahahahahhahahahahhahhahhhahaha!

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    • wilber93
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:30pm

      Wrong…we don’t need to tax them…they’ll blow through it on thier own.

      Everyone should be free to make all the bad choices they want…like giving mimes $32k to educate kids…something they’re totally unqualified to do. But they also need to suffer their stupidity…

      Personal choice…Personal responsibility.

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    • eric6161
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:43pm

      Home school is the best. I remember my child reading her primer reader story in McGuffy’s Electic Reader. I remember her reading the second reader outdoors when a couple of 5th grade kids were walking home. They said, “Oh she’s so cute trying to read. Can we help?” I said, “of course.” A few minutes later they got up to leave because they couldn’t read her second reader. I must have irritated the girls when I asked if they would like her to read for them… memories of the early ’80s… it was a nice time for learning.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:59pm

      It is not necessary to read when you are 7 years old. Home schooled kids ALWAYS end up voracious and FAST readers, because they learn to read WHEN they want to, and so they crave it, and spend a lot of time on it. Its natural.

      Public school sucks because it is NOT natural, and the kids are forced to do things that they do not want to do and have no desire to do. Lack of desire = lack of learning. that’s the truth.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:15am

      All three of my kids could read, write and do basic addition and subtraction before kindergarten. I started by reading Little Critter books to them and teaching them their ABCs. I tought them to read phonetically.

      All of my kids far surpass their classmates and most adults assume they’re much older than they are. It‘s really not that hard to do if you’re patient and persistent.

      This Progressive Socialist school’s failure is no surprise. Children don’t “learn on their own”. They need guidance and leadership. Our country needs a solid dose of both.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:24am

      JAYCEN, what can I say? You are wrong.

      All you did with your little trained kids was teach them a trained trick. You forced on them YOUR ideas of what you wanted them to do at a very young age, NOT because they actually NEED to read, but because you wanted your kids to be “superior” to other kids. You wanted bragging rights. Your pride got in the way of letting your poor kids just be a kid.

      And, kids CAN learn on their own. I know. I home school by choice, and yes, most of my kids chose to learn reading a little later, but so? They read better than your kids NOW and I would take that to the bank. You have no idea. When a kid WANTS to learn, they do. They learn faster. There is some awesome connection between a kid’s DESIRE to learn and how FAST they learn and how DEEP they learn. Kids need to be more creative too. We don’t need robots.

      What good is a kid who can read at 4 years old??? I mean REALLY? Have you though about this? This is just parents PRIDE trying to make their little Johnny “smarter” than the other kids, but they are not smarter. In fact, they have been robbed of some of the most IMPORTANT things to learn at a young age. Its called motor development, creative choices, interaction, and real life. Not embracing a book. What kid would WANT to do that? Oh, your kids. Yes, well, they did it because they LOVE you and for NO other reason.

      How’s that working for you now? Do they read VOLUMES and VOLUMES of books like my kids do now, all o

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    • psike
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 3:17am

      I think SYMPHONIC needs a nap and a timeout in the corner.

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    • hawkster
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 3:27am

      To Symphonic: Although I think that you‘re pulling everyone’s leg with your idiotic comments let’s explore your childhood nirvana. It is well known that between birth and around the age of seven
      (that’s second grade in case you cant add) children are sponges. This is why a adolescents below the age of seven can learn to speak the local language quickly and multiple languages as well when they are spoken to regularly in their adolescence while older people have to work extremely hard to learn and speak a foreign language. It’s the same with reading–It’s easier to learn to read at four than at fourteen. It’s easier to learn almost anything when your under seven than when your older. You would cripple a child for life with your bizarre formula allowing the child to control his/her environment until they feel like learning. Those people who sent their children to that school and anyone dumb enough to follow your advice just inherited a dependent for life and sentenced that child to a lifetime of slow learning.The shame about it is–the people who sent their children to blue man school were misled. What a shame! You would steal a child’s best years to learn and replace it with what? A sand box—What a maroon!

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    • Choctaw25
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 7:04am

      Symphonics method is the how and why we are now saddled with all the leftist liberals in our society. Stupid is as Stupid does.

