Posted on 01/04/2009 12:27:20 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Republicans and conservatives are in jeopardy of being "educated" out of existence. That begs the question, why in a county that is over 60% Republican and conservative, do we allow our local school system to be run by liberals? Yes, while conservatives have slept, the local school systems across the country, including ours, have been completely taken over by liberals.
It is not only the liberals alone that have made this possible. It is also RINO (Republicans in name only) that have supported these liberal policies and made it possible for them to dominate the school system. Locally RINO's like Chip Baker, Richard Casavant, Joe Conner, Claude Ramsey, etc. are prime examples of politicians that have posed as Republicans basically to get elected while supporting liberal school policies and tax increases. They have been given their marching orders by the local liberal power-structure. They always support the HCEA, NEA, and whatever "…EA" that they can. What organizations can you name that are more liberal than those? Not many.
(Excerpt) Read more at chattanoogan.com ...
I don't know what an "emergency teacher" is. But YES, the 1st step is a Degree in Education (B.A.Ed or better B.S.Ed) but even then you don't just start teaching. Next you have to pass a few Qualification Tests to be "Certified". Annnd while you were in that College of Education you would pick a specialty (not a 'Major'), like reading or math. So there's test for that too besides Certification (though not required to be a teacher). Oops almost forgot - you have to decide what level you want to teach when you 1st enroll. Elementary School K-8, or High School 9-12. Your certification would be based on this.
So, are we there yet? No.
Now you have your Ed degree and are Certified, BUT, have no experience - oh while you're in College one semester is spent Student Teaching but that's something else entirely - soooooo you'll have to start at the bottom and be a 'Teacher's Aide' to get actual classroom experience and that is normally a part time job when you begin.
How old are you again :-)
'Series' everyone blames the lousy teachers, but the above is what IL teachers have to go through. I know our daughter is now a 'Teacher's Aide' and has a B.S.Ed. And getting Certified was NOT easy. Maybe other states are easy, or lax, don't know.
As to 'the union', our daughter saw that person twice, when she started and was given an enrollment card and a month later when she turned it in (IL NEA). And the union is not the problem, its the School Boards that cave in to nonsense. Ours didn't and our schools are top rated.
More asleep at the wheel than lacking courage, I suspect.
My youngest graduated high school in 1992. She had spent 2 years getting A's in AP English classes, so I assumed (oy vey!) that she was solidly educated in English. My realization that she could not recognize word roots left me reeling.
I had been so busy protecting them from the liberal television and movie crapola that was available, I didn't realize that the enemy had taken over the educational part of the schools. I was, in your words, asleep at the wheel.
I have three very conservative offspring, but they were NOT educated as well as either myself or my husband.
The primary system failed; McCain was selected by dems and independants crossing over. Pubbies may actually need to go back to some version of the smoke-filled rooms.
Is it too early for "comment of the year"?
Boy en how are you right. Have you ever read the comments here from the pro-government school warriors? Woa boy! Talk about justification and cognitive dissonance!
You may have been referring to "higher" education, in which case I still agree 100%.
Ping.
Boy I WISH there was, like, an all time must read section here. This thread is very important. There are SO many people here at FR even who simply ignore the problem or justify sending their kids to PS that how can we possibly hopr the average person will care?
Abolish the federal Department of Education
Even Reagan could not do that.
Gov. Sarah Palin was not free to put out “her” message, “her” vision of the future, “her” view of political ideology.
Inasmuch as most of these are unknown there is an unhelpful tendency to fill in the blanks with what we want to believe; but we must assess Gov. Palin on her record and her words when she was free to do as she saw fit, not what she said when trying to carry a tired old man across the electoral finish line.
1) Volunteering is not enough. The system is broken beyond repair. It must be abandoned by conservatives and Christians for homeschooling, private, and conservative or at least neutral charter schooling.
2) The Heritage Foundation supplies stuff free of charge. Pocket copies of the Constitution Declaration for instance.
3) What role playing did you do? I’d like to use it in my homeschooling maybe (my kids go to private school but i augment it heavily with homeschooling).
One of the biggest myths around, perpetuated by the liberal school system and academia, is that you just cannot succeed in life without their little pieces of paper.
Horseshit.
Most of the richest people I know personally either dropped out or never even went to college.
Vouchers are dead letter. Dead, dead, dead. They were voted down handily in one of the most conservative states in America.
The best option at this point is making tuition tax deductible.
Amen brother.
I cannot understand how little value “conservatives” place on their children’s education. It is “too heavy a burden” or sacrifice.
If the education - academic, patriotic, spiritual, physical, and philosophical - is not worth sacrifice, what is?
WHY would any conservative above the poverty line willing submit their kids to leftists inculcation?
Tennessee ping
This is an editorial on the Chattanooga school system, but it could apply to just about any public school.
Not sure if this has any credence, just something i heard in passing.
You’re joking right?
Show me a RTW state that does not have teachers unions or liberal schools?
Even if it did eliminate them, which it has not and will not, RTW would be opposed almost as strongly as vouchers in most states.
Indeed, it’s exhausting and requires a tremendous amount of energy in confronting unhinged liberals, but it is both necessary and worth it.
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