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One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea (nanny staters want to end local control of schools)
The New York Times ^ | 2010-03-19 | Susan Jacoby

Posted on 04/12/2010 10:10:21 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

American public education, a perennial whipping boy for both the political right and left, is once again making news in ways that show how difficult it will be to cure what ails the nation’s schools.

Only last week, President Obama declared that every high school graduate must be fully prepared for college or a job (who knew?) and called for significant changes in the No Child Left Behind law. In Kansas City, Mo., officials voted to close nearly half the public schools there to save money. And the Texas Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum playing down the separation of church and state and even eliminating Thomas Jefferson — the author of that malignant phrase, “wall of separation” — from a list of revolutionary writers.

Each of these seemingly unrelated developments is part of a crazy quilt created by one of America’s most cherished and unexamined traditions: local and state control of public education. Schooling had been naturally decentralized in the Colonial era — with Puritan New England having a huge head start on the other colonies by the late 1600s — and, in deference to the de facto system of community control already in place, the Constitution made no mention of education. No one in either party today has the courage to say it, but what made sense for a sparsely settled continent at the dawn of the Republic is ill suited to the needs of a 21st-century nation competing in a global economy.

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1 posted on 04/12/2010 10:10:21 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: bamahead
Big Government® at work again!
2 posted on 04/12/2010 10:10:39 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

Public education worked a lot better BEFORE we got teachers’ unions and the Department of Education.


3 posted on 04/12/2010 10:11:40 AM PDT by popdonnelly (I'm so old, I remember when free enterprise was praised, and communism was shunned.)
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To: rabscuttle385
A free public education system under their control is one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto, after all.
4 posted on 04/12/2010 10:14:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: rabscuttle385

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6bARRmEpH8


5 posted on 04/12/2010 10:14:48 AM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Then they should end the local funding of schools. Otherwise this will become another instance of taxation without representation.


6 posted on 04/12/2010 10:22:17 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Guaranteed to create a huge, stifling and expensive bureaucracy and a population ignorant as billygoats.


7 posted on 04/12/2010 10:27:01 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Don't waste your vote on a 'Rat wearing an Elephant suit.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Public schools should be abolished. They have outlived their usefulness.


8 posted on 04/12/2010 10:30:09 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: rabscuttle385

“American public education”

Solution:
“American Education”: If the kids aren’t in it, the schools go away.


9 posted on 04/12/2010 10:35:18 AM PDT by glide625 (50+% of American Voters Elected Obama: Never Forget; Never Forgive.)
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To: rabscuttle385

More fundamental transformation. No thank you.


10 posted on 04/12/2010 10:35:31 AM PDT by FourPeas (God Bless America)
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To: FourPeas

Don’t tell me...”Commerce Clause”, right?


11 posted on 04/12/2010 10:38:06 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: rabscuttle385

btt


12 posted on 04/12/2010 10:38:09 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: rabscuttle385

Then we should call them what they are - indoctrination centers.


13 posted on 04/12/2010 10:39:33 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: metmom; Tired of Taxes; rabscuttle385

New York Times shilling for total federal usurpation of education ping.


14 posted on 04/12/2010 10:40:40 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: rabscuttle385

Simply Explanation

obama a student of before ‘no child left behind’ ...

clinton - pass them on, no matter if they grasped the curriculum or not -— failing a child effects their SELF ESTEEM ?!!

President Bush - No Child Left Behind - a 1st grader will learn to read

obama the workers don’t need to read


15 posted on 04/12/2010 10:41:54 AM PDT by malia
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Unfortunately, even those old enough to be instructors or teachers now were also FEDucated in those schools. So many of them are tainted against God and Country. Too bad the states didn’t consider this drastic outcome forty or fifty years ago when some of us were trying to bring it to their attention. Of course, they knew. They were Progressives even then. Local control was unacceptable to them. A fine, firm education can only thrive under local control!
Christians need to pray in God’s Own Will for all those in authority in education that they will be given His salvation, as Saul was saved. He became St. Paul. If it can happen to a ruthless tax collector, it can happen to educators, let alone presidents, and Congressmen.
Christians must augment their children’s schooling, and enridh their belief system exponentially. It is time for parents to take back the rearing of their children!


16 posted on 04/12/2010 10:44:14 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: rabscuttle385; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ..
The New York Times thinks Washington D.C. would be a better steward of your public schools than your own community. Big surprise...they just want a system which churns out more NYT readers.



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17 posted on 04/12/2010 10:45:48 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: rabscuttle385
...ill suited to the needs of a 21st-century nation competing in a global economy.

Yea, destroy the last vestiges of what could make us competitive.
No one must be allowed to vote with their feet.
Single Payer, Single Curriculum, Single Thought -> Single party.

18 posted on 04/12/2010 10:51:35 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: rabscuttle385

that’s been their goal ever since the day Jimmah announced he was forming a Dept. of Education


19 posted on 04/12/2010 10:54:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bamahead

New York Times shilling for total federal usurpation of education ping.

Based of course on the fact that’s how European countries with 1/10 our population do it


20 posted on 04/12/2010 10:56:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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