Indoctrinate the kids as soon as possible, preferably when the parents aren’t around to rebut and give correction.
Change “permission slips” to “non-permission slips” where without the former, the child is not permitted to attend and without the latter, the child is required to attend. “Tomorrow, we are going to give an assembly on why it is okay for you to have under-age sex. If your parents don’t want you to attend, have them sign this piece of paper.”*
Choose not to have text-books and teach from handouts that were printed out on the day of the teaching. Parents don’t really need to know what’s going on with their children’s education.
When a parent shows up, lambasting the non-education of his child, declare all your teachers are experts by the obvious fact they are teachers (thus implicitly demanding the parent is the least capable in the room). Nevermind that parent homeschooled his daughter 4 grades in 3 years.
“If you don’t like it, homeschool” as a libturd said. Well, guess what. Homeschool numbers are exploding. Here’s something else, the right to homeschool has had to be vigorously defended all the way up to state supreme courts because libturds in POWAH didn’t want parents homeschooling their kids in their state. And another thing, TN did this thing a while back where anyone who did NOT get a government education could NOT get a job with the state. Why? Because the state could not control the ed and “could not guarantee its quality.”
And, as pub ed has become more and more centralized, it has become less and less responsive to concerned parents. Pub ed becomes more expensive and less able to ed each year. Just recently, Southwestern City Schools in Columbus, OH failed a 2nd attempt to get a levy passed to get more money out of home-owners. So they killed all extra-curricular activities, sending other schools scrambling to fill voids in their sports schedules and sending football players scrambling to quickly find other schools to attend. They plan a 3rd attempt this year at getting more tax money in November. And I strongly hope they fail.
Let’s not fix the problem, just throw more money at it as the schools want. “Give me money and shut up or I’ll take the fun out of school.” If the schools were more responsive to parents and not beholden to NEA, AFT, libturds, the fed, schools could actually teach students. And with less money, and without punishing the students for the fact the parents and community are fed up with the bull.
Obama has chosen to do an end-run around every parent and go directly to the child while the parent is not there. Would you, as a parent, allow your grade-schooler to see a movie without you if you hadn’t previously seen the movie or if you hadn’t at least reviewed it? This is the same thing, only worse. No politician should be permitted unprotected access to our children. To allow such a thing is to become a totalitarian nation.
Two Obama demands to remember:
1) Leave my children alone. (His demand to all members of the press.)
2) (My opponents) should just shut up.
Both of those demands I am certain have been saved in audio format, likely video format.
I strongly suggest Obama should heed the first. And I strongly suggest Obama should try the second, while remembering the First Amendment.
*I remember a woman, fully supported by a “mainstream” organization (and I fully forget her name and the organization, but I believe it was Planned Parenthood) going around to all sorts of high schools and holding assemblies. It was purportedly a sex ed assembly, but was more accurately sexuality ed and even more accurately aberrant sexuality indoctrination. I actually heard excerpts of her poison. She actually said “The only inappropriate sex is when one partner is unwilling.” And she said this in public schools, paid for by tax dollars. She said this to under-age teens. By her definition, sex between a 50-year-old man and a 14-year-old either gender is appropriate if both consent. And she made it abundantly clear that their parents didn’t need to know, nor had the right to know, what they were doing.
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Cross Posted on Truth Before Dishonor
And another thing, TN did this thing a while back where anyone who did NOT get a government education could NOT get a job with the state. Why? Because the state could not control the ed and “could not guarantee its quality.”
Can’t imagine why…
PIATOR, since you relish the opportunity to find links to throw around, go on over to the site I run and find the article I wrote comparing public ed, private Christian ed, and home school ed (where I gave multiple links to actual data). Then, instead of just link-dropping, try to actually make an educated comment.
It’s not in the first page, so I don’t intend to trawl through your entire site. Provide a direct link.
Anyone besides me find it ironic that the fastest, and most travelled educational route to expert status is in the field of education?
PIATOR, PIATOR, PIATOR…
How easy do I have to make it for you? You obviously have the ability to find articles when you want to. And my site actually has a search box for articles on my site. And I gave you a list of keywords and key phrases. And my site doesn’t have thousands of articles from which to search, unlike google.
heck, I even have preview boxes to preview links and such so lazy people don’t even have to leave to get a snapshot of things
But here’s the interesting thing – you’re not actually dealing with the crux of TN’s objections. Whether or not home-schoolers as a group perform better or worse than average (especially if those tests are carefully chosen by home school organisations and advocates), there is no certification which shows that an individual home schooler is up to scratch. If I observe that whites drive better than Asians as a group, it doesn’t mean any particular white driver should be allowed to drive without a license.
