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The education industry is so rife with liberal, marxist idealogues it is no wonder they cannot fathom that parents are finally fed up with their sorry performance in educating children. As a group (union) their main drive is to enrich their members and increase the number of members in the union, not work harder to educate children. They are consistently against any type of reform such as pay according to perfrmance. Like any other union, seniority is the main gauge of how pay is determined. Schools need to do real reform, institute performance metrics, and get rid of tenure. All tenure has done is to permanently empower incompetent teachers to do whatever they want to, such as indoctrinate children in Marxist philosophy. We have ample proof of these teachers pushing their "progressive" ideas on their students. They push the hoax of global warming, homosexual agendas, as well as attacks on our second amendment rights rather than teaching the three "Rs". Parents that spend thousands of dollars sending their children to college should also demand that those entities should also reform. Universities are were these radical liberal policies were originally incubated and individuals were graduated as teachers to go forth and push these agendas in elementary schoos and highschools. As it stands today anyone with a conservative mind does not dare let it be known to their professors, lest they be attacked and given lower grades. Left-wingers tout that they are all about "free" speech and thought, but in practice when someone has contrary ideas to theirs, they attack that person and try to shut them down rather than debate the idea. Just look at how the current administration, congressional leaders, and liberal media attack and demonize people attending tea parties.

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Will Obama Deny Bill Ayers' Accusation?

Anne Leary from Illinois blogs at Backyard Conservative. I've had a lot of contact with Anne, mostly because of my interest in the Rod Blagojevich fiasco last winter. Anne strikes me as a completely straight shooter.

I felt an immediate connection to Anne because of the description she used to use on her blog as to why she started blogging: "This blog is a product of over 25 years of biting my tongue in polite society." A kindred spirit, for sure. Anne, if you are not going to use that phrase anymore, can I use it?

In a much publicized blog post yesterday, Anne wrote of her chance encounter with Bill Ayers (former Weatherman terrorist, and political enabler of Barack Obama) at Reagan National Airport. After reciting some of their initial conversation, Anne states that Ayers admitted he ghost authored Dreams From My Father:

Way to go, California parents! It's so good to see responsible parents for once!

Tenure really is the worst thing. How has this ever made any sense? I remember in middle & high school, there was a "teacher" there who was the bane of my parents' existence. This guy did NOTHING. Classroom time was spent goofing off. Officially, he taught "drama" as if that's a full time job. Though not discussed in the polite society of my home, the students knew he was teh ghey. But it was more of his do-nothingness that sent my & others' parents to every school board meeting demanding his removal. Several years later, it finally happened.

we mostly homeschooled ours in cali - believe it or not, some of the smaller school districts have the best programs - most public schools suck hind teat, however.

cali made a deal with the devil (feds) when many communities were enlisted (for dollars) to take hmong and laotian refugees - in norcal they outnumbered others 10/1 in some cases. we have many friends there who chose to put their children in private or home school because they were failing due to the extra attention foreigners (hispanic and others also) needed.

i'm with karin - tenure ruins an otherwise good teacher.

EXCUSE ME...!!! but these parents are the same butt biscuits that have been voting in the very people that created this educational cesspool for goodness sakes.

And NOW they want it fixed? Now they want the educational system we conservatives have been trying for decades to enact for our children? Now they've discovered that libs are liars and cheats? Now they've discovered one of the truths of the liberal welfare plantation?

Screw 'em! They made the bed, now lie down on it jerks.

At one time, former Colorado guv'nuh Roy Romer served as superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District. I don't know how effective he was. He served for several years. I remember I almost ran into him, literally, in Denver International Airport. It was two days after Christmas and the airport was teeming with people. I was waiting in baggage claim when I had to stop short of running into a man who was in a hurry and was not watching where he was going. My sister-in-law told me it was Roy Romer. He didn't say "excuse me" or "sorry" or anything. He just kept on going sort of in a zombie state of mind. Anyone out there have a report on his term of superintendent of LA schools?

Bruce,
It appears that the majority of liberal teachers don't care about teaching the three Rs to students, and instead consider it much more important to teach them the three S's: Sex ed, "Self- esteem," and "Social justice."

As it stands today anyone with a conservative mind does not dare let it be known to their professors, lest they be attacked and given lower grades.

Wrong. I was kicked out of a handful of classes because I called bullshit and refuted every piece of garbage I heard that was claimed to be "fact."

I was repeatedly called (by professors and students)...
a racist (because I spoke up about the nonsense of affirmative action, expressed my hatred for Sharpton/Jackson/Durbin),
a heretic (I think they were stretching for words, they don't know what heretic actually means),
a hatemonger (because I believe in the rule of law and the even hand of punishment),
an evil person (because I supported,
a whackjob (because I supported the war in Iraq/Afghanistan),
a murderer (because I supported capital punishment).

Needless to say, they were tenured and thus, nothign could be done about their stupidity.

SK, there's an update on the Ayers story. I have no doubt he did just what Anne Leary describes, but now he's pretending like it didn't happen. I think she handled it well, since she called him a liar from the start, and as it turns out, even if he didn't write Obama's book (and I think he did), he's lying to someone, because they still haven't repealed the law of logic that states that two mutually contradictory statements can't be true at the same time.

By what twisted, backwards, Leftard logic does anyone reckon that 'freedom of choice' was a "favorite word, ah, phrase, of Southern segregationists?" Segregation was about anything but. Wasn't that kind of the point?

I'm sorry, but I don't see the connection between the two. And it's rather interesting that this is apparently a segregationist idea, yet I see here a large, mostly-black crowd coming out in favor of it...

Ah, the moonbat mind at work.

I was "right on" and "uh-HUH" and "you got THAT right!" every time the parents talked about wanting more choices and a brighter future for their children.

Have you ever noticed that the Left is only in favor of "choice" on the subject of abortion? They could care less about it when the subject is health care, education, gun ownership.....

And NOW they want it fixed? Now they want the educational system we conservatives have been trying for decades to enact for our children? Now they've discovered that libs are liars and cheats? Now they've discovered one of the truths of the liberal welfare plantation?
Posted by: chuck in st paul at October 7, 2009 6:55 AM

I understand your thinking, Chuck, but come on. Better late than never, right?

You know what they say - a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. There's something about having kids that sort of smacks reality into a person, like a cold shower of truth.