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Yes. I did ask you to view it.

It was a video made to do battle with liberals, not change their minds, because they are incapable in many respects of doing so.

But if you cannot see the message because you are blocked from being able to see the basis of the rhetoric by his delivery, I don’t think I can help you except by spelling it out, which I have tried to do in several posts.

I confess that I did not expect it to change your mind, but I did expect you to be able to see the message being delivered in what is partly entertainment. I was obviously mistaken.

Well, I'm six minutes in and so far he isn't actually saying anything. It was three minutes of pundit-level insults, a rehash of how we went from an agrarian society to an industrial society (and a rather nonsensical attack on the motivations of educators probably stemming from remarks John Dewey made in the 1920s), and now he's saying once Common Core is accepted, we are on the slippery slope to classroom control.

Once he said that, I thought "Okay, who is this guy. Clearly has no idea what it's actually like being a teacher." So I paused it, went and looked him up, and he's been a car rental agent, a pilot, an editor, and a... well, a pundit, frankly. And no, he's never been a teacher.

Let me tell you about teaching, and you can listen to Bill Whittle who has never done it, or you can listen to me who has done it for 10 years: no one ever checks on you. They throw you into a room with 25-40 kids, some of whom seem to be feral, and then the principal breathes a sigh of relief because the hallways are quiet again, and if you stay in there with those kids and no one comes out dead, they are pretty darn happy. You turn in your paperwork, you keep things under relative control, nothing catches fire, and you can do what you want in there.

And it's always going to be like that because even as top-heavy as education is, NO ONE wants to be in that room with those kids. People in administration and upper level education are in administration and upper level education because they could not STAND being in the room with 32 cheeky adolescents. There aren't many who can. Of all the people who become teachers, about 70% get the heck out of there as fast as they can, either by leaving the field entirely or by moving up the ladder with a speed born of desperation. From there they live in theory land. They tell you what they want you to teach the kids. Do they actually come to your room and see that you are teaching that? Well, no. There aren't enough and they don't particularly want to be there. And that is not going to change.

So I'm going to say again what I have said for years here on Free Republic: If you really believe in organic, grass roots, bottom up, local control, start in the classroom. Become a teacher, because we need conservative teachers. Take over the field of education! Or just keep whining on-line about it. I mean, hey, it's worked so well so far.