I assume that what’s missing here is that TN would accept a GED or some such qualification, but the homeschoolers don’t want to provide it? And let’s be blunt here – anybody who believes in creationism and rejects evolutionary science does not belong in a university studying the biological sciences (such as medicine) or spreading their views in related areas.
How easy do I have to make it for you? You obviously have the ability to find articles when you want to. And my site actually has a search box for articles on my site. And I gave you a list of keywords and key phrases. And my site doesn’t have thousands of articles from which to search, unlike google.
One link – about 60 characters at most. And yet you felt the need to type this all out. Interesting.
Now, I believe I have a criminal record for you somewhere back on my blog, showing you ran guns to seperatist nuns in Dalmatia. of course, I can’t be bothered providing a link…
There is no certification? Are you going to stand by that? Honestly, I hope you are going to wager the entirety of your argument on that. Please tell me that the entirety of your argument depends on that one assertion.
And your parenthetical is irrelevant since the uncertainty within the parenthetical is blown away by the falsity of the uncertainty.
Since you are a bit slow to respond, let me assure you there are many hoops through which a home-school parent must jump, including a certification of achievement process to be permitted to continue a home school education. Among these hoops are a minimum number of hours in a class-type situation, a school-year-long agenda before the fact, a list of educational resources, a journal of activity in the previous year (without which a previous year can be null and void upon entry into pub ed). Having home-schooled my daughter 4 grades in 3 years, I suggest I have a modicum of experience in jumping through these hoops, an experience you do not have. And Other Dana also has a modicum of experience jumping through the hoops.
PIATOR, while it was thoroughly enjoyable to utterly destroy your tangential argument, I want to see your argument to this statement I made:
No politician should be permitted unprotected access to our children.
There is no certification? Are you going to stand by that
I just based on your comment “And another thing, TN did this thing a while back where anyone who did NOT get a government education could NOT get a job with the state.“. Feel free to explain how the state knew whether someone got a government education or not.
I notice you’re ignoring any comment on creationism…
PIATOR, while it was thoroughly enjoyable to utterly destroy your tangential argument, I want to see your argument to this statement I made:
No politician should be permitted unprotected access to our children.
That depends – why exactly do politicians have to be protected from your children?
And, by the way – you might need to view this.
Bwahahah. This is what you’re talking about?
I’m so glad the conservative movement found the courage to stand up and take a position against children “working hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.” Thank God there are people like you to identify these sorts of threats to Western civilization.
Be proud!
Tell Obama “NO!”
“NO, we will not let you tell our children to work hard!”
“NO, we will not let you tell our children to set educational goals!”
“NO, we will not let you tell our children to take responsibility for their learning!”
And later, when your kids have graduated to fine careers in the retail food service industry, I’m sure you can tell them how proud you are you took a stand in their defence.
I notice you’re ignoring any comment on creationism… -PIATOR
You don’t get to choose which tangent we run down. Try the subject instead of the tangent.
And you cannot be serious on the “government ed” nonsense demand you just gave. People in the US write resumes or fill out job applications. I’m not certain how aspirants to employment obtain such in New Zealand. In resumes and job applications, the aspirants provide their education information. From that education information, any employer can ascertain whether the aspirant is state-educated, private-educated, home-educated or a combination of the three. This is far beneath basic info. This is remedial info. And were it not your ignorance for ignorance sake, you would have acknowledged as much.
How much money does a VP at Kroger earn each year? How much money does a VP at McDonalds earn? Your venomous snark does not contain any poison whatsoever once you list that money earned in the “retail food service industry.”
Oh no! I just got bit by a garter snake! I might just die of uncontrollable laughter!
(we call gardener snakes “garter snakes” around these parts)
Public schools can lapse into mediocrity when they operate as virtual monopolies. The “educational establishment” is not an agent of excellence and often a promotor of mediocrity.
The problem is bureaucratic control and an emphasis on trendiness and credentialism.
This credentialism demands that all teachers must have endured mind-numbing courses on methodology rather than have a mastery (or even an enthusiasm) for the subject matter that they teach.