      “The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of uninformed, misinformed and uneducated fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

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    • Unstable Phenomenon
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 8:25am

      Directed at the Blue Man Group performers and progressive liberals, stupidity should be painful.

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    • Treaty
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:21am

      LOL.
      No set curriculum = day care, not school.

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    • Apologist
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:07am

      @ symphoic – Please do us all a favor…don’t reproduce.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:32am

      Yo Symphonic:

      You say … “They (your kids) read better then your kids NOW and I would take that to the bank”.

      And you are making unsubstantial accusations of intent of another about their PRIDE ? !!!

      Sounds like you need a little tuning there Symphonic …

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    • Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:23am

      We homeschool our 1st Grader… He does 5th grade level math and 3rd grade level reading and is learning Mandarin Chinese.

      Here’s the problem: His future vote will be nullified by these moronic liberals who don’t know a damned thing and who have been indoctrinated in traditional leftist education!

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    • jeffile
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:36am

      Symphonic – congratulations to your children’s abilities but there are many, many children who would not learn to read unless they had a structured environment and required to learn. Reading came easy to me but I know for a fact that if given the choice I’d rather had gone outside to play. Part of school is to teach the child structure so he learns he has to be on time, has to complete assignments. (Of course in my day a non completion usually ended up with detention after school so you could complete the assignment)

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    • JediKnight
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:54pm

      @Symphonic: My kid just finished kindergarten. People always think he’s older because he speaks very well. The reason he speaks well is because we don‘t treat him like he’s stupid and we continually repeat the correct pronunciation of words. When he asks a question, I make it a child appropriate answer, but I don‘t make up a bunch of bs just because he’s a kid.

      He may not be able to read as well as some of the other peoples kids on here, but he‘s way ahead of his classmates and he’s getting better at reading every day.

      The point is, all you have to do is push them a little and be repetitive. Kids learn it fast and they are happy when they do.

      Parents should have some pride in how well their kids are doing. If you’re letting your kid determine when they learn, you’re doing it wrong. Yes, kids want to learn what they want to learn, but that doesn’t mean they always want to learn what they need to learn. Plenty of kids love learning how to play the latest PlayStation game, but that isn’t what they need to learn.

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    • edcoil
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:19pm

      “its mission as being “to cultivate creative, joyful and passionate inquirers who use courageous and innovative thinking to build a harmonious and sustainable world.”

      I read it and have no idea what it says…

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:13pm

      3monkeys. Well la-dee-da! Your child started reading at 2. That’s nice. But not all kids are ready to read at 2, even when in special wonderful schools or being homeschooled.Your experience is not the norm.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:24pm

      You people jumping all over symphonic are the moronic ones. I am very conservative but you just don’t get what he/she is saying as truth. You are instead hung up on how early your child learned to read, and how far ahead she is reading in grade level. You need to stop thinking what a great parent you are because they learned to read at 2. It’s them, not your wonderfulness as a parent.

      Kids don’t NEED to learn to read at 2 yrs old. If they want to and do, that’s fine. But early reading is not for every child. Every kid is ready to learn at different times. Homeschooling is best because you as the parent can gauge that and teach them when they are ready.

      My son would NEVER have been able to read at 2, or 5, or even 7. He struggled so much in public school while they tried to make him do something he was not ready to do. When he turned 9 it just clicked for him over the summer and he had no more problems after that. If I could have homeschooled him, I could have stopped the frustration and hate he had for school, and could have taught him without reading until he was ready to read.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Hawkster – where does it say kids should learn to read by seven because it is the ultimately best time for them to learn? I have never seen that fact anywhere except here where you said it.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on June 15, 2012 at 1:16am

      A friend found out that her children couldn’t read after attending three years at a Montessori school, so she pulled them out and home schooled them. They caught up and were able to attend the high school when it was the appropriate time.

      While our son’s first full sentence was “Book – read it!” not every child is ready to read at the same age. It is a critical skill to have and often the children can benefit simply by someone sitting down with them and working at it for short periods of time on a daily basis. The thing that scares me is that I have been told schools no longer teach spelling or handwriting. These are also important skills and any concerned parent should make sure their children learn to spell and write clearly.

