Posted on 05/15/2010 11:30:14 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady was cornered by NBC Chicago News and asked his reaction to the shameful misuse of power by the Highland Park schools that last week announced that they were banning a girls basketball team from attending a tournament in Arizona.
His first comment was a good one, one I'd like to see more often from our politicians. "I certainly respect the school district's right to make decisions, I believe in local control." That is exactly right. He went on to say, "just hope they haven't overstepped rationality in this case."
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
I just wish someone could explain to me what Arizona passing an immigration bill has to do with a high school basketball team in Chicago. Living in ObamaNation is like living in the Twilight Zone. ****ing weird.
http://kirk.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3758&Itemid=98
I do not think the schools should be sending the kids on those expensive trips , i think it is an insult to the American taxpayer.
These schools are supposed to be to educate the young, not to entertain them, but they do every thing in school except to educate.
And the purpose for the whole thing is to further the careers of all of the teachers, regardless of what they are supposed to teach.
My tax,es should not go to train a professional basket ball player or etc so they can be a big star and then look down their nose at the people who paid for their education.
They all should stay home, but not for the purpose of boycotting.
Sure, they need exersize, put their butts to work.
From what I’ve read, the kids were paying for the trip.
Oh, and I agree 100% about school sports. I think ALL sports should be eliminated from schools.
I hope they get their money back. If they don’t, they should sue.
This school had problems with their freshmen orientation program — acceptance of the gay agenda. Why parents didn’t object to it is beyond me — especially when the administrators forced the kids to sign a promise saying that they wouldn’t discuss the program with their parents. That’s usurping parental rights right there. That is an insult to parents who pay these people their salaries.
Well, if that’s what they want....
Oh, and I agree 100% about school sports. I think ALL sports should be eliminated from schools
The regular teachers should be able to teach kids how to walk and run, and i believe the kids will do the rest, as i do not believe that kids have changed any from what they ever were.
Of course, you do realize that most people would look at your ideas of eliminating sports and think you’re out of your mind, right? I agree with you that sports is useless to waste education $$ on, of course, but unfortunately most people are foolish enough to think sports teaches something worthwhile to kids. They are 100% wrong, of course.
Yes,and its the same way with higher education, a friend of mine had a son who worked to put his way through college, his dad felt bad because he could not help him get through school.
Well he got through school with flying colors and was a vet, after about four years he decided he did not like animals as much as he thought, so he quit and bought a truck and started hauling cross country.
His dad was tickled pink because he then realized that if he had of spent money helping the kid through school it would have been just a waste.
Some people would think that i do not like kids, that would be wrong, i do like them and that is why i do not want to help make little socialists out of them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2508318/posts?q=1&;page=51#58
You can guess how I feel about this.
WTH? Are you telling Kirk doesn't represent an inner city Chicago district where we're lucky to have him!!!? ;p
Yes, Obama got 61% of the vote in Kirk's district (Obama got an unpresented level of support everywhere in the country, and won areas no Dem has won since LBJ's landslide, I believe he even won Roskam's district). Kirk's district is actually right in the middle of the spectrum, and is usually divided 50-50% in GOP and Democrat votes
Obama got 61% of the vote in my township as well (and just like Kirk's district, if you go back to 2004 you'll see the Kerry-Bush race was something like 48%-47% in both Kirk's district and my southwest suburban township). I'm represented by a couple of centrist Democrats in the state legislature who vote reliably pro-life, pro-family, anti-illegal immigration, etc. My state rep. just stepped down since he's not running for re-election in 2010, and the Madigan-approved appointed seat warmer is also a centrist Dem who just voted with the GOP on school choice. The school choice/vouchers bill itself was sponsored by the Democrat state Rep. directly south of me, Rep. Kevin Joyce (son of a powerful Chicago machine ward boss). Compare that to Kirk and his A+ rating from the NEA. Funny how none of the politicians out here "have to" vote the way Kirk does.
Lipinski's district (west of me) is drawn to be much more pro-Obama and majority-Democrat, especially with all the Chicago neighborhoods it contains. The numbers in Lipinski's district were more like 65% Obama - 34% McCain. Roughly 2/3rds of the electorate there voted Obama. And yet Lipinski is in the same mold as the local Democrat legislators -- much more conservative on social issues than Kirk will ever been, with a similar record as Kirk on fiscal issues (Lipinski said he might vote for a FairTax bill though)
It's funny what passes for a "Republican" in Lake County isn't even as conservative as some hand-picked Chicago machine Democrats on the southwest side. If Kirk is the "best they can get" up there, their "best" really sucks.
I would love for someone to ask Mark Kirk's opinion of Highland Park H.S. "boycotting" Arizona, without letting him know what Bill Brady said. Should be interesting, especially since Kirk proclaims to be in favor of border enforcement.
But my guess is Kirk will spend the rest of the election hiding out at pre-scripted events and letting his surrogates and TV ads do the talking for him.
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