Posted on 06/14/2013 11:38:15 AM PDT by drewh
Hey Mark! You want to “fix” education in America? How about we stop using schools as experiments on how to socially reconstruct America!!! Schools should do one thing, and one thing only! That is teach children, first how to learn, and then how to think (without giving them indoctrination into a particular ideology). How about we require educators to be educators, not indoctrinators? Let’s stop this nonsense of expecting every child to attend college! Let’s include vocational training for children who either don’t want to attend college, or who are not going to make it to college! Let’s demand that those who teach are qualified to actually teach. Too many of this nation’s children are stuck in classrooms with “teachers” who are so completely out of touch with their students that the students tune them out. Too many people who work in cubicles in some office miles and miles away from any classroom are making decisions on how and what teachers are to teach, and then force teachers to maintain some artificial timeline for presenting material, and then expecting ALL children to keep up with that pace. There is little, if any, differentiated instruction for students who are gifted compared to average compared to slow learners. So, teachers are made to teach to the middle. This only results in the gifted becoming extremely bored, and the slow learners completely lost. The decisions for how and what is taught needs to be brought down to the level of the school district, and the parents of those being taught, instead of being decided upon by people who work in an office building that often is hundreds of miles from the classrooms.
Early childhood intervention through private business might be exactly the solution we need to get inner-city and minority children interested in their education/future and off perpetual government assistance.
Working with Hillary Clinton to do it? Not so much.
I hope he doesn’t hug her. He might get the blood of at LEAST four dead Americans on HIS hands too.
What difference does it make?
Looking at the whole picture from the perspective of low information voters, it is without a doubt better for a dem liberal to win and run the country into the ground than a liberal republican who will still run the country into the ground. The blame goes to the party in power, and low information voters will only acknowledge that simple equation.
So, anyone who advocates Rubio as the GOP candidate in 2016 is a fool, IMO. Wanting a liberal Hispanic heading the GOP ticket who can attract Hispanic voters is insane and a blatantly transparent "gimmick". Hispanic voters will vote for the handout. If he were to run as a dem he would likely primary Clinton and would be the next POTUS, IMO.
The incestuous nature of politics and the one party (read progressivism) politics we see today are whats the cause of this. Your guy wins today and tomorrow the other guy wins but they are all reading from the same prompter. There are a small number of true patriots but they are drowned out by the hive.
“I don’t blame Rubio for seeking the Hispanic vote....he sure can’t please a group of holier than thou “conservatives” so he might as well try for a new foundation... “
and what makes you so superior?
LOL Some folks just don’t know when to quit and become democrats.
Mark Mckinnon is a liberal.
“I don’t really care how or why President Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I’m just glad he got there.”
“Barack Obama was gifted with a voice and the moment. But the opportunity was lost. We can argue about why and who was to blame, but there is plenty to go around.”
“But now he has another chance to lead. I applaud and respect his victory. I hope he will take full advantage of the moment.”
‘I care more about what works than who wins’
Can’t...stop....laughing....pundit....in...the...political. ..class...wants.....us...to...believe....it’s...about....solutions!
Ha! must be the money! Hillary Clinton is toxic. If America votes her into the White House. Clearly, the UNITED States is OVER!
That was Democratic Governor Mark White. So in the opening salvo he paints a picture of how he worked in Texas under Democrats till the Republicans took over and "surprise surprise" he realized he was a Republican. Now that Republicans are out of power he realizes he's not a Republican.
A political whore, in short.
Republicans need to stay away from such.
I guess that makes me smarter than you.
Because as a conservative, I would expect the guy who created the organization that apparently only cares about 'partisan politics' when conservatives assert themselves would eventually come out of the closet.
Don’t blame the Conservatives for Milk Romney or Juan McCain’s ass kicking.
That prize goes to the RINO Establishment who hand picked these turds.
The Tea Party and the Conservatives told the Establishment clearly that they were done supporting Central Office picked RINOS. They didn’t Listen. They pushed their primaries, they pushed their rules.
They Pushed their luck and got smeared. So what do they do.
Yeah RE-appoint Pee Wee Pribus as their chair. Cowards afraid to call the rats what they are.
Look at what is happening in the Senate now. They RINOS Are selling out this Country’s culture and openly lieing to the public while they do it.
Point your fire at the source. The RNC and the liars who play in their Sandbox! Marco Rubio, Juan McCain, Carl Rove, Lindsey Graham, etc.
I’ve spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy and therefore have no real world experience working on and fighting for education reforms.
"No Child Left Behind," an idea which became landmark federal boondoggle of epic proportions education legislation.
But as I’ve recently reflected on almost 30 years of working on this issue—after the billions of dollars that have been spent and hundreds of programs and pilots that have been tried—the fact is that we have made remarkably little progress. In fact, we’ve gone backward. I was shocked and realized that the only solution to government instituted problems is more government money
It is increasingly clear that if learningbrainwashing and nutrition strategies are implemented with very young children, they will be significantly more likely to succeed in life
Hillary couldn’t handle being Sec of State.
NO WAY she could or should be the next POTUS.
That would be Democrat Mark White, if the writer was interested in facts.
But, of course, a move from Bush/McCain to Hillary isn't really a defection, is it?
Guy sounds like a career liberal.
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