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To: MestaMachine

I could not possibly address each false premise in your tome but, since I am an educator in a major urban school system, I thought I would tackle this fallacy. “Our Constitution has no RIGHT to education, but it did not stop the government from taking over the entire education system making ALL of our children wards of the state, did it?” But state constitutions do make public education a right for all citizens of the state. And states who want federal money - meaning, citizens of the states who would rely on federal revenues to operate their schools - must satisfy federal education requirements in order to qualify for that federal money.


91 posted on 11/25/2009 10:55:32 AM PST by jbjd (http://jbjd.wordpress.com)
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To: jbjd

Get the dept of ed out of my kids head!

The dept of educ needs to be abolished, and so does the NEA.


93 posted on 11/25/2009 10:59:24 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: jbjd

Capital B, Capital S. And you know it.


99 posted on 11/25/2009 11:10:50 AM PST by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1. Afghanistan Updates Daily on My Profile)
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To: jbjd

FWIW, even if I agreed with your premise that people have a “right” to an education, that does not give a state the “right” to DEMAND that anyone ACCEPT an education as mandated by any state. No court, committee, agency, or anyone else, should be able to step into a person’s home and steal their children away because they decide against public education.
If YOU are, as you claim, and “educator” in an urban school, then you see first hand the destructive impact government education has had on this society. When the government can stop children in inner cities from having a choice in their own education, they are wards of the state, and no fancy multisyllable words can dispute that indisputable truth.


101 posted on 11/25/2009 11:24:35 AM PST by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1. Afghanistan Updates Daily on My Profile)
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To: jbjd
must satisfy federal education requirements in order to qualify for that federal money.

And they game the system by upgrading the grates for students who have NOT earned that grate so they can collect more money!

112 posted on 11/25/2009 12:43:13 PM PST by danamco
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