Comments on: What we can look forward to in education under Obama

By: duke

duke — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:05:35 +0000

“He gave a lot of his money to funding public education because he felt the government had a responsibility to it’s children,”
My arse.

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Peeking Under the Education Rock « Psssst! Over Here! — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:10:26 +0000

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By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:02:29 +0000

Um ModDem,

Homeschooled kids generally have much better academic scores than those who go to public school. That and they usually do have better critical thinking skills than public schooled kids (can’t imagine why…). Given the teachers that are in those schools today, parents can’t do much worse, and can probably do better. I went through education school and what I saw in the prospective people going through it horrified me enough that I didn’t want to finish (and ended up not doing so because I had different opinions than others in the class…so much for not sharing the same viewpoint).

Ayers had a big influence in the Chicago-based Annenberg Challenge program, so I don’t see how you can argue otherwise. The facts are there, but since you’re a liberal, facts don’t seem to mean much.

By the way, if someone has a first-person account of something versus someone just saying “that person is just silly for saying that” with no first-person angle themselves, I think I’ll go with the original first-person account, thanks.

By: ModDem

ModDem — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:00:45 +0000

I’m a little wary of home schooling. Learning to think for oneself often involves breaking away from home and getting into an environment where you interact with others who you may not share the same views with.
This Annenberg program was actually not too bad. Billionaire Walter Annenberg was former ambassador to the UK under Nixon. He gave a lot of his money to funding public education because he felt the government had a responsibility to it’s children. Especially those in impovershed neighborhoods. The Ayers connection is being exploited here. It would be like saying Annenberg and Ayers were connected. A stretch to say the least.
There are also no ‘Marxist’ values. This isn’t an economic school. And the farmer’s market quip is rather silly. What’s wrong with fresh food grown and sold by farmers?

By: Melinda P

Melinda P — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:17:53 +0000

This is just scary! And people wonder why I choose to homeschool my children? Can we say, to get away from the idiots who don’t know what they believe in because they don’t have all of the facts. Is it any wonder why homeschoolers do so well academically….they can actually think for themselves.

By: William

William — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:35:50 +0000

We’re hoping here in my state (which I will withold) that we can convince the Republicans to start pushing through secession proceedings next month. Only then can we avoid crap like this.