Re: Pet trade- No government needed.

[Bob Woth <bwoth at bellsouth_net>]

They are not public schools they are government schools and they subject our
children to their leftist rhetoric and it is up to us as parents to retrain our
children
when exposed to this problem.

RuevenM at aol_com wrote:

> Wright,
>
>            I like your killifish but disagree with your politics. Our School
> System is not socialist in the least. The problems with public schools --
> where there are actually real problems and not hysterical fears based on
> idealistic projections of "little billy's" chances for Harvard and megabucks
> -- are simple. Until the 1960's the brainy women who wanted/needed to work
> went into teaching (or nursing) because they could not get jobs in other
> fields due to soc/rel/pol/eco reasons. We had brilliant women training our
> future (the mega-rich and extremely selfish Boomers) generations and being
> paid next to nothing to do it. As the work force opened to women the best and
> brightest left education for high powered careers and big bucks. We won't pay
> for the best and the brightest (of any sex) to be teachers and so we get the
> kind of OK teachers we have today -- not creative geniuses for cheap but
> intelligent people who follow lesson plans. (Yes, there are many exceptions
> to this fact for just as many reasons.)
>      Also, white families flew to the suburbs and new mostly white middle
> class schools were created or, worse, all sorts of religious and private
> schools sprang up to insure the proper "environment" and to add luster to the
> sheep's skin and grease the kid's way into a better university and job. The
> rich and the white wanted to stay with the "right kind of folks." The idea of
> truly public education was lost to a consumer culture. What we have is a
> consumer capitalism school system with government funding and not socialism
> at all.
>      Conservatives never seem to get that one's greatest strengths are ALWAYS
> one's greatest faults/problems. America's greatest strengths are its freedom,
> individuality and capitalist economy. Those are also its greatest weaknesses
> and faults. We always look for "outside" -- i e government, rhetorical
> "socialism", etc -- reasons for our problems and so we never solve them. The
> day the electorate looks up and sees WE are the problem and a one-sided,
> blind and uncritical faith in our most cherished principles is the other
> problem, that is the day we will begin to fulfill our deepest ideals. It is
> not outside. It is inside. In the first place there are always at least two
> things.
>
> Robert E.
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