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  • BLACKDIAMONDSKIER
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:29pm

    If I were to put a curse on my worst enemy, it would be to wish him residence in a purely progressive world. The magnitude of misery and destruction would be immeasurable.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:37pm

      I’ll bet they have one hell of a band at that school though!

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    • rickc34
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:17pm

      Hey look at it this way if these progressive schools all teach kids like this one we have nothing to worry about. If there kid can’t read he will not understand the sign that says push not pull and get stuck in the bathroom at burger king. Johnny spell cat. What’s a cat? Johnny is 16 in the 2nd grade at &lue man

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:33pm

      @Rick

      No, The problem is, they will decide somehow its “unfair” our kids test scores our higher and these kids will get special treatment.

      Just recently, my husband and I had to explain about affirmative action to our 10 year old SON and that he had to maintain a 4.0 GPA to compete against minority females with 2.5 GPAs for the same seat in the same universities. He actually didn’t believe us at first and thought we were just messing with him.

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  • Chicken_Math
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:27pm

    It isn’t how much you pay for education. It’s the quality of the education. I pay 3k a year to a christian school. By the end of kindergarten they can read small books, write short stories and add and subtract. Let the hipsters and left wing anti-christ folks keep their progressive schools. About 90% of the students go to college from this prek-12th 150 student school. Hard to beat that. 9:1 student teacher ratio. Yes they have bible study in class and are strict in many ways. But you will not see a pregnant 13 year old in that school or a gangsta! They host exchange students too.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:27am

      There is NO kindergartener who needs to read and write. Have you thought on the PRACTICAL SIDE of these choices for little kids? If they want to do it, then fine, but I have not met a kid who wants to stay inside and read a book when there is a world of discovery outside, and a whole lot of KID things to do. Public schools and CHINA have ruined childhood.

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    • randy
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 8:05am

      @SYMPHONIC My God, you’re an idiot!

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    • Archtard
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:30am

      @symphonic
      I never needed to know how to do math or read throughout my childhood, but when it was time to grow up and get a job it sure was nice that my parents and teachers had prepared me for reality. If you don’t need it now wait till you do… with your logic no one would ever be prepared for the next step.

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    • Crazyotto
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:17am

      Symptomatic,
      or whatever your name is … either you are a leftist troll or extremely uneducated and as such should not be allowed to reproduce.
      Your supposed education technique of “letting the children decide” when to read is moronic and completely ignores the science of human development. Human children like other adolecents in the animal kingdom require stimulation and some sort of direction in a learning enviroment in order to progress into adulthood. Children who have not been given this most often wind up retarded in intelectual/emotional and cognitive development. It has been proven. Also, Children who have been left on their own and neglected often have terrible psychological disorders. Essentially this is what you are preposing. Good luck with your neglected children. Unfortunately we as citizens will have to pick up the slack financially for your intellectualy/emotionally and cognitive deficient children.

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    • damnedifwedont
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:02pm

      Bravo! My granddaughter goes to a Christian school as well,and reads (3rd grade) at a Junior (11th grade) level. Get rid of ALL the union ‘teachers’ ,pay on MERIT and see what an enormous difference it will make.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:11pm

      Symphonic is speaking like a homeschooler, I think. Many homeschoolers don’t teach reading in kindergarten or first grade. They teach it when the child is ready, not when the child hits a certain age. They don‘t stress about it because a person can be taught many things even when they don’t read. And they eventually learn to read.

      I completely agree with him/her that children are not given the opportunity to be children. Children learn by playing, but they are not allowed to play when it a classroom. There’s nothing wrong with letting kids be kids and not forcing formal education down their throats. If you are a good parent you will be presenting your children with educational opportunities all the time that look like just fun and games. It’s not all about books and taking tests.

      Note this – when I was young (I’m 58), we only played in kindergarten and didn’t start to learn to read until first grade. In all grades up to 8th grade besides some formal learning we played games, sang songs, did a lot of fun things that taught us stuff. We buckled down in high school and got better SAT scores that people do now and came out more educated. Even though it was public school, kids were coming out smarter and able to problem solve and use logical reasoning. It’s not like that now, even though kids learn to read in kindergarten and there‘s no time for fun it’s just learn this for the test.

