Posted on 06/11/2010 5:38:49 AM PDT by rellimpank
Any impartial national media type will tell you as much: A bunch of half-baked zealot nutjobs have emerged from the Republican primary field. Folks like Nevada's Sharron Angle and California's Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are all throwing around frighteningly out-of-step opinions.
Let's start with Angle, who believes it would be prudent — get this — to start de-funding the Department of Education. The Department of Education!
You must be aware that the vast majority of Americans were unable to write or use basic arithmetic before the prestigious bureaucracy began operating in 1980. Over its 30 years of sure-footed guidance, in fact, edumacation standards have dramatically improved and graduation rates skyrocketed.
Only a wingnut would question the prudence of sinking $50 billion a year into an organization that's incrementally taken control of local education matters and boasts, as its biggest success this time around, an erroneously named, stimulus-funded contest: Race to the To
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
“Angle, who believes it would be prudent — get this — to start de-funding the Department of Education.”
Excellent! ;-))))
(I am an educator.)
And they still can’t read or write 30 years after the department of education was started! Fail!!
Exactly! And I could add so much more to that....
Where’s the barf alert ?
Quite ! How crazy can you get expecting the Federal Government to be restricted to the delegated powers enumerated in the Constitution. Thank goodness they're putting warning labels on copies of the Constitution otherwise a person could read it and realize the Feds have no constitutional authority to be engaged in any aspect of education. ( And a number of other areas for that matter.)
It’s satire.
None needed.
According to a 2009 study by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), American students rank as follows (out of 41 countries):
Math 28
Reading 18
Science 22
Problem Solving 29
With this data out there, why Harsanyi defends the Dept of Education is a bit of a head-scratcher. Our kids aren’t keeping up. His assertion that graduation rates have increased doesn’t mean jack sh*t if standards are lowered year after year. It just means we’re churning out grads who can barely spell their name and can’t find the USA on a world map.
“You must be aware that the vast majority of Americans were unable to write or use basic arithmetic before the prestigious bureaucracy began operating in 1980. Over its 30 years of sure-footed guidance, in fact, edumacation standards have dramatically improved and graduation rates skyrocketed.”
That is a bald-faced lie. In 1910 it was estimated that within the next decade illiteracy was expected to be a thing of the past in America. That socialist freak, John Dewey, turned that on its head when he began indoctrinating students before teaching them to read.
This article is a wonderful example of just how ignorant so called journalists are today. That idiot at the Denver Post is a disgrace to journalism.
I shoulda read the whole story....
Uh..
never mind!
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OH! OK. I’ve been dealing with a lot of so called progressives who have been programned to think that they are more well informed than they really are.
They have come out with some truley astonishing statements. I suspected trhat this was an example. Thanks for the clarification.
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