Government Schools Fail Even in Western PA and are Worse Than We Think
August 28th, 2008 | by BGuzzardi |
When I think of failing government schools, I think of Philadelphia but it is evident that the failure of the government education system is not limited geographically. It is sad that so many young people are not being prepared to participate in commerce or politics or society even at what we think is a minimal level.
And the Commonwealth Foundation asserts that it is worse than we thought. See Chris Friend’s article in The Bulletin
Tribune Democrat: 13 schools miss mandatory test standards
BY JULIE BENAMATI The Tribune-Democrat August 15, 2008 11:27 pm
3 Responses to “Government Schools Fail Even in Western PA and are Worse Than We Think”
By The Outsider on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply
The public schools will continue the downhill slide until they are privatized. As long as the government controls the purse strings and the leftists control the unions and the teachers, the schools will turn out a failed product–the students. Failed students will likely end up on drugs and turning to crime for their livelihood. The Democrats love it! That means more votes for them and more entitlements for the victims they created and nurtured to stay victims. It also gives the Dems the oportunity to put these victims in front of the cameras and cry about how they are poor and need their help. Did you notice that the Dems always talk about the millions of poor children that are not insured? Children don’t buy insurance, that is the responsibility of the parents. The reason the Dems don’t say that is because they don’t want to make the parents angry and not vote for them. I firmly believe that the most serious problem we have in our society today is the Dems using the schools to dumb down our youth and making liberals out of them. The colleges are doing the same. All with our tax money. Do the people at large know better? After 4 generations of political correctness in our schools, I doubt it. Ed
By Elizabeth A. Male on Aug 30, 2008 | Reply
Of course the dumbing-down of America is part of the Democratic/Communist plan and of course the schools are the logical place to start. Why do you suppose the liberals want to fund all-day Kindergarten and pre-school? Because they want to access our children even sooner, before any notion of individual responsibility forms.
The Communist Manifesto is quite clear. I think you’ll be shocked to see how many of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto have we already implemented. Note number 10:
FROM: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
“The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to communism.
We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.
These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.
Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.”
We must reclaim our parental rights and the weighty responsibility for the education of our children; removing all state control, meddling and interference.
By BGuzzardi on Aug 30, 2008 | Reply
Elizabeth Male points out some very obvious but little publicized similarities. And the difference between Communism, Socialism and Fascism is one of focus on nationalism v. internationalism, violent and expansionist rather than internal, and means, violent rather than political,rather than ends. Corporate-Statism, an unholy alliance between Big Business-Big Government-Big Labor, is something we see but do not comprehend every day. This has been the trend for a 100 years starting with Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson through LBJ’s Great Society, slowed for a time by Reagan, and then moving again toward Corporate-Statism, the latest incarnation is the Obama-Biden very, very Left campaign fueled by the very Left Pelosi-Reid Democratic Majorities in both House and Senate and a 60 liberal Left, filibuster proof Senate will energize this trend with “Card Check”, the Big Labor priority, anti-free market and anti-free and fair elections for workers.