The election is over. Barack Obama won, and congratulations to him and his supporters. So long as his policies don't conflict with the constitution or my moral compass, I will support him. I will point it out when he is wrong, but he will very soon be MY President, and as such deserves every respect of the office to which he was elected. It is unfortunate that too many people did not give George Bush the same courtesy. I hope that all people on the right will do the same, and support their new president.
With that said, here is a video, which shows how tenure is a bad idea in schools. Spending in schools over the last 40 years has more than doubled, yet the results are the same. In 1970 we were spending an average of $4,060 per student in 2006-2007 dollars. In 2005, we were spending $9,266. (Heritage Foundation) While there have been slight improvements in performance by age 9, by age 13 and 17 those gains in performance drop off to at or below performance levels in 1970. Obviously throwing more money at schools is not working. But tenure and the teachers unions have made it nearly impossible to get rid of teachers that are not performing. Here is a video of a teacher who is an Obama supporter, who needs to be let go from her teaching job. What she does to the little girl who says she supports John McCain is embarrassing, and alone should be cause for administrative discipline at a minimum. But that's not how it usually works in American public schools nowadays. Most kids get stuck in liberalism factories and are taught WHAT to think, not HOW to think. I know this is not representative of all teachers, and I know not all schools are bad schools. But there are too many for the next generation to come out better than they were 40-50 years ago.
Hattip for the video to www.Glennbeck.com
27 comments:
Somebody should explain to this..uh.."teacher"..what exactly "brow beating" is.
She's probably got tenure.
Yeah, I thought that was funny, too.
I asked my boys if anybody mentioned the election the day before and they said it never even came up in class. I'm thinkin that's good.
It's a shame that teachers like this give so many teachers a bad name. But there are just so many bad teachers. I don't think it's a majority, but more than there should be. But they can't be fired unless the sleep with a student or something crazy. If a preacher talks about a conservative candidate during a sermon, the church is liable to lose their non-profit status, but a teacher can punish kids who disagree politically, even 4th graders. It's sad.
What's scary is that the new prez has talked about possible mandatory preschool. We'll probably end up like England where they now are teachin sex ed to six yr olds.
The problem with the way school is nowadays is that they start bombarding kids with information so early, and teach in such a way that kids begin to hate it. When I went to kindergarten, it was a half-day thing. Now, they expect kids to read and write before they go into kindergarten, and they go for a full day. I believe both Hillary and Barack both wanted full-day pre-school. The problem is, kids are starting out faster, but they begin to hate it. Performance is not any better, dropouts are the same or worse, the government is expanded, but there is no improvement. The system they are pusing for gives kids less time with their family and more time with the government. You see that in this election the 'youth vote' pushed Obama over the top. If the Democrats get kids in school earlier, they can get more time liberlizing them so that they will be Democrats for longer, keeping the liberals in power.
When we went to kgarten, they also taught shapes and colors during our half day. Shoot, Reck probably had nap time! Now they're expected to know that goin in, and tons more go to pre-school now.
I'm not sure I buy that the reason our youth is mostly democratic is because of the liberalism pushed in schools, tho. Little too conspiracy-ist for me.
Our ideals are different when we're 20 than when we're 40. We want everybody to be helped. Our eyes are big and our pocketbooks small. We're not thinking about what's best for our kids cuz we don't have any, so it's more about what's best for us.
I think of when I was a minor, and I would not have wanted a law where I had to inform a parent if I chose to terminate a pregnancy. Now I don't think that's such a bad idea.
We grow up and think differently. Or we don't. Or there are those freaks who are conservatives when they're young. I mean that in the most loving way, of course.
Well, I was about 26 when I became a conservative, does that make me a freak?
Yes. Yes it does.
In the most loving way possible. Yes. ;)
I became a bona fide conservative at 18. Reagan spoke he truth and I was fortunate enough to recognize it. My fam was split, both lib and conserv, so I made up my own mind regardin politics (case anyone is thinkin that parental influence was the key). Ok, the anyone is Linda.
Actually, the youth vote wasn't that much greater than normal. It was the independents and strong minority votes that won this thing for Obama.
To be honest, even tho I think BO is gonna go way left, and I know elections aren't supposed to be about race; I'm feelin proud a my country for electin a black American..
Conservative at 18? Maybe fiscally, but I'd be surprised if socially, you were livin the "conservative" lifestyle at 18. Not many of us were.
