Posted on 05/20/2006 9:07:52 AM PDT by Phil Harmonic
"People who do suggest such things are seriously Un American in the highest degree."
Yeah, but they're good Christians.
"Ah. Insults."
Indeed. The hallmark of a lost argument.
> See your tagline.
Not a single reference to priesthoods, high, low or indifferent, in my tagline. But clearly you see what you want to see.
A couple of centuries down the road, historians are going to have a field day with our period. In fact, I predict ours will be the most popular period for academic historians to specialize in, because the record of our antics will provide endless amusement. Colleges will offer gut courses on this period, which will be one long giggle-fest for the students.
They probably tried to avert this by using only private donations to pay for the stickers. But they'll probably get sued anyway, for facilitating the distribution of the stickers.
This is GovernmentShrinker's plan:
CLOSE the public schools. Provide vouchers to every child, in the full amount currently spent per student by public schools. Require very minimal annual testing, by third parties with no financial interest in who passes/fails, in math and reading only, keyed to the 50th percentile of current public school performance. Register a child with any private or homeschool the parent chooses (include homeschooling by the child's own parent), and fork over the payment AFTER the child passes the test. Once a child has passed the test for the 12th grade, there should be no further testing requirement, and the voucher money should simply go to whoever the parents direct. Before you object to this testing requirement, consider that:
1) There has to be SOME accountability, and
2) With pass levels set to the 50th percentile of current public school performance, not only will 50% of the nation's students be getting a better education than they are now, but most homeschooled kids will pass the 12th grade test by the time they're 8 or 9, and their parents will never have to be bothered with testing again, and can still collect their vouchers to the tune of $15-20,000/year.
This plan would result in a huge expansion of both homeschooling and small, high quality private schools (in many cases just one homeschooling parent taking on a few additional kids besides her own).
What I see is a fellow claiming to be Protecting Science From Corruption. High Priest stuff, IOW.
You can deny and dodge all you want. However, as Mr. Emerson once put it: "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
> What I see is a fellow claiming to be Protecting Science From Corruption.
"I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am."
You see what you wish to see.
I see you for what you are.
He's a Troll, ignore him.
See my posts 86 and 120 for entertaining details.
Cheers!
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