Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era

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Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era
LATimes ^ | February 18, 2012 | Mitchell Landsberg

Santorum bashes public schools, says they're stuck in factory era - latimes.com
Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era

By Mitchell Landsberg February 18, 2012

Reporting from Columbus, Ohio— Republican GOP hopeful Rick Santorum may be the most prominent homeschooler in America. So it might not have been surprising that, on Saturday, he told a conservative Christian audience that he intended to homeschool his children in the White House.

In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, Santorum went further, seeming to attack the very idea of public education.

In the nation’s past, he said, “Most presidents homeschooled their children in the White House.… Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility.”

“Yes, the government can help,” he continued, “but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.”


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He is so fucking right! Public schools force our children to learn agenda of the federal government, instead of learning how to think. Santorum is right!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Good little sheeple.
You're as dumb as Santorum wants you to be.

 

[saveliberty]

What has the federal government done for education? We have a test that gets watered down all the time and still poor performances. Face it schools are being used as social engineering devices. Too many parents think it is someone else's job to teach these days.

 

[saveliberty]

Good little sheeple.
You're as dumb as Santorum wants you to be.

So you're happy with the eduction system created by the government?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Good little sheeple.
You're as dumb as Santorum wants you to be.

And you are as dumb as the public school system sought out to make you. Sad, really.

 

[The T]

Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era
LATimes ^ | February 18, 2012 | Mitchell Landsberg

Santorum bashes public schools, says they're stuck in factory era - latimes.com
Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era

By Mitchell Landsberg February 18, 2012

Reporting from Columbus, Ohio— Republican GOP hopeful Rick Santorum may be the most prominent homeschooler in America. So it might not have been surprising that, on Saturday, he told a conservative Christian audience that he intended to homeschool his children in the White House.

In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, Santorum went further, seeming to attack the very idea of public education.

In the nation’s past, he said, “Most presidents homeschooled their children in the White House.… Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility.”

“Yes, the government can help,” he continued, “but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.”


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He is so fucking right! Public schools force our children to learn agenda of the federal government, instead of learning how to think. Santorum is right!

He's close...Government schools are at the point to where they prepare you to be good workers...and good Government subjects.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Good little sheeple.
You're as dumb as Santorum wants you to be.

Public schools have the bar so low that viruses would have a dificult time sliding through. And, they're becoming worse.

 

[The T]

Good little sheeple.
You're as dumb as Santorum wants you to be.

And you portend to speak for Santorum supporters...bad move.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, Santorum went further, seeming to attack the very idea of public education.

Ah, yes, public schools, the classic whipping boy of the right; the horrible disincentive to personal responsibility and hated remnant of America’s quasi-socialist past.

Santorum’s puling out all the stops and going full-blown RWNJ

 

[Valox]

Santorum should be more like Obama and send his kids to public school....oh wait, Obama's kids go to private school.

 

[whitehall]

Union based public schools are a mess. An Obama education secretary told school kids that her personal hero was the monster of China, Chairman Mao. Wisconsin teachers called in sick and left their classrooms to riot for a better union contract. American kids know who Whitney Houston was but they (and presumably union teachers) have no idea who Eli Whitney or Sam Houston were. American kids exceed only in self esteem (an maybe the use of school prescribed mind altering drugs). They have no concept of the Constitution or American history and that's the way the radical left and the unions want it.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Santorum Bashes Public Schools, Says They're Stuck In Factory Era

Yeah.....what they need is a......

.....more progressive format.

 

[NYcarbineer]

I wonder how old Santorum's kids think the Earth is?

 

[Political Junky]

Santorum is really courting the tea party crowd.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Santorum is really courting the tea party crowd.

yeah, the Tea Party that we were told a thousand and one times wasn't about social issues.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Good little sheeple.
You're as dumb as Santorum wants you to be.

So you're happy with the eduction system created by the government?

I think Bush's teach to the test, No child left behind guarantees failure and I hope President Obama trashes it completely.

And, I disagree completely with the constant R cuts to education.

Education funding, including hiring the best teachers and paying them what they're worth should be at the top of our priority list because its an investment in our future.

But then, I also think we should train and pay our fire fighters, law enforcement, nurses on the par of the heroes they are.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, Santorum went further, seeming to attack the very idea of public education.

Ah, yes, public schools, the classic whipping boy of the right; the horrible disincentive to personal responsibility and hated remnant of America’s quasi-socialist past.

Perhaps then you can elaborate as to why we spend more money on public education than any other nation in the world and have some of the worst results of all industrialized nations? Or are you just going to sit there and make snide, biased remarks with zero substance like you always do?

 

[DaGoose]

Union based public schools are a mess. An Obama education secretary told school kids that her personal hero was the monster of China, Chairman Mao. Wisconsin teachers called in sick and left their classrooms to riot for a better union contract. American kids know who Whitney Houston was but they (and presumably union teachers) have no idea who Eli Whitney or Sam Houston were. American kids exceed only in self esteem (an maybe the use of school prescribed mind altering drugs). They have no concept of the Constitution or American history and that's the way the radical left and the unions want it.

WTF are you babbling about?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I think Bush's teach to the test, No child left behind guarantees failure and I hope President Obama trashes it completely.

Agreed, but let's also not forget that was bipartisan legislation that was heavily influence by Ted Kennedy. Are you going to blame him too or are you one of those lapdog mouthpieces who don't hold the people you support just as accountable as the ones you don't?

And, I disagree completely with the constant R cuts to education.

So please enlighten us as to how dumping even more money into the most expensive education system in the world is going to save it from the failure that it is.

Education funding, including hiring the best teachers and paying them what they're worth should be at the top of our priority list because its an investment in our future.

Again, it's already the most expensive public education system in the world, and we have some of the worst results to show for it, so exactly how much more are we supposed to spend on it?

But then, I also think we should train and pay our fire fighters, law enforcement, nurses on the par of the heroes they are.

Last year 57 city workers made more than $100,000, including eight paramedics, 14 police officers, 31 firefighters and four nonunion workers. The mayor earns $98,924.

Police overtime has remained steady, with premium pay at around $7.1 million a year. Security details that police work for private firms are now run through the Police Bureau and that private pay is included in their city paychecks, making those earnings publicly available for the first time.

The top-earning Police Bureau employee, Lt. Thomas J. Atkins, took in base pay of $78,445, plus $53,468 primarily from managing and working details at PNC Park and Mellon Arena. The bureau's second-highest-paid employee, Sgt. John H. Fisher, got base pay of $67,296, plus $59,192 in overtime and details, mostly at Heinz Field.

Two years of hiring has pushed firefighter premium pay -- mostly overtime -- down from $12.6 million in 2006 to $9.3 million last year, according to preliminary spending records. The top-earning firefighter last year was Deputy Chief Harry J. Scherer, making $129,460, including $29,832 in premium pay.

Read more: With overtime, 3 city medics top $130,000 in annual pay

 

[DaGoose]

In his remarks to the Ohio Christian Alliance, however, Santorum went further, seeming to attack the very idea of public education.

Ah, yes, public schools, the classic whipping boy of the right; the horrible disincentive to personal responsibility and hated remnant of America’s quasi-socialist past.

Perhaps then you can elaborate as to why we spend more money on public education than any other nation in the world and have some of the worst results of all industrialized nations? Or are you just going to sit there and make snide, biased remarks with zero substance like you always do?

What do you think would happen to the test scores if parents actually started getting involved in their kid's education again? I don't know how old YOU are but when I was a kid "open house" at the local school was a big deal and nearly every parent was there.