      I say, we were smarter because we were allowed to be children.

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  • Magyar
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:22pm

    When my daughter announced she was home schooling her children, I hit the roof! What about socialization? What about sports? What about self-discovery? What about learning?

    Then…..Left wing Progressive indocrination!

    Boy was I wrong–And Boy was she right!

    FYI: All 8 (yes eight!!!) play 3 sports, know who they are, interact well with EVERYONE, and are two grade levels ahead of their peers!

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    • TheSitRep
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:37pm

      When someone threw up the “what about socialization” argument to me, I would respond, we are not socialists.

      Home schooled kids have a much greater ability to engage and communicate with younger and older people because they are exposed to a broader age range of people.
      Both of my children hold their heads up and look you in the eye and can engage like adults.

      Kids that spend 8 hours a day with ill mannered immature peers ten to reinforce each other’s idiotic behavior.
      Also, when you home school, you don’t have to go as slow as Jesus and LaQuisha so you can move on to more complex studies.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:39pm

      Magyar
      Great story !!! Right on !!! Congrats !!!

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:37am

      Problem is, many people see this, but because of their PRIDE, they can’t accept it. They can’t accept that if your kid is not playing varsity SPORTS at the local high school, that they must be in a failure program. Tell me, how many kids GET to play varsity sports out of the 2000 kids in a high school? 5%??

      We are sending our kids to public schools so they can have a 5% CHANCE at making a team, and a 2% chance at even playing? That seems very misguided. What an EXCUSE!

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    • AintLIBSjuzGreat
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:34am

      Symphonic nice try, nobody on earth is as stupid as the words you are typing.I got some good laughs though

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:59am

      @ Symphonic

      We send our kids because the education system has been hijacked and it is a federal mandate that they have some form of education. A lot of jobs exist that require no formal education per se, just a trade skill / apprenticeship and basic skills (reading, math, manual dexterity). In a lot of cases, education after 7th grade is a bloody waste of taxpayer dollars.

      The requirement that everyone must have X amount of education has devalued that level of education. Associate’s degrees are the new norm for entry-level positions, which has devalued said degree to the point that technical positions are now the dominion of Bachelor‘s Degrees or Master’s degrees. At this current pattern, sometime in my lifetime I expect a low-level computer technician will require a Doctorate in Information Sciences, a sad state of affairs for a position best served by an apprenticeship or trade school.

      FULL DISCLOSURE: I have done both trade school and college. Strictly in my discipline, I learned a helluva lot more in trade school than I did in college, and I attended both for the same thing (Information Sciences).

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    • osgeek
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 2:02pm

      symphonic:
      When will you get it through your head it is not about pride, it’s about giving children the tools to make a successful life. Can you fix a tire without a tire iron? So is the same with kids, you have to equip them for life, and the earlier the better, that is when they take in and retain information. I grew up in a “mediocrity is OK” household and I darn well wished my parents were more engaged in education than they were. Thanks goodness I had the Air Force which grew me up real fast and got me on a successful tract in life.

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:22pm

    If you child can’t read before they hit 1st grade, you are an unfit parent.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:30pm

      The kids, the teachers, the founders and the parents…..apparently ALL MORONS…,

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:36pm

      You betcha.

      And also some basic math skills under their belt.

      If parents are doing their job, grade school classroom activities should be nothing more than review for the 3 R’s

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    • medic506
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:54pm

      Exactly. My 8 year old has to read to us every night before going to bed. There is no excuse for these idiot parents not realizing their kid can’t read.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:44am

      No, I think the unfit parent is the one that doesn’t think, doesn’t think that a kid needs to be a kid, and that there is a time and a place for things.

      All you public school defenders. Do you even KNOW why they were made? To teach obedience and discipline and get them used to doing menial tasks and being TOLD what to do, NEVER being challenge to THINK, but being challenged to do a DITTO, to do the homework, to keep busy busy busy… and why? So they would make great factory workers when they grew up.

