FOR ONCE I AGREE...
The present crop of Republican candidates is a leper colony of unacceptable political movements. Each and everyone of them has something that is hard to accept and for the most part, little to get excited about, but last evening while watching the idiot box during supper one of them said something I agree with wholeheartedly and it wasn't Ron Paul.
Rick Santorum said that neither the federal nor any state government should be involved in public education.
I heard him say it.
I couldn't agree more. That statement really touched a nerve with me and made a potential choice clear as a bell over the disaster being forced upon us by Mittens and the back-room drivers of the Republican Party.
Yeah, I know Santorum was talking about 'home schooling', but the issues affecting public education are the same, none-the-less, and finally hearing someone besides Ron Paul take a position of common sense was significant for me.
I will NOT vote for Romney........E'var......, but I could vote for Santorum, even with all his faults, just because of that single position...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
Rick Santorum said that neither the federal nor any state government should be involved in public education.
I heard him say it.
I couldn't agree more. That statement really touched a nerve with me and made a potential choice clear as a bell over the disaster being forced upon us by Mittens and the back-room drivers of the Republican Party.
Yeah, I know Santorum was talking about 'home schooling', but the issues affecting public education are the same, none-the-less, and finally hearing someone besides Ron Paul take a position of common sense was significant for me.
I will NOT vote for Romney........E'var......, but I could vote for Santorum, even with all his faults, just because of that single position...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
Labels: Government, Organized Stupidity, Politics
3 Comments:
Frank,
A Junior High social studies teacher impressed me, when to told our class that compulsory education was not intended, at the start, to "educate" anyone. The intent, he said, was to educate the electorate to the point that every voter would be able to read and understand the issues of the day, to understand the way government works enough to vote responsibly.
That is why the initial onus was "to age 16, or completion of the eighth grade". Fail a grade twice and get an automatic advance to the next grade was the first attempt at mainstreaming for the challenged, and a recognition that not everyone would be able to master everything presented, while still exposing students to most of the range of what the general electorate considered 'fundamental'.
I agree with both Santorum and that long-ago teacher that education is the responsibility of the parent. Where I disagree with Santorum is that the basic requirements of voter competence need to be universally applied. Otherwise we splinter into the chaos of unmitigated multiculturalism -- areas dangerous for non-believers or outsiders to enter, areas like the Mexican border where common social values are disregarded, there is no common, fundamental law.
I am told it was Hitler that claimed, "Give me your children, and I will take your nation." I don't know. But just as I fear what the Department of Education and various states have heaped onto the public schools and education standards, I also fear a complete abandonment of this most important social engineering tool to inform our young about the various values, histories, and tolerances that make us one nation, and not a scattered hinterland of an oppressor nation.
And I think my next best choice for a Republican candidate, about one step above Santorum, might well be Sec'y State Hillary Clinton, gag me with a spoon. I mean, if the Democrats can talk about drafting Hillary for this election, shouldn't the Republicans be doing it first?
Respectfully,
Brad K.
Ponca city, OK
Frank, I agree completely about Santorum. I detest Romney and Pee-Wee Paul.
Brad:
why do you think the country is in the condition it is? This is exactly why: " this most important social engineering tool". The progressives have been using it for about a hundred years, now. Why allow it to continue to be miss-used? And, no, you can't fix it. Only the complete removal of progressives from the country would keep it from being used against us.
Never allow a law or govt dept to be created that will do more damage to your side than the other.
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