Posted on 03/18/2011 5:32:37 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
Corruption, greed, incompetence, bureaucratic bungling: Those are the things most likely to be found when the charade of public union outrage is peeled back to reveal the inner workings of collective bargaining. There is no doubt America is engaged in an ideological battle. On one side are the public sector unions and “workers” demanding the taxpayers cough up more to fund their fat paychecks and bloated pensions. On the other side are the majority of Americans who work in the private sector, fund their own retirements and health care, and have no entitlement programs they haven’t designed themselves. The public sector is asking for more blood while the private sector is beaten unconscious and bleeding from every major artery.
The newly elected Republican guard is trying to stop the bleeding, starting with the mess that is the public union. The howling has only just begun (see Wisconsin and Ohio). The Left has used unions and “workers’ rights” throughout history to weave their socialist ideals into the fabric of society. They use words and ideas that sound good in theory like “all children have the right to education! All workers have the right to a fair wage! A chicken on every table! A rice cooker on every counter!” They use these mantras to make anyone who doesn’t think leftist ideas actually help people feel ashamed of themselves. But when you get down to the practical application of their ideas, you find the nice words are covering up a festering, rotting corpse of horror.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the public school system where we are facing record malfeasance and mismanagement of public trust.
10. Grace Currin
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There are rules!;-)
Facts of Life:
1. Anytime you remove direct payment for any service it gets more expensive and you get less service. If parents were simply given vouchers they (mostly) would pick better schools.
2. Our political system is broken because the founders never envisioned that judges would legislate from the bench. Thus we have no method to correct their mistakes. Forced busing of students removed the neighborhood and parents from the schools.
3. Abortion on demand removed the expectation of basic parenting responsibility, specifically for fathers. She
decided to keep the kid so it is her responsibility.
The bottom line is that education won’t get better until the population figures out that despite the PC movement,
a) We need to have God in our lives and do his work
b) Children need parents, a mother and a father.
c) Parents need safe neighborhoods and communities
What is the disease?
Answer: ALL government schools in this nation are socialist-funded, collectivist-managed, GODLESS, and are overseen by comrade committees ( misnamed “school boards”) elected by the voting mob.
Socialism, collectivism, government compulsion, godlessness, voting mobs...etc...CAN NOT BE FIXED!!!!!
Solution: We must begin the process of completely privatizing all education in this nation. We need complete separation of school and state.
Yeah! I am shouting, jumping up and down and having a fit!
Government schools are freedom and our nation's MOST serious threat! Simply by attending the next generation of voters becomes comfortable with government compulsion, socialism, collectivism, voting mobs and comrade committees. They are indoctrinated daily by their socialist trained teachers in the wonders of communism.
And..Most serious of all, they MUST think and reason GODLESSLY simply to participate in the program.
Even with all of the above, there are conservatives who will soon post that their child's school is different.
Conservatives will claim that they can “undo” the damage.
So-called “conservative” teachers will post that they try to sneak in a little conservatism or Christianity and in doing so will teach the children that conservatives and Christians are sneaky.
Some posters will claim that if we just got rid of the unions, tenure, the federal department of education, or returned to local compulsion and socialism, and had a sprinkle of prayer in the morning, returned to the fifties...etc.
It's enough to make one bang one’s head against a wall.
The above will not improve until the schools improve. That means complete privatization. If vouchers, tax credits, and charters can get us to complete separation of school and state, then I support them.
3. Abortion on demand removed the expectation of basic parenting responsibility, specifically for fathers. She decided to keep the kid so it is her responsibility.
The creation of government schools ( even on the lowest governmental level of the town) removed from fathers the responsibility of raising up educated children who feared the Lord! Within one to two generations we saw the social and governmental slide. The Roaring Twenties was called that for a reason. Wilson and FDR were not accidents. They were the direct result of removing from fathers the responsibility of educating their children.
Forced busing of students removed the neighborhood and parents from the schools.
The entire socialist foundation of government schooling is rotten. Getting rid of busing isn't going to fix the problem. Busing is merely a symptom. The disease is that government schools **are** socialism, collectivism, comrade committee ( school board), and voter mob control over the family.
