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Here are links to various education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)

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Sodom and Gomorrah University
Source: WorldNetDaily.com: Published: February 19, 2003; Author: Michelle Malkin

The Union That Killed Education
Source: newsmax.com; Published: February. 17, 2003; Author: Paul Craig Roberts

Walter E. Williams: Inferior Education of Black Americans
Source:CNSNews.com; Published: February 05, 2003; Author: Walter E. Williams

Union Fraud Underscores Need for School Vouchers
Source: CNSNEWS.com; Published: February 05, 2003; Author: Linda Chavez

Time for public schools to throw in the towel?
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 27, 2003; Author: Dr. Laura Schlessinger

My Classroom From Hell
Source: The Wall Street Journal; Published: January 24, 2003; Author: Joshua Kaplowitz

Can more money make schools better?
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 21, 2003; Author: Phyllis Schlafly

Are public schools constitutional?
Source: NewsWithViews; Published: JANUARY 20, 2003; Auythor: Lynn M. Stuter

The intellectual rape of Oakland's schools
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 17, 2003; Author: David Horowitz

Hip-hop hogwash in the schools (Michelle Malkin)
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 15, 2003; Author: Michelle Malkin

Dumbed Down and Dumber Still
Source: The American Prowler; Published: January 15, 2003; Author: By George Neumayr

Washington's education establishment
Source: TownHall.com; Published: January 8, 2003; Author:Walter Williams

NEA Hastens Death of American Education
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: January 6, 2003; Author: Ralph de Toledano

White Teachers Fleeing Black Schools
Source: Newsmax; Published:January 1, 2003; Author: Chad Roedemeier

Fiddling whilst Rome burns
Source: TownHall.com; Published: December 26, 2002; Author: Walter Williams

Government School Monopolies Leave Children Behind
Source: Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty; Published: December 4, 2002; Author: Clint Green

The silence of the lambs: McMillan blasts bureaucrats for destroying public education
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: August 15, 2002; Author: Craige McMillan

Taking Charge: Let's Stop Aiding and Abetting Academicians' Folly
Source: HOME EDUCATION magazine; Published: July-August 2002; Author: Larry and Susan Kaseman

’Open Directory’ --Society/Issues/Education/Education_Reform

Deconstructing Public Education
Source: www.newsmax.com; Published: July 26, 2002; Author: Diane Alden

Specious Science In Our Schools
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: July 9, 2002; Author: Alan Caruba

SYMPOSIUM Q: Is the National Education Association Being Fair to Its Religious Objectors?
Source: INSIGHT magazine; Published: June 10, 2002; Authors NO: Stefan Gleason ////\\\\ YES: Bob Chase

Public Sector Subverting Productive Industry
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: May 16, 2002; Author: Henry Pelifian

History of America's Education Part 2: Noah Webster and Early America
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 27, 2002; Author: April Shenandoah

How Communist is Public Education?
Source: sierratimes.com; Published:March 22, 2002; Author: Chuck Morse

History of America's Education Part 1: Johnny is in trouble
Source: Sierra Times; Published: March 20, 2002; Author: April Shenandoah

Audit rips Georgia schools' curriculum
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Published: March 11, 2002; Author:JAMES SALZER

Why schools fail: Samuel Blumenfeld warns Bush's education legislation is ineffective
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: March 2, 2002; Author: Samuel Blumenfeld

Public School Isn't Like I Remember It
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002; Author: Phyllis Schlafly

What Is Lacking In Our Educational System
Source: Too Good Reports; Published: February 28, 2002; Author: Ben Cerruti

The charade of education reform
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: February 2, 2002; Author: Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld

American public schools: Working just as designed
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: January 21, 2002; Author: Vox Day

High Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001; Author: Vin Suprynowicz

WHY AMERICANS CAN’T READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001; Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid

The Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001; Author: Glenn Sacks

Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001; Author: Linda Bowles

Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001; Author: Samuel Blumenfeld

NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001; Author: Linda Harvey

COOKING THE BOOKS AT EDUCATION
Source: Accuracy In Media; Published: June 5, 2001; Author: Cliff Kincaid

Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001; Author: Thomas Sowell

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm; Author: John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001; Author: John Leo

Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001; Author: Various

Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001; Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}

Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000; Author: Vin Suprynowicz

New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000; Author: William H. Wild

Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999; Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education
Source: www.petersnet; Published: Winter 1997; Author: Frank Morriss

Littleton Crisis to Government Control

The UN Plan for Your Mental Health

Lexington Institute

NonPartisan Action For a Better Redding

Quality of Education Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews

[asformeandformyhouse]

I realize that not all schools are as bad as these examples. In fact, they're pretty good in my area.

