Lawmaker to Push Bill Requiring Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' Be Shown in Schools

Hhollywood Reporter ^ | 7-25-14 | Paul Bond

[lowbridge]

"The people foisting Zinn on our grandchildren are not politically accountable - and you seem to like that

No, i dont seem to like that. This verbal tactic I would expect of a liberal, not from you.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The worst thing you can do is have gubment, regardless of the position, trying to dictate education.

That’s an excellent point in favor of homeschooling, but (IMHO) no point at all in opposition to a legislator trying to counter the indoctrination of our grandchildren with a particular slant of propaganda. Point out if you will that “America” - or Patriot’s History for that matter - can also be called propaganda, but the point still stands that People’s History is become a propaganda Establishment within the government schools, and it is legitimate for an elected legislator to push back within those same government schools. He will face the voters afterward; the education bureaucracy will not.

Let us not confuse government with democracy - just because we cling to the hope of a democratic republic should not blind us to the fact that although the “public school” is a government school, and the government is nominally democratic, the school inevitably is operated bureaucratically, and operates at least partly for its own interests rather than exclusively for the interest of the public in having all children grow into discerning adults.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

No, i dont seem to like that. This verbal tactic I would expect of a liberal, not from you.

No, you don’t actually seem to like that - you just are faced with the fact that the government is running the schools, the bureaucracy which the government runs the schools is politically unaccountable for subjecting our grandchildren to one-sided, self-serving political advocacy, and the only alternative - political rather than bureaucratic determination of whether the other side of the issue will have a hearing - is being considered. The slippery slope toward political advocacy exists, all right - but we are already at the bottom of it.

You can no more trust educrats to be objective than you can trust journalists to be objective.

The fantasy with which Obama seduced them - “Hope and Change” - is the fantasy that improvement is easy. The reality is that the people who came before you weren’t all dummies, and they did their best - which means that just any old change is very unlikely to be an improvement. Thoughtful, judicious, small-scale change holds promise of finding some improvement. Wholesale change on the assumption that “things couldn’t be worse” is extremely dangerous.