Libtards Demand Art Pope to Stay Away from Public Education

Liberals freakout if conservatives have a say in public education, as demonstrated in the above video.    They're just fine when progressives are on school boards, or when their organizations participate in the process.  But if someone like Art Pope gets involved, why they just can't allow that to happen.


Public education has become a cesspool of progressive indoctrination.  That's why they want conservatives to shut up and stay out.



Source:  http://www.civitasreview.com/education/art-pope-greets-his-protesters/

WV Student Suspended and Arrested for Wearing NRA Shirt

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Here is another incident of outrageous stupidity in our public schools.

Jared Marcum, an 8th grade student, was suspended, arrested and is now facing two charges after refusing to change his shirt.

 "People are saying that I did the right thing, that they're proud," Jared said.

 The 14-year-old student at Logan Middle School in Logan, West Virginia says the NRA shirt that sparked the controversy now symbolizes a fight that is just getting started.

"What they're doing is trying to take away my rights, my freedom of speech and my second amendment," Jared said.

 "You can take the firearms out of the equation, what this about is fundamental rights," Jared's father Allen Lardieri said.

 Lardieri says his questions for the school district remain unanswered.

 "I'm still confused, thoroughly confused," he said. "They school didn't even make a statement to the news agencies, much less myself."

It’s time the local communities stepped up and rid themselves of these morons who run their schools, or have an alternative like charter schools.  Or maybe privatize the system, so parents have a choice.  Libtards can submit their children to fascist indoctrination, while conservatives can actually educate theirs.  Something has to be done.

Source:  http://www.wowktv.com/story/22029456/questions-remain-unanswered-for-8th-grade-student-arrested-over-shirt

How Do We Address Public School Hysteria and Indoctrination?

It seems a day doesn’t go by without a report about some form of hysteria, or stupidity in public education.  We’ve all heard about the suspension of the Pop Tart kid, along with numerous others who’ve been disciplined for being children.  I thank God, I didn’t grow up in a time when playing cowboys and Indians, or cops and robbers on the playground would’ve drawn a suspicious eye.  If that were the case, my principal would’ve declared me public enemy #1.

What we are witnessing isn’t education; it’s indoctrination.  And it gets worse.  A father in Florida found a waded up paper in a trash can written by his son.  Here’s an excerpt from an article:

The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl.

"I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure

They're the words that Florida father Aaron Harvey was stunned to find his fourth-grade son had written, after a lesson in school about the Constitution.

 Aaron Harvey's son wrote as part of a school lesson, "I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure." TheBlaze has redacted the child's name.

Harvey's son attends Cedar Hills Elementary in Jacksonville, Fla. Back in January, a local attorney came in to teach the students about the Bill of Rights. But after the attorney left, fourth-grade teacher Cheryl Sabb dictated the sentence to part of the class and had them copy it down, he said.

 

In Wisconsin, an eighth grade teacher is brainwashing her students in the finer points of our two party system:

Eighth graders in Union Grove, Wisc. — a tiny enclave just over the Illinois border — are learning reading, writing, arithmetic and, of course, that conservatives are a bunch of authoritarian, oppressive thugs.

As EAGnews explains, an unnamed eighth-grade teacher in the Union Grove school district assigned a vocabulary crossword puzzle with clues containing “definitions” of liberalism and conservatism.

Conservatism, according to the public school assignment, is “the political belief of preserving traditional moral values by restricting personal freedoms and encouraging prosperity through economic freedom.”

Let that ridiculous middle part soak in, perhaps while you gulp down a massive sugary soda and take target practice with your favorite firearm.

How are impressionable Union Grove eighth graders instructed about liberalism? They are indoctrinated that it is “the political belief of equality and personal freedom for everyone, often changing the current system to increase government protection of civil liberties.”

While teachers are feminizing boys and lecturing students about the evils of conservatives and our Constitution, we’re finding out the little urchins are unable to read and write.  Over 80% of New York City’s graduates are illiterate.  Let’s give our educators a big round of applause.

There is hope.  North Carolina is taking a different path.  Republican legislators are developing a system where charter schools have a more independent voice from the state apparatchiks.  Carolina Journal reported the following:

The bill would empower the state Department of Public Instruction’s existing Office of Charter Schools as the principal administrative unit, working under the direction of the Charter Board. The Charter Board would operate independent of the State Board of Education.

“The charter staff … is in place, and I don’t believe that there is going to be any extra cost attached to that,” Tillman said.

The Charter Board would replicate many of the functions now performed by the state Charter Schools Advisory Council, but it would be smaller — 11 voting members instead of 15. Nine members would be appointed by the governor or the General Assembly. The lieutenant governor and state treasurer also would be voting members.

