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GPS devices used for gov’t school prisons
From ChristianGovernance eletter, Sept. 11, 2012
Student behaviour is one of the biggest problems facing government schools. All kinds of tactics are being tried to improve attendance and behaviour.
The reality is that if the students were motivate to learn, they wouldn’t need external compulsion. Click here for a story on government schools using GPS devices to track students.
External compulsion is all about policing. When people abandon self-government, the state with its police forces feels the need to compensate. Many people, including naive but well-meaning Christians, fearing for their safety, support such measures.
These, however, are only bandaid measures. The only abiding alternative is God’s counsel, which is a return to self-government and inner compulsion, or motivation. This only comes through the Gospel, through salvation and the cultural reformation that ensues. That’s hard work. That requires wrestling with the fear of man in testifying to others of the truth. That requires patience. So many of us don’t buy into God’s model.
We would rather force children and young men and women to attend schools where they are bored and are learning little if anything of value instead of asking and seriously answering the questions about why they don’t want to attend in the first place? Is being simply a higher form of animal life not motivating? Is early introduction to sex too distracting? Is video game addiction too consuming? Is my example as a parent of keeping up with the Jones’s not inspiring enough to give you a purpose for living and succeeding?
Nah! Let’s just pull out the GPS device and call 911!