this kid is AWESOME!!! Bump for later full read
Let the education begin.
Bright kid. I pray he doesn’t fall victim to the Republican machine. Politics corrupt everyone eventually.
We’re proud of you, Benji, but the “public school system” has become the Bus Ministry of the State Church of Humanism.
It is unrecoverable.
At least the Left knows that they must completely destroy the existing order to establish their new order.
We conservatives have yet to grasp the necessity of tearing down the old before construction of the new can begin.
The public school system, as it exists today, is really a government school collective, a monopoly, a single-payer entitlement program, and the largest, most expensive and most destructive one at that.
It must be completely abandoned so that new education formats can take over. Home schools, church and synagogue schools, school cooperatives, these are a few of the education paradigms that make education much more responsive to the needs of the students and the values of the parents.
The Noah Webster model of distributed education achieved almost 100% literacy before it was displaced by the Prussian model imported by Horace Mann and embellished by people like John Dewey and Carl Rogers.
Now that right there is a big mistake.
People need to start seeing public education as the indoctrination program it's become and realize we must get kids out of their or we'll lose our freedom for sure.
Smart kid. I have found that the most effective way to build a case in business is with a detailed timeline.
“...I attend a public high school in Appleton, Wisconsin. I have always supported the public school system and plan to do so for the rest of my life.”
He’s a smart kid - who is too dumb to see the system he supports creates and fosters the persecution and prejudice he suffers.
” He had been making over $100,000 with benefits for the 2010-11 school year, the same year Walker’s reform bill passed.”
There was a time when I used to say teachers aren’t paid enough. I was obviously wrong - in some places they are paid too much.
——this specific teacher -——
Why is that specific teacher still alive?
May God hold him and keep him. He has already come thru great adversity and will be a strong leader. God bless his family and friends who support him.
BTTT! Congresscritter in the making.....
Teachers don’t like conservatives or their children. And the other kids pick up on that hatred...
This kid needs to go on Glen Becks show
What you describe is child abuse and it's endemic in the public school system. Keep your eyes and ears open and I think one day you will rethink your support of it.
Don’t like high school politics? Just wait until you get to college!
“One teacher even said she wouldn’t be able to have another child because Scott Walker was cutting so much money from her pay.”
Now, there is a benefit I hadn’t even considered! Stop them from breeding.
Understand the Frankfurt School, Columbia U and NEA relationship history and activities. It’s critical.
he looks like a young Jason Lewis
“There are a few teachers that have been extremely inspirational to me.”
I thought my high school teachers were a bunch of pathetic fools when I was in high school 40-some years ago. Looking back, I now realize that my opinion at the time was much too charitable! I would close all public schools, fire the teachers and administrators and give parents an education voucher to be spent on any private school of their choice. Left wing activism has turned public schools into political indoctrination camps with low achievement scores on everything else.
That said, I do not approve of teachers imposing their personal political or religious views on students, taking advantage of the power they have over them (grades). However, I am not entirely certain that this young man did not deliberately bait teachers by stating activities which I'm sure he knew would generate controversy. Reading through this article, it certainly seems that he went out of his way to do just that. For example, his telling a teacher, in front of a class, that her behavior was "inappropriate" was itself highly disrespectful. He should have asked to speak to her after class. Such actions would quickly paint him as a real smart aleck.
Some of his purported conversations with these teachers just do not sound real. I don't know, this whole piece sounds like a contrived attempt to garner a pat on the head, "Good Boy!" from conservatives.
I supposed I must remind FReepers that although I am a teacher, I am a conservative as well. I have been subjected to my own dose of awful remarks by some more liberal colleagues, but generally they learn very quickly to keep such remarks to themselves. They may start a fight, but I most certainly will finish it. For example, just last week, a colleague told me that "I didn't have to be so stringent about my religious practices to prepare for Passover." I asked her when she had become my rabbi. And then, pointing out the obvious, I told her to keep such opinions to herself. I doubt that she will ever offer up any such remark again.