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Posted on 03/18/2011 7:05:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Being vocal about the need for serious education reform means you must face a few arrows heading your way from teachers’ unions and the educational establishment. Both have a lot to lose if a student-centered education system emerges.
Education Action Group, my organization based in Michigan, often receives e-mails larded up with rhetoric and vitriol. Just this week, we were accused of being “Nazis” for having the gall to chastise school districts that want to charge thousands of dollars for public records.
So when we highlight the impressive array of reforms being proposed in Indiana by state superintendent Tony Bennett, what’s the reaction by unionized teachers? Consider the e-mailed thoughts of one Terry Daugherty of Monroe County, Indiana schools:
“I always wonder if Jesus were in Michigan, is this what he would do? Spend his time destroying public education in Indiana?”
Determining Jesus’ position on political issues can open up quite a can of worms, but I’ll try. The book of Matthew tells the story of Jesus cleansing the temple of the money changers.
“As Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. And He said to them, ‘It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a robbers’ den.’”
So, Terry, you got me thinking. What would Jesus say of Detroit Public Schools? That public education “temple” graduates kids who can’t read. A majority of kids don’t graduate.
The “temple” is certainly meeting the needs of the adults but it is leaving kids behind.
I would like to think that, yes, Jesus would destroy the public education temple and save the children from despair and a hopeless future. And he would smash a temple that has been perverted to meet the needs of the administrators, teachers, school board members, unions, bureaucrats and contractors.
But, Jesus isn’t in Michigan – or Indiana – so it’s incumbent upon leaders to do something about it. And in Indiana, they’re trying. They’re trying to give kids a voucher to attend the school of their choice. They’re trying to reform collective bargaining so there’s less of an emphasis on the adults and more on the needs of children.
But the money changers and special interests are doing everything they can to protect their space in the “temple.”
Jesus just left Chicago, and He’s bound for New Orleans.
” Indiana by state superintendent Tony Bennett”
When did he give up his singing career? How disappointing.
Let me go out on a limb and say that Jesus would preach the Word of God; something that is prohibited in the public school. Liberals appealing to those they have banned is funny.
That is an excellelnt analogy.
Just a heads up on the Jesus turning the tables over. First off it’s a great analogy, and secondly, just FYI in case some don’t know. He did so because the money changers in the temple were price gouging. People had to come from all over Israel and many could not travel with their sacrifice, they would buy it when they got to Jerusalem. Some were very poor, and the poor usually bought the doves. Some traveled for days. Jesus hadn’t been sacrificed yet so the sacrifices were still taking place. You had to have your own sacrifice a dove, a ram ect. to cleanse you of your sins. This is why Jesus was so ticked and it’s the only time you see Him that way. Until He returns that is ;)
I was initially astonished that UMC "parochial schools" are all but non-existant-- until I learned about the denomination's long standing commitment to supporting public education. Since "social justice" is a key tenet of the denomination, it would make sense that in the America of the past, a broad public education system would further that cause.
But I believe that the UMC's stance is anachronistic. What worries me today is the value system pushed by the excessively securalized public school system. I think that the value systems triumphed in the public schools works against biblical teaching. So if the public schools subvert the faith-- why is a church supporting them?
But I know the answer to this-- the Left controls the UMC machinery in large part. Many of my brothers and sisters are only interested in bibilical teachings that support their "progressive" politics-- they shun those parts of the Bible that impose strictures on personal morality.
Guess I should have added the /sar huh? Don’t like his politics, but what a singer.
“I left my heart in Indianapolis...”
Oddly enough there seems to be a resemblance.
I left my heart in Possum Trot.
Jesus just left Chicago, and He’s bound for New Orleans...
How far is Possum Trot from Possumneck?
The WWJD guilt-trip rationale is just another socialist liberal toolbelt item to be applied by the abuse of the power of suggestion or in explicitly biblical terms.
However, since we’re talking about Baby Boomer-aged and younger people, the question may as well be “What would John Lennon do?”, which is a joke because back in ‘72, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were just unwitting dupes in a movement being led by Yippies, the SDS and the Black Panther Party among others.
If John Lennon were alive today, he’d probably be a an American conservative and maybe even a “ditto-head” with a complimentary subscription to the EIB and Rush 24/7!
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