Posted on 02/20/2017 5:29:35 PM PST by ForYourChildren
To say that some people dislike Donald Trump may well be the understatement of the year. It's hard to imagine any duly elected president seeing so many protests in his first two months in office, yet here we are.
It's so bad that now an 11-year-old in Annadale, New York, was docked 15 points on a homework assignment because she failed to answer a question demanding students bash Trump:
Vincent Ungro, a dad from Annadale, New York, has an 11-year-old daughter who attends I.S. (Intermediate School) 75. She asked him for help with her vocabulary homework last Friday night because she was trying to fill in the blanks from a word bank to complete her assignment -- and was really puzzled.
“President Trump speaks in a very superior and _________ manner insulting many people. He needs to be more __________ so that the American people respect and admire him,” read one homework sentence.
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My answer would get the poor child a zero on the assignment.
Yours would get her expelled.
Very good!
Father
While I am not real impressed with Wikipedia as an unimpeachable source, the following is extracted from it:
genetic testing of Harding's descendants determined, with more than a 95% chance of accuracy, that he lacked sub-Saharan African forebears within four generations
Shall we put that one to bed, now?
I've done other research on it and all indications are that it was a myth.
And I carry no torch for Harding...as I consider him to be a failed President, too many scandals, he had little to no control over his administration or his morals.
And speaking of morals, he may have some progeny out there that would baffle the DNA test, but so far, no one has shown up and been able to prove such.
But, whatever he was, black he was not.
Barack Obama set a major embarrassment for us when he became president.
VENDETTA!!!
:-)
Filthy commie scum!
This creature should quit teaching and go full time worshiping that nagger obongo.
Another corrupt teacher unmasked.
One more point in favor of school vouchers.
We’ll see the results of that one in some future election.
Let’s hope not.
Whole lot of “teachers” ought be digging ditches instead.
NEA, teachers union protect scum like this.
There was a time when a teacher pulling a stunt like this would get punched in the mouth by a parent....time to return to those good ole’ days....
The downfall of the American Republic began when the people abandoned the practice of Tar and Feathers.
“One more point in favor of school vouchers.”
Exactly. Usually I get blasted for my comment ‘blaming’ the parents for sending their kid to public school, but I am trying to make a point. If the money for the school is coming from the government (and that is where the money comes from, as far as the school is concerned...where the money originates from [taxpayers] doesn’t matter to them)...then the school answers to the government. It’s that simple.
As far as parents go...well, you try to humor them, tell them what they want to hear, make them feel important by helping out with bake sales and field trips, but NEVER, NEVER, let them have a say in how primary instruction is done, meaning which curricula is used for math and reading, for example...they (the parents) are TOTAL IDIOTS when it comes to understanding the ‘delicate and complex nature of the child’s mind’ - even though most of the ‘experts’ in that business actually can’t stand kids to begin with (i.e., they’re liberals).
I’m starting to think that stopping the indoctrination of children should be our NUMBER ONE priority.
Trump could really take a bite out of the Democrat coalition by heavily pushing the school voucher agenda. Public policy has only nibbled at the edges by creating some limited ‘charter schools’ and programs in high need areas.
On the right he will have broad support for universal school vouchers. But on the left the African American community overwhelmingly supports vouchers which means they favor breaking up the school districts. Unlike your characterization, they are not fools they know that you only get one chance to do it right and every year we drag on this issue is another generation that falls behind and stays ensnared in this social justice trap. IMO public education in the big cities has turned into glorified day care with a focus on socialization rather than the 3 Rs as it were.
As ever money becomes a big issue - not funding the vouchers that is the easy part. Teachers fear being reviewed. They love their tenure and job security. IMO there is a way to at least partly resolve this. Government always focuses on the “Profit and Loss” side of operations - how much to tax and spend. There is never any public discussion on the “Balance Sheet” side of government. Public school systems are sitting on tens or hundreds of billions in underutilized assets. Liquidating these properties can go towards “paying off” the pension programs for teachers so to speak. One anecdotal example: I know of a public high school that owns 2 parking lots - one one the corner of an extremely busy boulevard with high-rent commercial activity on the other 3 corners of the intersection. This empty lot is used as parking for teachers. This school has a second parking lot located behind a mid-size strip mall with grocery store as anchor. Even without closing the school (which I would - a voucher system would likely be an end to these 3000-5000 pupil enterprises in favor of smaller teaching establishments), proper utilization of these assets would generate tens of millions a year in revenue or hundreds of million in “one-shot” cash injection. Sell the lot on the boulevard to a medical high-rise developer for example, and build a multi-story parking structure for students and teachers to share (possibly to include ground level retail for rental income on the lesser valuable lot.
I am getting off track a bit but my point is, there are plenty of assets to work with to mitigate some of the challenges that teachers unions will raise. Asset utilization is just another wedge to force the argument - both a carrot and a stick for both sides to fight over and creating some urgency and inventive for the teachers to fight over the spoils or risk losing it all. The movement splits the African American community away from and pits them against their left coalition by pushing for vouchers and pointing to the massive influx of cash that can be raised. This may not be the coup de grace for the left coalitions (but could be), but it is a fight worth fighting and a battle we could eventually win considering the steps already taken by the left by selectively approving ‘charter school’ type initiatives. I watched Hillary’s convention and one of the things she did on stage was to bring up a couple dozen NYC students who benefited from a special charter program they gave Hillary credit for creating - all the kids were accepted to college. I said to myself “great for these kids - but what about the hundreds of thousands of other kids in NYC who would benefit greatly by changing the way education is delivered to our future taxpayer citizens? The Dems are very weak on this topic and politically vulnerable. Time to attack is now - make it a 2018 mid-term campaign issue. All IMO of course.
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