Posted on 01/01/2010 12:15:15 PM PST by American Dream 246
She does support homeschooling and vouchers.
When schools start using the non existent terms homophobe or heterosexism, neither of which exist, the schools have turned into the mob outside Lots house. Time to demand it stops, and take kids out of them until it does. In the south, more so than anywhere in the country, there are plenty of great Christian schools, and a growing number of Charter schools. If parents cannot homeschool, they should thoroughly vet those and pick one. Doing so will also, as an added bonus, deny the public school they were attending, funds.
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Ted Cruz
http://www.tedcruz.org/index.phpTed leads the firm's U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate practice. He has authored more than 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 oral arguments, including eight before the U.S. Supreme Court, the most of any other lawyer in Texas.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ted served as the Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 until May 2008. Ted was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas and, when appointed, was the youngest Solicitor General in the United States.
His litigation experience includes the following:
- Successfully represented Texas before the U.S. Supreme Court in Medellin v. Texas, which held in a landmark 6-3 decision that the World Court cannot bind the U.S. justice system and the President cannot order the state courts to obey the World Court.
- Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas Ten Commandments monument before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in Van Orden v. Perry.
- Authored a U.S. Supreme Court brief for all 50 states successfully defending the Pledge of Allegiance, winning 9-0 in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow.
- Served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5-4 in LULAC v. Perry.
- Authored a U.S. Supreme Court brief for 31 states successfully defending the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, winning 5-4 in District of Columbia v. Heller.
- Successfully defended the constitutionality of the Texas sexually violent predator civil commitment law before the Texas Supreme Court, winning unanimously in In re Michael Fisher.
- Argued the Texas school finance case before the Texas Supreme Court, winning a unanimous reversal of the trial court's ruling that the system violated the Education Clauses of Texas Constitution.
- For the FTC, briefed and argued In re Buspirone in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, successfully representing the FTC in antitrust litigation alleging several hundred million dollars in damages for anticompetitive manipulation of FDA procedures governing the sale of generic pharmaceuticals.
- At a prior firm, briefed and argued Ford Motor Co. v. United States in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, successfully challenging the U.S. Customs Service's multimillion-dollar assessment in import duties and interest.
- Helped assemble the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings in the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, winning twice in the U.S. Supreme Court.
I just emailed a link to this article to the former Texas Solicitor General who is going to be a candidate for Texas Attorney General after Kay Hutchison loses the gubernatorial primary and resigns her senate seat.
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‘What does KBH resigning have to do with running for Texas AG?
Everything! It's a domino effect. She decided not to resign her seat in time for the filing deadline for the Texas Republican primary in March. Because KBH still holds her seat, Attorney General Greg Abbot is filing for reelection as Texas Attorney General. Once she resigns her seat, Abbot will file as a candidate for the US Senate. This will then open up the Attorney General race. KBH has made lots of Texas Republican office holders rather upset with her with all her contradictory statements about her intentions and timing for stepping down from her senate seat.
thanks for that and I’ll be sending a letter off to him.
Also not sure if everyone knows this but TX sets what other states read etc.
For instance every year TX chooses form a panel what books should be pout into school etc and then states like mine work on what TX has.
Maybe that is the reason why the left chose TX..
anyway I will be getting that letter off ASAP as things like this should and need to be stopped once and for all/
Interesting play but at some point the replacement for Abbot must be determined either by another primary or appointment by the GOP. I don’t know the process at this time and I’m not going to look it up.
I'm not at liberty for a lot of FReeping for the next week or so, I have to go on a trip for work leaving Sunday morning.
And I have to get ready.
I hadn't seen much on Conservatives4Palin or SarahPAC.com, so I Googled...
Most of the sites are trashing Sarah Palin for having worked her way through state schools rather than having Daddy pay for an Ivy League indoctrination.
But this site has some interesting stuff.
I haven't vetted the site, and I haven't clicked through where they have sourced the quotes behind their their bullet points on each candidate, but it might be a good starting point.
Here is what is says about Sarah's positions on education:
Click here for 26 full quotes on Education OR other candidates on Education OR background on Education.
Cheers!
Teacher certification has become compulsory indoctrination.
Texas is going down the same road as California, which used to be solid red. School teachers are large majority liberal true believers. This is how the left has taken our country from us. They said they would, and they did.
Good for your Dad. The public has been fooled in many cases into protecting these predators and deviants. The homosexual lifestyle is centered around sex with young people and converting “targets”. Most homosexuals have themselves been molested so it isn’t surprising that they are more likely to continue the trend. I don’t understand why there is such a need to protect the lot of them. It is crazy but that is the state of the world today. Someday though the reigns will break on civility and the worthless socialist social liberals will find themselves with out the protections of their precious ACLU and the world will be cleansed of their filth.
BTFL
“What did we tell you?”
So how come they discriminate against people who want to change society to traditional American Christian standards?
Accommodating all standards equals no standards at all.
I thought in “An Officer and A Gentleman”, the “Steers and Queers” comment was for Oklahoma.
So, the agents of societal change for the advancement of the homosexual agenda have infiltrated the Texas boards of education. Sounds like they need a Joe McCarthy down there.
I started college last fall to become a teacher. My husband and I thought it would be a good idea, in case Obama carried through on some of his threats about homeschooling. Anyway, I live in Texas, which has some of the country’s most generous homeschooling laws, so when I got to college, it was a bit of a shock.
I just changed my major from teaching to political science because of the idiocy that is pc and the indoctrination and brainwashing the professor was trying to give me. I was making poor marks on my tests, even with the use of the book. Taking the answers VERBATIM from the book, I was still being told they were wrong...they weren’t liberal enough. Figured out how to pass the class. The most disgusting ACLU/Pelosi answer on the test was the one to choose. After I started doing that, I made mid to upper 90’s on my tests.
Besides the tests the professor generates, there are tests to take that are personality or profile tests, and I was informed that my style of teaching was not for today’s students.
There were many, many questions along the lines of, “A teacher’s role is a)a distributor of information who tells the children what they need to know, b)a guide as the children decide which direction they would like to take, c)a coach who encourages the children and helps them discover more about themselves and their world, d)a gate who controls the children, what and how they learn, and leads all aspects of the classroom. The correct answer? B or C, if you want to teach.
My personality profile said that my style was that of a behaviorist and disciplinarian, ie that I believe behavior should be corrected, with good consequences for good behavior and bad consequences for bad behavior, and that the teacher should be in control in the classroom; and that it is the teacher’s responsibility to decide what, when, where, and how the children are to learn, to maintain order and discipline in the class, and that children are at school to learn the basics rather than the social studies.
I was informed that this way of thinking is outdated and not acceptable in today’s schools. Children are to determine the course and material today. The teacher is merely there to keep the children within some loose limits (off internet porn and no physical violence) and let them decide what they are going to do each day. No joke.
I decided to change to Political Science as a major. I’d love to go for the jugular of the NEA either as a conservative politician or for a conservative politician. We need some great people in office to undo much of this mess.
My kids go to my best friend’s house in the mornings for school and I finish the afternoons. The pastor at our church wants to start a free school. He and his wife homeschool too. There are 5 other families at the church who homeschool besides, and many more who, for one reason or another, don’t feel they can now, but would love it if we could get a school off the ground. I think that if more conservatives would get together, pull their children from public schools (which means those schools loose money), homeschool or create small schools, and teach Christian values, this country might be saved.
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