Why Government Stinks

Wow. I just happened upon a news report for a small town school board race. Voters had to pick one of the following candidates. Using their own words, translated from newspeak, here are your choices:

Candidate #1: Incumbent. Has been board member for 8 years. Was a teacher in the education system for 25 years. Goals: raise test scores, no matter whether kids actually learn anything. Use racist hiring practices to discriminate against people based on the color of their skin. Find more cash to spend on "education." Stop people from having the freedom to build houses on their own land.

Candidate #2: Incumbent. Board member for 10 years. Be nicer to teachers. Spend more taxpayer money on teachers. Spend more "corporate" money on teachers. Will make decisions for everyone else based on what he, personally, wants for his child, no matter what anyone else actually needs.

Candidate #3: College professor since 1982. Wants to shake down private companies and force them to "donate" land to schools. Wants to shake down private companies for "donations" for schools. Also wants to base hiring decisions on the color of someone's skin, rather than on their actual qualifications.

Candidate #4: Clerical assistant at the school. Wants to reduce class sizes even though it does absolutely nothing to increase learning. Wants to increase test scores, no matter the cost or actual learning. Wants to base more decisions on which kids go to school based on their skin color. Wants to "prevent" teachers from leaving the school.

Candidate #5: Former Assistant superintendent. Wants to spend more money on teachers. Wants to spend more on technology, no matter what people need. Wants to force corporations to "give" money to education. Wants to maximize spending opportunities.

Holy crap, what choices, eh? Remember -- the government education system, as can be very clearly seen here by school board candidates -- is about SPENDING MONEY. It has NOTHING to do with educating children, learning, or anything else. They just want more money so they can spend it.

Think I could win this one?

Candidate #6 (Ogre): Thinks the government-run monopoly on education is crap. Will vote against spending any more money for anything related to education. Will not discriminate based on skin color.

Yeah, me neither.

Oh, how I yearn for freedom.

Posted by: Ogre at 11:06 AM

Comments

1 Having a brother and sister in education, my brother being a principal for many years, I can tell you that most school boards are made up of politicians who had nothing at stake in the system they govern. It is all about money and power and not the kids. Our last superintendant was all about handing out phat building contracts to his relatives in a town that has lost a lot of population from losing 2 GM Plants and several supporting industries. How corrupt is that. We have the highest drop out rate in Indiana for sure. Everyone I talk to is dealing with corrupt, good ole boy school boards. The state of education in this nation is approaching meltdown fast!

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 11:37 AM (TzKlC)

2 It is, quite literally, beyond repair. The entire government education system should be scrapped because it has no redeeming qualities. Seriously.

Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 12:22 PM (oifEm)

3 I hear you. Every year it gets more and more corrupt in every way. I was happy to see my sister retire after about 20 years of teaching 4th grade. The last few years were hard on her as the kids attude changed because the parents were more and more liberal. I really feared for her a time or two because she had some dangerous little boys in her class with a "sue happy Mommy". My brother being a principal, he tells me nightmare stories as well.

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 07:09 PM (eaqGd)

4 The part so many people cannot understand is that the system is totally evil -- even while individuals in the system are trying to do good. In other words, it doesn't really matter that you know this teacher or that teacher, who are really concerned with teaching and learning. The system is NOT, no matter what the people inside the system want.

And most people simply cannot comprehend that gap.

Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 07:18 PM (oifEm)

5 I can think of an example. How stupid is it that if a student comes at you with a knife, you are not allowed to defend yourself??? Teachers, no matter how good they are, cannot maintain control over the classroom! Why??? Because the kids don't fear them or the system in any way. Why? Because Liberalism says they should not be punished or held accountable for their actions, that liberal lawyers will get them off the hook and make lots of money. The schools are run by liberals and the liberal lawyers keep conscience, discipline and God out of the schools. The more failing kids, the more pregnant teens, the more their give-a-way programs will take them over. This is only a small example, but I think you get the idea of what I'm saying. All of this, if you love your kids, is just wrong!

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 07, 2007 09:25 PM (eaqGd)

6 Indeed -- and that's the way the system is DESIGNED. It has to create a need to exist. The more problems it creates, the more it can prove it needs to exist -- to solve those very problems it created.

I honestly believe that sending your children to public school is child abuse.

Posted by: Ogre at November 07, 2007 09:55 PM (2WD8n)

7 I also think most "government run schools" are teacher abusers too. Any teachers who truly care are run off by the "social(ist)" rules" they have to adhere to. Teachers are required to have at least 6 years of college, a rather large investment, and yet they make very little money. Other professions with that much education "name their price". Add to that the fact that teachers are not allowed to run their classrooms and maintain proper discipline, it is a rough profession with very little job satisfaction these days.

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 08, 2007 12:17 PM (TzKlC)

8 No question about it. The system honestly does not want people who have knowledge and the ability to teach. Instead, they only want people who have followed the state-prescribed courses that tell them exactly what they're supposed to do (not teach). For example, when is the last time you heard about an actual professional teaching in a government grade school? They're NOT ALLOWED to -- because they know too much and might actually teach kids stuff the state doesn't want them to know.

Posted by: Ogre at November 08, 2007 12:39 PM (oifEm)

9 The first time I hear David HOrowitz speak, it was on the Commie Channel C-SPAN about 2 years ago. It was about how colleges hire people who don't know squat about the subjects they are supposed to be teaching. Then they espouse their own, usually social(ist), agendas. I was shocked, but it was also an awakening for me. I went out and subscribed to the FrontPageMag newsletter, thus the blinders slowly began to melt away! Government schools seem to only start the process that our Colleges and Universities only started. Ogre, have you read Ann Coulter's account about McCarthy and how history was rewritten by liberals in regard to him and what was really going on in the 1950s?
I read a Coulter newsletter about it last night and I am still reeling. Everything stated was researched and backed up with evidence and we were all taught a lie when we were growing up about it. Amazing, and like you, I do not trust government education anymore.

Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at November 08, 2007 05:43 PM (eaqGd)

10 If you really want to get the crap scared out of you, read the true history behind the government schools in America. It's a long, long, read, but completely truthful, accurate, and damn scary:

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm

Posted by: Ogre at November 08, 2007 05:49 PM (oifEm)

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