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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
the idea that the public school system can be reformed or improved is a phallacy. The death grip of the NEA will continue to degrade the system for decades.

The only answer is private schooling and home schooling.

All efforts should now be on weakening the NEA and restricting the absurd amount of taxpayer money that schools receive and the NEA extorts to further their self serving sick agenda.
8 posted on 08/12/2003 11:42:33 AM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (All Dems is Pimps and Ho's)
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To: At _War_With_Liberals

the idea that the public school system can be reformed or improved is a phallacy.

Some objections…:

Freedom of Education | Separation of School & State

1. Government school is the essential force for social cohesion. It cannot happen any other way. A bureaucratized public order is our defense against chaos and anarchy.
2. The socialization of children in groups monitored by state agents is essential; without this, children cannot learn to get along with others in a pluralistic society.
3. Children from different backgrounds and from families with different beliefs must be mixed together. Robert Frost was wrong when he maintained "good fences make good neighbors."
4. The certifiable expertise of official schoolteachers is superior to that of lay people including parents. The protection of children from the uncertified is a compelling public concern.
5. Coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power. Compelling children to assemble in mandated groups for mandated intervals with mandated texts and overseers does not interfere with academic learning.
6. Children will inevitably grow apart from their parents in beliefs as they grow older and this process must be supported and encouraged. The best way to do this is by diluting parental influence and discouraging the children's attitudes that their own parents are sovereign in either mind or morality.
7. The world is full of crazy parents who will ruin their children. An overriding concern of schooling is to protect children from bad parenting.
8. It is not appropriate for any family to unduly concern itself with the education of its own children, but it may expend unlimited effort on behalf of the general education of everyone.
9. The State has the predominant responsibility for training, morals, and beliefs. Children schooled outside government scrutiny frequently become anti-social and poverty stricken.

….are refuted by Books or common sense.

11 posted on 08/12/2003 11:49:56 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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To: At _War_With_Liberals; Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS; *Education News
"All efforts should now be on weakening the NEA and restricting the absurd amount of taxpayer money that schools receive and the NEA extorts to further their self serving sick agenda."


Teachers who want to belong to a Professional Education Association should consider joining the Association of American Educators.




Let your colleagues know that they are entitled to receive a refund on the part of their NEA dues that is being used for political activity. Many teachers believe that they must join the NEA to get liability insurance -- The AAE offers excellent Liability Insurance.



Now is the time to help bust the NEA


HOPE FOR AMERICA: Growing Non-Union Teacher Associations Provide Alternatives to NEA and AFT

20 posted on 08/12/2003 12:01:58 PM PDT by EdReform (Support Free Republic - Become a Monthly Donor)
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To: At _War_With_Liberals
"...the idea that public schools can be ... improved is a phallacy."

phallacy n., pl. -cies. 1. a phalse notion. 2. a statement or argument based on a phalse or invalid inpherence. 3. incorrectness of reasoning or belieph.

36 posted on 08/12/2003 3:59:21 PM PDT by nonsporting
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