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To: Hiddigeigei

can you provide me an example of how liberals messed up our school system? I havent had any information on it


89 posted on 04/08/2008 10:22:33 AM PDT by njweave
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To: njweave
can you provide me an example of how liberals messed up our school system?

One example of many. Schools can take underage girls out of school to have abortions without their parents knowledge, but aren't allowed to give them Tylenol for a headache. Does that make sense to you?

98 posted on 04/08/2008 10:46:04 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: njweave
...can you provide me an example of how liberals messed up our school system? I haven't had any information on it

There is plenty of blame to go around in problems with our education system.

However, the icon of modern education, John Dewey, was a prolific fellow was a big proponent of Secular Humanism as a religion -- a replacement religion. Dewey and his followers thought that education should begin with the tearing down of assumptions and accepted beliefs and the rationalistic reconstruction of an individually built sphere of thought.

Where education was previously held to pass along accumulated wisdom and knowledge, it then could serve as a foundation. Once one was fully educated, then inquiry into new thought and concepts could begin on a solid foundation.

Leftists thought that time was wasted and that each pupil should "find himself" by starting original thinking without a foundation. Ebonics, education centered on feeling good about yourself, and the like are all the fruits of such thinking.

What did you find lacking in your education?

100 posted on 04/08/2008 11:04:40 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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can you provide me an example of how liberals messed up our school system? I havent had any information on it

That's easy.

The Teachers Union leadership and most of its members are liberals. Big time. The Teachers Unions are very powerful.

The Teachers Union refuse to allow performance-based criteria to detemine compensation. Thus crappy teachers are allowed to continue to provide a crappy education. Meanwhile talented educators move to private schools where their talents are properly rewarded.

Second, the Teachers Unions do not approve of school choice (aka vouchers). School choice would promote competition, which generally promotes quality. Inner-city blacks recognize this as well as conservatives.

102 posted on 04/08/2008 11:12:16 AM PDT by kidd
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A brief answer to your question is that there is a inverse correlation between the amount of money a community spends on education and literacy of the community. This is because liberals think the answer to a problem is to create a larger governmental bureaucracy to deal with any problem and to spend more money on it, and they are wrong.

If you don’t think there is any thing wrong with our present education system and it hasn’t worsen since WWII, than you need further enlightenment.
226 posted on 04/08/2008 6:08:23 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei (Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. [Arnold Toynbee])
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