As long as everyone believes this lie, nothing will change.

[cruiserman]

Contrary to what academia and the media would have you think, home schooling parents aren't a bunch of redneck, flat-earth, drooling fundamentalists.

But some are, and that's OK. Justifying home schooling by saying "even normal people do it" completely misses the point.

[Republicus2001]

Individuals and Organizations Supporting Communist Party

Taken verbatim from the website of the Communist Party USA 1999

Sen. Barbara Boxer
University of California Student Association
Professor Gerald Horne, Chair, Department of Black Studies, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Linda Chavez-Thompson, AFL-CIO executive vice president
Matt Fong
Patty Murray, U.S. Senate
Art Guzman, a member of Pipefitters Local 250 in Los Angeles
Congressman Ronald V. Dellums - United States House of Representatives
Californian's for Justice
DePaul Cuba Coalition/Junta de Accion Latina
Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles CA
Prisoners' Defense Committee
Southern Arizona People's Law Center, Tucson Az
US Peace Council, Menlo Park CA
Shiu-Ming Cheer - Asian Pacific Americans for Affirmative Action, San Francisco
Nicole Davis - Californian's for Justice
Mark Piotrowski - Center for Campus Organizing
John Martinez - Prisoners' Defense Committee
Daniel Hosang - People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO), Oakland CA
Paul Gattone - Southern Arizona People's Law Center, Tucson
Kimi Lee, Executive Director University of California Student Association
Martha Acevedo - US Peace Council, Menlo Ca
David Mirtz, National Coordinator - Young Communist League, USA

[WhiteGuy]

And.............................

republican president bush rewards the government school system by endorsing the largest increase in government waste on "education" in history.

[uncbob]

Yep we can win all the wars we want but we are dying internally

[Spook86]

As a classroom teacher, I hold out little hope for education reform. Even in rural areas, we have a bloated, top-heavy "educrat" bureaucracy that does nothing to improve the quality of education. They're more concerned with trying to snag another government grant, or ensuring they keep enough "special needs" students in the classroom to keep that Title 10 money rolling in.

You know the rest of the story: discipline is an endangered species in today's schools. I teach at a school where our seventh graders (a total of 130 students) have been sent to the office more than 1200 times. You do the math--it's a shocking statistic by any standard. And remember: this is a rural school system, not the innner city. Problem students cycle through the usual punishments--including alernative schools--then start the process over again. The best example of this happened a few days ago. We had a seventh grader "busted" for marijuana possession. He was "sentenced" to two weeks in alternative school, after which he returns to our classrooms. School policy normally calls for suspension for the rest of the school year, but he shows promise as a football player, so we'll cut him some slack, right?

As you can imagine, academic achievement at our school is rock bottom, with little hope for improvement. Half of our seventh graders can't pass the state-mandated math test; twenty-five pecent can't pass the reading test.

Parents who actually care about their child's education have already broken the code; that's why enrollment in private schools is soaring, and the number of home-school kids has increased ten-fold over the past decade.

What happens next? More kids opt for a private education, or the home schooling route. Within 30 years, public schools will consist of systems in urban areas, a few top-notch districts in affulent suburbs, and the rest in rural areas that lack other options. The acheivement gap between private/home school kids and their public school counterparts will be astronomical. That gap will widen until we have a taxpayer revolt, when families with no interest in local schools refuse to pay for failing systems. At that point, our so-called public school system will finally--and fittingly--collapse. And God only knows what shape our country will be in when that happens....

[Tailgunner Joe]

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