Add to this credentialism a high degree of political radicalism and you have a prescription for educational disaster.
The ‘establishment’ would have us believe that schools with smaller class sizes and higher costs per student will automatically excel. This formula would imply that the public schools in the District of Columbia would be the finest in the Nation. Yet how man elected officials send their children to these schools?
Where does “Dear Leader” send his children?
Just checkin’ here – you guys are actually serious about this, right? this isn’t like some kind of avant-garde comedy sketch playing out in real space?
Really?
Right, Art Downs, the education of our children has nothing to do with their home life and the attitude of their parents, assuming they have even one looking after their upbringing. Your one-sided views of almost everything is neither impressive nor convincing.
And speaking of being unimpressive, let’s take a look at John Hitchcock’s latest performance. He comes on here to pontificate, refers back to his blog for references, is asked for at least one link, and then bows out instead going to ad hominems and snarkiness. Looks like he lost the debate, doesn’t it?
Actually, the only one to address the core of John’s points was Art. To paraphrase Clinton – It’s the bureaucracy, stupid.
John – Excellent article, touching on many salient points. And congrats with your success with home schooling. I’m sure it’s hard work, but it sounds like it’s paying off!
” … anybody who believes in creationism and rejects evolutionary science does not belong in a university studying the biological sciences (such as medicine) or spreading their views in related areas.”
No doubt if this person had the political power to do so, he would place such “wreckers and agitators” together in a camp somewhere for re-education purposes.
No doubt if this person had the political power to do so, he would place such “wreckers and agitators” together in a camp somewhere for re-education purposes.
And I’d feed them on puppies and make them strangle kittens too.
Idiot.
Eric: “John – Excellent article, touching on many salient points.”
His wasn’t an article, it was a rant, quite a snarky one at that, which attempts to demean public schools with his anecdotes, of which we have no way of knowing whether credible or not credible.
And then his attack on the as yet undelivered Obama speech to school kids, whose contents were
posted right here by Phoenician, show just how far to the fringe the Conservatives have moved.
Since you consider yourself a Conservative, Eric, you should reread the contents of Obama’s speech, as referenced by Phoenician, and then tell me just what it is that has all of you with your panties in a wad.
And please note, John Hitchcock’s paraphrasing of the proposed speech is not even close to reality: “Two Obama demands to remember:
1) Leave my children alone. (His demand to all members of the press.)
2) (My opponents) should just shut up.
Both of those demands I am certain have been saved in audio format, likely video format.”
I’m finding it very difficult to believe one word this man writes!
As has been pointed out on Pandagon – what exactly was Bush doing when the planes hit the towers in New York?
And since it’s worth repeating:
I’m so glad the conservative movement found the courage to stand up and take a position against children “working hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning.” Thank God there are people like you to identify these sorts of threats to Western civilization.
Be proud!
Tell Obama “NO!”
“NO, we will not let you tell our children to work hard!”
“NO, we will not let you tell our children to set educational goals!”
“NO, we will not let you tell our children to take responsibility for their learning!”
And later, when your kids have graduated to fine careers in the retail food service industry, I’m sure you can tell them how proud you are you took a stand in their defence.
Sorry, but I disagree. Go read his piece again. It is clear, cogent, and hits squarely on a number of important points, not least the rise in home schooling. I think there must be a good reason that he is home schooling his kids. People are getting tired of a school system bureaucracy that seems increasingly out of touch with the people they are supposed to be serving.
People are getting tired of a school system bureaucracy that seems increasingly out of touch with the people they are supposed to be serving.
Since a school system curriculum has to have a passing acquaintance with reality, this is hardly surprising.
I’ll repeat the name of the elephant you wingnuts are avoiding – “creationism”.
Eric, you are not paying attention, instead, slipping back into the talking points of the far right, while I am encouraging you to step back and see the broad picture, so you can see what John has left out in his rant.
If the home schoolers, the privates schools, the parochial schools, and the charter schools skim off the top and the well behaved kids, where does that leave the public schools?
If too many families are dysfunctional, with alcohol, drug and mental health problems, where does this leave the young children in such a family wrt their home life and their educational pursuits? As you well know, there was an element of that at South Lakes HS, one segment of which had a book written about it. Have you read the book?
As he criticizes the public schools with his anecdotes and unsubstantiated assumptions, he leaves all this other information out. He is unbalanced, in more ways than one!
