"Educated"Blue State NY : 80% high school grads can't read!

[Dubya]

John Taylor Gatto - former Teacher of the Year for the state of New York, spent 30 years of teaching in New York City. No one better to articulate WHY we have a fucked up education system, and why it was fucked up from the very start. It was never meant to really "educate," but to make obedient workers, soldiers and citizens who will stupidly just obey. Catch the lengthy intro before Gatto talks for it lays the background. Incidentally, his books are precisley researched and documented. As a trained historian, he checks out pretty clean.

Even if that were true, it's just one more reason for abolishing government schools.

They're local schools, fool. They just use government to collect taxes to pay for them.

 

[francoHFW]

Obamaphones are actually Reagan- Bush phones. That black woman just believes the same tidal wave of Pubcrappe you do...

 

[KnobbyWalsh]

John Taylor Gatto - former Teacher of the Year for the state of New York, spent 30 years of teaching in New York City. No one better to articulate WHY we have a fucked up education system, and why it was fucked up from the very start. It was never meant to really "educate," but to make obedient workers, soldiers and citizens who will stupidly just obey. Catch the lengthy intro before Gatto talks for it lays the background. Incidentally, his books are precisley researched and documented. As a trained historian, he checks out pretty clean.

Even if that were true, it's just one more reason for abolishing government schools.

Oh it's true alright. Now, READ one of his books and don't just watch this clip, which you didn't. In fact here's a better set of clips that gets to the heart of the matter faster.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKci3_cmlqI&list=PLA6919FBBC7B50C02]John Taylor Gatto: Schooling is not Education - Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Harry Dresden]

Great Pub idea to cut hundreds of thousands MORE teachers while protecting the corrupt loopholes of the bloated rich...All the problems have more to do with the worst rich/poor gap and upward mobility EVER after 30 years of voodoo.

And yes blue states like NY, Cal. NJ, and Ill. get about .80 of their tax dollars back from the feds while "macho" red states get $1.30...and we don't pay enough (especially the rich (17%) and corporations (12%) to get the services and infrastructure we need.

Just watched NBC News- our weather forecasting sucks in comparison to EU's because we haven't invested enough since the 80's- gee, wonder why? DUH. Like everything else, going to Hell thanks to the greedy idiot GOP.

Frankie this Country has most of the weather Sat. up there......what else are you going to blame on Republicans?.....Solar Flares?....

 

[francoHFW]

Great Pub idea to cut hundreds of thousands MORE teachers while protecting the corrupt loopholes of the bloated rich...All the problems have more to do with the worst rich/poor gap and upward mobility EVER after 30 years of voodoo.

And yes blue states like NY, Cal. NJ, and Ill. get about .80 of their tax dollars back from the feds while "macho" red states get $1.30...and we don't pay enough (especially the rich (17%) and corporations (12%) to get the services and infrastructure we need.

Just watched NBC News- our weather forecasting sucks in comparison to EU's because we haven't invested enough since the 80's- gee, wonder why? DUH. Like everything else, going to Hell thanks to the greedy idiot GOP.

"corrupt loopholes" like these?
This is absolutely the funniest issue yet...

All you idiots wanting those NASTY corporate TAX LOOPHOLES closed!
How about understanding WHAT the top 20 loopholes are before you stupidly cry for something THAT WILL COST YOU!

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So how many of you idiots want to pay your employer health insurance premiums?
That's right the #1 tax deduction at $171 billion in 2012 was what your employer deducted from taxes that paid your premiums!

Or how about you want to have your employer no longer offer 401ks, etc...?
#2 is pension contributions and earnings $138 billion!

And # 3 is your deductions you idiots from your tax liability for MORTGAGE Interest!

Still want them closed?

Then of course your local city will have to pay MORE for municipal bonds because in 2012 $39 billion was not included !

And all you idiots who deducted child care?? CLOSE THAT LOOPHOLE costs Govt. $24 billion!

So think about it folks... just a little more FACTS and a lot less speculations regarding CLOSING THOSE EVIL LOOPHOLES
THAT will mostly affect YOU!

OH and those BIG BAD corporations taking evil loopholes for OIL,etc.??? LAST on the list at $11 billion!

Of the top 20 deductions 10 will directly harm the individual workers!

So you only close them for people making over 400k, obviously. And there are plenty more, and I don't believe your RW propaganda. I'm talking about the corrupt and BS loopholes...which there are plenty of. They're paying 17%, not 35 or 39, dupe.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The state with the worst literacy rate is Mississippi. It's also rated the most conservative state.

The illiterates all voted for Obama.

Says bripat, one of the three most politically and culturally illiterate board members. Heavens help him, because he can't help himself.

 

[Harry Dresden]

those who have a proven hatred for education. .

Who would that be?

who do you think he is going to say?.....