I suppose one could draw the conclusion that if the band of regulars on the left aren’t throwing bombs at the school board’s text books, they likely agree with them. Which would seem to suggest that those on the right may be on to something.

A good compromise leaves everyone (on the far-left and far-right) disappointed… right now we appear to only have one side interested. So what does that say?

I wrote about this upheaval in the State Board last week, INB, and I noted what is surprising is that in a conservative primary of a conservative party in a conservative state, the two most conservative members of the Board, heavily favored to win, lost. Moderates, progressives and liberals had nothing to do with this, and none of them, in Texas, are Republicans. The cross-over vote was negligible. I think what we saw was a reaction on the part of conservatives to some heavy revisionism which would be Texas children at a great loss in competing with students from other states. In this instance, the Republicans told two conservatives: “Enough! You’ve gone too far.” This is a very important matter because Texas is the second largest purchaser of school textbooks and it has a centralized purchasing system. This affects the entire nation. And, it was badly reported or not reported on at all by cable “news”.

Why should liberals be opposed to home schooling?

I don’t know that so-called liberals are opposed to home schooling as a blanket matter. At some time, the knowledge and skills required seems to surpass most parent’s abilities, which is why, of course, in most places, students move from a couple of teachers to five or six teachers in specialized fields by about the 5th year. That transition process can be very difficult as home-schooled children tend to be less able to deal with diverse groups and lack important socialization skills.

” public education system’s assumed liberal bias”
“Assumed”? No, no sweetheart, not assumed, more like a definite fact.

But the fascinating part is this: “reported concerns by parents about textbooks used in home schooling that openly contradict evolution”

So in keeping with their Stalinist tradition, American leftists now want to invade people’s homes and monitor/censor what they are reading. “1984″ is one step closer. Every time I think leftists can’t go any deeper in the cesspool, they hit a new low.

Unlike the public school system, home schooling doesn’t require taxpayer dollars. That is why parents/taxpayers have a right to be concerned about bias in public schools. Furthermore, if the left had not completely screwed up public education, no one would have considered home schooling their kids.

And how do homeschoolers do compared to public schools?

“Five areas of academic pursuit were measured. In reading, the average home-schooler scored at the 89th percentile; language, 84th percentile; math, 84th percentile; science, 86th percentile; and social studies, 84th percentile. In the core studies (reading, language and math), the average home-schooler scored at the 88th percentile.

The average public school student taking these standardized tests scored at the 50th percentile in each subject area.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/30/home-schooling-outstanding-results-national-tests/

It just shows how corrupt and pathetic public schools have become. Why do you think rich liberals send their kids to private schools?

Why do you think rich liberals send their kids to private schools?

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As one who went to private school, indeed boarding school, I can assure you that my children my wife and I could have sent to private school, received excellent educations in public schools (admittedly in a very education-concerned and dedicated community with heavy parental and grandparental involvement). I can honestly say that some of my time spent in the universities and law school I attended and in the Navy was overcoming some of the narrowness of my earlier education. Southern boys referred to most of our classmates as the Inbred Northeastern Country Club Set (Republicans to the man, as I recall, but the traditional, pre-Civil Rights Act sort of Republican). I can only imagine how narrow the education of a home-schooled child is and how ill-prepared they are to deal with the diverse sort of people we all have to come to know during the course of our lives.

Frances manages to side-step some of the content that is being debated in the TX book debate. They are considering taking out significant portions of the founding of the country and removing American historical figures for the likes of Che Guevera. To classify this as a war on education is hyper-ventilated mongering. Parents are debating the content of their kid’s textbooks. This was a blatant one-sided posting.

I keep close tabs on what is being taught at my son’s school and have no complaints so far. I’m glad he goes to school in Utah and not the Liberal bastion of Seattle where I grew up. It’s beautiful, but I had to run away screaming!

Dear Ms. Martel,
Firstly, I happen to abhor Fox…er….News, finding it wildly partisan and utterly disinterested in “fair and balanced” coverage. But your ignorance and prejudice with regard to homeschoolers, shows in this post. Take your sentence: “Not that those left of center have remained silent while home schooling proponents bash the alleged indoctrination the government is sponsoring.” Not all homeschoolers in Texas are “bash[ing’ the alleged indoctrination the government is sponsoring”. .Homeschoolers are not one undifferentiated mass of folks of the same persuasion. Believe me, they sit in every spot on the political spectrum. Learn that, please. Say: “some homeschoolers” or “conservative homeschoolers”, if that’s what you mean.

