Posted on 09/03/2009 7:40:25 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
50 star flag???
Count again. 6 rows of 8 stars is 48.
ignorance knows no bounds ... But even the ignorant can be taught.
Albert Shanker, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, said this:
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
I don't intend to surrender at all. I simply will not save or promote an institution that is fundamentally wrong and which should not exist. Government education was never good it was only less bad.
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Good post devolve.
Thank you Albion.
Fine, I and others here certainly sympathize with that thought; however; my point was that you were inaccurate in condemning the school system prior to 1960, which is what the cartoon cited, as being as bad as it is now. It did not started out as a Marxist wasteland. Thomas Jefferson was the first superintendent of schools in the U.S. They were meant to help children learn our freedoms, religious heritage, our reasons for breaking away from Europe to gain specific freedoms, our Constitutional history and economic system.
Either that or the ostriches will have bruised behinds in due time.
Outstanding. Sent the link to my kids.
Nice post. Thanks.
While I didn't count the stars, if I'm not mistaken, the flag at the back of the classroom is hung backwards (about 1:20 into the video). The flag has the stars positioned at its top right. I believe that they should be at the top left when the flag is hung vertically.
Where did you get that information?
It may be now. It wasn't then.
In checking this remembered data, I see that his presidency of the school system was for Washington, DC schools, which were regarded as a model during the early days of our society:
An Outline History of Religion in American Schools Scroll to 1802
I thought it was 6 rows of 10 = 57 plus one left to go to plus Alaska & Hawaii.
There is an Obama subtitled version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O92dKfqIQxQ
For when I get home
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