Posted on 01/13/2008 6:57:00 PM PST by K-oneTexas
Because many parents don’t insist their children study. That’s why.
I saw this in practice.
Well maybe in a generation our country will be run by home-schoolers.
When the know-nothings get upset about the outrageous taxation, The Man flicks his thumb over his shoulder at the guys with guns paid for with your tax dollars: "Shut up and pay, peasant!"
“Taxation without explication”
“The bottomline truth is very simple: the majority of communities cannot afford to provide education to its citizens.”
I respectfully disagree. For the amount of money that is dumped into the government schools, we should be graduating kids whose educational attainment is second to none. Instead we’re graduating kids who have difficulty counting out change. This is not a problem that more money will fix. The underlying paradigm of the government schools is flawed. Perhaps what we have was adequate for the 1930’s, but it isn’t for a knowledge based society.
Ooops! That slipped by me. I was willing to accept projectory.
“I have been hoping that Rush or Anne Coulter would write a book or bring enough attention to it to bring it into the national debate.”
Ain’t gonna happen. Most “conservative” parents that listen to them accept public assistance and send their children to government schools. Neither of these folks is inclined to bite the hand that feeds.
I believe this extends beyond the politics of bureaucratic
the teachers union. This mimics socialism in that individual acievement is discouraged. A type of political indoctrination is common. Homosexuality, sociaism, enviornmentalism, feminism ismisms are taught as beliefs which are inalienable.
I believe this extends beyond the politics of bureaucratic
the teachers union. This mimics socialism in that individual acievement is discouraged. A type of political indoctrination is common. Homosexuality, sociaism, enviornmentalism, feminism ismisms are taught as beliefs which are inalienable.
I homeschooled from 3-6th grade and we listened to Rush Limbaugh while my mother taught us. When I came back to public school in 7th grade (my brother and I at the time wanted the socializing), we had to drop down to the math, english and science grade were were in (I was ahead 2 years in math and 1 in science/english while I homeschooled). The kids in public school were absolutely amazed that I knew how to do math in my head and could diagram a sentence properly.
Really one of the biggest problems in our culture today. Antonio Gramsci would be proud.
No, it would be a million times worse.
Peruse the earlier history of academics in this nation.
The writing, use of language, historical facts and disciplines of science and math were much more solidly taught to students.
There were no calculators, computers or $ multiple millions spent on education yet they were a superior age compared to our modern travesty. Yet we hear the old tired lib canard that we don’t spend enough $$ for education and it’s a bald-faced lie just to extort more $$ from taxpayers. Shame on them all.
Seems RINOs and DEMS are only interested in protecting systems and monopolies,not people.Keeping the status quo is easier than innovating.
If vouchers are going to “siphon money from government schools” why isn’t the same true in higher education? I don’t hear state college professors running around crying about Pell grant(”government dollars”) money “unfairly” being used to attend St.Thomas,Gustavus,St.Johns or
other private religiously affiliated schools.
What happened to the imaginary wall of church and state there?
Since government doesn’t create wealth and only consumes it, how can it “give parents back” what was always theirs anyway?
Part of the beauty of being an American is choices.Look in the yellow pages. Thirty-one flavors or thirty thousand attorneys to choose from.Variety is a good thing.Some may choose schools for proximity,some for class size,some for shared belief systems,or a class for gifted
mathematicians.Why is choice and competition considered good in everything except education?
I was going to post essentially the same thing.
Much of this is just factually wrong.
We must be about the same age, although I was not in public school in 8th grade.
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