Comments | nettiger: Ugh

nettiger

Ugh

Feb 17, 2006 11:56

There are so many things wrong with this... I don't even know where to begin.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021700397_pf.htmlI reserve a special little ball of disgust for people who feel the need to keep children purposefully ignorant and ill-informed ( Read more... )

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hgryphon February 17 2006, 21:49:57 UTC

I'm speechless... I'm fucking speech ( ... )

overbear February 18 2006, 06:55:59 UTC

Ive said it before, I say it again. Round up every one of the religious, and hold mass excutions, then nuke rome and the middle east.

Problem solved no more ignorant religious sheep.

Part one of my thoughts... racethecoon February 18 2006, 15:41:05 UTC

I would like to think I have a rather unique view point to this issue, since I attended some of all three main school types - Catholic, fundamentalist Christian, and public - during my years as a kid. To be honest, the Catholic school I attended was essentially a public school with a half hour of a "religion" class every day. We learned about science from the Silver Burdett and Ginn curriculum and not some "Bible-based" pseudoscience. I remember that our little classroom was in my ways more diversified (I had friends who were Hindu, Muslim, atheist, etc.) than the local public school system that was almost completely split between racial lines. Yes, there was a Mass every week and you were required to go, but there was very little "preaching" involved in the manner of, "If you don't think this way, you're doomed to hell." Notre Dame, the Catholic university I attended, was even moreso welcoming. Although there was a considerable local protest to such events, they did have annual Queer Film Festival and showings of the Vagina ( ... )

And part two... racethecoon February 18 2006, 15:41:44 UTC

I have been, and always will remain, a PROponent of school vouchers. The public school system is in many communities a dead-end route for a variety of reasons, usually at least partially associated with a disinterested teaching base, a lack of community involvement in the school's mission, the irongrip of a teacher's union that often does not have the child's best interest at heart, and misappropriated funding. Private schools have been proven to consistently outperform public schools even despite often having a tenth or less the funding of those private schools. My Catholic elementary school was 80 years old, falling apart, and are computer lab was full of Apple IIe's (This was in the middle-1990's), yet on the academic charts we were consistently beating the rich magnet public schools with their shiny new desks and computer equipment. TThe second reason I think that there should be a school voucher system is because the most vocal opponents of the system are hypocrites of the first degree. Chelsea Clinton, the Pelosi children, and ( ... )