This is an old cartoon, so don't forget the "Pro-Communist Health Care" and "Anti-Communist Health Care" podiums. Oh! And the "Pro-Government Union" and "Anti-Government Union", and the "Pro-Global Warming" and "Anti-Global Warming" podiums, too:
Posted on 02/18/2012 6:56:03 PM PST by Steelfish
Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era
By Mitchell Landsberg February 18, 2012
Reporting from Columbus, Ohio— Republican GOP hopeful Rick Santorum may be the most prominent homeschooler in America. So it might not have been surprising that, on Saturday, he told a conservative Christian audience that he intended to homeschool his children in the White House.
In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, Santorum went further, seeming to attack the very idea of public education.
In the nation’s past, he said, “Most presidents homeschooled their children in the White House.… Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility.”
“Yes, the government can help,” he continued, “but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.”
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Well, wouldn’t private schools with state funding then become public schools? The state could stick their noses into the standards currently in effect for private schools and screw them up as well.
Thanks for the heads up:)
http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/yrbsindx.html
PDF file below for what high school students are asked to answer. Sorry Rick this is not ‘factory era’ stuff this is just plain sick.
http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/pdf/yrbs11hsques.pdf
Watch for those two posters .
I just asked the one a direct question .
They litetally hit every Rick S post with an attack that appear to from
Talking points .
They are stealth posters that work this site for someone that needs to
Destroy Rick S.
Not really. The money goes to the parents.
She is a professional anti Rick S smearer .
She spreads anti Rick AstroTurf with a few other comrades .
I wonder who they work for ?
The truth hurts, eh?
Why don’t you ask your champion to reimburse the money to the district , now that he makes $1 million a year?
I don’t accept sermons from the swindler Pope of Elections.
I read the article in its entirety, but I didn’t find any information in there that tells me what Rick would do to reform our educational system. Is there another link where he lists a specific Plan he thinks will improve the system or replace it?
According to his/her/its freeper homepage, that scumbag Marguerite is from (or in) France.
Personally, I am supporting both Newt and Rick. Either one is fine and dandy with me. And so I get a bit irritated by scumbags like “Marguerite” (from France!) coming along and trashing one of them.
This Santorum bashing thread sounds a little like the Anchorage liberal smear against Sarah Palin.
Was that a Romney operation also?
Mitt Romney hates puppy dogs.
You are from France?
Why do you care.
And you should surrender.
You raise a good point. He better be prepared for the debates with Obama.
I hope that would be what happened. And the money probably would go to the parents.
But it has been my experience that any federal or state funding to the individual or organization opens the door for control.
Sort of like my Great Aunt Gizmo would offer to loan you money...but then tell you how to run your life.
http://www.issues2000.org/Archive/PA_Senate_2006_Principles_+_Values.htm
Rick Santorum: Accused of taking home-school money while residing out of PA
Question: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had this editorial: “Five Santorum children have been home-schooled, paid for by the Penn Hills district to the tune of $38,000 a year, until it became apparent that they don’t live in Penn Hills. The newspaper sent a letter to Santorum at his home address, at least the one that he claims. Back came the letter with a sticker from the US Postal Service as undeliverable.”
In 1990 you ran this commercial repeatedly:
“There’s something strange about this house It belongs to our congressman, Doug Walgren. What’s so strange? Instead of living in his own congressional district, Congressman Walgren lives in this house, located in the wealthiest area of Virginia.”
Isn’t that rather hypocritical of you?
SANTORUM: No, not at all. My opponent never owned a home in the district, ever, in 14 years. I own a home and always owned a home.
Q: How many nights have you personally spent there?
SANTORUM: I probably spend maybe a month a year.
Source: PA 2006 Senate Debate, Tim Russert moderator Sep 3, 2006
All any Republican need do to prepare for a debate against Obama, is challenge him to reject teleprompters.
Simple as that.
They guy is a programmed dope.
Are you really Alec Baldwin?
You have bought the myth. The “public schools,” as now understand the term really dates from the 1870s, when Boston established the first district. Besides, public education doesn’t necessarily mean government run schooling. Virtually all the colleges and universities before the land-grant colleges were private and founded by religious bodies. Ditto the academies. Community schools were almost entirely elementary schools running through the eight grade. In 1900, only ten percent of the 17th year olds were in secondary level education. The majority were in academies that schooled their students through the first two years of college. St. Edward’s Academic in Austin turned out engineers as good as A&M’s. After 1910, the progressives began to push secondary education for all. Schools got very large and were operated pretty much like factories, using Taylor’s methods for efficiency. There was a push for vocation education, and until after the 2nd world war, the high schools did train students in usable skills. But after the GI Bill made a college education readily available, college prep gradually became the only real goal. Had to provide customer for the rapidly expanding colleges.
This is an old cartoon, so don't forget the "Pro-Communist Health Care" and "Anti-Communist Health Care" podiums. Oh! And the "Pro-Government Union" and "Anti-Government Union", and the "Pro-Global Warming" and "Anti-Global Warming" podiums, too:
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