| claudo | 02.20.07 - 12:12 pm | #
Claudo... I was hoping that you were smarter than that regarding this issue. You're lost.
Jeremiah | 02.20.07 - 12:14 pm | #
John T,
My wife works. She supports that family. And, if I could find a job that would pay me $75,000 after taxes, I might go back to work. Because that is how much is costs to sent three children to private school.
John | 02.20.07 - 12:17 pm | #
I grew up in a very apolitical household. I can count on fingers of one hand the number of times that either of my parents expressed a political opinion. So when I got out into the adult world and started paying attention to politics, I found that I agreed (primarily) with one group and disagreed with another. Then I started to wonder where I got my political opinions, if not from my folks and the answers were pretty obvious: public school and popular entertainment.
Woody Allen's bon mots aside, life is *not* like high school and the disconnect between what I'd been taught and life in the adult world led me to question. Needless to say, when I began to question, my opinions changed - sometimes drastically.
Second, since I was something of an introvert and usually above my grade level, I hung out with the teachers whenever possible. (They were so much more interesting to talk to than the other kids.) When they got to know me, they would say the things that people always say when "it's just us chickens" and I got to know what they *really* thought.
I ate it up, but with rare exceptions, they were all of the same political and cultural stripe.
Finally, I don't think that everything I was taught was wrong; just very one-sided.
rocinante | 02.20.07 - 12:22 pm | #
Stosh,
Two of my children have great teachers. They are wonderful. My third child has a teacher that does not seem to be cut out to be a teacher but she does not seem to be too motivated to find a new career. I feel as if I have to do her job.
John | 02.20.07 - 12:23 pm | # John T,
Yes. Any good private school in my area costs $25,000 per year per child.
John | 02.20.07 - 12:25 pm | #
Yep, justice makes one sound and a railroad makes another.
Look at it this way: If an undocumented transportation worker in the hallucinogen-distribution business refuses to stop for law- enforcement officers at a border crossing, that's what the software people call a "feature". When trained, certified, sworn-to-protect-and-defend peace officers break procedural rules and allegedly use excessive force, that's what the software people call a "bug". While I think law-enforcement should be held to a higher standard, I also think that they should get an even bigger benefit-of-the-doubt than your Ordinary Decent Criminal.
If a cop shows a well-documented *pattern* of misbehavior, throw the book, but if there's any case for these guys being "bad cops" other than this one incident, I haven't heard it.
And hey, 98 Branch Davidians can't be wrong...
rocinante | 02.20.07 - 12:30 pm | #
My god you people are ignorant. It is crystal clear that almost none of you have ever listened to Boortz's show, which is syndicated nationwide.
He is a libertarian, not a conservative, and certainly not a "neo con" as some asshats on here are harping about.
Martin | 02.20.07 - 12:32 pm | #
Well, i worked all my life to be able to work at home, make my money, pursue my "greedy" capitalist/Libertarian lifestyle and so now I must head off to lunch.
goaway | 02.20.07 - 12:33 pm | #
Gotta disagree with you there, Chief. Cops are trained to shoot at "center-of-mass", which translates as the upper torso. While you are more likely to survive a .40 hollow-point to the chest than to the head, it's not exactly what I'd call non-lethal.
Sad to say, cops are not marksmen. My cop friends spend more time on paperwork than at the range. (Most only have to "qualify" annually or semi-annualy.) The ones who care about their marksmanship practice on their own time with their own ammo.
rocinante | 02.20.07 - 12:36 pm | #
stosh: Outside the classroom was an adjunct; a further revelation of where my teachers were "coming from".
rocinante | 02.20.07 - 12:38 pm | #
And you would like to see the whole public school system go to the private sector.
And just how would you expect most people to afford it?
john t
One more quickie, yes I would. Once again, the government needs to be in or lives as little as possible. Most people could afford it if they stayed out of government schools and learned a trade, went to work got home schooled. GOT RESPONSIBLE. QUIT WATCHING AMERICAN iDOL, VOTE FOR SOMETHING THAT MATTERS blah, blah blah.
goaway | 02.20.07 - 12:42 pm | # The cost of our schools would go down based on completion. As it stands now, there really is no need for our public schools to cut their costs. I do not think that I have ever known of a school that operated under budget.
John | 02.20.07 - 12:49 pm | #
ProfessorDuh | 02.20.07 - 12:23 pm |
Would you agree with the statement 'Many contemporary American "progressives/liberals" ARE socialists or communists. That's not an insult - it's simply an accurate description.'?
Of course, we'd have to discuss what constitutes "many"...
rocinante | 02.20.07 - 12:49 pm | # stosh: "...come from another point of view?" No, a variety of points of view.
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking in the second question, but we can safely agree that the parents who objected to "Doctor Zhivago" did so out of ignorance.
I had a similar experience: One of the few "stand out" teachers I had made us read "The Communist Manifesto" and then he challenged the class to a debated, with him taking the Communist position. Had half the kids and parents convinced *he* was a Communist, when in fact he "tricked" us into demolishing Marx in about 72 hours.
rocinante | 02.20.07 - 12:58 pm | # |
