Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee is chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). Perhaps there is a no more fragile committee in government than this one. It is now in the controlling hands of Republicans with one of the worst of all senators as the chairman. There are 22 members with 12 being Republicans, with six of them, including the chairman, from the old plantation south: with enough wild West John Wayne types, to swing the way the what to swing.
Alexander, Lamar (TN ) , Chairman
Enzi , Michael B. (WY )
Burr , Richard (NC )
Isakson , Johnny (GA )
Paul , Rand (KY )
Collins , Susan M. (ME )
Murkowski , Lisa (AK )
Kirk , Mark (IL )
Scott , Tim (SC )
Hatch , Orrin G. (UT )
Roberts , Pat (KS )
Cassidy , Bill (LA )
There can be no more sensitive areas of government than the four listed in the committee title. There is no question; this spells disaster for America but especially for Education. They will attack education from the states right point of view, which puts radical evangelical religion and blatant racism back into national government. The minority of voters who voted gave this small faction of America in control and the can and will do a lot of damage to our way of life.
The committee introduced legislation to overturn the 1965 Civil Right Legislation with the obvious intention of destroying 50 years of hard work—don’t call them conservatives for nothing, which apparently means they are incapable of learning from the past. Do you really want to put racism back into schools? Do you really want to public school curricula controlled by the church? Do you want to remove the teaching of evolution from the science classes? In my long life, I met few people I actually thought were racists. However, when I moved to North Carolina, I was in for a shocking revelation. At the time, we had a Senator named Jessie Helms in the State, who was an open homophobic racist. He was the only one I was aware of who said as much in political campaigns, which created a chasm in logic for me; how could people who never gave the slightest hint of being racist vote for a racist; yet Helms was reelected by substantial margins every time he ran for office. Now I know that when a person from the South says he or she is for states rights they actually mean they want to start the Civil War again.
Racism is unlike Common Core, where some teachers want the Federal Government to have no say in their schools systems for multiple reasons. Racism is either a yes or no thing, unlike common core, which is debatable. Some teachers may actually fear having school administrators detect them as bad teachers while there are some good teachers, who harbor the same fears. On the other hand, there are some in education, not just teachers but there are also school administrators, who want to revert to the ways of the Plantation South, which means below standard teaching in poor schools in poor neighborhoods, which in turn means black neighborhoods. The clue is that these education administrators are not those who actually work in the poor schools as principles but those who operate centrally like the state board of education or school boards, which is where you find the racists.
Those opposed to Common Core have many “arguments” to hide behind while racists have none, which is why you hear Common Core openly debated but never (seldom) hear an open debate about racism. Schools boards are a favorite target for church leaders because they are soft targets and they can openly say they want schools to allow religious subjects taught or pray allowed in schools, etc. Racism is not like that. We know that rich folks, such as Art Pope in North Carolina, who started corrupting elections by buying school board elections before he targeted state and federal government offices. Does anyone in their right mind believe that dollar store owner Art Pope was interested in the quality of education when he started buying school board elections.
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