Can't argue with that.
Posted on 06/23/2010 6:27:30 AM PDT by shortstop
Ping to the ARTH list; you all might have a different reaction.
The election of Barack Obama is a pretty good indication of how effective the public school system has become in their brainwashing efforts. As an unknown writer from the Czech Republic recently pointed out:
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.
” I’m going to email those to Anoreth: she’s re-educating her entire ship’s crew as they putter about the Western Pacific. It’s very frustrating for her (but a good preparation to be a mother someday ;-). “ Renders a whole new meaning to “ infantry”
;-)
Parents get a share of the public funding of education to spend as they see fit. This sets up competition among private/public schools to provide the best education. Parents decide where to send their kids, and competition increases the efficiency and quality of the product, as it does in free market situations.
and free lunches, breakfasts, gym uniforms, spirit day t-shirts . . .
Great article - the Founders never contemplated a professional force. This needs to be read by everyone:
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/the-right-to-be-left-alone/
If you were going to have a really vital operation done, and were told that 30% (to use this fellow’s generous odds) of the medical team that would be working on you was unqualified and worse, personally opposed to making you well, would you take the operation?
Yet this man thinks that 30% of teachers being unfit or hostile toward parental values is acceptable.
Why should I fight those odds when I can educate my kids myself?
The first step is to end compulsory attendance. Followed by an end to any involvement in education above the state level.
My wife and I homeschool our children, but I know too many people who are absolute believers in public schools to make it possible to get rid of them. And when run strictly at the community level and when attendance is voluntary, public schools can succeed.
That being said, there is no reason why education could not be run privately and for profit.
Josh
False: Governments are instituted to secure the unalienable rights of the citizens. Taking my money to purchase babysitting your little b****rd IS NOT protecting my unalienable rights. I have the right to the money I earn, its not yours to spend as you please.
My kids grandmother had to move out of state, why? She could no longer afford the skyrocketing property taxes (2/3 of which go straight to the school district). Most of the families in town are far wealthier than she is, but they keep voting to take her money because they can, and they are too cheap and immoral to pay their own way. They are NOT conservatives, they are erstwhile slave masters empowered by the virus of progressivism.
Your 30% is probably inverted.
I’d say there are less than 30% of teachers, and even less of the NEA teachers, that are in favor of parental authority and values. They believe it is their duty to indoctrinate the kids into their value system.
There is an active campaign for liberals, who demographically have much smaller families than conservatives, to get into fields that will indoctrinate the children of conservatives. Basically, “let them support the little crum crunchers, while we raise them as liberals”.
Can't argue with that.
I got a really nice car; not only didn't the government make it, I didn't design it either.
I love my children, I love liberty - I homeschool!
Wrong. I most certainly do.
Breeding my own private army since 1989 ...
Because the four Lonsberry children turned out conservative despite public education, he concludes that the educrats are not doing a good job of brainwashing. *groan*
So much else I dispute here, but the usual suspects will be along shortly to deal with it. I'm busy homeschooling. (Yes, even in summertime.)
And doing a fine job of it too!
Actually, some of us do want to abolish public education. As my tagline says, education is too important to leave in the hands of government bureaucrats. That's not the same as abolishing education, just getting it out of the hands of the government. If you want to empower parents and improve the quality of education and remove the power from those who see public schools as an opportunity to propagandize our children. If we went to a voucher system and allowed all parents to select the school they wished their children to attend then parents would select successful schools and the failing schools would lose business.
So if you want quality education that is focused on education and not propaganda, why wouldn't you want to abolish public schools?
The author bashes people who think this but without providing any reasons...there is a word for that, it's called ad hominem.
And Christians have no business putting their children in public schools. You’re being derelict in your God given responsibility if you do.
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