Some teacher friends of mine went to see Palin when she spoke at a rally near here. So not all teachers are Marxists!
But you do make a good point. Taxpayers have a right - even a duty - to see what is being taught in their local schools. Schools should make it super-easy for a taxpayer to visit a classroom and observe a lesson.
I totally agree with you both on this. Far too many schools make it far too difficult for even a parent to visit the classrooms of their own child, so I would imagine it being next to impossible for Joe taxpayer to do so. I don't know about Joe Taxpayer, but at least in my district it is very easy for parents to visit and observe. My daughter hates when I do it, but I have.
Oh, as aside, she had a fully excused absence when we took her out of school to attend a McCain/Palin rally, and in fact the teacher encouraged us to take her.
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The **entire** course should be video taped and put on the Internet. The courses should be taught by the most experienced and gifted teachers and it should be accessible by anyone, of any age, in the state. Taxpayers should at least have **complete** access to **all** of the content that would ideally be presented to students.
The information could be used in many ways:
Those parents who felt that their child didn't quite master 5th grade fractions would have access to the information by Internet.
A 45 year old woman just might wish to brush up on algebra or biology before starting the college courses needed for a nursing degree.
Inexperienced teachers would be able to quickly and easily observe how a master teacher approached a particular aspect of a course.
Taxpayers could easily and quickly determine if the course and curriculum were biased or politically correct.
**ALL** government teachers in government owned and run government K-12 schools support the following merely by **willingly** agreeing to work in them. ( Last I checked, no one was holding a gun to their heads.)
** Socialism. All government owned and run schools are funded by threat of armed police action against citizens. ( Socialism is Marxism lite.) Merely by attending children learn to be comfortable with taking money from a neighbor for a service that their parents want for free.
** Collectivist and voter mob run schools. Merely by attending learn to be comfortable with the collectivist voting mob control their daily lives and even the thoughts they are forced to think.
** Godlessness. ALL ( that means every) government owned and run school in this nation establishes godless secular humanism. Children will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must simply to cooperate with the classroom instruction and complete assignments.
** Government compulsion. Any parent who can not afford to ransom their children from the godless, collectivist, voter mob run, socialist government schools is under armed police threat to send their children to the godless government schools. ( Too bad if the government schools work tirelessly to destroy the political, cultural, and religious worldview taught in the home.) Oh!...And since government is running a price -fixed monopoly and giving schooling away for free, this makes private schools scarce! ( My county has NO private schools of any kind.)
So?....ALL government teachers **willingly** accept a paycheck for establishing godless schools that establish the religion of godless secular humanism, and teach children to be comfortable with taking money from a neighbor by way of armed police threat, collectivism, voter mobs, and government compulsion.
Yet...Some claim not to be Marxists. ( Yeah right!) ( eye roll!)
So not all teachers are Marxists!
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Oh! And...If any conservative and/or Christian thinks they can sneak in a little conservatism or Christianity they are, **indeed**, teaching an important lesson!
Lesson learned: Conservatives and Christians are sneaky!