I tuned into +Joe Scarborough’s show this morning as usual
to get my morning dose of conservative nonsense. I was not disappointed. The
subject of discussion was a new book dealing with American students traveling worldwide
to study, especially to the highest-ranking schools in the world: Finland and South
Korea. It was interesting to note that the approaches to education in these two
places are extremes; one is a nurturing environment (Finland) and the other an
authoritarian environment. The thing that struck me was when they showed the
comparative ranking of schools in the Untied States, which were dismal in light
of the fact that we are the richest country in the world, the first thing out
of Joe’s mouth had to do with schools in poor neighborhood dragging down the
mean scores. The counter to this was that some of the worst scores in the
Nation were from some of the richest districts. Thus, the conversation was changed
from concern for what and how students learn to money.
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Joe is a small government conservative. That includes
getting rid of the Department of Education and turning everything over to the
states. There can be no doubt what would happen in states with the plantation
south in their history like North Carolina and Texas in terms of racism. Look at Georgia where 70% of the people believe
in creationism; that this is true in 2013 is shocking even with public education—local
school board control of education—imagine what it would be if churches directly
controlled all education. What the Jesuit Priests say about having control of
children is true.
There can be little doubt that Joe and his fellow small government
conservatives supports withdrawing taxpayer’s money from public schools where
the doors are open to everyone and putting it into charter school and private
schools—voucher programs. That program has one objective in mind and it is not
to the benefit of the students; it is to the benefit of “tax payer” in a
special Republican sense. If you do not have children, you should not
have to pay for building schools and for paying teachers.
We are currently living through such a Republican nightmare
in North Carolina with all of its deviousness in an effort of some not to pay
taxes. A former school board chairman said a proposed $810 million school bond
issue is not needed because of “increased competition from private and charter
school”. In addition, his rhetoric is confused with statements such as, “we do
not need more schools we need more seats”. A fellow named Ed Jones, who is
chairman of an organization called Taxpayer’s
Association, declares his organization “plan to mount a well organized opposition
campaign to the school bond issue”. I that move fails Republican county
commissioners will introduce legislation to have school construction authority over
to them. These people do not give up.
It is all about money
and not one word about quality of education. Greed knows no bounds.
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