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Doug Hoffman: The Glenn Beck Candidate

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harpsicon11/01/2009 6:10:39 pm PST

re: #361 wozzablog

Conservatives are in favour of educational reform in everyway possible as long as it doesn’t need paying for.

Businesses also bemoan the lack of a quality education system - but bleet merry murder when asked to pay higher taxes that would buy up to date textbooks or repair crumbling buildings.

Yes - education is more than the sum total of money thrown at schools… but when schools are letting educators go and not hiring assitants and teaching in collapsing buildings and using out of date texts - it is about money to some point.


Leftist cant, this, I’m afraid.

Why pay more for something when it is demonstrated over and over again that you don’t get anything for your money?! It’s the left that says “if only we had more money, more everything, that things would be so much better.” That’s the lie, demonstrated over and over again. Catholic school results are always better, and their teachers earn half as much, which has always perplexed the left, but they manage to ignore the cognitive dissonance, and talk about having to take everybody, as if the Catholics don’t have a whole lot of very poor kids.

There was a great anecdote in the last election, where Obama went to a school in Chicago where the school day ended at 1:30 and there was no time for language labs, science, etc. He asked if we couldn’t do more!

Which was total BS. The reason the school day ended so early was because of the Chicago Teachers Union contract, which had a 5.25 hour day and an $83K average pay scheme. And it seems that the union president who allowed that extra 15 minutes (in exchange for 7 extra holidays!) which wound up meaning a couple hours a year more teaching, LOST HER ELECTION FOR BEING A SELLOUT. Of course this union was a big Obama supporter, even when the NEA was still for Hillary Clinton.

Sorry. You have to do better than that. All the conservative and popular attempts to improve education, like the very successful charter schools in D.C. that Obama is closing, are thwarted every step of the way by the teachers unions.

If you want kids to learn, and college kids to have a great range of intellectual thought, you will quickly find yourself off the reservation as far as standard issue “liberalism” is concerned! Please - pursue this, and we’ll be waiting with open arms to welcome you into the ranks of real reformers.