In a past life, I've represented school districts, teachers' unions (AFT), individuals involved. IMHO the greatest thing that happened to public education was the Education Act. I go back to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that prohibits discrimination based on disability in any program or activity operated by recipients of federal funds.…
Unfortunately, parochial schools have been able to use such programs to subsidize religious education. I don't think there is any magic to local control, because local school boards are often dominated or intimidated by groups who want to acquire public funds for their own devices.
Besides the religious "right", libertarians object to any public governmental activity except for defense spending. They object to educating other peoples' kids. They do support tax credits for tuition and other expenditures related to an individual’s education.
My perspective is that we the (reasonable people) and the Democratic Party, since Goldwater, have not paid attention to, nor funded local political races, While at the same time, the Republicans have been plowing resources and energy into taking control of government at all levels.
Who runs for school boards, not liberals but conservatives. And who motivates these conservatives, preachers and priests, who accurately perceive secularism as a threat to their way of life, their parasitic lifestyle, there social status, prestige and income.
The real push for control of education started with Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority when Reagan ran the first time in 1980, my mail box was swamped with his propaganda, and from them I learned the effective way of writing for effect.
Short paragraphs with one thought or subject.
Meanwhile Democrats (liberals) have been content with sitting back and putting their energy into more "important" things, like the General Election, especially the Presidential race.
Thus leaving the patriarchal, white Christian nationalism to command the low ground, in warfare the objective is almost always to command the high ground, however a persistent assault from the low ground almost always takes the high ground. Caesar at Alesia , battle of Missionary ridge during the siege of Chatanooga. Salah al din's siege of Jerusalem, Rome's siege of Masada
Yes Democrats take the high ground, because they are too weak and feckless to invest money in the low ground. Also they don't have the money, because those with enough money for discretionary spending, splurges most of it, on those most likely to give them tax and regulation breaks, and that is the party that is supported by a highly motivated , fearful and angry base.
He who controls the amygdala, the lizard brain, controls their society. Then it is amygdala vs amygdala, and if the pre frontal cortex steps in, it invariably loses to the amygdala.
If we are to save a secular democracy, then the Democratic party had best start investing in local races, school board, sheriff, animal control officers.
And here comes the skeptic, the cynic, if the Democrats haven't learned a lesson in over half a century it is already too late
Does anyone here feel like Sisyphus, rolling that stone up a hill, only to have it roll back down.
I am genuinely fearful that the MAGAts and Trump will attain power next year and that will be the death knell of a great experiment, unless somehow the Democratic party shakes off it's fleas, and becomes aggressive, because it is our only hope, as we are in struggle for not only the soul of a nation, but the very freedoms, that took 27 Amendments to secure.
A cynic would say that public education is merely babysitting. About half of the students have no interest in learning anything. Socialization is probably more important anyway.
Where I live, the Bush family had an economic interest in privatizing everything. Jeb's kids went to school with my niece. They had an investment interest in the standardized tests required by the federal Department of Education, had a financial interest in charter schools, etc . The concept is to take funds that would normally go to public schools. Never mind that the charter schools were an abject failure.
In Pennsyltucky, we sold part of our local schools to the Amish, after Wisconsin v. Yoder. 13 year old "teachers." The object is to avoid promoting the kids to the junior high level, where they would have to go to an integrated school.
Because of Lemon v Kurtzman, had to pay for transportation, special services for parochial schools, especially when board members were Catholics.
Nepotism, fraud are the currencies in many, if not most districts. At one time, here in Baghdad By the Sea could have a quorum of board members in the big house. Same with union officials.
Daniel this is an off topic rant, I just read an email from Democracy Now. "“No Ceasefire, No Votes”: Arab American Support for Biden Plummets over Gaza Ahead of 2024 Election" Idiots just like black males who are blackmailing Biden because they haven't got all they want, now.
What do these shallow idiots think will happen when Trump wins, business as usual? Until the next election when the Democrats will be crawling on their knees for their votes.
Trump is the racist avatar and butt buddies with Bibi, both are criminals and anti human, so tell me how that is going to work out for the Palestinians and their sympathizers.
