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15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 0 replies · +2 points

I had to go back to this ""They were able to help you with your homework?" bit because it also burns me up that you automatically judge people based on their education levels. I think that's totally wrong. What makes a high school drop-out less privileged than someone who chose to finish high school? How could I possibly control who my parents were, and how does that make me more "privileged" and thus owing society a debt? Why am I debted to society and "owe" the people you think are underprivileged just because my parents had a high school education? That's ridiculous.

I disagree with your definition of privileged. Privileged is what all Americans are. . . do you not realize how wealthy even the poorest of us is with the rest of the world? Some of our "underprivileged" have cellphones, don't work and collect benefits from the government footed by the taxpayer.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 0 replies · +2 points

agreed

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 0 replies · +3 points

How do you make a living? Just out of curiousity.

I think it's great that you give like this, but do you really think that government forcing citizens to give to particular organizations or people groups is right? Should people who don't support abortion be forced to foot the bill for it? Does the conscience of the individual matter to you?

Isn't it nice to have a choice of which church or organization you will support instead of having the government force you to choose something you may not agree with?

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 0 replies · +3 points

How is that the end? The welfare queen is alive and well. I spent 13 weeks on bedrest in a hospital and saw and interacted with plenty of them.

I think it would be quite useful to discuss the welfare queen and her counterparts. Are you scared of discussing that? I'm not. They are human beings, and they have been trapped by your very thinking into their lifestyles.

It's easy to end "useful discussion" when you realize you are wrong. Why don't you just grow some cajones and say, "Shut up!" instead of cowardly backing out of a discussion you started.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 0 replies · +3 points

Um, the problem with me homeschooling inner-city, single parent children would be that I was not at all responsible for the conception of those children. Where is personal responsibility in any of what you say?

What you think is compassionate is nothing but enslavement. Without the requirement of personal responsibility factoring into your philosophies, you basically set up a system where another human being thinks it's okay to be dependent on others. . . You set up a system of the workers and the dependents who can get whatever they want without working. Such a system is very convenient to the elite's ego who must always yield power over the dependents.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 1 reply · +3 points

I do not care only for my own children, and that is precisely why I went into education. . . because I cared about children all over the world. I worked in an underprivileged school, and there I saw children trapped in a cycle of dependency on the government and welfare. . . Their parents were trapped too. At home, their parents didn't expect more from them, academically or morally, so the bar was set low. People tend to perform to the standards we set for them, and sadly, children in that situation tend to perform lower because NO ONE BELIEVES they can do better, doesn't expect it from them, and UNDERESTIMATES THEM (as you do to so many American parents and citizens - obvious through your posts). That sort of estimating doesn't share a concern for American children. It shows a snobbery, an eliteness so repugnant that it is inhumane.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 1 reply · +3 points

"Common Need". Is common need a flatscreen TV and a new vehicle? Because I don't have one of those flatscreens or a vehicle less than 10 years old, and I know plenty who do who don't pay for their own groceries.

I'd personally rather have my liberty and freedom intact than allow the government to make decisions for me because they are giving me all I need. You sound like you want to be dependent. Beta male, any?

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 0 replies · +4 points

The fortunate thing about Charter schools is that a parent can select whether he or she wants to send his/her child there. Academics aren't the only performance standards a parent might choose for his/her child's schooling.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 6 replies · +3 points

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Do you know best for yourself and your offspring? Or does the government, supposed "authority" who is no smarter than you, know best? Government leadership and teacher unions are not the elite, but you seem to think of them as "better qualified than you".

I went into teaching and also have a degree in architectural design. Trust me, the vast majority of elementary school teacher candidates are NOT professionals, and many of them are not the authorities on academics or character as you seem to think they are.

QNetter, think.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Bad News Teachers' Uni... · 2 replies · +3 points

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Compare parent-led public charter schools to your run of the mill public school where parents and children are held at the mercy of whatever the admin says goes.

I do know what's best for my health, and I don't want the government telling me what to eat or punishing me for my own choices. (I don't expect my fellow citizens to pay for my choices either.)
I think I can learn about plumbing and wiring and attempt it myself, but I'm not interested. . . I don't mind paying a professional for his honest services there.

QNetter, I can't wait until the government controls every aspect of your life and some homeschooled, well-educated youth gets to decide whether you get the health treatment you need to live, gets to decide whether you go into the primo old folks' home or the budget-rate old folks' home, gets to decide whether you can drink the beverage of your choice or that the particular beverage will no longer be available because it's too expensive for the government to provide for you. . . etc.
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