Comments on: The Tea Party Demands That Public Education Not Be Equal For All

By: Deborah Montesano

Deborah Montesano — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:02:30 +0000

I wonder where the Tea Partier who thinks “calculis” is easy was educated. He needs to enroll in a community remedial spelling program.

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By: Shiva (Moderator)

Shiva (Moderator) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:57:32 +0000

Another aspect of this is that we are our own worst enemies. we give kids three or more months off during the summer when kids in Asia get a couple weeks. The kids coming out of Asia, India and other countries have parents who are far more intense about their children’s education, and push their children to do better. I think that is to a great deal lacking here in the United States. I cannot talk about the teaching methods and other countries because I don’t know what they are but I know that education is up to two things to start with. A kids desire to learn, and a parents desire for their kids to learn.even before a teacher enters into the equation if those two things do not exist it doesn’t matter who the teacher is. kids in other countries have dress codes and are taught respect for each other. Here we have kids who dress like zoo animals, while showing it is more important To show how stupid they can than that it is to learn.

people can blame the teachers, but I tell you right now it is the same as people crying that there is no prayer in school. Parents are doing their best to hand off their own responsibilities to the schools and then blaming the teachers when it doesn’t work out.

that is not to say that there aren’t still a lot of students who have a natural burning desire to learn and do so. These are the kids who move on to college and become our future leaders

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By: Jo Hargis

Jo Hargis — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:59:38 +0000

Tell it. People, never ever forget: the primary motive of any private corporation is…………..PROFIT. This entire privatization idea, whether it’s schools or prisons or whatever entity it may be, is nothing more than a long-term plan to put profits into the pockets of a select few, at the expense of society. I’m in my 50s now, I grew up in the heyday of government funded public education and I got a damn good education. We were the envy of the world for our education. Then the republicans came along with their greed, and began the decades of demonizing public education, demonizing teachers, demonizing government. And here we are. The fight is FAR from over. I hope the US doesn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way.

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By: Brian Meadows

Brian Meadows — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:06:01 +0000

As a man of Southern free farmer stock, I can tell you it’s no accident that NO slave state had ANY public education for anyone of any color until Reconstruction! We must fight and fight hard to maintain and reinvigorate public education–including the idea of it!! In the Union army, literacy was 94%; only 53% of the Rebs could read or write. If more of them could read and write, maybe there would never have been a national civil war!

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By: Shiva (Moderator)

Shiva (Moderator) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:30:33 +0000

they are going to do their best to shut down public education and once that happens there is no longer a need for a voucher program because let’s face it that’s government spending. And then we are going to have a very large number of children who will never get educated because they will not be profitable for the private schools. Private schools will always remain in the employ of the rich and not here to educate the masses. A public school has the responsibility of educating every kid in America, a private school has no responsibility to do the same. It’s only responsibility is to get the parents money

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