      Well, we don’t need no stinking factory workers now, its all gone to china. Better to teach your kid to be CREATIVE and think outside the box, because the economy is so complicated now that the norms are not working for our nation. Now, you kid can make it all the way through college and have a 50% chance of not getting a job, and a worse chance at getting a GOOD job.

      You are fooling yourselves if you stay with the completely SOCIALIST PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. You are just like OBAMA if you are for public school. You are a socialist and a marxist in the making.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:06am

      @Symphonic,

      Seriously?

      You don’t think that along with all the “discovery” and play time, and being a kid,……..that you can spend 30 minutes or so, every day to teach your young children some basic reading and math skills?

      This can be done in a very informal, yet fun and entertaining way for the kids.

      They have fun, and get a head start, and perform at levels far beyond most of their classmates.

      All without taking away from their being a kid. I mean, were talking “Dr. Seuss” here, not Shakespeare.

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    • Mediadoesntmatter
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 10:04am

      “It’s all fun and games until you realize your second-grader can’t read,” a parent wrote on Urbanbaby.com, while another said “it’s true” that her child was struggling.

      Maybe the nanny should get fired for not informing this parent that the kid could not read along with bedtime stories while they were out saving the rest of us!

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:59pm

      Not every child is ready to read at that age. Some take longer. Many homeschoolers teach their kids to read when the kid is ready, not when the parent thinks he ought to be ready. That is one of the problems with public school. They want everyone to be the same….not too smart and not too dumb. All the same. It’s easier for them.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 4:35pm

      @DEEBERJ

      If a child is not “ready” to learn to read Green Eggs And Ham, by the time he is in 1st grade, there are other issues to deal with.

      And those issues are most likely the parents.

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  • jblovesAmerica
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:22pm

    Liberals-tell them over and over something is good for you.-GOTCHA-NITWITS.
    The kids will be bigger morons than MOM and Dad.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 5:02am

      It all sounds very “New-Age” and that is a problem. The parents are total ditzes and deserve whatever they get for being so moronic.

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  • rsanchez1
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:17pm

    The world according to blue progressive freaks.

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  • JimCDew
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:16pm

    Add your comments

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  • Halgar
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:15pm

    Can we please just grab the remaining sane states and leave the north east and west coast to their doom?

    We can’t fix this, without cutting out some of the infection. If that means forging a New America, so be it.

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    • rottenrhonda
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:26pm

      Oh, no, no, no!! I live in southern Washington state and I ain‘t leavin’. Not WA and not the US!! I say we stuff Progressives back in the box and get to work undoing the damage. Most Americans want the same things, it’s crooked politicians in cahoots with Wall Street, the Far Left and Far Right mucking things up. This nation has taken numerous hard lefts and hard rights and but still manages to find a good balance most of the time. We stand our ground or get ground down….

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    • Winedude
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:20pm

      I think you have a great idea. I live in California and I hate that we send money out of state to most of you hateful, racist crackers. We could do wonders if we weren’t helping to support idiots in “Red” states.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:50am

      Public School is “progressive.” You just don’t see it, because you are the product of a dumbed down system that teaches kids not to think, not to question. You are in it and you don’t even realize it.

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    • hanblecheya
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:26pm

      People who don’t agree, don’t freely associate. Neither should they incorporate. Lincoln was seriously wrong. It’s not about keeping the union. It’s about finding a more perfect union. Pro(re)gressives need to go cornhole themselves and become a failed state of their own and let the rest of us live in a country free from the ravages of dumocrats. Dumb, dumber, dumbest, dumocrats!

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    • VastRightWingConspirator
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:13pm

      WINEDUDE
      Like California has money to send anywhere. Like California has money. Your state is the biggest drain on the nation. Please form your own nation. Your producers are running from you socialist nirvana as fast as they can and they are running here, to the red states. If you honestly believe the content of your comment, you are sadly misinformed. Please point out which state the financial disaster of California supports.

      http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/26/local/la-me-state-debt-20110226

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  • turkey13
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:12pm

    Flags should have went up to these parents when loosers like CNN and NY Times praise it. They probably thought these kids would grow up to be community organiziers – and we know that don’t work out to well in the real world.

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    • symphonic
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:48am

      I wish my kids could be in it. I wish I could afford it. I am a conservative. But I am not a stupid conservative that believes in the dumbed down system of socialist public schools.

