Parents send their children to school with, most often, the same mentality. I'm sending my child to you to get educated. I give you money; you educate my child.
The child doesn't get educated, and the parents don't even notice. And if they do notice, they tend to not DEMAND accountability of the school.
Generally, many simply nod their heads over the school's or politician's "abuse excuse" the reason the child didn't get educated was because the school doesn't have enough money to educate the child. The parent says. Oh, okay. Yes, we'll force everyone (via taxes) to ensure MY child, next, election -- gets a better education.
No rational voter would ever simply wait for another election cycle to get their car repaired.
Children are living beings -- they are NOT objects. However, with the advent of "socialist" causes -- many parents, while very much loving of their children -- seem very unaware of a premise they hold that is tripping their child up.
Lessee.. 8:15 to 2:30 each day, 5 days a week tied up in a classroom learning.. what?
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Ogbu concluded that the average black student in Shaker Heights put little effort into schoolwork and was part of a peer culture that looked down on academic success as "acting white.
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Uh-huh. The ole' "Oreo" ad hominem. But really, when you look at the media and liberals: Oreos, according to their quotes, articles, coverage -- only exist in the Republican Party; ergo, the hidden mentality of the "Oreo" monicker: Don't become a Republican.
No big decoder ring needed to parse this one...
Back to the idea of sending kids to school to maybe get an education: Well, if you click on the remote, activate the TV, and the child has seen "Friends" -- they've seen "Friends". The corrollary logic appears: They've been in class 5 days a week for a tons of weeks; they should just naturally be getting an education. Education is run, owned, controlled by Democrats. They care about education.
Another faulty assumption exists about "education". But by golly gee.. just trying walking a died-in-the-wool Dem or Liberal through seeing the disconnect(s) in their assumptions about sending their children to schools; and the paltry education they are receiving. Oh NooOOO! The reason education isn't working, the myth continues, is because some Nasty Republican is hiding in the woodpile somewhere tripping up Dems in their education focus. uh-huh.
Oreos, according to their quotes, articles, coverage -- only exist in the Republican Party; ergo, the hidden mentality of the "Oreo" monicker: Don't become a Republican.
Isn't it amazing that people fall for it, too? And let's not forget "Uncle Tom" (which is supposed to be an insult, even though the man on whom the Uncle Tom character was based led slaves to freedom). The message is definitely: Don't be a Republican (just look at what Colin Powell and Condi Rice have had to deal with recently) and certainly not a libertarian/Libertarian (thinking of Larry Elder there), though no one takes us as seriously.
Funny, the whole attitude seems to be: How DARE an African-American claim that African-Americans can do it on their own without "whitey's help"! Lol. And the racists I've come across on the Democrat side! I think GWB got it right with that phrase, "the subtle racism of low expectations," or whatever it was he said - it was a perfect analysis of the Democrat attitude in one short phrase.