Inconceivable wrote:GIMR wrote:
The Village ticked me off royally, mainly because I was still struggling as an LDS when I saw it, and saw so much of my (and others') experiences within the church in it. I left the theater shaking my head and thinking, "that's just like the church".
Thanks for your perspective GIMR.
When "The Villiage" came out several years ago, I did not even occur to me the obvious and troubling parallels.
I recall when Bill and Hillary seiged the white house that she made that famous "It takes a village" speech as well. It frightened many of us that it was all about her definition of a "village", full of all the decadence of society.
That was the one and only year we made the mistake in enrolling our kids into a Mormon charter school to keep them "safe". It was like we ended up in a lead cave for a while just fearing all those shadows out there. Our kids regressed and became very close minded and judgemental of those on the outside for a time. Glad we snapped out of it.
Since that time (and previously) we have always had our children attend the public school system. There are so many reasons why it has been the better choice. If they are raised within the world, they develop life skills through comparison and contrast. They have a better chance of overcoming their fears of people from other walks of life and learn to respect them in spite of the differences. Not only that but they might even realize that we are all basically good.
Hey Inconceivable,
LOL, I have some fond memories of Catholic school. I'm not too fond of the public schools in my area, though if I were to live within the city I was born in now, things might be different. I was teased a lot, so mom put me in private school. But being the only black Jew in a school full of Catholics was definitely interesting. At least I did well in religion class, while ticking off my Jewish grandmother. She laid my mother out on the regular about sending me there. But I kind of liked it. :-) My first confession was interesting (don't know why I had to do it, but it is a funny memory). They put on sad music and told us to think of all the thing we'd done wrong. I was sobbing by the time I got to the priest, and the priests were trying to hard not to laugh at the things we told them we had done!
The level of education was better, but there was definitely prejudice there from a small few, I would say overall though, that school was good. I was nanny for about 20 months to two Catholic children, and the school they went to was very diverse.
I haven't had kids yet (though the prospect of that and their daddy is looming), but I wonder if I would homeschool them if I did. I was a senior when Columbine happened, and I remember the fear of those days. The young children I see these days where I live are mouthy, the boys trying to prove a manhood they do not have, the girls walking around in miniskirts and boots with heels. It's scary. The guy I'm dating has his daughters on lockdown, and at first I thought he was crazy, but I looked at two young girls that I've cared for over the years who are the same age. One looks like a miniature woman, the other looks like a 5-year-old, like she should. My 12-year-old niece walks around in eyeshadow, lipgloss, and tight clothes, when I didn't get a powder compact and some lipstick from the makeup counter until I was almost 15. It's frightening, and I'm somewhat glad I don't have to deal with being a parent yet.