If you believe this kind of hyperbolic crap without questioning, you have a differentiation problem, sorry to say!
DC spends $15k per student. If it is to be as good as paid for, why are the Obama kids in private school then?
I would love to know how home-schoolers “skim off the top.” How does that work, actually? And all this business about “skimming off the top” all fits their argument since that’s the only argument they can use, given standardized test scores showing that list of students scoring higher than the public education students. It can’t have anything to do with the quality of public education in the liberal mindset.
As shown above, Perry has this false-premise type questioning going on. If oranges are purple, why does everyone think orange juice isn’t artificially colored to give its orange color? I have seen many false-premise questions in various coursework. I refused to answer the questions, instead focusing on the false premises.
Two asides:
I homeschooled my daughter 4 grades in 3 years. She is now a 21-year-old soldier who spent 15 months in Iraq.
I am borrowing (with permission) a zero-bar wifi so sometimes simple pages like this can take 10 minutes to load up and sometimes I have to try repeatedly to get them to load up. Sometimes things go smoothly.
John Hitchcock: “And all this business about “skimming off the top” all fits their argument since that’s the only argument they can use, given standardized test scores showing that list of students scoring higher than the public education students.”
I can see why you have not addressed this skimming problem that the public schools have, John, because you don’t understand it. You are indeed out of the loop! Your response to public school problems is to run away from them. That’s my point; that’s my critique of your rant.
I know very well that public schools have problems, some of which derive from the deterioration of the nuclear families. Other problems derive from the lack of support of the public schools by families like yours, and by the government.
We must start by attracting more quality teachers into the profession, and by giving them the resources that they need to do the job. There are plenty of examples of exemplary public school systems in this nation. We must use them as models. And there are examples outside our country, like Finland. There teachers are respected as important people.
If the trend here is to continue skimming, to retreat within gated communities, to disregard the public school system and continue to make it very difficult for good teachers to succeed, then we have no solution, then our public schools remain one more symptom of our decaying American society.
I attended a very wonderful public high school. A good number of our teachers might be considered ‘unqualified’ on the basis of their lack of ‘credentials’ in ‘education’. Few of them jumped through the mind-numbing courses in ‘methodolgy’ that are oh, so trendy and often the keys to advancement in a system that often promotes mediocrity at the expense of education.
We had a chemistry teacher who was a real chemist and whose first job involved on-site survey of the Japanese nuclear weapons research facilities. Our solid geometry teacher learned the subject and its practical application at the USNA. Celestial navigation was once the way to find your way.
Such people brought an expertise and an enthusiasm for the subject matter that was largely missing.
Those who talk of a ‘bigger investment’ in education are often more interested in increasing the thickness of the gold-plating on bureaucratic ratholes.
The school I mentioned was in a lousy neighborhood and was the only racially integrated school in the Nation and had this status because the Supreme Court recognized its qualities. The rather tiny administration of the school did battle with the trendy hacks on the Board of Education and fought efforts at imposing an arbitrary ‘egalitarianism’ in matters such as passing grades, curriculum, sport schedule, and size of diplomas. Only the issue of sports schedules proved to be a loser.
Excellence will not come from any bureaucracy. Parents who have books in their homes already offer their offspring and advantage. Concerned parents who run against the two-bit hacks who infest boards of education will provide an even broader advantage to all students.
Politicians who defy the radicalized NEA and provide a meaningful measure of competition through vouchers may do even more.
Well said. Perry, are you listening? It’s the bureaucracy that is screwing things up. Quit blaming home schoolers for “Opting out of the system” and start blaming the system itself from which they want to opt out.
Eric, when you read anything from Art Downs on this blog, you need to realize that his ideology states that by definition any bureaucracy is evil. This man is not in touch with reality, for we all know well that having an organized society requires a hierarchy, a bureaucracy.
The point is, there are effective and ineffective bureaucracies, and all shades in between. That any particular bureaucracy can be improved is a no-brainer. So critique and improvement should be our drive.
We can all agree with this from Art: “Parents who have books in their homes already offer their offspring an advantage.”
But look at his blanket condemnation in his very next sentence: “Concerned parents who run against the two-bit hacks who infest boards of education will provide an even broader advantage to all students.”
Sidebar on Art: I can’t understand how such an obviously intelligent man can be so naively prone to stoop to spreading this kind of misinformation. He does it all the time.
