Posted on 12/22/2010 7:00:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah, we know you’re an anti-elitist. Is that why you don’t believe in a college education for your kids? It’s so strange: You went to college, five colleges in fact, before you wrapped up your bachelor of communications degree from the University of Idaho. Your father was a science teacher, your mother was the school secretary, and your brother Chuck is a teacher — so why don’t you EVER promote the value of education even in your own family?
You have no problem speaking out against First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign for children. That means you don’t even like the idea of Michelle “educating” parents on the dangers of fattening food.
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And having watched every episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, I’ve heard you repeatedly laud ”family values,” the “work ethic” and the importance of taking individual initiative.
These are all great things BUT I’ve never heard you mention the value of education … once.
And I’m wondering if you are shortchanging your own children by not encouraging and enabling them to go to college. Take Bristol, for example – her dreams of going to college to get a nursing degree were cut short by her teen pregnancy at age 17. Then once she had baby Tripp, now 2, she sadly resigned herself to possibly going to a community college to study real estate instead.
And even that was dependent on getting free babysitting from her father Todd, sister Willow and other family members, she said.
Now Sarah, why should her dreams and opportunities be cut short because she was a teen mom? You can afford to send her to college and help her with babysitting or day care costs! It’s estimated that you’ve earned up to $12 million since resigning from your position as Governor of Alaska.
Your books, your speaking engagements, your FoxNews commentating position and your reality show have all raked in big bucks for you. Plus, Bristol may have earned enough from Dancing with the Stars to have at least paid for her own college tuition.
But have you, Sarah, pushed Bristol to do what only two percent of teen moms are able to do — earn a college degree by the age of 30?
There’s absolutely no evidence that the answer to that question is – yes!
So I’m wondering: Are you just too cheap to help Bristol financially, or do you feel that it’s important that Bristol be “punished” for her pregnancy by having college withheld? OR do you truly believe your own propaganda – that an “elitist” college education offers no value for your daughter?
Sarah you certainly aren’t pushing college for your oldest son Track either. After serving a tour in Iraq, you are encouraging him to take up a career as a salmon fisherman, following in the footsteps of his dad, Todd.
I have nothing against fishing as a career, but what’s wrong with a college degree and then fishing. At least he’ll be equipped to transition to another career should salmon fishing go bust.
“It’s important that parents and youths be aware that there are constraints in not having a higher education. If you’re rolling the dice, there are certainly more career choices,” agrees Reed Larson, a professor of human development at the University of Illinois.
If you Sarah aren’t promoting the value of a college education to your own children, you are denying them HUGE opportunities beyond going camping in the wilds of Alaska or dancing their way into our hearts for a reality show season. ”If parents don’t encourage their kids, there is a large possibility that they won’t go to college,” points out Jeff Gardere, a clinical psychologist and host of Dad Camp on Twist TV.
What I’d hate to think is that you, Sarah, see it as politically detrimental to your folksy, down-home image to have your children go to college.
You’ve slammed President Obama repeatedly for being an elitist and now, horrors, you don’t want to be painted as one in any way.
“If there is a brand to support, it’s possible she’d use all facets of her life to promote that brand,” believes psychologist and attorney Sheila Forman.
I’d hate to say that might be the case. But if it’s not, then Sarah Palin– Why don’t you give Bristol an opportunity to have a bigger and more long-term future than just being a reality star?
You forgot the BARF alert!
‘Ever’ is a very long time. Palin is right to go after this silly anti-obesity nanny state BS.
Or Amy Carter!
I got a question for this “Author” Why the hell do you care..its none of your damn business. WOW these liberals sure have a lot of time on their hands don’t they..what boring, pathetic lives they must lead
Sarah just happens to be the only THIN one in this whole debate. Who are they trying to kid??
More venom than in a king cobra.
I guess the liberal idiot never once considered that Tripp and Bristol CHOSE to not go to college and Bristol instead devote time to RAISING HER CHILD.
I might just add that I am amused by the "sarah went to 5 colleges line". If any liberal pro-abortion woman had gone to five colleges how would it be portrayed. Would we hear "oh look at the stupid liberal woman who had to go to five colleges before she finally got her degrees my goodness isn't she stupid." No of course not. We would probably hear something like this, "my goodness isn't this liberal woman wonderful, she persevered and pursued and keep plugging along never letting the mean boy network keep her down or keep her from attaining her goal of a college degree, isn't she a wonderful role model for all of our children". And so the story goes.
It is a made up “degree” in order to give a liberal a job at a university. But if he actually STUDIED human development, he would immediately know that children raised by their FAMILY do much better than children raised by babysitters.
I guess the liberal idiot never once considered that Tripp and Bristol CHOSE to not go to college and Bristol instead devote time to RAISING HER CHILD.
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But.....they don’t believe in children. They contain carbon and want to off any child that may be considered ‘educationally sub-normal’ (ESN).
>> Fuller: Take Bristol, for example – her dreams ... Then once she had baby Tripp, now 2, she sadly resigned herself to possibly going to a community college to study real estate instead.
Up yours, bitch.
I just shake my head at this idiocy. Sheeeh
Who the hell is Bonnie Fuller and why should we care? She strikes me a another freeloading ditz trying to make a few bucks off of trashing somebody who has made it in life. Keep trying Bonnie. Maybe someday the Palins will hire you as a maid.
I think this article was written by that FReeper who chastised Govs. Palin and Huckabee for not speaking out against repealing DADT. For the dumbest woman in the world, libs sure expect a lot from Gov. Palin.
Actually, half to two-thirds of the students attending college in the US right now should not be doing so. For their paper chase, what do they get?
1) A 50% attrition rate is not uncommon in freshman classes. But if you fail at this point, you are still out several thousand dollars.
2) The majority of majors of study in most universities are “throwaway” degrees, which offer only the least chance of being hired for that degree instead of just as a general employee.
3) Universities offer many advanced degrees, knowing full well that there are few available jobs for such degrees, even nationwide.
4) Students lose four years of their most productive employment time, and often need such complete retraining in even basic skills that they will spend their first few years of work also attending school offered by their employer.
5) Crushing student debt frequently means deferment of things like marriage, children, home ownership, and being able to afford retirement. However, this deferment has become so great that by the time an employee can afford these things, they are increasingly out of reach.
Heck, I was in the service for a few years before I even started college. I now have a BSEE and a Masters Degree. HEr kids all have plenty of time to go to college IF they decide that’s what they want to do.
College is overrated in most (but not all) cases. I’ve been on both sides of the fence, having been in the workforce for 22 years before getting my degree. It’s been 11 years since the degree and my socioeconomic status has not changed. I sit at roughly the same level, relative to the average wage, that I sat at prior to earning the degree.
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