You are absolutely right! When responsibility is removed from fathers society degenerates.
The earliest modern and socialist-funded schools removed from fathers the responsibility of educating their children and rearing them in the light of the Lord.
By the way...The earliest modern government schools ( mid-1800s to early 1900s) offered up a generic and lukewarm Protestantism. It had to, if it was to be tolerated by the voting majority. We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!
So...If lukewarm and generic Protestantism of the earliest government schools was an abomination, what do you think Christ would do if we returned to a sprinkle of prayer in the morning or moment of silence?
Actually, there’s a conceptual problem with government (public) schools.
Their focus and goal is not turning out well educated people with the ability to think and reason and succeed in everyday life.
Their goal is indoctrination into a secular humanist Marxist worldview.
Quit your bellachin and do something positive.
More “Obama stash” money (your federal tax dollars) to failing Chicago schools:
Ill. schools to get $22M in federal funding
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last Modified: Mar 18, 2011 08:36AM
Federal officials say Illinois will get more than $22 million for low achieving schools through a school improvement program.
School districts will have to apply to the state for the funds.
They must indicate that they’ll try one of four school intervention models.
Those include a so-called turnaround model that will replace the principal, existing staff and adopt a new governance structure. Another is called the “restart model” and entails converting a school to a charter school under an education management organization.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says when a school is performing at the bottom 5 percent in the state and isn’t showing signs of progress, something dramatic must be done.
How about - The teachers caused all the middle class jobs to be exported in fleece trade deals now everyone is fighting for the crumbs on the floor.
Government education is a First Amendment and freedom of conscience abomination. The **moral** response is to work to **rescue** children from this socialist, collectivist, godless, comrade committee directed cesspool. The **moral** response is to work for their complete abolition.
Let me give two extreme examples to make my point:
What is the **moral** response to slavery? Should I take a job as slave overseer? Hm? Should I take the job because I might be kinder and feed them more than someone else? Should I run for a position on the community slavery board? NO! The moral response would be to create underground railroads so the slaves could escape and to work for the cause of abolition.
Would the appropriate response to the Nazi concentration camps have been to run for concentration camp committee chairman??? Huh? NO! The ethical and MORAL response would be to join the resistance,
Verga...All government schools are GODLESS in their worldview. Every government school in this nation trashes the First Amendment Rights of the child, the parent, and the taxpayer.
ALL government school systems in this nation treat children like prisoners! ALL government schools trash the child's ( and indirectly the parent's) rights to free speech, press, assembly, and free exercise of religion. All government schools in this nation **ESTABLISH** the religion of godless secular humanism! In their best days, they forced a lukewarm and generic Protestantism on children, And the government uses the threat of police action to force the taxpayer to pay for this government establishment of religion!
The above is INTRINSIC to the government school system itself and can not be fixed.
The only **MORAL** response to government schools is to create an underground so that children can escape and to work for the complete abolition of government schooling.
Take a deep breath and get off your low moral horse. You are attacking society through your attack of the schools. You don't get the point. If you want to make a difference in society you must change the schools through POSITIVE change. The majority of Americans do not have the education, the ability or the desire to educate through home srcewling. You whine, you complain and, and yet you do nothing to make positive change. Until you get a job teaching in a public school or get your self elected to a school board you really have nothing to say.
The only way to reform it would be to make it non-socialistic, non-collectivist, parent and teacher directed, and centered on the specific religious beliefs chosen by the family.
In other words, PRIVATE!
And...Where in this thread did I even mention the word “homeschooling”? Hm? YOU are creating a strawman argument. I can not defend a strawman of **your** creation.
But....I know that you are a **professional** and would never, never, never, use strawman arguments against immature students who would be defenseless against this type of debating strategy. To do this against students would be a form of power abuse, and since you are a **professional** I know you wouldn't do that. Nope! Never!
Government schools are by definition a socialist welfare program that is collectivist managed by the voting mob.
That can NOT be reformed. It must be eliminated. That is the **ONLY** positive action to take.
You see I believe like all good conservatives that the people will make the right choices, but only if the good Conservatives TEACH them to do so. You on the other hand run like scared rabbits refusing to do your civic duty. that is cowardice.
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