Get ready for your kids to make up their own minds regardless of what their parents think. I know you'll be supportive no matter what.
I'm glad an African American will be president, too. High time. It's always good when an obstacle has been overcome.
I think it's 'good' that a black man has been elected president, except he is so far to the left that he is going to be a bad example. He is already going way left in his talking points. But, I'm glad that race is no longer an issue for the vast majority of Americans.
I do think that if he was running against a decent conservative he would have lost. Even someone who isn't terribly conservative, but has charisma. Rudy Giuliani could have beaten Obama. Rudy has the ideas, leadership, experience and the charisma to have beaten Obama. But Giuliani's Florida approach was a bad strategy, and with no TRUE conservative running, (I know about Duncan Hunter, Reck) conservatives were stuck trying to pick between Romney, Thompson, Huckabee and Giuliani. All of the moderates went for McCain, so he ended up with the majority of the vote. Since there was no conservative able to ignite the base, we got McCain. For a guy with no charisma who was outspent 5:1 and had to deal with the media who was totally sold out for Obama, the old guy did well. A real conservative, or even a moderate with charisma would have won this election, which gives me hope for 2012. Obama will probably be so bad, that the Republican nominee will win in a landslide, (a real landslide, not an electoral college landslide)assuming Obama doesn't dissolve Congress and make himself Emperor.
Did you guys hear there are people already trying to make a Federal Holiday for Obama? The guy isn't even sworn in yet and people want to give him a holiday?
I did hear that. What a joke.
I totally disagree with you, though, regarding a decent conservative winning. In my opinion, I don't care who you put Obama up against, it was time for a regime change. The pendulum had swung, and it was going that way unless the democrats had an obvious loser in their camp. Guiliani? No way. I'm predicting Obama goes 8 years. You heard it here first.
Obama will go either 4 years, or he becomes a dictator. You heard it here first.
I have some predictions. In Obama's four years in office we will see an attack on the US that causes over 10,000 deaths. You will also see either an Israeli attack on Iran, or vice versa. I don't know if this will cause WWIII, but I'm leaning towards it. I would guess Obama will try and stay neutral, but France, who has said it would attack Iran if necessary would get involved and Obama would say something like; "Crap! The (expletive) French are going to fight? I'll look like a punk if I don't do something"
The problem is, the people in Congress like Barney Fife, I mean Frank, and Charlie "the tax evader who writes tax law" Rangel want to cut defense spending about 25%. The military will be very weak and not as capable as it should be. I think there will be massive casualties before the administration gets its act together. I also predict that if all of the above occurs during Obama's administration that you won't get death toll figures on the news 15 times per day.
BTW, I REEEAAAALLLLYYYY hope I'm wrong, it's just what I see though.
Eeek. I really hope you're wrong, too!
Oh, one more piece of info on this. The lady in the video teaches at a school near Ft. Bragg. Way to tell kids in a town that only exists because of the US military that the men and women who are providing her a job, let alone her freedom are fighting a senseless war.
Why is it "believable" for an 18 yr old to become politically aware (like Clinton when he met JFK) but not for an teenager (who's) conservative. Yes, I was a conservative at 18. This doesn't mean I was livin a "morally" correct lifestyle, but I was a fiscal (and social) conservative, who was hypocritical on some social issues.
It is surprisin how close the election was.
I'm callin it the "Palin effect" :)
ok
It's not that it's not believable, it's just...it's like an oxymoron in my mind. Teenage conservative. Like when Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties was in the Young Republicans club. It was funny. Cuz it's not the way teens usually lean. It's nothing personal.
Maybe it's cuz I grew up here, but to my knowledge I've never known a person who considers themselves a conservative, much less a teenage one.
That's not to say it doesn't happen plenty. I understand.
(especially down in freaky texasville where y'all live.)
:)
Linda,
"freaky texasville"?
Texas: "I crap bigger than Michigan" ;)
My point exactly. :)
Sittin in your folks car (w/ no a/c) for three hrs (in August) waitin to get gas has a way a wakin you up to just exactly what liberalism (think Carter) and conservatism (think Reagan) is. Plus, from a young age I worked in my uncle's campaigns stuffin envelopes, goin door to door, etc. So politics wasn't a foreign subject to me. Tearin down the opponents signs was a blast btw (public areas only).
Actually, when I was a kid the dims ruled Texas (tho some were true conservative democrats). My unc wasn't tho, VERY liberal.
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