(Yeah, I know the whole point of these “debates” is for our "betters" to decide for us and then assume the power needed to bring us to heel.)
Remember when Time magazine had the pic of Newt Gingrich as the Grinch, because he wanted to balance the budget? Turns out, all the Grinches and Ebenezer Scrooges (before the ghostly visitations) are from the Left. Whether it’s Pelosi and Reid pushing their Socialistic agenda after losing big in the recent elections, or miserable, unhappy, busybody fuddyduddies wanting to ruin Christmas, lookl like the Democrats and the Left want to eliminate fun and enjoyment out of American lives.
Nothing more than a day or a week off for vacation because probably 90% or more of families and faculty (Christian or not) wouldn't show up even if school was in session
Somehow I don't think diwali or loy krathong have the same draw in America and the same potential absenteeism
He doesn't suggest schools cancel days off for the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, if we can't take a day off for the death of every ethnically venerated figure, then none of them.
If not for holidays schools would have to find some other reason to stand down once in a while and let families spend time together
Merry Christmas. This the season to be Jolly.
They DO, however go directly to destroying the minds of children by indoctrinating them with satanic (the anti-thesis to Christian is anti-Christian - thus anti-Christ ... Satanic) worship of self, Gaia, Mao, obama, the state ... etc., etc.
Screw you perfessah .. you have unintelligible, meaningless words and I am your enemy.
Hey ‘’professor’’, check this out. A few years back the city of Paterson NJ, closed the public schools on Ramadan. Paterson has a large Saracen(muslim) population. Yup. The school board closed the schools to honor the demon prophet. Maybe you can tell me ‘’professor’’, when is the last time any public schools anywhere in the US closed on St. Patricks Day?
Another baseless opinion by an uneducated dolt who does not know the difference between Freedom OF religion and freedom FROM religion. If this “professor” gets his wish, he will be deemed OBSOLETE.
From his webpage, this clown got his PhD in the "Study of Religion" from Harvard.
Someday perhaps our country will not be burdened with fools from Harvard.
Another ‘perfessur’ who needs to have his tenure broken & his job ended.
These self-appointed experts make me sick.
Prothero is in my opinion an edicated IDIOT. If he were an educated man he would understand the US Constitution is a written instrument,as such it’s meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted-it means now.” If true in 1905 when Justice David Brewer wrote for the unanimous supreme Court South Carolina v. the United States. and I believe it was True then it necessarily must have been true looking back to when it was adopted. And if true then True even today.
Commentaries written closer to the adoption of the Constitution and Amendments have greater weight in understanding its meaning so the Idiots ascribed “reading”
of the Constitution is worthless than cow dung.
Fine, no holidays period. Why now school on Sunday as well. Now professor, you negotiate that with the unions. No holiday pay at 2 1/2 times either.
The Prussian design of our schools intentionally is killing Christian Western Civ. Forced one-age schooling uses humiliation, boredom and force to make children adopt the secular humanist mindset. (Dewey knew to get younger kids in these mass indoctrination centers while their brains were “plastic”.
First, get rid of Aristotle and logic—(interesting why they do not want students using logic and reason). Indoctrinate, do not teach how to think by reading the Classical cannon. Teach what to think—critical theory designed by cultural Marxists was inserted into the curricula to demonize our Founding Fathers, Christianity and the Natural Family, Marriage, integrity, etc.,
—destroy the Christian paradigm which enabled our military to be the most honorable and good military in the history of the world. Unlike the evil Russians and Nazis who worshipped Odin or nothing but themselves.
God was essential in this country for creating a moral code to live by—the Hindu/muzzlim/wicca/atheist paradigms are horrible. They lead to tyranny every time because the thinking is not universal and based on Natural Law Theory. Christianity is a reasoned religion and conforms to the design of human nature. Marxism defies human nature and so is a fraud.
Freedom of thought is essential to Christianity—Free Will. We are setting up a government (through the Prussian-type schools) where we have no freedom of thought. The cultural Marxism doesn’t allow for Christian thought....they are now condemning the Bible and forcing Christian children through schools and the media, to be pagans and to think Christians are bigots and haters...they are teaching your children that ungodly acts are good and natural. This causes cognitive dissonance and leads to the inability to use logic. You see the results in the voters of bambi. It is massive conformity to one (illogical) way to think. Our marketing system is designed to take down Christianity. That Theology led to the best, most productive, free country in the world. Marxists will never get their one world government if Christian thought is allowed.
Destroy the family and Christianity and the Marxist such as Gramsci knew that they would destroy the culture. Wake up. Get control of the minds of your children. Take it aways from those who think pederasty is a good. Save our country.
The rational solution is to move to a completely private system of K-12 schooling, and to get government completely out of the education business. Parents pay for their own kids and charity takes care of the poor. If vouchers, tax credits, and charters can help move us to that point, then I support them.
By the way....Harvard has an endowment of 35 BILLION! Universities and colleges across this nation have endowments in the billions and multi-millions.
If government had kept its big fat hairy toe out of the K-12 education business, it is likely that K-12 education would be equally well endowed today. It is possible that every child in this nation would, by now, have access to a tuition-free **private*** conservative K-12 education. ( Maybe, even every child in the world.)
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Industrial-policy liberals may the the same old breed at heart, but they seem to have learned something from the differential records of Asian schoolkids. Gladwell presents a hard-driving (albeit fun) schedule as the way to transcend the IQ dilemma.
I'm not saying Gladwell is a Tom Sowell. In fact, the contrast between the two is revealing. Prof. Sowell lays it on the line, but Mr. Gladwell feels obliged to jazz up the evidence with a multi-culti take on the matter.
Well, Christian parents can decide to remove their kids from public schools with this policy and I suppose Hindus, Moslems, Jews and everyone else who follows some sort of religion can too.
Where will that leave public schools?