Comments on: Lessons in Hypocrisy http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/ Fighting a never ending battle... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adam Graham http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/comment-page-1/#comment-16633 Adam Graham Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:47:36 +0000 http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/#comment-16633 Jay, first there are some scholarships but not enough. Republicans have certainly not starved the bureaucracy. Public school has double even when inflation is taken into consideration. <p> The situation to the government running a lousy cell phone company and saying there's fair competition because normal private enterprise competes. Until public schools are forced to change by the market will continue to get a substandard education. Jay, first there are some scholarships but not enough. Republicans have certainly not starved the bureaucracy. Public school has double even when inflation is taken into consideration.

The situation to the government running a lousy cell phone company and saying there’s fair competition because normal private enterprise competes. Until public schools are forced to change by the market will continue to get a substandard education.

]]> By: Jay S. http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/comment-page-1/#comment-16631 Jay S. Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:41:27 +0000 http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/#comment-16631 And Britney Spears is often the most Googled person - popularity does not mean substance. In fact most of the time just the opposite. As far as schools, there aren't any Christian or private schools or home schooling to give competition? Don't they give out scholarships? How long would this forced reform take and how many innocent kids would get screwed even more during this bleak period? This is just another example of Republican's starving a bureaucracy just to prove said bureaucracy doesn't work. And Britney Spears is often the most Googled person – popularity does not mean substance. In fact most of the time just the opposite.
As far as schools, there aren’t any Christian or private schools or home schooling to give competition? Don’t they give out scholarships? How long would this forced reform take and how many innocent kids would get screwed even more during this bleak period?
This is just another example of Republican’s starving a bureaucracy just to prove said bureaucracy doesn’t work.

]]> By: Adam Graham http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/comment-page-1/#comment-16625 Adam Graham Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:22:45 +0000 http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/#comment-16625 A few things. First of all, Glenn Beck is the #3 radio host in America, and a lot of people look to him for guidance, etc. As to school voucher, if competition comes, public schools will adapt, they will improve, they'll try and find ways to retain students and to make themselves more appealing than private schools. We wouldn't stand for one cell phone company or one fast food restaurant choice, but we let a bureaucracy called public schools get a no bid contract for the education of America's children. A few things. First of all, Glenn Beck is the #3 radio host in America, and a lot of people look to him for guidance, etc.

As to school voucher, if competition comes, public schools will adapt, they will improve, they’ll try and find ways to retain students and to make themselves more appealing than private schools. We wouldn’t stand for one cell phone company or one fast food restaurant choice, but we let a bureaucracy called public schools get a no bid contract for the education of America’s children.

]]> By: Jay S. http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/comment-page-1/#comment-16591 Jay S. Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:01:39 +0000 http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/lessons-in-hypocrisy/#comment-16591 Glenn Beck, as someone has said, was created out of wholecloth. He is this generation's Max Headroom. He merely takes a slightly controversial stance on a controversial subject in order to get ratings. Really not worth talking about. Ted Kennedy is a wealthy jerk who could not begin to fill any of his 3 brother's shoes. So that leaves us with private school. Our senators and representatives become part of the privileged class the day they arrive in D.C. if they were not before said arrival. Private school is as much about their children's 'resume' as it is about quality and if they let the hoi polloi in then their kids wouldn't be special, now would they. But let's say that vouchers are made standard. Who would be left at the public schools? The worst students? How would a kid whose parents don't care get a leg up in that situation? How would creating a defacto educational ghetto help our society? Who pays for busing in rural areas? If you and like minded people want to create scholarships to Christian or private schools then more power to ya. But you don't have to gut public education to do it. Glenn Beck, as someone has said, was created out of wholecloth. He is this generation’s Max Headroom. He merely takes a slightly controversial stance on a controversial subject in order to get ratings. Really not worth talking about.
Ted Kennedy is a wealthy jerk who could not begin to fill any of his 3 brother’s shoes.
So that leaves us with private school. Our senators and representatives become part of the privileged class the day they arrive in D.C. if they were not before said arrival. Private school is as much about their children’s ‘resume’ as it is about quality and if they let the hoi polloi in then their kids wouldn’t be special, now would they.
But let’s say that vouchers are made standard. Who would be left at the public schools? The worst students? How would a kid whose parents don’t care get a leg up in that situation? How would creating a defacto educational ghetto help our society? Who pays for busing in rural areas?
If you and like minded people want to create scholarships to Christian or private schools then more power to ya. But you don’t have to gut public education to do it.

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