“Nobody's being penalized; everyone gets a free 13-year education.”
Yea even if its substandard. Whoopie
“Do you want the country to go back to being illiterate dirt farmers as long as they go to church on Sunday?”
So everyone was illiterate? I think my parents received a far better education then my children got in public schools. Public schools are not what they once were.
Do you think there should be socialized medicine? Or, do you think people should be able to choose? Dumb question…….of course you’d be for socialized medicine.
“The job of the school is to provide information: condoms, birth control, and STD's and the like are a part of that information. If you don't like it, take your kid out of school. Or just out of the class; it isn't forced on any child over a parent's objections.”
Yes, and not about sex. Sex education should not be taught at school. This is not a basic. It should be, whether or it is or not, taught at home. No teacher should be telling my child how to put on a condom.
My kids are out of college so I don’t have to take them out. But I’ll say this…….had I to do it all over again, no way would I send my kids to public schools. I’d beg, borrow and steal before sending them there.
“If kids have too much sex, blame the parents, not the schools. We don't teach the students morals. That's your job.”
Oh yea right………tell that to Ward Churchhill and others like him.
Of course you think schools are not to blame for everything, you’re a liberal. There is no right or wrong, right?
“I know that my class just finished reading the Crucible, in which the primary conflict is whether it is better to sin and live, or tell the truth and die, and whether you can be a good Christian if you have committed mortal sins in the past, or if that hypocrisy ruins your ability to stand for a moral idea.”
And of course you don’t share your opinions or views with your students, right? By discussing this with them you would be entering into a theological debate of sorts. In order to discuss this you would have to know what a good Christian is. Do you?
“You and I were both educated in American public schools. Are you sure that the schools are the deciding factor that made you and I different?”
I know that when I went to elementary school the basics were taught. We respected authority and our parents respected our teachers and they made us accountable to them. My teachers cared about our learning. Didn’t you say you hated kids and you did it for the money?
“I have never been influenced in any way, shape, or form by the NEA or any other teachers' union in terms of my curriculum. They have no say over me. None.”
So you do not belong to the teachers union?
You do not have to follow your Board of Education or districts core curriculums guidelines? No state guidelines either?
You just walk into your classroom and teach and cover what you think is important? I don't believe it.
“Parents do receive a free education for their kids; if you want something more than that, you need to pay for it -- because getting more than what everyone is entitled to is not a right, it is a privilege.”
If there were not any other options then fine that would be a parents only choice. But there are choices.
If true equity meant the ability for every child to attend good quality schools in their own neighborhoods then fine………but schools vary in different areas and in many cities public schools are substandard. So why should a parent be forced to send their children there? Because its free it good? Our country guarantees to every school age child an equal educational opportunity through our public schools. Do the majority of kids get this? If you say yes, then why are we ranked so low as compared to other countries? We rank towards the bottom.
“but whether or not you are happy with your children's education doesn't mean much more than a fart in the wind, if you'll forgive the vulgarity.”
Of course it doesn’t to you, your receiving a pay check and you don’t have children in the system. You hate children right? You probably could care less if they receive a good education.
The LEFT does not want vouchers because they don’t want to masses going to religious schools.
Our present system locks the majority of children in our present failing schools.
Even public school teachers send their children to private schools.
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“Ummm, taking money from people through taxes and handing it out to people who did not earn it so they can send their kids to the school of their choice sounds a lot like, well, socialism to me.”
What do you mean handing it out to people who didn’t earn it? All kids get a free education you said so yourself……..do all these parents work? NO.
But that wouldn’t be bad to you, I get the feeling you are a socialist. Am I right?
“No school teaches pagan studies. We don't teach religion.”
Yea right. You said yourself you have discussions about Christianity. You mean to tell me through your interaction with kids you never let them know your position? You never enter into any religious discussion?
You are talking about religion in a sense and you might just be teaching it through your comments.
“Yet you know enough to be sure what students should be taught in schools? That we should teach abstinence only? That the history we teach now is revisionist and focuses on the wrong ideals? That students are being force-fed liberal ideas in order to make them more compliant to government control? How does that work?”
The basics. And if sex education is taught then the truth should go with it. To avoid pregnancy, to avoid STD’s you don’t have sex.
“Prove to me that there is any chance that the universe was created by an intelligent being. Use logic and evidence, please, so there is no question of your proof being objective. If you can prove that there is a chance of this being true, I'll accept it as possible.”
You try to get out of the question I ask you. Honey, I am not the one who says she has proof……..YOU DO. Ha ha You make the claim, the absolute statement.
I have faith that what I have witnessed in my life, what I feel in my heart to be true….. that there is a creator. I never said anything about proving anything. You say there is no creator….but you can't prove it. You cant, even with all the logic in the world, you can't. You think those that have faith are weak………but you have faith in what you read and observe to be true.
“It isn't true. Why should I (or anyone) lie to make you happy? I am sure, and until you can prove me wrong, I will remain sure.”
What isn’t true, that there is no creator? Again where is your 100% proof? Then please tell me what the first cause was? How did it happen, where and why?
You don’t have to lie……present the facts.
“I don't think you get to say that you are respectful of the feelings of others, nor that you take their feelings into consideration before you use certain phrases that you know will hurt their feelings. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.”
Then give me an example of someone I have called a name that is demeaning.
and dont use pagan.....that is not a demeaning term.
“Again, you are not the person to be lecturing others on respecting alternate views. You are not the person to be criticizing others for name-calling. You are not the person to speak of being hated.”
Again, who have I called anything demeaning, give me an example.
Because I am a Christian I am intolerant. IMO it's those who hate Christians and people of faith that are the intolerant ones.
“And he can't prove there was no creator because one can't prove a negative (surely you've heard this before?). But since you can't prove there is even the possibility that there was a creator, using logic and evidence, there is less than no reason to accept your thesis that it is a possibility: reason dictates that we reject it as false. One does not need to prove the antithesis true to make your thesis false; one needs merely to show that your thesis is based on faulty logic or false evidence.”
Again I am not the one trying to prove anything. You make a statement, there is NO creator. I ask you for 100% proof, evidence, show me what you have?
“Oh, poor little alien blob of slime.”
You’re a pagan, a teacher, you hate kids and you don’t influence them at school……..and I have some swampland in florida…….You don’t call names and demean anyone…….and whose the hypocrite? What a role model you must be for your students........you know the ones you hate. :rofl
