Saw it ... thought it was lame ... as bad as yesterday’s ode to a chair.
The government skools really are rotten, the texts are dumbed-down, the curriculum is progressive, and there are a lot of incompetent teachers. There are a lot of facts that support these assertions, but Beck used precious few to support his argument.
In fact, some of his argument was bizarre. Al Gore’s blathering at a youth conference has nothing to do with government skools. I’m pretty sure that the kids attended with their parents consent and at their expense. Obama’s “Talk” is plenty creepy, but Beck failed to make the connection with government skools. And, unless I missed something, the communistic education crap that he highlighted was from college and university demonstrations, not primary and secondary government skools. There are no mandatory attendance requirements for colleges and universities.
Rudy Giuliani said it well in his “freedom is about authority” speech: “Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America.” Government skools define “citizen” to mean precisely what they want it to mean. Need I say that “responsible” here means answerable to the State.
Obama and the Progressive Caucus of the Democrat Party won the election. They’re just doing in the skools what Giuliani said is the very basis for their existence. They’re just doing on their terms.
Dang, and you Missed MSNBC, just to be bored.