This is a very complex problem, mainly because the educators are attempting to deal with societal dysfunction at the same time as educating our kids. Art’s “two-bit hacks” approach is not adding any value to the dilemma.
Addressing the reasons for societal dysfunction, then coming up with remedies, are extremely challenging problems.
What do we do, continue the gated education approach which the likes of John Hitchcock prefer?
Let me expand this to a broader topic – our nation, where we are going:
The reason Obama has had such a profound impact is that he has provided this nation with hope for change, the possibility of having a leader who by example and by effectiveness would provide hope for the future, get us on a better track. Education is part of this story.
It has become apparent now that there is a vociferous element in this country who will do and say everything they can to undercut this man’s leadership, instead of trying to work with him to find solutions to our societal problems. Instead, these people want to continue that which has not been working for us the last few decades.
I can’t understand it, and am wondering now if our near future is going to be a period of stagnation and suffering, leading to a chaotic society/nation that will not be able to effectively compete in the marketplace of goods and ideas, and will be reduced to military solutions to our problems, as that is one thing we still have in spades, military power backed up by our military-industrial complex.
Is this the direction in which we want to go as a nation?
“Addressing the reasons for societal dysfunction, then coming up with remedies, are extremely challenging problems.”
Now, that’s funny!
‘The solution to all of our social problems is to recognize that you are my brother’s keeper; and my servant.‘
Have a good weekend …
“Is this the direction in which we want to go as a nation?”
DNW just said: Yes!
Thus, the man is part of the problem, not the solution!
Early on in my education, I tried to prove to my teachers that I deserved to be in the grade above, actually doing the grade above work at 80 percent accuracy without the luxury of those textbooks. Socialization-by-age was more important to the administration (bureaucracy) than a challenging education. My brother transferred from the Ohio public school to a Florida private Christian school and did 1.5 years’ education work in 0.5 years, then returned to the Ohio public school. The Ohio public school refused to recognize the added work (“nobody can do that much work that fast”) so my brother had to repeat a jr high grade he had successfully completed. My other brother got a 3-day suspension for choosing not to eat lunch in high school. Now, that brother was what you might call a “problem child” and my extremely trusting and naive mother even learned to trust a stranger’s word over his, so she didn’t believe that was the reason. When she arrived at the school for the mandatory meeting for his suspension, she repeated what he said as the reason for his suspension. The vice principle laughed — he LAUGHED — and said that yes, that was indeed the reason for the suspension.
When my mother countered that she gave her children enough lunch money at the beginning of each week but that she allowed her children to not actually buy lunch with it, the vice principle was not interested. My brother was getting a suspension for not eating lunch and there was not thing one my mother could do about it.
My sister was working to get through high school in 3 years. The vice principle (same one) said it was impossible for any student to do 4 years of high school in 3 years.* In the midst of those three years, my sister took summer school to get a course out of the way. One of her social studies teachers was highly offended she was in his class a year early. It was either American History, a junior class, or Senior Soc, a senior class. So she dropped the class to avoid all the acrimony from her teacher. After the completion of her 3rd year, she took a final summer school class and completed her high school education. She got her diploma in August of 1985, but it said she graduated in 1986. The reason? She did not graduate at the same time as the 1985 class.
When I went to Malone College (now University) back in the mid-80s, I met a girl who had gone through 7 years of “honors” schools (not courses, schools) in Cleveland, Ohio. She was required to take a sub-100-level math class, which does not count toward graduation credits, due to her less-than-acceptable math acuity. I skipped over the college algebra and went straight to Calculus. She had 7 years of French while I had 2 and my senior year of high school was not one of those years. While my French was quite poor, I ran circles around hers. And she was in honors schools for 7 years before arriving at college.
This is just a series of examples from one family. There are many, many other examples from this same school and many other schools across the country. With the increasing centralization of the public education system comes the increasing “tin ear” of the local schools with regard to the wishes, desires and demands of the parents of children those local schools are charged with educating.
Suppose you go to the local grocery store and look in the produce section and find all the fruit is wormy or bruised or moldy. You will choose not to buy any produce there. Suppose you choose to buy some boxes of “San Fran treat” and take them home, since you really don’t want to drive the 30 miles to the next grocery store and you need to feed your family. Suppose when you get home and open the boxes, you find the boxes are filled with bugs along with what’s left of the “San Fran treat.” Then suppose you went back to the grocery and demanded your money back but the store manager said “You bought it, it’s your problem now.” You would decide to spend the extra money to drive the 30 miles for your food. You may even decide to plant your own garden and your own fruit trees.
