[LiteKeeper]

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[Prime Choice]

As another Freeper observed, this is the "Damning-Down" of American education...

[the Real fifi]

I could not disagree more. It is the most rigorous curriculum on earth. And such good preparation for college that most competititve colleges prefer it and many give as many as 2 years college credit for those who successfully pass it.

True, if you want a traditional American curriculum--this is not for you, but if you want one which emphasized critical thinking, languages, world history, math and science--this is it.

[oyez]

Students need to be taught how America can be a leader not a follower.

[PayrollOffice]

A very different battle has been going on in the District of Columbia. Here the issue is whether any of the predominantly black students will be allowed to escape the failing and dangerous public schools by having vouchers to go elsewhere.

The death knell of the teachers' unions cushy jobs. Unfortunately, it will not stand. But why not? Don't "black students" deserve a chance?

Tax payer funded unions should be illegal.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The teachers unions say no — and the teachers unions are the 800-pound gorilla of the Democratic Party that they supply with money and with people to walk precincts on Election Day. Some Republicans are also afraid to get on the bad side of the teachers union, even if it means another whole generation of poor kids go down the drain for lack of decent education.

Paige's outrageous terrorist charge undermines goals - (But it gets better!)***He charged the NEA with encouraging a "coalition of the whining." He called other education reform critics "nihilists" and made unflattering comparisons to French U.N. diplomats and racists. Paige impoliticly suggested last year that schools with a religious environment were preferable to public schools with diverse values. ***

[mhking]

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[keats5]

I like Virginians. I'm from Ohio. Sometimes we make sense, too.

[zook]

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[mo]

Somewhere there just MUST be a civil rights case for a parent like Virginia Walden-Ford....the continued resisistence by the teachers unions, aided and abetted by their local school districts, to providing a functional education to the community is both a taxpayer fraud and a legitimate civil rights issue IMHO-and until addressed as such will continue.

[Born Conservative]