Posted on 02/11/2010 7:11:23 AM PST by Britt0n
So you can’t afford to school your child. If you couldn’t afford the house or food would you expect the government to provide that too?
If you think the History curriculum is a fight, you should have seen the Science curriculum - you'd have thought the conservatives were wanting to teach babies came from a cabbage patch and science was silly.
The liberals are pushing their agenda, just as the conservatives are doing - and yes, the children are the ones who suffer.
And there it is....
I’m insulted by your comments. How dare you?
In an article intended to move us to action, the most critical information is totally absent.
The fifteen-member board is mentioned repeatedly, but not defined.
Are we supposed to infer that it is the "Texas Board of Education?" Why make us guess?
Is the board elected? By the entire state? By just educators? What?
Do these people campaign for office? How long do they serve?
Who are they?
Are their names secret?
Hello?
How about a competently assembled news article?
Very sobering post. Bookmarked for later reading.
Sounds like a whole bunch of firings needs to take place.
N O W
Four kids, one military income, my bills get paid, and looking at my gut we eat well.
I have to find someone that can't homeschool. I will not send my children to government schools. I will be in jail before my kids go to a government run school.
I do not "attack" people who send their kids to government schools, I will highly encourage you to homeschool. How your children are educated is your right, and responsibility, do what you want. I encourage you be very active in the education your children receive, retraining them in the evening, making sure what they are taught in school aligns with your personal beliefs. Of course if you are retraining (reeducating) them in the evenings you might as well be homeschooling.
This isn’t gonna fly. Who appoints the people to the board of education? Since Republicans and conservatives have a lock on the state government in Texas, I don’t see any way this crap gets into the textbooks. Eliminating Christmas and replacing “American” with “global citizen”? Don’t think so.
We shouldn’t be asking our young people to give their lives in defense of a lie. ANY lie.
It wasn’t meant to insult you. It was meant to make you think about what you are saying. You said you can’t homeschool because you must provide rent and food. Why are those things your responsibility but your children’s schooling is not? You only pay a small portion of their schooling with your taxes. The rest is paid for by the government. I didn’t say it made you a bad parent. I was public schooled. I have wonderful parents.
How about this: be parents and teach your kids what they should know. Stop leaving it up to idiots and the federal gov't. Not that those two groups are mutually exclusive.
I prefer the long version.
"He who controls the past, controls the present."
"He who controls the present controls the future."
Just saying.
You mean, MLK did not free the slaves?
I always got a kick out of that when kids came to visit the house around Jan 15th. I would ask them why they had the day off. Inevitably they would tell me it was because MLK freed the slaves.
Go figure....
I know a conservative woman that has 2 children. The older got pregnant at 17 and married. The mom convinced her not to get Medicaid to help pay for the birth of the baby because it isn’t the government’s responsibility. This left the young couple saddled with some debt because they didn’t have great insurance. However, the younger child was in public school having her education paid for by the government. I fail to see the difference.
Sad.
Those who do not cherish their freedoms and liberties leave a bitter legacy to those who follow.
Ignoring history to embrace expediency is to invite one’s own eventual downfall.
Being FRugal, in this instance, may cost a lot more down the road than any of us are want to pay.
The other poster said they can’t homeschool because they work because they need to provide food and housing. They work to provide those needs but expect the government to cover the cost of education. There seems to be a disconnect here. Why is it okay for the government (ie our fellow citizens via taxes) to pay for some things and not others? I dare say that most two income families have nicer houses, cars, meals, than we do. (Not a complaint, I am perfectly content) They can afford those because the government frees the second spouse to work. I know there are alot of single parent families out there so that doesn’t apply. However, I have known single parents that homeschool as well.
Mine also. Control of 'ejukacion' by radical elites is the stranglehold they have on the American psyche. It is the main root of the evil that pervades our country.
Somewhere in the 50's, we the people submitted our children to mass indoctrination. And one textbook fits all, because when major states like CA and TX decide on a text, the other states tend to follow suit, because mass printings = lower costs per book.
Hopefully, homeschooling and the internet can bring about an education revolution. And yeah, there ought to be lawsuits about forcing kids to attend public centers of indoctrination, not to mention the drugs, violence and rotten sexual mores youngsters learn there.
ARGH! I'd better stop, because I could say a lot more...
“Whole bunch of pro-labor union propaganda in the textbook I looked at just a year ago - rather disgusting.”
Must have been a California cooked book as I understand it’s the teacher’s union in California with the last word of approval of which textbooks (cooked books) get purchased for the schools.
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