This is what the public education system has become. The administration is wholly uninterested in satisfying the parents, claiming they (the school) know better than the parents what is best for the student. And the public schools nation-wide have shown a multi-generational slide in quality of education while showing a multi-generational expansion of education cost.
When the system has shown for decades that it is less and less interested in what it’s supposed to do, only a fool would trust that system to provide anything even remotely resembling quality.
This idea that there are good bureaucracies and bad ones is too simplistic and far too naive. There are passable bureaucracies and bad ones. And the less bureaucracy the better, each time, every time.
*A couple years ago, Ohio newspapers had articles about a Hilliard, Ohio resident who graduated from The Ohio State University with a BS in a specialized biological field at the age of 15. It is impossible to do that if the student goes through the local school system.
It’s the bureaucracy that is screwing things up. Quit blaming home schoolers for “Opting out of the system” and start blaming the system itself from which they want to opt out.
It is the bureaucracy screwing things up but what is so sadly ironic, is that even if parents “opt out of the system”, it’s not a complete opt out because they still have to pay taxes to support the public schools and education – even though they do not use the system at all. It’s sorta like a ‘legalized extortion’…opt out but you still have to give us your money.
America is a wonderful place: it’s one of the last places left where a parent is able to make the educational decisions regarding their own children – you know, those young people that they brought into the world are charged with being solely responsible for training up in the way they should go.
I just now noticed what you did there. You made a claim of fact: that I was paraphrasing something Obama proposed to say to the kids. Your claim of fact is wholly unsupported by the facts. What I paraphrased were two things Obama already said. And that fits wholly with the last sentence of mine you quoted, unlike your false assertion that I was paraphrasing something Obama was going to say, which could not have already made it to audio or video. Do try for a modicum of accuracy in your accusations; you’ll look far less foolish that way.
This happened during the Clinton administration. I heard clips of the audio on “Focus on the Family” or “Eagle Forum” or another Christian radio broadcast. Those Christians were so subversive that they had the audacity of agenda to provide audio feeds of this woman during her high school (kids age 14-18 generally) assemblies. It was the Christians’ subversive agenda to provide her own voice saying what she said, that “the only inappropriate sex is when one partner is unwilling,” thereby cementing the Christians’ subversive agenda: to provide factual information about what is happening in the public school system, paid for by our tax dollars in multiple ways, and hidden as best possible from the parents of the kids.
I remind you of the Texas Supreme Court decision: The parents are responsible for their children’s education, not the local public school system. (And this was a decision against the parents and for the local Texas public school system.)
John Hitchcock, I hear you, and believe you are probably accurately reflecting the experiences of your family. But trust me, for every anecdote that you can relate, I can relate an anecdote that relates a success story. Therefore, you have proved nothing, nor would I.
As far as my statement about your quote, here again is your quote: ““Two Obama demands to remember:
1) Leave my children alone. (His demand to all members of the press.)
2) (My opponents) should just shut up.
Both of those demands I am certain have been saved in audio format, likely video format.””
I did mistakenly think you were referring to his proposed speech to the kids. Nevertheless, why would anyone object to demand #1 for the protection of his children? For demand #2, you give no link, therefore there is no context, therefore one cannot comment. It is up to you, John, to provide the context, otherwise your quote is absolutely meaningless.
And to your sex ed rant, you require us to trust your memory of the event. That, John, is not convincing, especially since your Fundamentalist Christian bias is quite obvious. Moreover, we have another anecdote from you, with no link or reference. Useless!
Perry, I’ll accept your explanation for my section you quoted as fact for argument’s sake. It may well be fact, I don’t know. But I’ll accept it as fact. Leaving aside all other information in your comment (not that it’s not worthy of response, because some of it is), I want to focus on your approval and explanation of Obama Statement One. I absolutely do not object to Obama making that demand. And I do object to the media refusing to accept that demand, except for usage as secondary or tertiary subjects (as generalities, not specifics) of Obama’s actions.
Yes, leave his children alone. But, no, don’t ignore the fact he chose to opt-out his children from the DC public schools. My point is, if he wants everyone to leave HIS children alone, why does he think he has the right to refuse my demand from him: namely to leave my children alone?
