[Gondring]

Because we conservatives in general are gutless sheepeople. Why else would we pay thousands of dollars to left wing profs to teach our children?

You are right.

I wonder how many FReepers who love to bloviate and decry the problem have actually taken the time, effort, and money to go to schools and volunteer, substitute teach, or provide materials for the teachers to use.

Leftist groups do these things. For example, by providing free posters of animals, Greenpeace and similar groups lay the groundwork for their message without providing overtly partisan materials. But conservatives sit in thinik tanks publishing another white paper on how bad things are.

I have gotten emergency certification to substitute teach, and I have seen how bad it is. I saw lesson plans where the negative effects of price controls were excised, not to be taught (I finished the lesson I was assigned--and then ran a price-control roleplaying exercise >}:-)

I have volunteered, going to various schools around the state.

I have provided materials--subversive, non-partisan things like posters of the Founding Fathers.

I ran a news journal that constrasted reality with what a college newspaper ran.

I encourage my fellow FReepers to do similar tasks, if they truly love the Republic. If they just want to whine and complain, then I wish they wouldn't pretend to care.

[ought-six]

I am in my late 50s, a college graduate, a Vietnam vet, and I may very well be getting laid off from my job this year. How does one go about getting certified as an “emergency teacher”? Does one have to go back to school to a get an Education degree?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I wonder how many FReepers who love to bloviate and decry the problem have actually taken the time, effort, and money to go to schools and volunteer, substitute teach, or provide materials for the teachers to use.

You're playing with matches, Gondring. Have a good lawyer, because you will eventually need one. If you want that proven, I'll buy you a pro-life, anti-gay, or anti-0bama shirt to wear to your next encounter.

[NucSubs]

1) Volunteering is not enough. The system is broken beyond repair. It must be abandoned by conservatives and Christians for homeschooling, private, and conservative or at least neutral charter schooling.

2) The Heritage Foundation supplies stuff free of charge. Pocket copies of the Constitution Declaration for instance.

3) What role playing did you do? I’d like to use it in my homeschooling maybe (my kids go to private school but i augment it heavily with homeschooling).

[Chgogal]

I used to tutor at Tilden High School for three years. The children from the Robert Taylor Homes’ were assigned to Tilden. The school was a combat zone.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4141698.html

The teachers were awful and uncaring and REFUSED to set a standard of behavior much less of learning. It was pathetic. They succumbed to the OREO philosophy that was rampant at the time. The Great Society's experiment was a total failure and the “homes” were quietly torn down.

http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0102/ob/ob02.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAS/is_2_35/ai_n26972150

My guess things may have improved slightly since the tear down. What really angers me is the lack of anger among Chicagoans and Americans in general at the fact that Ayers has influence over our children. NO ONE is upset that that POS and his wife are educating our children. We area pathetic bunch of pussies.

[Post Toasties]

I want to commend you for taking the initiatives you described in public school. I have a couple very intelligent nephews and nieces in high school and college now and their attitude (due to educational system conditioning) is ‘that’s it’s a good thing 0bama won’. They cannot give a coherent reason for espousing such a belief because they’ve been indoctrinated, not educated.