Except in the state of Texas, that is, where a member of the State Board of Education homeschools her kids.
Texas school board member [Cynthia Noland] Dunbar, who home-schools her children and says sending them to local schools would be like “throwing them in the enemy’s flames,” says the changes she backs are all about “fighting for our children's education and our nation's future."I suppose the next thing that they want to do in Texas schools is promote slavery as a method of achieving full employment.
"In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology,” she said in a recent interview with the U.K. Guardian. “There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections."
Texas can secede any damn time it wants to.
(What a Texas history summary would look like & H/T)
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One of the things that always irritated me as a teacher was the notion on the part of the general public that because they had survived 12-14 years of incarceration in the school system, they knew everything there was to know about teaching and the educational system. Err, no. That's like saying that Ted Williams knew how to pitch because he spent a lot of time hitting pitches out of the ballpark. Maybe he could recognize good pitching when he saw it, but if you'd put Ted Williams on the mound to pitch, the other team would have guffawed because he could have never hit the strike zone. Same deal with teaching. Recognizing good teaching is like recognizing good pitching -- it's a good skill to have, but just because you recognize it, don't mean you can do it!
Sad to say, incompetent people never realize their own incompetence.... sigh, the stupid, it burns, it burns!
- Badtux the Education Penguin
But all of this Texican malarkey has nothing to do with the quality of teaching and everything to do with the destruction of the public education system. The uneducated are the most easily manipulated.
The destruction of the public education system has been a goal of the elites since progressives first made public education a nation-wide initiative in the late 1800's. What we're finding is that if the majority of people value education, the elites aren't able to touch it. What we're seeing now is that there are places where the majority do not value education because it teaches those nasty fact thingies that contradict their holy book full of the codified superstitions of ignorant shepherds, and in those places, yeah, public education is toast. But that's democracy for ya...
- Badtux the Realist Penguin
I'm tired of waiting for Texas to secede. Isn't there something non-Texans can do to revoke Texas' membership in the club?
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