The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[scaeagles]

The private school my kids go to have teachers and board members with kids that go to public school. I have often thought that strange, more so for the board members than the teachers. This kind of feels the same way, except for the fact that everyone pays taxes that contribute to public education and should therefore be allowed to be involved in the process with or without their own kids involved.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

From her point of view it seems to be. She's keeping her kids out of it until it has been changed into an institution more to here approval.

Certainly. But I draw a distinction between wanting reform and being openly hostile.

It's not that fact that she homeschools that bothered me, it's the fact that she homeschools and considers public school "the enemy".

[scaeagles]

Being that this is Texas, and she used the terms "enemy" and "flames", I thinki it is possible that she was making a comparison between public school and hell. As sad as that is, I would suspect it is what she meant.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Certainly. But I draw a distinction between wanting reform and being openly hostile.

While I disagree with why she's openly hostile, I don't think there's necessarily a conflict for being so. If she were to get her way and the entire curriculum were changed to one that was no longer at odds with her Christian faith, I'd certainly hope that any reform minded people who made it onto the board would be openly hostile to the school system and if I had any I'd keep my kids out of it until that change were achieved.

Though I'm curious how she views her reforms as eliminating the unconstitutional nature of public schools. There's an argument there to be made (though it ignores 150 years of civil reality; though if Clarence Thomas can hold the view that the 8th Amendment should be frozen in 1787, rolling back views of government role in education back a 100+ years isn't so odd) but tinkering with the specifics of curriculum does nothing to address it.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Being that this is Texas, and she used the terms "enemy" and "flames", I thinki it is possible that she was making a comparison between public school and hell. As sad as that is, I would suspect it is what she meant.

Yes, I'm sure that's what it meant. And more specifically that the public schools are a tool of Satan.

[scaeagles]

On a completely different subject....ding dong, Arlen Specter is dead. Could not have happened to a more deserving person.

Meaning so politically of course, clarifying lest I be accused of supporting some form of death threat against him.

Hopefully Charlie Christ will be next.

[innerSpaceman]

I've hated Arlen Spector ever since her proposed the Magic Bullet Theory. That's a long time to hate someone.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

Meaning so politically of course, clarifying lest I be accused of supporting some form of death threat against him.

Of course not, you're just rooting for the cancer (I'm not serious).

Out of curiosity, do you hold Parker Griffith in similar disdain? Or is there something more specific to Specter?

[scaeagles]

Arlen Specter .... I have despised him a long time because of his RINO status. It honestly didn't bother me that much when he switched parties because I think he was closer to a democrat all along. I want anyone who is such a misrepresentation of what I believe the republican party should be to be gone. And anyone who switches parties after election should be suspect....that being said, I know nothing of Parker Griffith except that he switched from parties the other way. Because of that, though, I don't trust the guy. It is typically done for the sake of political expedience and preserving your own hyde.

As far as Crist, while I don't like what he's doing, at least he isn't switching parties mid stream to try to preserve himself politically. He's just doing it pre primary.

[BarTopDancer]

Well this is mature:

AZ Official threatens to cut Los Angeles power supply as payback for boycott.