Just to touch on a few of your other points:
I am very much a Conservative Christian. I object to the term “fundamentalist” because, while accurate, it carries a very negative connotation. And the definition vanishes due to the connotation. I have never tried to hide my Conservative Christian principles, and I will never try to hide them.
It is far easier for me, and far less time-consuming, to write a 3000-word response as to why someone should search through my blog’s sub-200-article history than it is for me to search myself, even though I know which article I want (and I know of a “related” article I wrote that blubonnet didn’t read before she commented on it). I do not have internet access myself, but I have a laptop with wifi capability and permission to use the wifi access of a neighbor two blocks away. The distance apart, in addition to the neighborhood’s power lines running through my yard outside my window, means my zero-bar wifi access is very undependable. Some nights, I can do whatever I want online. Sometimes I have to forget about updating any blog site if I’m lucky enough to get the first image.
I have a huge amount of memories indelibly burned into my mind, including my whole hospital time for a tonsilectomy back in 1969 when I was 3 years old. I also hear stories indelibly burned into my daughter’s head, history of my actions with her that have made huge impacts on her life, that I cannot remember, even vaguely. What I write about from my memory is accurate, as best I know.
No, I do not expect people to take my word for it. And no, I do not expect people to do their own research, but in an optimal world, they would. And no, I do not expect people to do my research for me. But my unstable internet connection is a major reason why I have not this month done much research. And my poor googling skills is another reason why I have fewer secondary links than many. I know what I know. And when I speak from memory, my memory is generally accurate and provides lots of keys for more capable people than me to research. But I don’t expect people to take my word as Providence’s honest truth.
I fully admit my Conservative Christian bias. But I believe the unadulterated facts are on my side. I also fully admit I have an agenda. And my agenda can be spelled out in three words. Those are the three words I chose for my own blogsite: Truth Before Dishonor. I have no interest in deceiving anyone and I have no respect for anyone who willfully deceives others. “It would be better for him to have a millstone around his neck and be cast into the (river? ocean?)” than to receive God’s punishment for deceiving anyone.
I am honest in my beliefs. And I am honest in what I believe to be the truth. My agenda is to get the facts as I know them out and to provide my honest analyses of the facts as I know them. And I believe my principles are much higher than that of most politicians, regardless of the letter following their names.
Again, I don’t expect anyone to take my word for anything. I’m a mere nobody. I do hope people use my information to do more research on their own. And I do hope people examine my body of work before choosing to slur my name.
Perry, this will help you with BO’s Bi-Partisenship.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifjRVLVjzA
Thanks, yorkie, that’s the video for my number two (and my memory seems to have been a bit off). Btw, that took me 5 minutes to watch.
John Hitchcock:
Thanks, yorkie, that’s the video for my number two (and my memory seems to have been a bit off). Btw, that took me 5 minutes to watch.
Hmm, if I said to you Stop Talking, or Shut Up, what’s the difference? Somewhere along the line I do remember a shut up from BO too.
Barack said “I won.” A whole lot more than 30 million people (that’s a 3 with 7 trailing zeroes) voted against the dude. If memory serves, more than a 4 with 7 trailing zeroes voted against the dude. My memory is fuzzy but it’s possible a 5 with 7 trailing zeroes voted against the dude. That’s a whole lot of people for Obama to say they should stop exercising their First Amendment rights. Nevermind the fact more than 3 people who voted for the dude have since recanted and are exercising their First Amendment rights to bash the dude they voted for.
John, you mean this! BO said “I won” and republicans are not in charge. If he was only just arrogant, I might understand, but he is far worse than that.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17862.html
No, but I WAS in the first class to graduate South Lakes HS. Academically, it was pretty good, but it was definitely a “High” school, if you catch my meaning.
PS We also had the best looking cheerleaders!
Well, don’t forget our side had to put up with 8 years of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) where Bush was bashed daily, called “Hitler” and the like, and in general, smeared from one end of the country to the other. So, don’t be surprised when there’s a bit of a payback going against your guy now. Besides, at least we’re attacking him on substance, most notably, his health plan, which many of us see as deeply flawed.
My borrowed wifi cooperated with me.
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And my personal, slightly connected linky
All it took was going over to my site and inserting “education” in my search box.
i defend the k-12 digital education , i use it for my children and i think it’s so good, i have the most customized education at home…it’s the best way to educate a kid…