Right On The Right

Judging from the organization and sentence structure of your rant, it seems that repeating English 101 is in order!

-True. There already is competition between schools anyway, when people move to neighborhoods with schools that have less minorities. "How are the schools there?' is generally a question that is code for 'How many blacks and/or hispanics are in that school?'

I think school districts themselves are in competition. Competition for parents who can own houses and properties that are worth being taxed in order to run the schools. Some great system. 'Hey, so long as there's great property values, your children can get books and have smaller classroom sizes and better teachers. And when there's a flight of wealth and capital, you white trash and spics and blacks are SOL.'

How come the failure of Edison Schools INC. hasn't shut people up about making primary education for profit?

The US rose to world prominence, in terms of industry and running the world and economics, filling its labor and political ranks with the end products of the public school education system. What happened to that?

If you didn't get left behind, Justin, then why do you use the word "convicted" when you actually mean "convinced"?

If universities are such dens of liberal indoctrination, where are all of the center-right politicians coming from? As well as all of the center-right managers of companies and corporations, all of the center-right editors of newspapers and magazines. (True, reporters may skew to the left socially, but the editors and owners do not). Where are all of these law enforcement people, like FBI and CIA and DEA coming from?

We're coming up on 60 years of unfettered corporatism and free-marketism (my word!), where the country has been run in such a way that would have been destroyed had the university system been truly churning out leftists, socialists and communists.

No Child Left Behind? That's a Bush-Kennedy piece of legislation, not a Conservative approach to education. Conservatives believe in choice, a free market education system, and real emphasis on learning as opposed to "fuzzy math." It's ridiculous to think that teachers should oppose abortion on principle? We all know that abortion doesn't mean all students are aborted, but with the current abortion rate, the average class in the US could have a couple more students in it. There'd be thousands more teachers across the country needed for the increase. I wasn't left behind, but apparently you were.

As an Education Major in college I see the most ridiculous aspects of the Right and their views on education. As we push to make "No Child Left Behind", educators put in more hours then required or that they are paid for, without sufficient funds, classrooms, technology, and support why we would even consider voting to the right. I would also like to comment on your #1 reason that is illogic in fact that statement is something that someone with an IQ of 50 would say. Take your opinion and add facts to it. The reality is there are TO MANY right end Republicans that think they know what they are talking about but really have no clue. REALITY FLASH, opinion does not create fact. I guess you are one of those children that was "Left Behind". Oh it all is clear now.

Justin you should probably take a few political science classes if you think today's conservatives practice classical liberalism. Liberals in general (but not always) put the political theories of these men into practice. Libertarians are more adamant about them, but I don't think either one of us wants to praise Ron Paul.

Open market economics are also inherent to classical liberalism but no one really works for is open markets. Democrats obviously are pretty socialistic while Republicans have become obsessed with supply-side economics neither of which are laissez-faire. Are multi-million dollar handouts to the failing airlines or tax breaks for factory owners really representative of open market capitalism?

I'd say that Locke's idea of the "tabula rasa" is more indicative of the modern Left than the modern Right, wouldn't you?

I'm reading Horowitz's "Hating Whitey and other progressive causes" right now...and also stumbled upon a very good paper by Dr. Judith Reisman on Hitler's homosexual loving Nazis called "THE PINK SWASTIKA AND HOLOCAUST REVISIONIST HISTORY"-an excerpt:

The Pink Swastika reports that Hitler was given power by a homosexual gang, a gang says Dr. Carroll Quigley, President bill Clinton’s college teacher and mentor, that subverted Germany’s free elections by underhanded and brutal strategies.

According to Quigley in Tragedy and Hope (1966) Hitler’s intimate friend, Captain Rohm and his trusted homosexual cadre of Storm Troopers staged the famed burning of the Reichstag, along with other bully-boy tactics, to frighten people into supporting the Nazi party and Hitler.

