Posted on 11/23/2016 9:01:23 PM PST by kevcol
Advocates of public education in the United States have worried that President-elect Donald Trump would tap an education secretary who would speed up the privatization of public schools, a move that many fear could destroy America’s public education system, the country’s most important civic institution. Well, they were right about the appointment — and then some.
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Seen by her supporters as a tireless, driven supporter of school choice, opponents say she is the most ideological and anti-public education nominee ever to be put forward to run the the nearly 40-year-old department.
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Nah, most of them were born here.
More in the same vein - http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/24/men-feminism-infrastructure-education-incarceration-glenn-reynolds/94339786/
I taught my kids to read and do basic arithmetic before they even saw a school.
Lol.
But, you're right. I can't imagine a sane man who'd want to teach in today's public schools. Not sure why you're disagreeing with me. My responsibility, to my children, with regards to their education, is being fulfilled. I've "ignored" nothing.
I have been griping about the school systems for fifty years and have done evert thing possible to avoid the imposition of cultural and intellectual illiteracy by people ignorant of our patrimony and the developmental stages of children.
John Dewey was a destroyer.
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