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From: Phil McCracken (Phil_at_McCracken.com)
Date: 11/06/04 

Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:40:53 -0600

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.

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