      Public school = SOCIALISM. Everybody elses parents PAY taxes to send YOUR kids to school. HALF of our TAX dollars go to schools. You worry about OBAMACARE?

      You are INCONSISTENT. You have one foot IN socialism, while your other foot is self righteously camped in the condemn socialism bandwagon. Be consistent. Don’t be the product of a dumbed down public school system trained and taught to never question, never think. THINK!!! You, are, a, socialist!

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 11:11am

      One has to be able to read, write and do arithmetic to be even a community-organiser!

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    • deeberj
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 1:56pm

      Symphonic – not everyone who attended or attends public school is an idiot sheeple. The progressives don’t always win in public school. Many of us think for ourselves. Don’t be so naive as to paint with such a wide brush.

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  • blazetoo
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:10pm

    And we all sit around the park, feeling the grass, singing “answer me a question”. Utopia is difficult in the real world…

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  • JimCDew
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:10pm

    What’s old is new again – Go to You Tube and search “The Wall” by Pink Floyd. Listening to that song, knowing what we now know about progressive educators, a whole new meaning of the lyrics comes to light.

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  • Nahum
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:00pm

    YES! Another generation set for government dependency and social welfare.

    Anyone else starting to think that maybe, just maybe this is deliberate?

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    • dejavu43
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:27pm

      Nahum: there are a huge number of us out here that think this dumbing down is deliberate and part of a very old plan to subjugate as many people as possible. Look back over history and you will see that no society can be subjugated unless the government, in whatever form, controls the money, the food, mobility and in recent centuries, weapons, energy and education. Those dedicated to the generationally perpetuated one world ownership are as close to their goal as they ever have been, right now world wide. Unless more of us exert our strength and bring a new generation up more responsibly, correct the errors of previous generations and re-educate those that have been so thoroughly brainwashed, their goal may well be met.

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  • scuba13
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:47pm

    What did you expect from a school that Encinom was the first valedictorian.

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  • rottenrhonda
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:44pm

    It’s more than a little frightening that people are willing to pay so much for some buzz words that make them feel good. It‘s like they’re getting some wonderful shiny new thing that’s going to make their world perfect…oh, wait…we, as a nation are paying for the decision of a majority to put some wonderful shiny new thing into the most powerful position on Earth to make their world perfect. Idiots. In both cases, children will pay for the ignorance.

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  • phrogdriver
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:41pm

    It‘s Bush’s fault.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:41pm

    Not only can they not read, they have no “gender identity” and they can identify racism in their peers.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:39pm

    Liberal idiots raising another gerneration of OWS idiots. It is funny how liberals screw up their own kids. But its Bushes fault.

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  • copatriots
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:35pm

    Here’s a thought……how ’bout investing some time in your children and keeping up with their education so that you know they can read before second grade?

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:35pm

    Blue Men don‘t talk and the Children can’t read. Sounds about right to me…..

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:34pm

    “All Children Left Behind”, the motto of progressives everywhere.

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  • BlessedONE333
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:32pm

    also – I think the they have consumed too many poisons from the toxic paint!

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  • BlessedONE333
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:31pm

    lol wow that 28 marsh mellows in the mouth skill must be great at children’s birthday parties but NOT ONCE did I see the alphabet, numbers on the wall, the kids writing or talking about anything IMPORTANT.

    parents – please – don‘t give your kids over to the ’art’ culture, FANTASY at such a young age only breeds stupidity as a teen/adult!

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  • honor007
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:27pm

    why in the world would you ever pay that much money to send your kids to a school founded by the Blue Man Group??? REALLY? wackos

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    • Eleutheria
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:36pm

      Because it’s the “hip” thing to do.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:06pm

      Just use the present tense for the Blue Man Group. …yuck…

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    • deano24
      Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:41pm

      @Eleutheria

      Your comment reminds me of the people in Detroit buying Kanye West shoes for a $1000 dollars.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:26pm

    PROGRESSIVES don’t need to know how to read, or think.

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on June 14, 2012 at 9:30am

      IF they actually EDUCATED them, they would never grow up to be good little Progressives!

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