Oh yes, education, children and their well-being is sooooo boring. It's just SO much easier to send a kid to school, then that parent can get 'ME' time.
YAYYYYY selfish adulthood!
Who gives a crap if kids are educated, as long as they pass those pesky proficiency tests every few years, right? And it's cool that some teachers teach FOR the proficiency and only the proficiency tests too, right? After all, it isn't as though children are the future in every way from protecting our futures to sustaining our bloodlines to choosing our own individual elderly care.
I've been home schooling for 7 years and cases like this are more frequent than you think and not one in 100 hits the alleged "news".
We each choose how seriously or how carelessly we educate our kids and I've chosen the hands-on, all-in method that home schooling provides.
Make your own choices but respect mine too.
In case you don't know, here's a couple of quick stats: Public school kids average 50th percentile on 12th grade proficiency tests. Home schooled kids (when neither parent has attended even one day of college) average 83rd percentile on these same independently proctored tests.
I won't bore you with the stats where one or both parents have a college degree, because, well you know, it's only YOU that matters in this world, it's cool.
Many more facts are available but wouldn't want to bore you. Go back to sleep and keep getting more entitlements. Enjoy those bread and circuses. While they last.

Tileman,


Your post requires intelligence and a working thought process. Apparently people like shadygirl are incapable of comprehending anything that opposes their indoctrinated world view.

That, or they are just complete a**holes.

MOST Conservatives are. We revere life.


MOST liberals favor abortion, even though they try to sugar coat it by calling it "Women's Health", as if pregnancy were a disease.

By the way, did you know when Margaret Sanger started what was to become Planned Parenthood, almost all the slaughter houses were in Black neighborhoods, in an attempt to control the Black population?

Wow, what a good comeback. Schooling has nothing to do with whether someone is liberal or not but I'm glad you couldn't think of any kind of comeback except that. Looks like someone doesn't have any "thought process" and has to make it into a political comment. I don't know what kind of "self employment" you have but not everyone can do that. I'm a single parent who takes care of her child with no "entitlements." I work and pay my bills without help from anyone else.
Maybe you should post this in the politics forum since that's what you want it to be.

Wow, what a good comeback. Schooling has nothing to do with whether someone is liberal or not but I'm glad you couldn't think of any kind of comeback except that.

Here is something that you can chew on:

Having grown up in communist China during Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, Lily Tang Williams of Parker, Colorado, says the Common Core national standards being imposed on America’s public education system scare her.

She came to the United States from China to further her law degree. But after a time, she decided she loved the freedoms and opportunities that America provided and decided not to go back. She now has three children. One of her two sons was just graduated from the Air Force Academy and the other is working full time and going to school part time. Her 15-year-old daughter is a sophomore in high school. In the midterms, she ran for a seat the Colorado Legislature as a Libertarian.

Recently, she decided to educate herself about Common Core. She says there are things about it that remind her of her education growing up in China. She tells EAGnews that her number one concern is the data collection, the data mining, of children and their parents.

“That’s what we had in China…every child will have a file, actually every citizen in China has a so-called ‘personnel file.’ And this ‘personnel file’ will document everything. When you are in school, they document your family political class, your gender, your age, your home address, your grades, you behaviors, political correctness. So everything is in that file.”

Common Core encourages such data collection. Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project says schools implementing the Core are increasingly conducting surveys to acquire very personal information about students. It’s a means of getting state and federal funding. She says the surveys are not directly related to Common Core.

But she says, “It’s all part of an educational progressive mindset. [Educational progressives] have got to have every school doing the same standards and ultimately with the same curriculum. And [they’ve] got to collect data on anything and everything because otherwise how can they know what’s effective and what’s not effective.”

Robbins says they’ve got to know everything in order to control everything.

Williams says the personnel files in China follow a person throughout his or her life and exerts a lot of control over individuals, where they can live and where they can work. She says she doesn’t want to see the same thing happen in this country.

Williams is also very concerned about the Common Core curriculum and standardized testing. She says the ‘Advance Placement U.S. History’ course, for one thing, is worrisome because they’ve taken out a lot of the American exceptionalism, information about the Founding Fathers and capitalism is only mentioned three times. Entrepreneurship is gone.

“So basically what they teach our kids is basically the leftist agenda and focus on what they want your kids to learn,” she says. “And that really worries me because I came to this country because of the Constitution, the rights, the values, individual liberties….that sounds like music to me because I never had those in China.

“But now they’re going to teach our kids not to focus on those individual liberties and American exceptionalism, and capitalism and free market…and they’re going to teach another kind, leftist agenda that is like a garbage agenda.

“Haven’t we learned from the past that communism and socialism don’t work? We’re in trouble because children are our future. If they control our education of our children, they will control this country’s future.”

Semper Fi !!!

A perfect liberal response.

Semper Fi !!!