Posted on 04/01/2002 10:11:48 AM PST by Alissa
Someone on the state board of education home schools? Wow.
If 80% of the government school teachers in the liberal paradise of Mass are sending their children to private schools, what does that tell you about the government schools?
The newscast went on to say that one member considers it a "non-issue!"
This was previously posted, but it really is a non-issue. Do each of the persons on the board pay taxes that support the state schools? If so, then they have a right to say how that money is spent. Pure, plain and simple.
On the other hand, if they are fighting vouchers or tax credits that would increase access to non-govt schools for other children, that would be elitist and hypocritical. Is that the case?
It might not be an issue to you, but to millions of Texas taxpayersit is probably instructive that NONE of the children of the State Board of Education members actually attend the schools where they conduct their social engineering experiments!!
As for their agenda, from my experience, the beliefs of hsers and those who send their children to private schools smack much less of social engineering experiments than those who belong to the gubmint establishment. I'd worry much, much more if the board was made up of NEA members.
Are these board members not elected by the public? Do they not pay taxes themselves? It sounds like the democratic process is working properly. If the voters of Texas don't like them, they have every right to vote for someone else.
Where the problem is and what makes it an "issue" is that I would bet that these same board members are opposed to vouchers and other methods of allowing parents the opportunity to send their children to private schools.
I would be shocked to find out that these people are supportive of vouchers.
How are the members appointed to the SBOE in Texas? In Virginia, they are appointed by the Governor. So, in the last eight years, the members would've been appointed by Republicans George Allen and Jim Gilmore, and I would suspect that there are homeschool and private school advocates in that number.
It would seem to me as conservatives that we would want people who advocate homeschooling and private schooling on the Board of Education, unless they're the typical educrats that say one thing, mean another...
And who wants an auto mechanic that could road test a car either?
Woodrow Wilson:
"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
It is so that they can continue to send their OWN children to expensive private schools.
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