I don't suppose they'll refund back to the taxpayers 15 days' worth of educational dollars.
What's wrong with private secular schools? This article skates around the premise that one can't be moral or upstanding, or for that matter, patriotic, without being religious.
I can assure you, however, that our government will never allow us to "throw in the towel" on tax-payer-funded public education. Where else can the left cull and create new homosexuals, atheists and communists? If homeschooling becomes too much of a threat, they will try to force the kids back at the point of a gun, such is their fanatical desperation. Today's News
The public university system in the United States is a disgrace and is undermining the best traditions and values within this country.
The tenured professors are mostly leftists and have contempt for anyone who does not believe their crap which is mostly propaganda or pseudo-science.
These professors censor speech with which they do not agree and have made a travesty of higher education. The system can only be stopped by starvation of money. When these public universities cry out for money, consider the crap with which they are filling our young people's minds.
If you think I'm exaggerating, take some courses in some of these universities and listen to the bilge coming out of the mouths of these incompetents.
A lot of these so-called professors would be shouting on street-corners as homeless derelicts if not for the taxpayers paying them handsomely to brainwash the young people of our country.
Am I anti-education? No. I am in favor of the intellectual pursuit of the truth from every point-of-view. That is not happening in the universities of the United States of America.
Check it out for yourself before you turn over your life savings to these propaganda mills.
* Edna Kleinmeyer who didn't just teach English: She imbued us with a love of language I carry to this day;
* Charlie Kluckholn, the tough old wrestling coach who taught chemistry and gave me some of the best advise I ever heard;
* Charles Huffman, my homeroom teacher who helped me over a very rough spot in my life and whose WWII damaged leg caused him to limp;
* Franklin Jefferis, a "lowly" shop teacher, whose love of a job well done was wordlessly communicated to his kids in thousands of subtle ways. Mr. Jefferis died soon after I graduated. One October night, I “visited” him – alone -- at the funeral home and wept as I thanked him one last time.
But the current GS are radically different from the system through which I passed 50 years ago. Know that my concern and hostility are NOT directed at those who still TEACH -- really teach, really want the best EDUCATION for the kids, want to prepare them academically for the future.
Those feelings are reserved for SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS who have socialist/collectivist agendas or quietly acquiesce to the agendas imposed on them from above. They know that what is going on is wrong, but say nothing lest they jeopardize their careers. Author Thomas Sowell calls these folks "the anointed." And as the title of his book on the subject, "The Vision of The Anointed," indicates, they HAVE a vision! That it is NOT the PARENTS’ vision is of no concern to them.
When my kids were still in the GS, my wife and I were quite active. The Principal of their elementary school chose me to represent the school in something called the LSAC (Local School Advisory Committee) program. I attended several meetings held at the County Board of Education headquarters. I came away from the VERY FIRST of those meetings with these impressions:
1. Those folks DID NOT speak English. Through tight little smirks clearly indicative of the low esteem, indeed, contempt, they had for the uninformed and ignorant gaggle of parents arrayed before them, they spoke in buzz words and technobabble code only they comprehended. At one point -- to the visible relief of the other parents -- I stopped one woman’s presentation and asked for a translation of what she'd said. She was NOT pleased!
2. They DID NOT want parents involved! Cookie sales and PTA? OK. Serious criticism of a course or textbook? Verboten! Your option was private or parochial school. There very little home schooling then.
3. Most of these people MAY have once been educators. They were now bureaucrats guarding their turf.
4. Many of those administrative folks were making over $50K and, though I looked for signs of it, I saw little evidence of anything resembling “work.” And this was 20 years ago when the average classroom teacher earned less than $25K.
5. There were WAY too many administrators in the GS. It is a perfect opportunity to provide make-work sinecures for “anointed” members of the educational fraternity. Four years as an Air Force instructor taught me how to spot the signs.
Here’s the “bottom line:” Simply hurling more money into the black hole of the GS WILL NOT WORK. Most of that money will NEVER get to the classroom or into the pockets of DESERVING teachers who actually TEACH. And teach what any sensible human being – REGARDLESS of race, faith or ethnicity -- instinctively understands to be correct, morally defensible material.
Bush is right about one thing: We need accountability! Perhaps you recall Clinton’s asinine plan to send 100,000 PAID Americorps “volunteers” into the grade schools to TEACH KIDS TO READ. Why hadn’t their PREVIOUS teachers – OR THEIR PARENTS! -- taught them to perform that rather basic skill???
Think about what you just read as YOUR local government schools continue to raise YOUR property taxes.
This sums up the liberal mind-set in a nutshell. Its very basis is that they are terrified by any Entity who has the authority to pass judgement on their morals.
Hence, they mount a pathetic attempt to reinvent God so He becomes not one who is an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent God who has spoken in history, but rather only a convenient figment in a person's mind.
So liberal-ness is, I claim, nothing more than another manifestation of Godlessness.