A typo, I'm not a typist and the spell check inserted the
wrong correction and I missed it.
But, whether the weather is cold, hot or mild, I will not
change your mind and you won't change mine.
Just to say, that I do understand the difference between
they're, their, and there as well as site, sight and cite.
Or two, to and too, too.
The only radio talk show host to call them "government
schools" is Neal Boortz
www.boortz.com and Rush Limbaugh
does not call them government schools. The term dittohead
applies to Rush.
But you should be aware that I formed my positions on
government about 30 years ago, more than a decade before
Rush became a talk show host. In fact, you might say that
they are following my pattern.
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > Government schools, often called public schools, are the
big
| > cash cow for union teachers. The goal is not to educate
| > citizens, but to educate subjects to be willingly led by
the
| > government. Teachers' unions seek more money for
schools,
| > even though class room size and money per pupil does not
| > increase student performance, it does increase the power
of
| > the "school lobby" since it is for the children.
| > When the Russians launched there first satellite, the
nation
| > panicked and everybody decided that our public schools
| > needed to be run by and at the direction of the federal
| > government.
| > Federal education standards and unions have worked hand
in
| > hand to limit the scope of citizenship education skills,
| > such as the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic
and
| > detailed processes of creative thought. History of the
| > nation, political processes were not taught in detail.
Thus
| > after 40-45 years, the majority of citizens have no
| > understanding of politics and they are easily led around
by
| > the likes of a Michael Moore or Dan Rather.
| > But I have hope, the Internet and talk radio may change
that
| > back to thinkers. The Internet has so many good things
and
| > so many bad, but the key is that it open and isn't even
| > under control in China.
| >
| > I personally saw the change in the public schools in the
| > late 50's and monitored my own children's education and
the
| > quality of their textbooks and teachers. Perhaps you
are a
| > union teacher, that would mean that you are unable to
see
| > the forest for the trees.
| >
| >
|
| No, I'm not a teacher, union or otherwise. I think the
fact that you
| don't know the difference between "there" and their" (or
you don't care
| about it) is very telling. "Government school" is
dittohead
| gobbledygook. I also think it's very telling that so many
neocons are
| taking their children out of the public schools rather
than staying
| there and *working* to help make them better, for the
better of the kids
| and the community at large. It's *much* easier just to run
away from the
| problem and whine about it. And you keep going in
circles--another
| common dittohead trait. It's the unions--no, wait it's the
parents--uh,
| maybe it's the leftist educators of the sixties--just more
and more
| regurgicrap.
