Why send your children to private school?

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Because of people like this woman:

http://m.gawker.com/5540483/meet-the...book-whitewash

I guess there's a reason Rice is the only elite university in Texas.

[SteamWake]

A liberal showing concearn over 're-writing' history.... interesting.

[AVGWarhawk]

Remember that thing called the slave trade? Well, it turns out what you learned was all wrong, because it wasn't some evil buying and selling of human beings, it was simply "Atlantic triangular trade."

Really? After all these years........

[nikimcbee]

evangelical Christian

oh noz! run for the hills.

[Carotio]

Someone should let her spend time polish the big number one. Thus, she can't talk rubbish at the same time...

Seriously, that was some of the most noncense, I have ever read...

[Snestorm]

The pendulem swings!

It's been pulled too far Left for decades. Peiple have seen the failure, and the results of socialy indoctrinating their children with an agenda that is extreme left.
Now it will swing to the extreme right.

It would be nice if one day this pendulem could stop in the middle, at a place called Truth!

My father always told me that if I learned to read well I could pick my own teacher, to teach me any subject in the world, at a great learning center called The Library.
If "education" continues to embrace social indoctrination (left or right) this may very well be a viable alternative for some.

[Tchocky]

Pfft, libraries are just government intrusion in the traditional free-book-lending market. Pareto efficiency my arse.

[Snestorm]

If libraries fail, there are always book stores.

[Tribesman]

Wow a graduate of Pat Robertsons university for fruitcakes being in charge of education.
I wonder what the textbooks will say about seismic activity. Is it caused by abortions, pagans or homosexuality?
I do like her adviser from the Wallkbuilders though, America must have biblical law and being a good fire and brimstone type he of course advocates the good old OT law

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Snestorm

The pendulem swings!

It's been pulled too far Left for decades. Peiple have seen the failure, and the results of socialy indoctrinating their children with an agenda that is extreme left.
Now it will swing to the extreme right.

It would be nice if one day this pendulem could stop in the middle, at a place called Truth!

Funny, while I agree with your pendulum theory, I think the pendulum has been pulled too far right
Compared to Dutch politics even Obama is relatively rightist.

I think you should never let religion control education. Let people make up their own minds about what god they should believe in, if any. And definitely don't educate it at public schools. There are people there who've got different beliefs, you know

[Platapus]

America can only flourish economically through "minimal government intrusion and taxation."

But she wants the government (state school system) to push this agenda on to children.

That's rich.

Hey, Ms "minimal government intrusion" how about the schools just concentrate on traditional education standards and let the parents handle the social education? Ok?

Because if Christians aren't involved in the indoctrination of our youth.....

Well, there it is.

One more reason why I would not like to go back to Texas.

[Snestorm]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Hey, Ms "minimal government intrusion" how about the schools just concentrate on traditional education standards and let the parents handle the social education? Ok?

Here we are united.

Purging the schools of Social Indoctrination towards the present agenda IS a good idë.
Replacing the existing Social Indoctrination agenda with a new Social Indoctrination agenda is NOT a good idë. It only serves to replace one wrong with another wrong.

That was a realy good post, Platapus.

[Ducimus]

Jesus freaks like the lady in question in the linked article belong in Private schools. Not a public one. If the school is public, it is state run, and we have this little thing called "seperation of church and state" here in the US, that should be maintained..

Furthermore, if i had a kid, and wanted him to have evangelical horse**** ramrooded down his gullet, i'll send them to a private school.

[CaptainHaplo]

Ducimus - I still challenge you - or anyone else - to find this "seperation of church and state" anywhere in the constitution...

[Ducimus]

I don't have to. It's implied by the 1st amendment. No i'm not going to get into a constitutional debate with you. No you are NOT going to change my mind. So don't even try. My hatred for evangical ram rodding runs VERY deep, starting from childhood, and has risen to a degree that defies description. I have about as much tolerance and respect for those hypocritical bastards as they have for other people, which is to say, NONE.