Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Anecdotal emotional ladies. THAT's the thing to make policy on!

Or maybe there's a moderate path towards school reform where more kids get to read, but we don't go totally Brave New World?

(I'm assuming people know 'Brave New World?' Dystopian futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley? Written in 1931, features genetic engineering of humans, and likewise pervasive social engineering of the culture and extensive conditioning to control behavior. Forget Shakespere. Dates back to 1931, and remains amazingly pertinent. Very worth reading if you missed it. Very unlikely to be in the new improved Koch curriculum. Who needs literature anyway?)

YES! Excellent book. He gets a little hinkey with the sexual aspect, but otherwise, very pertinent.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Good quotation DQ,

Here a lady recently started asort of supply center wher teachers could come and collect supplies. She did this as teachers here in some counties were spending up to $1000 of their own monies to provide supplies for their pupils. Oh but I forget they are overpaid and so can afford it.

Is it just me, or is it always the Republican "thing" to scream that someone is "overpaid" anytime a problem arises? Well, unless it's the people at the top of a private organization, then it seems to be impossible for them to be overcompensated................

Dave

[CarlV]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

So you are OK with different places doing different things? I thought the left wanted Federal conformity

Pete

Inner city Cleveland has federal schools? Wow, you guys are really special.

Carl

[piece-itpete]

So it's OK that they have vouchers for private schools?

Pete

[BlueStreak]

I think it's wrong that ANYONE can use my money to send their piglets to private school. If you want your kid to go learn how to be a JesusNazi do it on your own dime.

[CarlV]

Private schools should be private and should not receive any public money at all. The working poor cannot afford to subsidize the millionaires anymore IMO. Let the elite pay their own way, after all is that not what they keep preaching to us 47%ers?


Carl

[piece-itpete]

Therefore parents of kids in private schools should not have to pay school levies. And poor folks should be stuck in failing schools.

Pete

[CarlV]

No and no.


Carl

[bobabode]

There's no therefore there, Pete. You don't get to pick and choose which taxes you want to pay.

[BlueStreak]

Subsidizing the poor makes sense. Subsidizing the children of affluent parents makes absolutely no sense at all. It's utterly stupid. I realize that flies in the face of present-day American conservatism, but that's how I see it.