The State Board of Education would be granted veto authority over any Charter Board action, provided it had assent from a three-quarters majority of its board and the veto was voted on within 45 days of the Charter Board’s action.

The Charter Board would provide technical assistance to charter schools and applicants, establish rules, oversee the application and approval process, monitor existing charter schools, renew charters, and revoke them.

North Carolina is also trying to implement a merit based system, instead of tenured.  Those teachers who do outstanding work should be compensated.  Again, here is an excerpt from Carolina Journal:

The bill would modify the letter-grade system given to schools that was passed in last year's education reform act. Berger said his proposal would expand on last year's reforms by having a component telling parents whether the school made or failed to make growth goals.

"Together these two measures will foster greater transparency, encourage struggling schools to improve and allow parents to determine the best options for their children."

Yet to be worked out is a pay-for-performance or merit pay system. Berger said he was waiting from a report from school districts, which is expected next week.

Teacher tenure would end in five years, even for teachers who now have tenure.

Replacing the tenure system would be one-year contracts issued by local school boards for teachers with fewer than three years employment. Teachers employed three or more years would be offered contracts ranging from one to four years. Top teachers would be offered $500 salary supplements.

 
This would be a good first step.  Education should be local and intimate.  Any effort to nationalize our educational system should be thwarted.  The federal government is making a concerted effort to do just that.  They’re trying to implement Common Core State Standards.  Do you really want a bunch of incompetent federal bureaucrats dictating the education of your children?  Or do you want a say in what is being taught?  Unfortunately, North Carolina signed up for this nonsense in 2010.  It’s time to get out of it before the feds fully embed their claws into our educational system, or we might have more teachers like the one in Wisconsin.

 
Source:  http://news.yahoo.com/dad-furious-finding-crayon-written-paper-florida-4th-124614291.html

http://news.yahoo.com/conservatism-means-restricting-personal-freedoms-according-public-school-120220359.html

http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?id=10067

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http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=10019

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=10068

North Carolina Mandates Teaching of Founding Era in Public Schools

Last year Fox News reported that North Carolina public schools were going to discontinue the history curriculum that pertains to our founding era; instead they were going to focus on the period after reconstruction, best known as the Progressive Era. The result was a resounding national backlash.

Because of that backlash, North Carolina passed into law the Founding Principles Act, as reported by Carolina Journal:

A bipartisan General Assembly approved House Bill 588, The Founding Principles Act, during the closing days of the main 2011 legislative session. As lawmakers engaged in partisan battles over more controversial measures, the House approved H.B. 588 106-5, and the Senate endorsed it 43-0. Gov. Beverly Perdue signed it into law June 23.

“The survival of the republic requires that our nation’s children, the future guardians of its heritage and participants in its governance, have a clear understanding of the Founding Philosophy and the Founding Principles of government for a free people,” according to the act’s preamble. The new law goes on to note that students will find the philosophy and principles “in the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the writings of the Founders.”

The law specifically orders a semester-long course titled American History I - The Founding Principles. Students must pass the course to graduate from high school.

Ten specific principles earn special attention within the legislation: Creator-endowed inalienable rights of the people; the structure of government, separation of powers with checks and balances; frequent and free elections in a representative government; rule of law; equal justice under the law; private property rights; federalism; due process; individual rights as set forth in the Bill of Rights; and individual responsibility.

What I really wish is that the Anti-Federalist Papers would also be discussed, along with North Carolina’s Constitutional Convention debate. Students would be amazed at how right the Anti-Federalist was. But that is a pipe dream. Hell, if it weren’t for Fox News, students would think Woodrow Wilson was the first president of the United States.

Source: http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8155

Governor Chris Christie Defends Sending His Kids to Private School

You’ve got to love Gov. Chris Christie. A busy body woman tried to embarrass him by pointing out that he sends his kids to a private school instead of public. He turned the tables on her with the following rebuttal:

It's none of your business. I don't ask you where you send your kids to school. I pay $38,000 in taxes for public schools that we don't utilize. We believe, we have decided as parents we believe a religious education should be part of our children's education. Third, I, as governor, am responsible for every child in this state, not just my own. The decisions I make are to improve the educational opportunities. With all due respect, it's none of your business.

Wow, that is refreshing. Gov. Christie is a straight forward, no-nonsense politician. That is rare for someone in his profession. Now you see why conservatives want him to run for president.
 
No wonder the Obama administration is trying to dig up dirt on this guy. They are quaking in their boots, and that is not from the thunderous footfalls of an overweight man.