You also say that there is “little noise coming from liberal cable news pundits about the increasingly loud push for semi-auto-didactic learning (with parents) from conservatives.” Again, I and other non-conservative home schoolers would appreciate it if you educated yourself on the make-up of the homeschooling community before you weighed in. Parents from all kinds of political backgrounds are hardly “pushing for semi-auto-didactic learning”. If by “semi-auto-didactic learning” you mean homeschooling in many rich and various ways, we are engaging in it, as is our right. We are certainly trying to insist that anyone else do it.

Finally, if you think that “it is strange that liberals haven’t embraced the narrative that homeschooling is laden with pitfalls in the same way that conservatives argue the opposite about public school, than you must live inside a sealed can in your basement. I assure you that many of my fellow liberals have embraced that narrative fully. Homeschooling has grown over the last 20 years despite a fierce constant barrage of unfounded criticisms by those who know absolutely nothing about it. If you’d like to educate yourself on the facts of homeschooling and its participants, you may want to start with Milton Gaither’s 2008 book, “Homeschooling, An American History”. He also has a blog. The reality of who supports what kind of education options is a lot more subtle than you imply.

Respectfully,
Jen Downey, Home Schooler and Non-conservative

Royal-A: “how ill-prepared they are to deal with the diverse sort of people we all have to come to know during the course of our lives.” What a line of shit!

So I suppose family, relatives, community, church, friends, vacations, shopping malls, parties, television, internet, movies, etc. somehow don’t socialize these kids.
Now if you want to prepare your kid to fuck, get pregnant, do drugs, drop out, and be basically illiterate, then by all means, send them to public schools.

You do realize, of course, Azarkhan, in your foul-mouthed and vile last sentence you have paradoxically just described the state of one of your Tea Party’s adored figures and keynote speaker?

“As one who went to private school, indeed boarding school…”

Thank you Royal A. Now I understand why your comments reek with arrogance and condescension.
And why you never reference any source in your comments. I guess you learned everything you needed to know 40 years ago. If anyone needs a primer in how to deal with the “diverse sort of people we all have to come to know during the course of our lives”, it is you.

Vile? Really? See, now most people would say “blunt”. But a well-educated propagandist like you goes for the exaggeration and the drama.

“Why should liberals be opposed to home schooling?”

Because one of the liberals sacred milk cows is the NEA union. They rely on it for votes and money. And since most of them send their kids to private schools, or live in mostly white upscale neighborhoods where the schools are in decent shape, they don’t care about how crummy the education is for the rest of us.

Azarkhan says:
March 10, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Vile? Really? See, now most people would say “blunt”.

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Perhaps people that don’t object to your word selection. Get a thesaurus. You can express this thought without foul language. Of course, the butt of your comments will still be about your great hero and her family.

By all means, continue to castigate hard-working teachers who not only have to try to knock some sense into your dimwitted children but also try to fill in all of the parenting gaps and scars left behind by those too busy to find time to be parents. If I were a rightist, I’d resent your speaking for me. Crude. Vacuous. As it is, I find you terribly amusing, in a dirty joke sort of way.

“all of the parenting gaps and scars left behind by those too busy to find time to be parents”

Obviously you’re talking about parents who both work, or single moms or dads. Sorry Royal A, everyone doesn’t have your kind of money. You know, I bet that’s why you have all that trouble with “white guilt” and self-loathing. You really ought to look into that.

Wait a minute. In several posts, RK has accused me of being a well to do white person who has never had a hard time. (He did this to argue that I shouldn’t refer to Louie Farrakhan as a racist.) Yet he went to private school, and I went to an inner city hell hole during high school. How ironic.

See Royal, the problem is you sound like a classical LBRUL elitist.

You must know better by now. In order to address the knuckle dragging Fox gNOpig Propaganda defenders, you must learn to speak Baboon Beck or KKKlownnity or Moose Boogers, you know, with catchy empty slogans and cliches, pretending to be just one more voice in the mob that is going to take back ‘merikuh and make it just like jeebuz intended in the first place.

Father Billdo said it best, WHITE, MALE POWER STRUCTURE.

Empty slogans? Isn’t that what he’s been using?

The Baboon, why, yes!

And his Royal highness.

Billdo?

Not so much. But he does like to make up euphemisms and hide behind coy insults then pretend he never resorts to name calling.

Tell me, do you consider yourself a “pinhead” or a “patriot” And don’t answer with “poppycock”

Although Bill does have on opposing viewpoints. Unlike KO on the show opposite his. Could be why Bill continuously stomps KO in the ratings.

