Are School Administrations Nationwide Trying to Hurt George Bush?

06.17.04 | mlmr

[mlmr]

I have four children in three different schools. In the past week I have talked to a number of teachers and administrators about different issues pertaining to next semester. I have been told three times so far that the school cannot manage A or B anymore becasue Individual Student Goals(or whatever the technical name is) cannot be honored because of the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT. One called it Bush's NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. Tell me, is this a national trend? Those of you with children in public schools, are you hearing that the Bush plan is hurting your child? Or otherss?

[SpyGuy]

My question here is about how teachers may be frightening and propagandizing parents.

I understand your concern over teachers using their "positions of authority" to engage in political lobbying during meetings and communications with parents.

But most adults are not going to be significantly swayed by these infrequent encounters and sly remarks. I'm *much* more concerned by the daily influence teachers have on the young, impressionable minds entrusted to them. The children of today are the voters, lawmakers, and justices of tomorrow. That's why, over the past sixty-odd years, the Left has deeply infiltrated--and seized control of--the teaching profession (and the media). It's all about brainwashing the masses in order to control the future. The Left is willing to wait for the older, less-indoctrinated generations to die off.

[Salvation]

**You may be right but I am interested in discovering whether people are getting a one on one Democratic tutorial courtesy of the school administrations and teachers.**

Sometimes this happens in classrooms. I witnessed it once and was so angry I had to leave the room.

Fortunately the teacher was transferred to administration.

[jackbill]

You may be right but I am interested in discovering whether people are getting a one on one Democratic tutorial courtesy of the school administrations and teachers.

Is the Pope Catholic?

Do bears do it in the woods?

It's reality. The teachers, via their unions, are anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and anti-conservative. It's a fact of life. Live with it or fight it.

[Salvation]

Frothright Republican bump!

[Eva]

Where do you live? I have never heard of such costs and my son graduated in 2000 from a local private Christian high school. I know that a lot of the boarding schools that we looked into cost as much as or more than college, including the one that my husband attended, but 100,000?

[mlmr]

I understand the Act. I think it is wrong. I cannot think of one reason that low functioning children should not be in day care or at home. Mind you I am not saying that these children do not need care. But school is the wrong format for this care.

The act appears in some lights to be an employment program for some. An entire subgroup has come into existence PCAs. A daycare is more cost effective.

[RGSpincich]

No doubt the school administrators are trying to oust Bush. Voter registration cards were included with my daughter's HS diploma. We all know how the youngster voters vote.

[raybbr]

...unless the disability is so severe that it causes harm to the student or to others.

Is that merely physical harm or does impeding the learning process of others constitute harm?

[SoftballMominVA]

I am talking about boarding schools equipped to deal with a wheelchair bound, possibly violent, child who needs 1-1 care. This child cannot dress, feed or toilet himself. They are probably incapable of speech or possibly even independent movement. Perhaps even an IV or feeding tube. But they are alive, and they are human.

100K would be for a day placement, not residential. Residential is quite a bit more.

[Salvation]

**You can join me in what I have done on a small scale. Teachers have the right to demand a refund of their dues that were used for political purposes.**

I have heard the same.

[SoftballMominVA]

...unless the disability is so severe that it causes harm to the student or to others. Is that merely physical harm or does impeding the learning process of others constitute harm?

It can be either. But the second is harder to prove.

[mlmr]

Yes, I understand that the theory is that everyone can learn something. But to what avail? I know teachers who are trying to teach history to youngsters who cannot manage to write their names. They try to meet small, hopefully achieveable goals. For what except to make the system feel good?

[BOOTSTICK]

Here in Florida some lefty group has a commercial running on TV, that Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program is hurting children, because it "makes children drill, which is bad for children".I cannot remember the name of this outfit, but they quote several lefty orgs. in their propaganda.

[mlmr]

Why cant they interact with their peers in daycare?

[Bullish]

Left wing, liberal teachers will always blame conservatives for ANY problems. They actually teach it in their curriculum.

It's in the very fiber of their being. They can't help themselves.

It's pretty darned evil too, and we need to put a stop to it or our future looks pretty bleak.

[Salvation]

Frothright Republican bump!

Oopa.

Forthright

[Terpfen]

"Your post had many grammatical and spelling errors which I'm sure were probably deliberate ('doesnt' is missing the apostrophe; 'clu' is missing the e; 'feel good' is missing the dash; the end of your sentence is missing the period)."

I second most of what you said, EXCEPT for one detail; "a clu" is a pun regarding ACLU. Put a space in ACLU and you get A CLU. Leaving the letter E off was intentional.

[SoftballMominVA]

I understand the Act. I think it is wrong. I cannot think of one reason that low functioning children should not be in day care or at home. Mind you I am not saying that these children do not need care. But school is the wrong format for this care. The act appears in some lights to be an employment program for some. An entire subgroup has come into existence PCAs. A daycare is more cost effective.

And who would pay for this? Where would it be? Who would be trained to work with the kids? How would you prevent violence against these children? Or would you just have them sit in wheelchairs and stare at the wall?

[mlmr]

One on one parental indoctrination that Bush's policies are keeping Johnny from some different programming is powerful.

[Clara Lou]

Do bears do it in the woods?
In general, but not all of them-- polar bears, for instance. You generalize.
The teachers, via their unions, are anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and anti-conservative. It's a fact of life. Live with it or fight it.
Again, you generalize. Not one red cent of my money goes to a union. I made sure that the organization I joined sends not one dime of my money to NEA or anywhere else out of the state of Texas.