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What pisses me off is that John, Mitch, and Barry totally disregarded the results.
What is wrong with this? It requires that the government track whether I have kids, my life habits, whether I have had vaccinations...etc. Admittedly, this is the direction the gov wants to go, but I would rather not enshrine this sort of record keeping. I would actually rather pay the damn school tax and keep the gov out of my life.
Jan
Jan
I think we need more cowboys and fewer cattle.
Jan, likes your metaphor
The downside, though, is that children of welfare mothers won't get educated. I don't want to have a bunch of young adults around who can't read or add. They won't have any prospects in life except to steal.
So before it is safely possible to leave education to the parents, we not only need to stop subsidizing poor people to breed, we would actually need to make it illegal -- and seize their kids. I'm willing to go that far, but I doubt most voters are.
Jan
In the meantime however crime will be reduced pretty much instantly, and the prices of the drugs will fall dramatically
My first action 10 seconds after being sworn in would be to abolish 100% of ALL previous executive actions/orders.
War on poverty = more poverty.
No child left behind = our district refused to accept my son.
I could go on and on. What a f*&ing mess...
So: vouchers for everybody and periodic testing likewise.
Jan
And the history test that everyone should have to take (to graduate HS) should be the same one a person has to pass for citizenship.
Jan
When i started into college I had one good teacher the first year but they drove him out. Then I decided to go for a capitalistic, pay your money for education and went to DeVry. When I graduated the economy was at a low point and I still had 18 firm job offers. I remember: It was so stressful trying to make up my mind which one to take. The truth is, I really learned something there.
Seriously...this is huge.
Jan
Jan
I wonder if Ms. Garcia has read AS?
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/...
I suggest that breaking the governmental/liberal stranglehold on education is the key point in trying to promote an objective view of the world to the next generation.