Comments on: Send your kids to school on Tuesday — but pack the caffeine

By: suek

suek — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:22:09 +0000

You know…if you hate your school – how it’s run – you can campaign to recall and replace your local school board members. You can even run yourself – which I encourage! If you have a small school district, this will work. If you live in a large school district – like the LA unified school district – it becomes very much more difficult. Now imagine what it’s going to be like if control of local school districts gets shifted to Wash DC…you voice will be so minute as to be impossible to make _any_ difference whatsoever.

States are already in the business of setting standards, goals and funding…how much influence do you as a parent have on the State choice of textbooks? curriculum etc?

That’s what I mean. If control goes to Washington, it won’t come back unless the whole system fails. If it goes to Washington, people like Ayers will be instrumental in indoctrinating children into socialism. Home schooling is likely to become a crime – as it is presently in Germany. (maybe other countries as well, but I know it’s true of Germany)

Your job as a parent will be one for which you answer to the government – those children are not _yours_ – they belong to Society, and if you don’t do the job right, Society will take them away.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:59:54 +0000

‘I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too.’

Translation:

I’ll be hiring a new czar to head up a design team (school version of Home Makeover-a shovel ready project). I am working with the U.S. Dept. of Ed. to update your history books, to instruct you on how to correct America’s mistakes.

By: Marguerite

Marguerite — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:46:13 +0000

from text of speech: ‘I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too.’

Wait a minute – I didn’t know that He was working hard to fix up stuff and get students stuff that they need to learn. Silly me. I thought that was what my local taxes were buying for local students. Could He have told a falsehood here?

He is tone deaf to His officious and parent-in-chief tone.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:13:24 +0000

The same Monty Python as in pining for the Fjords

By: vanderleun

vanderleun — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:39:22 +0000

As much as I would like to take the bow, it’s not me but Monty Python.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:24:51 +0000

I like over the top.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:20:29 +0000

vanderleun, hilarious! Your Yorkshiremen oneupmanships were like William Burroughs at his best. Just when you thought he couldn’t top some over-the-top description, he did. Very nice work.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:47:36 +0000

suek … very funny!

vanderleun

Very entertaining. Kinda makes one pine for the good ol’ days. LOL

By: suek

suek — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:51:59 +0000

Your former sweetheart must have been a union worker…or maybe a government worker. Or the very worst – a government employee who belongs to a federal union!!

By: 11B40

11B40 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:17:28 +0000

Greetings:

Then, on the other hand, as a former sweetheart of mine used to like to sing:

“I get up at twelve and go to work at one,
Take an hour for lunch and then at two I’m done.”