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?
I drive a gas guzzling SUV, why?
I bet Bonnie Fuller is not and never has been a parent. Why would anyone care about someone like that trying to give PARENTAL advise?
Hey Bonnie Fuller! You don’t know what you are talking about!
Besides you’re a canadian, so who cares what you think about American politics?
Explain. Do you know what kind of mother Bristol is ?
Bonnie Fuller is just another insignificant,
educated dumb person ... and she knows it.
She IS an angry 8th grader.
Miss Sarah causes her deranged moonbat crowd to revert to adolescence; She reminds them how truly ugly in & out they are. Fuller, Behar, Dowd, Kathy Griffin, etal. must all awaken hating Palin when the alarm goes off.
It troubles me when I read how few young women graduating from high school list as their goals in life are to become a wife and mother.
Unless a child is going into a profession that requires a degree (law, accounting, medicine, teaching, engineering, etc.) I don’t see the value of it. Many salespeople in this country with high school diplomas or less make much more than many college graduates.
LOL. This obama-Marxist-cult is filled with hate to the point of going after Sarah Palin's children through a thinly disguised laughable *hit piece* on Sarah Palin.
Mule-face Bonnie's timing is off: "Sarah Palin's Alaska" has already featured the episode on Track, which showed he's interested in taking over the family's fishing business...lol.
Where is the evidence that Sarah never tried to convince Bristol to attend college?
Oh, right, there is no evidence. To be a liberal means never requiring evidence to confirm your beliefs.
Why don’t you give Bristol an opportunity to have a bigger and more long-term future than just being a reality star?
Bristol made hundreds of thousands of dollars for her Dancing with the Stars gig, and she is reported to earn $14,000 per speaking engagement. She seems to be doing a much better job of preparing for her future than than most college grads her age. It makes sense for her to ride her current gravy train until it stops being so lucrative, then consider other options. She can always go to college if she wants to.
“I have nothing against fishing as a career”
she’s an f’n liar. she looks down to farmers, ranchers, fishermen, trappers, hunters, construction workers, etc..
how low can they go?
the more they scrape the bottom of the barrel, the more i KNOW Sarah is the only way clear and true, ‘cept for God’s intervention, and maybe that is one and the same.
Um, the Palin family is happy and functional!
Precisely! They're providing our proof with each idiot, hateful column and they're too stupid to know it. LOL.
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Think 0pansy would go for 2 whole minutes in a cage match on live TV cameras with me? (no crying or SS agents allowed!)
Bowling on live TV cameras?
Shooting baskets on live TV cameras from half-court?
Daring to stand at the plate on live TV cameras?
Taking a certified MENSA IQ test?
Speaking without teleprompters (or script or notes or ear gizmos) for 5 - 10 - 15 - 30 - 60 minutes on live TV cameras?
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Or Hard Work U (College of the Ozarks) where tuition is paid for by student’s sweat.
http://www.cofo.edu/future.asp
LOL! I missed that.
She is very well qualified to evaluate Sarah Palin who has exceeded the slut's achievements with one hand tied behind her back. /s
She is very well qualified to evaluate Sarah Palin who has exceeded the slut's achievements with one hand tied behind her back. /s
It is nothing. Like urban studies, womyn studies, ethnic studies, black studies, international studies. When I was in academia we called this kind of drech a "j---off major." All you had to do was j---off your major professor and you passed with honors.
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