Beck paranoia: When Obama admin "feel that they are secure in their power" they will "take over" homeschooling
February 03, 2010 11:46 am ET
From the February 3 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Show:
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Michele Obama controls Kiwi quotas--and, therefore, Kiwi prices--from a room in the White House.
It's not been reported widely yet due to the liberal media.
Now I understand the connection between the President and a New Zealand teenager having to auction off her virginity to pay for college.
"Keep the government away from my medicare and the state away from my grandchild's public education!"
Regulated by whom? By the government.
One of these days Beck might get close to reality, but it's not going to be today.
Yes, the local state government.
Why does Glen Beck hate States Rights?
BTW, Glenn, please identify the "they" who wish to take over education. Obama? Names, please...
Oh I feel like I drop to acid in order to understand what the heck he is talking about at times
Without home schooling, where will the far right get its next generation of loons?
I'm not at all defending Beck here but you have no idea what modern homeschooling is about. It's not all huntin', skinnin' and prayin'. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The case you talk about certainly wasn't properly overseen. It's my understanding that they are supposed to take tests and submit progress reports to the local school board, something like that, to track progress. If they don't, they do get investigated. Maybe that's just a New York State thing, I don't know. But there definitely should be some government oversight to homeschooled kids.
Truth be told, there is a lot of support for the military-industrial complex and knee jerk patriotism in schools. Our local high school has military recruiters coming in all the time.
Even tho I see a lot of problems with public schools, I support them--and I also see a lot of benefit in parent as facilitator education. Most homeschooled kids I've met, religious or otherwise, are quite articulate and well informed. Yes there are abusive cases but they are the exception, not the rule.
Amen. I mean, where would I be if Robby the football player didn't beat me up every day after school and Susie the cheerleader refused my sincere offer to take her to the prom. And don't get me started on my 20th year high school reunion.
Beck obviously knows his audience...
He's probably saving it for the week before the election. He'll do a six part documentary entitled Why Obama is the Anti-Christ with the last episode to air on election day. The night before election day, he'll hint that he's found Biblical evidence confirming his theory, and he'll reveal it the next day!
When pressed for comment after his arrest, O'Keefe insisted that the Whitte House belonged to the people...as well as the President's scalp.
He doesn't have to, nerz -- somebody already beat him to it . . .
"Now, children...open your Bibles to Genesis for today's science lesson."
Yes, there are unqualified teachers, but how do you identify them?
Test scores? So the teachers with the most remedial students get the boot? Not much incentive to teach our kids who need the best teachers!
Parental feedback? Students and parents complain to the school boards all the time, "my little Billy's teacher is out to get him! He says that he treats them..." When it comes to parents and teachers, a disciplined and strict teacher often becomes demonized.
The teacher's union have had to work incredibly hard to limit paycuts and teacher layoffs, because in California (like most states) the budget problems have created a crisis in the K-12 education. Without a union it could have been pretty ugly... the state could have removed all the veteran teachers (the ones who make the most money) and replace them with younger teachers who's pay rate is half of the tenured teachers.
I think most would agree that although this could have easily solved budget problems, it would be the wrong thing to do.
No Child Left Behind was supposed to provide a standardized testing method, but apparently it was little more than a scam to help out Bush's brother Neil, who just happened to be in the business of selling standardized testing materials.
There are plenty of private schools that don't have and don't want "certified" teachers yet provide better education than public schools.
I know there are many areas in the country where teachers salaries are very low, but there are also places, I live in one, where teachers make up around $100k and have teachers assistants.
If Obama was truly concerned with the children and not the unions he wouldn't have cut the voucher program in DC. It was working and parents loved it.
Only a wingnut would ask a question like that. Yeah times or tough, so let’s make it better by making more people unemployed or underemployed.
One of the knocks you wingnuts use against public schools is that the student to teacher ratio is too high. Why not lower it by keeping those teachers employed and make the classes smaller?
Have you ever stopped to consider it is not for free daycare but to give kindergartners and pre-schoolers more of an opportunity to learn? I don't know where you live, but where my daughter was going to school after school care was not free in public schools.
I'm sure you have statistics that prove this? I went to a private Catholic school and all of the teachers were "certified."
Is it so wrong to compensate the people that are responsible for our children's education?
Why should my tax dollars go to letting parents send their children to a private school? If the parents wanted that, then they need to earn more money so they can afford to go to a private school, or maybe rely on some of that "Christian" charity that you winguts are always preaching about?
But, you missed my point... if there was no union, it wouldn't be the non-tenured teachers that get fired, but the higher paid, tenured teachers. I presume that's a scenario that you would prefer, let government act like big business...
Where is your evidence to support this?
Perhaps you didn't get the benefits of a head start?
{Hint: If you had the benefits of Head Start, it might not have been necessary for you to read it "over and over" . . .}
But, OldCon you just keep bashing "certified, qualified" schoolteachers and poor kids. I am sure that will get the Republican party far. Simply amazing.
Well Becky. Your favorite corporate channel FOX Snooze, had on one of their segments that Texas and North Carolina is thinking about changing the school history class cirriculum and making history books tell history beyond 1877 for high school and 1877 and below for elementary thru middle school! WTF! Why even displace history like that? If anything all grades should learn about our country's history. The TRUE history from when this country was first landed on by colonists all the way to today. Of course this country does not want true history. They would consider that RADICAL!
SMH!
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I thought that the Obama administration is comprised of a bunch of Mao-inspired, Saul Alinsky-istas who are pushing the pedal to the metal towards socialism, communism and slaughterism.
But apparently these same radicals aren't "secure in their power"?
Well, OK, but if they're not secure in their power, how can they possibly be rushing our country towards socialism/communism/slaughterism at the speed of light? The two are mutually exclusive (sorry for the big words there, Glenn Beck fans).
Isn't that a condition that makes you wear depends?
Someone should definitely have over Becky's schooling -- he might have been inspired to continue it . . .