Posted on 03/21/2011 12:39:44 PM PDT by pinochet
—— 3) As conservatives we MUST see that every child in this nation has access to a **private** and conservative education that fully supports the child’s specific Judeo Christian belief and our nation’s founding principles. ——
Your ideas aren’t terrible, but there’s a huge flaw in them. If school becomes an entirely private enterprise, then the market is going to provide schooling options for people who aren’t conservative, judeo-christian, or have any interest in the Constitution.
There absolutely would be atheist schools, muslim schools, hindu schools, etc. Also you’d find schools that were run and funded by liberal organizations such as MoveOn and the Soros/Gates empire. To say nothing of the schools that would be funded by corporations. (Would you want kids attending the Frito-Lay School of Higher Salted Education?)
Moving into the realm of post-secondary education, again you’d find a huge swath of liberal-dominated schools with a few Conservative/Christian schools thrown in, pretty much like we have now.
In addition there is the problem of how much of academia is dominated by liberals, and how reluctant conservatives seem to be to enter the world of education. Now, this could be a self-selecting type of issue, that would be resolved with a proliferation of conservative schools, but in the early years of a program such as the one you’ve suggested you’d probably see Conservative schools having issues attracting qualified teachers.
This could then result in liberals having an advantage in the job market, if businesses knew that having gone to an institution that espoused liberalism meant you’d acquired a more in-depth or more cutting-edge (due to financial clout) education, you could see a significant drop in the earning power of Conservatives as they found themselves shut out of higher-wage earning jobs. This would then be compounded throughout society as those liberal learning institutions would benefit from more moneyed alumni and business could develop more liberal cultures and become even less likely to consider applicants from conservative schools.
A further problem would be the splintering of American culture. If children were getting such diverse styles of education, you probably wouldn’t see the ‘melting pot’ that has been of such benefit to America. Heck, if schools were entirely private they could offer education in Spanish, or Chinese or whatever language an immigrant came from, English could be taught as a second language. Schools wouldn’t be required to teach the history of the States in a meaningful way.
Heck, it would be possible, if schools were completely privatized, to establish an outright jihadist school with education in Arabic, and claim that you were simply “filling a niche” in the marketplace.
Yes, the more I think about it, the more I realize that you just have an ax to grind against schools for some reason and that you have spent no time thinking out the likely outcomes of getting rid of the government school system.
Far better for conservatives to gain control of government and make use of the school system for our benefit that to eradicate them and deal with the resulting educational chaos.
This part was not a quote, BTW.
He was a leader in the Progressive Movement—a follower of Susan B. Anthony and her kind, of “free trade,” etc. He was much like a Libertarian. I’m nonpolitical and don’t care for any of the political parties out there. They’re all corrupt, global, sexually confused spendthrifts.
No.
Entirely too many people think the government’s job is to give them “stuff.” They’re not going vote to have the goodies turned off. And their votes count the same yours and mine - more, once ACORN and its union associates get done with the vote fraud.
Quote of the day.
Painfully true. LOL We need to find one first.
yes, with some changes....the stupid must not be allowed into the ballot box....simple solution is a 4 question poll test
1) who is the current president of the united states?
2) who is the current vice president of the united states?
3) who is the governor of your state?
4) name the 3 branches of the federal government.
this would eliminate most liberals, in a right now fashion....hell, i bet most teachers could not answer all 4 correctly...
you got that right..hell, the social(ist) conservatives what to smack us with just as many restrictions on our constitutional rights as the libs do, they just want to do it from the other side of the spectrum
Even if you changed it to “what is the name of” I’d still be a little unclear on the first one.
We will reap what has been sown. It may still be a while, but Americans will pay a price for the hubris of our “governing class.”
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