Negative Space: government schools
- Americans United decries Democrats preaching in schools
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Influential Separation of Church and State organization says opposition to second Obama term stems from the President and his supporters “using public schools for preaching”.
- Anything less than school choice is unfair
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Forcing people to pay for one government school regardless of where they want their kids to go is so unfair that even far-left Democrats think it’s wrong.
- The child sex of the anointed
- There’s nothing so uncommon as common sense in DC, and the Washington Post epitomizes the nonsensical vision of the anointed with Betsy Karasik’s article proposing legalizing sex between high school teachers and high school students “absent extenuating circumstances”.
- Democrats endorse public school elections, teacher recalls?
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Should legislators and teachers be evaluated for job performance in the same way? A group called Winning Democrats suggests that public school teachers should be elected positions rather than tenured, and that teachers should be subject to recall by the communities they serve.
- Government cheese goes to school
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Government cheese is government cheese, whether it’s a poor food product, poor housing, or poor education.
- Government interference in the marriage contract
- There is no marriage contract. There is just a bunch of random rulings and regulations created ex post facto.
- Grand Island Nebraska too crazy for satire?
- How can you write satire in a world this crazy? Grand Island, Nebraska, school officials think that a deaf child’s name in sign language looks too much like a weapon, and tried to force him to change his name.
- Hillary Clinton will make America above average again
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Democratic candidate vows to make government programs great by shutting down departments, schools that are below average.
- The moose should have told you
- Does Bullwinkle now run the White House?
- On education, the left is mired in the fifties
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Why don’t schools have locked doors? Because when it comes to education, especially K-12, the left, as in so many things, is mired in the distant industrialized assembly-line past.
- The ongoing rise of school choice
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You say choice of high schools doesn’t work? Then why has the US been doing more and more of it lately? We just call those high schools “colleges”.
- Oregon schools call minorities “shiftless & mindless”
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Oregon white privilege conference says blacks, hispanics best-suited for taking orders from white masters, as they are unable to make decisions for themselves, think for themselves, and achieve success without direction.
- The plexiglass highway
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Government bureaucracies can cause anything to fail, even progress.
- Support for Riverheads teacher and Christianity lesson
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Community, ACLU, President rally around teacher who forced Muslim students to write the Lord’s Prayer in Latin.
- Teaching kids to fail
- Are schools designed to teach kids to fail?
- Texas school choice
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Anti-choice activists in Texas are concerned that letting parents choose which schools to send their children to would remove all accountability from those schools.
- The Washington, DC Prison Experiment
- When public schools are mandated for the underprivileged and alternatives are shut down, abusive behavior on the part of school officials to students is inevitable.
- What is a captive audience, anyway?
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G.K. Chesterton writes, in Eugenics and Other Evils, that whenever someone starts asking “what is x anyway?” you know they’re trying to pull some wool over your eyes and make it the default. So, really, what is a captive audience, anyway?
- Why firing bad teachers won’t make room for better ones
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Bad teachers provide an immense service to this country. You don’t see private industry firing bad workers. The best companies are the ones that have the most bad workers.
- Why is it so difficult to hold schools accountable?
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Simulating accountability in education has the same problems as simulating accountability in health care or any other monopoly. Tests and grades and paperwork are never as effective as choice.
- Why is the country so divided?
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Because you keep trying to tell everyone else what to do.
- Why not support government unions? You support NFL unions!
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Either teachers unions don’t understand the difference between the private and public sectors, or they want to force us to pay for NFL season tickets regardless of whether we watch football.
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- Malice or Incompetence?
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“Recently I came across a news article estimating that 80% of NYC graduates cannot read and write and are functionally illiterate. I’d bet those numbers are not far off across the country, and it wasn’t a surprise. What was a surprise was what my son told me when I discussed the matter with him.”
