Posted on 06/05/2010 5:53:32 AM PDT by wintertime
Edited on 06/05/2010 5:54:16 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
'What's funny," says Madeleine Sackler, "is that I'm not really a political person." Yet the petite 27-year-old is the force behind "The Lottery"
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Also...What if these parents **never** sent their children into the government indoctrination camps ( Oops! "schools")? Could their children do any worse than by attending? I doubt it!
Regardless of what social or economic problems these families have ( as serious and dysfunctional as these problems are) these parents likely could pull together a better educational and social outcome for their children than what the government schools are producing.
Of interest to those who care about education and the future of our nation.
Of interest to those who care about education and the future of our nation.
I hope everyone has a chance to watch this, an interview with the filmmaker:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4208742/education-wars
Nothing has ever quite inflamed me more than watching the white education establishment hire a raft of black faces (ACORN) to do the protesting that they were too cowardly to do themselves.
This is....an outrage.
Great video!
Watch this Video on the Lottery - do you wonder why we have ghettos for generations, thank the unions and the Democratic Party - and ACORN. It behooves the Democratic Party to keep the ghettos subjugated, as wards of the state, impoverished, uneducated, basically slaves. These are a voting block of trapped people, and it is best to keep them ignorant. Obama didn’t send his kids to public school, he never did, yet he fights with every ounce of his being to shut down voucher programs that allow poor black children to get out of the lifeless public school system. The unions control Obama, and he will throw black children under the bus in order to maintain political power and millions in contributions. He is a hypocrite of the first order. He blocked African-American families from sending their children to attend Sidwell Friends, his daughters’ private school. There were 25,000 families vying for 1700 spots in DC’s voucher program until Obama defunded it. Of all the things the government wastes money on - he shuts that down on union orders.
Now with the House, Senate and Presidency in Democratic hands - what have they done to improve education in the inner cities? Not much. In this video the teachers union in NY actually hired ACORN to protest against charter schools, bused in to picket a neighborhood school. White unionists, hiring black protesters to close a school that is helping black children - only in America.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4208742/education-wars
vouchers
Tax credits would be better since there would be fewer strings. Any citizen or business should be able to direct all of their school tax dollars to the school, student(s), or educational foundation of their choice.
One of the problems with tax credits and vouchers is that we could wind up with a system like we have now with colleges and universities. Every time the Pell Grants ( vouchers for college) and student loans are increased, then IMMEDIATELY the colleges and universities increase their tuition.
So....I would support vouchers and tax credits only if it would be used only long enough to build up a private infrastructure, and lead to a complete shut down of the government K-12 schools. If vouchers and tax credits could gradually be reduced to zero over a 15 to 20 year period this would get parents accustomed to paying their own child's tuition with charity paying for the poor.
Of course, as complete separation of **school** and state is realized taxpayers should demand **massive** reductions in property, sales, and income taxes.
any thing that will provide choice, introduce competition, and deflate the current government school bureacracy is fine with me.
she discovered that the majority of those protesting the proliferation of charter schools were not even from the neighborhood. They'd come from the Bronx and Queens.
"They all said 'We're not allowed to talk to you. We're just here to support the parents.'" But there were only two parents there, says Ms. Sackler, and both were members of Acorn. And so, "after not a lot of digging," she discovered that the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) had paid Acorn, the controversial community organizing group, "half a million dollars for the year." (It cost less to make the film.)
Finding out that the teachers union had hired a rent-a-mob to protest on its behalf was "the turn for us in the process."
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Jim Quinn at (warroom.com) read this the other day on his great radio show out of Pittsburgh, Pa.
If some of you haven't heard him yet, check him out. He is fantastic.
This is....an outrage.
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So very true!
“They all said ‘We’re not allowed to talk to you. We’re just here to support the parents.’” But there were only two parents there, says Ms. Sackler, and both were members of Acorn. And so, “after not a lot of digging,” she discovered that the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) had paid Acorn....”
Thanks for the ping. Excellent article. Yes, Quinn talked about this.
Thanks for the ping. Excellent article. Yes, Quinn talked about this.
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You know why (among other things) I love to listen to Quinn. It is because when he reads articles like this, he reads them with such deep, heart-felt understanding and emotion. He is a great thing for this country.
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