Posted on 01/14/2012 8:50:33 AM PST by NYer
CHARLESTON, South Carolina -- Rick Santorum has no more loyal base than the crowd of home-schooled children and their parents who gathered here Thursday night. Not only are all of Santorum's children home-schooled by his wife Karen, but the family is committed to holistic medical treatments, health food, and Christian-inspired learning, popular causes with home-schoolers.
The topics covered at the Charleston town hall varied widely, but the conversation always returned to education. And Santorum, whose late grassroots rally in Iowa was built on the foundation of endorsements from various home school advocacy groups, was all too happy to rally the troops in the Palmetto State.
At one point, a woman came to the microphone to express her appreciation--and beg for some red meat.
"You are familiar, of course, with home schooling..." she began, before Santorum interrupted with a smile, "My wife is more familiar with home schooling."
"And we give her a shout-out for that!" the woman responded, sparking applause from the audience. Then she got to her question: "I was wondering if it's possible at all to influence at least the idea, I know the teachers' union is not crazy about it, but to try to get some home schooling... and be able to somehow work that into education without being a special interest?"
"Well obviously leading by example is a good thing," Santorum responded. "And having a homeschooling family in the White House would certainly be a shock to the establishment."
The crowd laughed, and then roared with applause. He went on to explain that parents, not any government body, should be in charge of determining what success means for their children's educational experience.
"It's going to be different for different parents," Santorum said. "And you know what? That's OK! I trust parents to instill values, and instill citizenship and all those things much more than I do the education system in America today. It's sad to say."
Of possible interest, ping!
He is not going make it NYER I hate to say I got give props telling Teacher union f**** themselves
Way I been reading his background he would do it he is Honey Badger of this Campaign he dont give it s***
He is not going make it NYER I hate to say I got give props telling Teacher union f**** themselves
Way I been reading his background he would do it he is Honey Badger of this Campaign he dont give it s***
He is not going make it NYER I hate to say I got give props telling Teacher union f**** themselves
Way I been reading his background he would do it he is Honey Badger of this Campaign he dont give it s***
Interesting idea that could be made even better by streaming it online.
Fix the damn schools!!
God Bless him, I love it.
Now there is something I can get behind 100% - too bad he won’t have the chance to eliminate the Dept. of Education - even Reagan failed miserably on that one.
The last thing we want is a federal official “fixing” the schools. The only thing a president should do about the schools is shut down the Department of education and toss the responsibility back to the states.
This is B.S.
Home schooling is not for everyone. It’s for an elite few, committed and fabulous though they may be.
Most people are not equipped to do it. They don’t have the money for one parent to stay at home and do it and most parents are not mentally and emotionally equipped to tackle this. I know I’m not.
A far better thing for Santorum to run on would be improving schools, defunding the NEA, stopping the unions which protect bad teachers, and, most of all, promoting school choice and vouchers.
This paints him as a sort of fringe, holier than thou guy, in my opinion.
My sister in law home schools. Poor boys, she is so lazy, l really hope they make it out of it knowing how tio read and write.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Rick is the right guy for the wrong time. We need someone that can take out two people: Romney then Obama. The stage has been set and Rick knows he is not going to be on it. Time for him to step off and let Newt do the heavy lifting.
There is only one, only one that can withstand what the Obama machine is about to unleash and that is Newt. Romney will be pissing his pants IF he would get the nomination after the attacks. Romney doesn’t have the balls nor the nature to take on the machine like Newt will.
Newt is the only one of the candidates that has the political background to campaign against these corrupt son’s of bitch’s. Newt will take it to them and make no mistake about that. Newt is the only one that can go nuclear on Obama. And that is what it is going to take.
If Rick went up against Obama it look like Mr. Rodger’s against Genghis Kahn.
GO NEWT!!!!!!!!
And you have just painted yourself as well.
Or stop funding them. Publication education is a tremendous flop and a drain economically....needs to be done away with. At the very least, concerning federal involvement.
wasn’t Thomas Edison and Abe Lincoln home schooled?
I don’t think most people realize just how bad the schools are these days. The schools don’t even want kids to be able to learn on their own. That stands in the way of the ideological indoctrination required to create a society of dependent, compliant, robots.
I went to a public school myself but it was long enough ago that we still had teachers who were there because they loved teaching and seeing kids learn. These days, there isn’t a chance in hell that I would send a kid to my old school.
I remember the exact moment when my thinking went from wanting to fix the schools to realizing that it was hopeless. It was when I read the “We are one” pledge form being given to students so they could pledge to stand for collective bargaining rights, social justice, and against worker oppression.
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