Posted on 12/26/2011 8:23:52 AM PST by Discoshaman
thanks again! I’m still trying to wrap my brain around everything I may have to shield her from.
She’s a very finicky eater, and yogurt is one of the few things I’ve been able to count on!
There is soy yogurt and coconut yogurt but they are more expensive.
There is also soy milk and rice milk, which are often fortified with calcium.
Be careful with the soy. It’s supposed to contain estrogen like compounds and I don’t know what kind of effect that might have on a child.
A friend of mine who has a son who is deathly allergic to milk and eggs always looked for kosher stuff. Kosher is supposed to be guaranteed free of milk and egg products.
Discoshaman, basically I’m with you all the way. I just
have a tendency to see the “downside” ... Imagine. ....
Imagine all homeschoolers being required to carry e-readers
with tracking capacity. Imagine, as has been reported
already, remote erasure of e-books that aren’t approved
by the authorities. ... Yes, the end, the end of public
so-called education is so palpably close it can be
dizzying. But let’s be wary of the endgame. They won’ t
want to be superseded.
The Internet, as opposed to subsets thereof, to wit
Google and “the Cloud” is a game changer. OTOH, the
depth of material available online in many subjects
is not that great. I can’t imagine a world without
brick and mortar libraries personally.
Kosher pareve products may legitimately include eggs,
even though these come from a chicken, and the ingredients
should indicate that they do.
It may be time to “revisit” the currently imposed system
of “voting rights” too... or it will be after everything
else gets sorted out.
Scotswife, ping to posts 107 and 108.
Way back in the 50’s when I was attending school,our techer[s] informed us how the schools were supported and new schools were financed. In the area I grew up in it they were supported by property taxes and if the citizens believed they need a new school, they voted for to issue bonds.
With socialism the trend is inexorably toward greater and greater centralization. Town schools become county schools which become state schools that are eventually controlled nationally through legislation, the unions, and the crony- capitalist “education industrial complex”.
As for the voters:
1) There is inevitably the problem of which Alexis de Tocqueville warned. Once voters learn that they can vote themselves socialist goodies from out of their neighbor's pocket then it's downhill from there. Modern compulsory government schooling was a socialist “goodie” from its very beginnings in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. Simply by attending children ( and parents) learn that government has great power to give them socialist tuition-free schooling and babysitting, Well?...Why not use the voting booth for other goodles?
2) There is now an education-industrial complex. In my county government school workers are the single largest block of employees. No other business comes even close in the number of workers or in payroll. Add to this the **huge** number of crony-capitalist vendors and their employees who supply and service this education-industrial complex and the parents who enjoy taxpaid babysitting ( with minimal “schooling’).
In other words, Alexis de Tocqueville would agree with me. The voting mob wins. Whatever the education-industrial-complex wants, it gets at the voting booth.
Are "Christian" schools what makes Asians and Indians so much smarter than us?
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