Ah, the good ol’ jacking off with the “all important demo”

Tell us, are the Baboon’s viewers the same as Billdo’s and the same as KKKlownnity’s?

Do viewers watch them for the “news” or for their idiotic paranoid conspiracies and ignorant remarks?

And the trio of idiots in the morning, including the most recent installment of this series. Is it “news” or filler?

Eats you up, doesn’t it, that ‘your side’ has such shitty ratings? What’s the matter, feel out of touch with your far left viewpoints? People think you can’t debate without calling names and pitching tantrums like a two year old? Where would they get such an idea? Here, let me save you some time in having to make further posts.

“Fox News. Fox News. You’re a racist. You’re a racist. I hate Palin. I hate Fox. I hate white people. Fox News, Fox News, blah, blah, blah, curse word, curse word, blah, blah, I hate white people, I hate Palin, curse word, curse word, blah, blah, blah.

Have you ever thought of becoming an anesthesiologist?

You are quite mistaken if you think the “left side” is a monolith listening to one single voice and following its direction. There are plenty of voices expressing different degrees of agreement, or disagreement, on a given subject. If you want to use that fallacy depicting the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network as the single voice of conservative “news” pitted against the rest of the “LBRUL” media, YOU FAIL. Because the total number of viewers watching OTHER news channels, be it in cable or open broadcast, is bigger than the numbers of your beloved Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network.

You wingnut morons love to scream “FOX, FAIR AND BALANCED” one second and then “FOX, THE ANSWER TO LBRUL MEDIA” the next, then start jacking off with the “ratings” as if the Baboon, Billdo and KKKlownnity were beacons of objectivity.

Do you agree or disagree with the Baboon’s characterization, and recent support from KKKlownnity, that President Barack Hussein Obama “is a racist” spouted with the trio of clowns in the morning without any of them objecting to such insulting statement.

Because if you agree, I suggest you need a visit to your Proctologist to help you with your headaches.

Oh, my. I’ve angered you, and you’re usually so rational. As for Obama being a racist, I doubt that he is. However, his pastor for twenty years is, and over the weekend he and his best friend Louis Farrakhan (a well known racist) gave themselves awards for being such great guys. So since Obama gave that bullshit story that he attended a racist church for twenty years and had no idea how Wright felt, and since his pastor hangs around with an avowed racist, then it’s not that far out to think that possibly Obama has the same sentiments. But you on the far left think that only whites can be racist, and never met a black ass you didn’t want to kiss. Only an idiot or a self-loathing white would listen to Wright and Farrakhan slam white people and not give a damn. So blow it out your ass, you far left nut job.

writer, ya can’t really blame these people (above) for they know not what they do. It’s sad but true.

I’m not usually so blunt, but in Mr. Bovine’s case, a bit of his own medicine is called for. Look forward to it.

LOL!

Gotta get those spinning wheels nice and greasy.

The Baboon’s statement was not ABOUT anyone else but President Obama.

Your “poppycock” answer shows how afraid you are of admitting the Baboon, Billdo, and KKKlownnity, appeal to morons, RACIST MORONS because since you listen the the Baboon and are afraid to call his BS, “then it’s not that far out to think possibly you have the same sentiments”

Or you also think Catholic priest, Father Michael Pfleger attending the same event and receiving the same type of honorific mention is also a racist?

Obviously, in my post above, the last line of the second paragraph should read, “We are certainly not trying to insist…”

Pfleger is a self-loathing white, like you Bovine. That is, if you’re white. If you’re a black radical like Wright or Farrakhan, at least your hatred of whites is a little more understandable. But if you’re white, and can listen to Farrakhan call whites “blue eyed devils” and “the anti-Christ”, and then turn around and defend that, you’re both self-loathing and an idiot. You far left imbeciles will yell racism all day long at fellow whites, but if one of your beloved blacks is a racist, you bend over backwards to ignore it. You’re truly pathetic.

“Or you also think Catholic priest, Father Michael Pfleger attending the same event and receiving the same type of honorific mention is also a racist?”

As someone else said, those three are perfect for each other. The two blacks hate whites, and the white hates himself.

I wonder what goes through Pfleger’s mind when Farrakhan is on one of his anti-white rants? He thinks they actually like him? They see him as one of them? Talk about a useful idiot.

WHOA!

Quite a series of interesting statements there.

“Pfleger is a self-loathing white” OK. You forgot he is also a Christian Catholic priest.

black radical like Wright OK. You forgot he professes to be a Christian.

black radical like Wright or Farrakhan OK. You have a point there, since I do not approve of extremist views mixing extreme religious and political rhetoric.