More and more evidence has mounted that shows me that today's left is exactly the same as the Nazis - promoting 'peace' and 'disarmament' and all the same verbiage the leftists of today use...including the gay agenda, and the promotion of pedophiles as 'people, too'.

Reisman also wrote this good article- Crafting Gay Children".

Today's left is following in the exact same blueprint of those who came before them. It's true what they say...there are no 'new ideas' on that side of the sphere...even though they try to tell everyone how 'tolerant' they are.

The American education system leans left because in order to become a teacher you have to attend college to get your degree and certifications. Most colleges are full of liberal professors that hammer their personal beliefs into their students, often making spoken and written agreement with their socialist ideals a prerequisite to passing grades. Most are too lazy to take the time and effort to research what they’re being taught and it soon just becomes the only way they know. A minority of teachers actually practice self thought and thus see the leftist way for the fallacy that it is. Not too unlike the average citizens of this country. Liberalism is for the lazy minded while being a conservative requires us to actually think about things.

You really are a retarded little toad.

On that last point... Jefferson, Locke, etc. would be Conservatives by today's definition, as Conservatives practice something that's become known as historical liberalism. Just a clarification.

I know a lot of this is tongue in cheek, but I have a few comments:

#9- Tax Cuts

Whenever there are tax cuts, especially on the local and state levels, education is often hurt the worst, especially the arts and music and the like. I'm not sure tax cuts are very good for teachers. I'd say a better solution would be to negotiate with the union to implement some sort of merit based pay system to encourage teachers to be the best.

#8- Competition

Competition is great for just about every industry. Education does not fit well into the competition because scale economics. The biggest cost to schools is the construction and maintenance of buildings and grounds. Due to economics of size it is far more expensive to have, for example, 2 schools with 400 students than one with 800. Implementing a competitive system will almost certainly increase the cost of education. And unlike private industry we could never close a school that is a money pit without finding a new place for those students.

#2-Free thought

"Conservatism is the natural logical position"? Tell that to Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rosseau and all the other great liberal thinkers. Not that all liberals are great thinkers or all great thinkers are liberal.

The infiltration of the educational system by the leftists is a insidious plan to establish the equivalent of the Hitler Youth or the re-education camp in America. Hitler, Stalin, Mohammed and others realized that mind control starts at a young age and that humans naturally aspire to freedom from the moment they can speak their first childhood words. Therefore, it is unwise to allow individuality to germinate in the young of your populations, if you aspire to control that population. Instead, it is best to inculcate the young of your denizens with the ideology, religion and beliefs of your body politic.

This is EXACTLY how you end up with politicians like Hillary Clinton who shreak on and on about "keeping the dialog open," and then maneuver to force their dialog upon the open markets of free speech.

In any event, the issues of education (link), academia (link) and the battle for academic freedom (link) are well-researched and published on FrontPageMag.com - probably the best source for matter-of-fact research on these issues that I know.

Teachers of today are the hippies of yesterday, and many believe deep down that everything would work for the benefit of society if it was all socialized, and the village took over the care of our children. They have been hammered by the left that only a tax raise will result in more money for teachers, competition produces losers and who wants a society where someone can lose? As for gay parents, my daughter in her high school has been taught about tolerance, and that to even say anything against gays can result in suspension (Christian bashing runs amok however). They believe competition is bad because the competition will take their job away from them. War results in death, and "make love, not war, man." Many teachers believe that America was founded upon secular values (is that an oxymoron?) and so the Constitution has been misinterpreted and liberal judges are needed to correct that. Legos? dangerous. Liberals believe you cannot be trusted to keep yourself safe or make reasonable decisions, so why would they allow you to have fun? You might do something stupid. Free thought is dangerous to them. You might realize their agenda. To them abortion is not about the life of an unborn child, but about the right to have a decision - which is contradictory. The Left wants government to handle everything for you because you can't think for yourself, but yet they want to place decision regarding the life or death of an unborn human being into the hands of the citizenry.

Because Democrats continue to bribe them with more, more, and more cash...or at least promise them more cash every single year.