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I would say that public education is a necessary evil, except that it isn’t necessary.
"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.
The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."
Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama
YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY
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This is tragically the truth. I know some very intelligent people that are ignorant about how our economy works and why it works.
“It has failed the children, but in reality it has not failed the progressives.”
Yes indeed. I think it enabled the results of last November 4th’s election. The NEA deserves a lot of credit for a Kenyan Muslim Communist Chicago punk ignoramus nobody to be posing as President of the United States.
The quickest and most efficient and effective way to defund and disempower the Left TOMORROW is for every family that can homeschool or use private schools to do so.
Every child in public education is nothing but a cash cow, the vehicle for all kinds of federal funding, and a captive audience for the Left’s perversion.
This is why conservative candidates at every level need to continue to fight for school vouchers. Without vouchers, we condemn the least able, the most poor, and the perennially disenfranchised to criminally poor schools.
I often wonder what percentage of freepers send their children to public school. Has there ever been a poll?
Gee, yet ANOTHER issue those crazy Birchers nailed spot on over 50 years ago.
Sadly, now that the hour is VERY LATE, most of those who laughed at is then have stopped laughing.
btt
I imagine most FReepers had public education. Mine was pretty good. My vote for the mess is the entertainment industry.
No school can ruin an otherwise good education.
“Is public education necessary?”
No.
Only if you adhere to Marxist/Fabian ideology...
A more important question would be: "Is Public Education Execution Necessary?"
Answer: "Only if we are to have any hope of restoring the Constitutional Republic."
Public schools wouldn’t be so bad, but like everything else, they’re increasingly being controlled from Washington.
NCLB changed everything, and for the worse. Challenged schools, like those in inner cities, struggle so much to meet the NCLB accountability benchmarks that it’s all they concentrate on. There’s very little real learning going on there - it’s all about the test.
The kids are turned off. In my inner-city school district 40% of the high school students are chronically absent (miss 15 or more out of 180 days of school). That’s 1 day in 12. That’s enough to get anybody fired from their job quickly, yet 40% of the kids do this. So how are they supposed to learn when they don’t come to school? Of course parents do nothing about it, and neither do the schools. What are they supposed to do, fail ‘em and have their failure and sickly graduation rates drop even further?
But who can blame the kids? The teaching is about nothing but the tests. And the rare creative teacher has no chance. The curriculum is set by central admin. Exactly what will be taught on each and every day is predefined for every teacher. Frequent standardized testing is then used to measure progress. Teachers complain that there’s so much testing there’s no time to teach.
I attended public schools and received a good education. My kids, now in their 30’s, went to public schools and received a fair education. If/when I have grandkids I will lobby my kids not to send them to public schools. I’ll do everything I can to see that they attend private schools or are home schooled. I’ll pay for it myself if I have to do so.
I truly pity the poor folk in our inner cities who have no choice but to send their kids to these institutions of failure. They have no chance.
No Sam, it’s not.
I learned little more in my public school career than always watching my back and how to fight dirty when dealing with older, bigger bullies.
Any other questions?
The Enemies Within Our Education system
Education Unions (the N.E.A.), School Administrators and Yes - Even Some Teachers
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