And I am not defending them, you moron. I was putting you back on track regarding the Baboon’s comments and his viewers. Conservatives like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan cringed at the Baboon’s stupidity.

But looks like you adore it. Say, are you filling your 2010 Census form? or are you going to follow the Baboon’s instructions?

Mr.GlennBovineKoldys, are you a baboon?

Come on now, ‘fess up! You are a baboon, aren’t you?

I knew it! You so often use the word in your comments that I just knew you were a baboon. Listen, I’m OK with that. Like you, I believe in celebrating diversity. So go ahead with your baboon ways, sniffing up other baboon’s butts. Enjoy!

BTW, I think you just go by GlennBaboon. It’s much shorter, and easier for us to remember.

Mr.GlennBovineKoldys,

Your using that “baboon” word again. Shame on you! I thought you wanted to keep the fact that you’re a baboon secret.

You golden Baboon Beck is not going to be happy with such explicit comment.

I see my work here is done. Glenn Beck, the shit flinging Baboon, GlennBaboon for short, it is.

Now the far left, which is always mocking religion, is using it as a defense. What a laugh. Bovine, you originally were outraged at Beck suggesting Obama is a racist. Since his pastor is, and since his pastor’s best friend is, it’s not that far out to suggest that Obama might be too. And if you want to talk about stupid, you should watch Keith Olbermann. Like you, anytime he’s presented with opinions other than his own, he melts down and foams at the mouth. Now that’s entertainment!

Clown, I said I do not approve of extremists mixing political stances with religious dogma.

So I don’t care if it is the Pope with Allah and Buddah sitting on a tree, the minute any idiot wants to mix political and human rights with religious dogma, they are out of their mind, they are plain ignorant.

Which goes back to the topic of this thread. The common recurring theme that “LBRULS” and “LBRUL” public schools want to “damage” the xtian education every ‘merkuhn child should receive and one of the indoctrination tools are “LBRUL” textbooks.

Douchey bag has this ongoing series as fodder for the ignorant Fox gNOpig Propaganda sheep. You can count on it as sure as Billdo’s “war on xmas.” By the way, you morons, did you notice the inclusion of an opposing point of view to the tripe spewed by Douchey Bag and Carlson?

So much for “fair and balanced,” you morons.

Dogma and religion, blah, blah. Nice diversion from the fact that Obama’s favorite preacher is a racist. And liberals have already damaged the public schools, to the point that most of them are unsafe hell holes. Social engineering, busing for racial balance, all that crap was another nail in the coffin of public education. Yet you far left assholes keep yelling for more of the same.

I see you are running out of arguments, clown.

I already told you I don’t condone ANY preacher of ANY faith DELIVERING political opinion. Which obviously is your position and one you can’t defend since it goes directly to Douchey Bag’s and Carlson’s tripe about “LBRUL” textbooks in public schools.

“public schools… unsafe hell holes” Oh, I am sure you can provide proof of such claim. I am sure you are going to provide examples of how you attended public school and were made to kiss big bad black dong behind the bleachers.

Say, blackthong, are you still enjoying your sport of ogling 13 yr. old girls?

No, kissing the black dongs is definitely your thing. I’m the racist, remember? You’re the enlightened one. But the Washington D.C. school system is one of the best examples of the left’s ‘help’. By the mid-60s, the school system had to offer large salaries, referred to as ‘combat pay’, to lure teachers to the system. In spite of numerous federal programs, such as Head Start, lower teacher/pupil ratios, higher teacher pay and more public assistance, the system continues to fail. More public money was poured in with the Movement to Opportunity program to put inner city students into surrounding communities. This program resulted in no better test scores and more failure. Violence has escalated not only in D.C., but in school systems throughout the country. Liberals blame this decline on insufficient funding, yet more money is being spent than ever before and grades continue to decline. The sources are the Wall Street Journal in an article titled Money Isn’t Everything, The Atlantic article Growing Up Scared, and the New York Times article Crime Draws Blueprints for Schools. So now, Bovine, besides ignoring black racism, you can ignore the shape the public schools are in.

“No, kissing the black dongs is definitely your thing. I’m the racist, remember?”

…You really can’t make this stuff up.

I love this website for its content, but a good portion of the commenters are nuts.

Don’t say nuts and dongs in the same sentence. Hee, hee. Yeah, it went a little off the rails, but Bovine has been hateful and insulting for so long, I decided to play along for a change. Shits and giggles, as the Brits say.