SEX EDUCATION BILL IN THE ARIZONA SENATE

email ^ | 04/22/02 | Cathi Herrod

[hsmomx3]

FYI.

[Free the USA]

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[EdReform]

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[LarryLied]

Gotta take that local control away. Parents are stupid you know. They cannot be trusted to do the right thing for their children. We should take their kids away from them but that is not politically possible. For now.

[conserve-it]

BUMP !!

[madfly]

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[hsmomx3]

I do know of ONE senator that will be voting AGAINST this: Sen. Scott Bundgaard.

[OldFriend]

Not so much that parents are stupid, but that they usually have no idea what is going on in their schools and the school administration likes it like that.

[LarryLied]

Many are afraid of the system. Friend of mine has an autistic child. She is doing a wonderful job of caring for him. By watching his diet and environment, she is able to mitigate the symptoms very well. But the school is always trying to get him on drugs. They want her and her husband to come in for therapy too. The threat is always there that if parents don't go along, Child Protective Services will be called in.

[EdReform]

Lunch time ping!

[OldFriend]

I know exactly what you mean. A good friend was threatened to have her child taken from the home if she didn't classify him as learning disabled.

The effort to 'classify' is driven by the fact that the child's academic scores are NOT counted when the school is evaluated for meeting the standards.

[LarryLied]

Another angle I was unaware of. Thanks. I knew they got more money for special ed kids up front. Heard in Boston schools they have nearly a third of the boys classified as having learning disabilities.

[OldFriend]

Another area of concern for parents.... Schools that begin 'testing' kindergarten children. Put that label on and you will NEVER get it off. Unfortunately, most parents have no idea how corrupted the entire process of educating their children has become.

Religious private grammar schools are affordable but don't do well with the above average child. Discipline is strong and the middle of the road student does well.

[LarryLied]

Friends of mine who are grandparents have found themselves raising two teenagers because one of their daughters messed up her life (other two kids are doing great, they can't understand it). They are nominal Catholics but sending the kids, at a sacrifice, to a very strict fundamentalist Christian school where the girls are not allowed to cut their hair.

They say they prefer that to the girls coming home from government school with pierced tongues and green hair.

[LarryLied]

It won't be until the NEA is busted. Too much money. They fix school boards. Run a slate of candidates all connnect by family or job to the union. Parents cannot compete.

[Exigence]

Can you point me to information that addresses the stranglehold the NEA has over local school boards?

What sort of info. are you looking for? Most teachers are union members. The union speaks for them and the school boards have to "play ball" to a certain degree. The whole "union" mentality begins in the schools of education at the university level. Call it "indoctrination" by the credit hour.

More importantly, the NEA is one of, if not the most, powerful lobbies in Washington. Surely the extreme number of delegates to the Democratic convention that are NEA members illustrates the hold the NEA has over the Democratic Party as well. Democratic candidates that oppose the NEA might as well not run. The NEA "buys" the loyalty of the Dems each year and the Dems cannot afford to do without their money or their influence.