Posted on 06/23/2010 6:27:30 AM PDT by shortstop
He doesn’t even address the question of whether child-rearing is a legitimate or desirable function for the state to assume. Government education is the template for government’s takeover of the support of the elderly, of medical care, of businesses ... usurping the functions free citizens once accomplished for themselves.
No. We are the product of good parenting.
Parents MUST intervene at all levels, remain watchful and de-program a great deal
I am a product of public schooling - thank GOD I rose above it. It did not serve me well. The decline started 40 years ago, it is not going to get better until we elect politicians that have the courage to tear it down and rebuild it.
As a Catholic schools parent, I can only say, “sounds like a plan.”
I propose that “public education” be publicly funded, and nothing beyond that - make it Constitutionally illegal for the government to control the education or to tie any strings to the funding.
Publicly funded, parent controlled.
Why not have public supermarkets?
We would all do better eating government food, right?
“So here’s the truth. No, conservatives don’t want to abolish public education. We want to improve it and make it more accountable to local taxpayers, parents and values.”
And since that accountability is not coming in any of our lifetimes, abolishing the bulk of government schooling makes a good deal of sense. How much time, money, and resources do you pour down a rathole before you decide it just isn’t working as you’d hoped?
And what about the legacy of welfare dependency that Aid To Families with Dependent Parents causes?
I’ll kindly invite this gentleman to speak for himself.
Abolish public schools? Heck yeah.
Two stupid things about “de-programming” your kids:
One, they have thousands of “seat hours” in front of teachers with an agenda to “program” into them, and you’re gonna take a couple of hours each night to counter this?
If you’re willing to commit a “couple of hours” a day to de-program them, why not spend one more hour a day and homeschool them?
GWB sold us out on public education when he cut a deal with Ted Kennedy to remove private school vouchers from the socialist No Child Left Behind federal bill, basically to get the NEA behind it. Bush then used the success to get re-elected. Don’t forget the single Mom tax credit.
Hell, we cant even get elected republicans to stop federalizing public schools let alone get rid of them (it should be a local issue anyway.)
This is a fundamental point that eludes thoughtless conservatives such as Lonsberry. He likes that middle-class welfare entitlement. The thought that the left is going to give up its cultural stronghold and $1 trillion/year cashflow that it provides is mind numbingly stupid.
Lonsberry is an idiot. Millions of conservatives want to abolish 'public' education. I'm one of them. Apparently Lonsberry doesn't even have a passing familiarity with the Constitution.
Hmmm, I must have missed the ceremony where ole Bob was crowned "Speaker for all Conservatives".
Or maybe he has a frog in his pocket when he says "we".
Two quotes sums up public education:
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
– Vladimir Lenin
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
– Joseph Stalin
Yep, you got that right.
Abolish public education!The total capture of the public education and most large private colleges by the Left is what makes the slide to totalitarian rule inevitable. The knowledge base does not exist in the general population to fight it. There is no sense and knowledge of history thus no sense of what will or will not work or what the consequences of any action or policy must be. People accept what they are told by power seekers because they don't have the tools to evaluate claims. With two generations or total reform to proper American values it could be achieved but there is not the base of knowledge and ability remaining to carry out the reform.
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