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To: MaineConservative

Nice sentiment but it is not practical for all conservatives to homeschool. Instead of ceding the public schools why shouldn’t conservatives become active agitators in them? I plan on retiring from law enforcement and using my MA in History to teach when I do. You can bet that my classes will not be full of one-sided anti-American tripe. If not teaching, how about running for school board, or even attending council and commission meetings where education is a topic. “All politics is local” as Johnson said and he was right. We’ve had our asses handed to us because Conservatives generally eschew the activist streak necessary to infiltrate all political arenas. Well that is going to have to change. We have to become more activist and take the fight to the libs rather than letting them dictating to us and we must do so while maintaining our ideological integrity.


31 posted on 11/26/2008 1:17:42 PM PST by Crapgame (Palin/Coulter 2012)
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The problem with taking public schools back is twofold: liberal activism, driven to a great extent by teachers unions, and Federal and state mandates and court decisions that deprive local school boards of autonomy. Local activism by conservatives can turn the former problem around, though not always successfully. The problem at the state and Federal levels is more intractable, however. Even states dominated first by conservative Democrats and then by Republicans, as is the case of most Southern states, have not been successful in breaking the stranglehold of liberalism over state education bureaucracies and teachers colleges.
32 posted on 11/27/2008 7:06:39 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Crapgame
Conservatives generally eschew the activist streak necessary to infiltrate all political arenas.

True...As I say in my TAGLINE Lets go and get busy to bring back the USA from SOCIALISTS!! We need to be ACTIVE!!!

34 posted on 11/30/2008 5:01:45 PM PST by MaineConservative (Conservatives -- if you want CHANGE run for Congress in 2010!! I am))
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