I live a boat ride away from Canada and have a lot of money in savings, I just hope that Canada will accept me as a political refugee.
Pure unadulterated myopic stupidity thinking that holding their breath till they turn blue, will achieve their goals.Not even considering the unintended consequences of a second Trump presidency, and a completely MAGA congress.
I am upset with Biden as well, because he and the Democratic party did not do what they promise, and he selected a Conservative Republican as AG, and never cleaned the Trump humpers out of cabinet positions, which Trump created in his final days. He even revoked the Trump Executive order, which he could have used to purge DOJ, DHS, NSA, FBI, IRS, DOD, etc of the Trump humpers that Trump embedded in his final weeks." His Deep State is thriving well, and subverting justice, especially in the DOJ, a good example is the special counsel that is prosecuting Hunter.
But I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Biden, because the alternative is unthinkable, These self righteous assholes, think that they can punish the Democrats for not acceding to their demands, and all they are doing is laying the foundations for their own persecution by the MAGAts. Trump has warned them, and the fools are not paying attention. They deserve their just reward for fecklessness, but I and you don't.
Their motto is, whether they know it or not, Bibbi and Trump, not Biden.
Thanks, I get his newsletter. You are three hours ahead of me.
I remember the 1973 war vividly. My boss, Col Baranowski, got his nose into the airlift of weapons and munitions, and proudly displayed a picture taken with Golda Meir. Personally I don't recall suffering from the long lines and prices at the gas pump, then again I drove a 1970 Maverick, six cyl flathead, which got great gas mileage.
It doesn't quite look like an oil embargo at this point, maybe because we produce enough oil, that Exxon and their ilk are exporting, the excess but the oil cartel will take advantage of any event, to raise prices and maximize profits.
Daniels says" Never mind that the charter schools were an abject failure." and who immediately springs to mind but Rahm Emanuel and Chicago, he and Betsy Devos.
Rahm is a poison that naive Obama, probably at the behest of Larry Summers, another abomination, brought into the government.
I had the misfortune or rather the good fortune, of having been exposed to the dregs who posed as teachers, after WWII. All of the good teachers were either drafted or enlisted in the war, or served on production lines "Rosie the Riveter",who no longer than VJ day was proclaimed than women in the factories forced to attend classes on how to wear sun dresses, make up and become submissive dollies again.
The 4F's, the elderly, the mentally unbalanced were left to fill teaching slots, and in Philadelphia, PA that was the cadre of public schools, a teaching staff of non compus mentis, my 1st algebra teacher was certifiable, my English teacher was beyond her ken, and boring. In all of their classes, I sat staring out the window, until I stopped going to school, and instead headed for the public library, under the mentorship of the librarian, who promised not to report me for truancy, if I finished her reading assignments and passed her quizzes.
In a past life, I've represented school districts, teachers' unions (AFT), individuals involved. IMHO the greatest thing that happened to public education was the Education Act. I go back to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that prohibits discrimination based on disability in any program or activity operated by recipients of federal funds. now IDEA. Some states now provide that every kid should have an Individualized Educational Prescription, IEP, https://www.verywellfamily.com/essential-parts-of-an-individual-education-program-2162702#:~:text=The%20IEP%20must%20contain%20information,Each%20objective%20should%20be%20measurable.
Unfortunately, parochial schools have been able to use such programs to subsidize religious education. I don't think there is any magic to local control, because local school boards are often dominated or intimidated by groups who want to acquire public funds for their own devices.
Besides the religious "right", libertarians object to any public governmental activity except for defense spending. They object to educating other peoples' kids. They do support tax credits for tuition and other expenditures related to an individual’s education.
https://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Libertarian_Party_education.htm
https://www.lp.org/issues/education/
Outstanding comment Daniel.
My perspective is that we the (reasonable people) and the Democratic Party, since Goldwater, have not paid attention to, nor funded local political races, While at the same time, the Republicans have been plowing resources and energy into taking control of government at all levels.
Who runs for school boards, not liberals but conservatives. And who motivates these conservatives, preachers and priests, who accurately perceive secularism as a threat to their way of life, their parasitic lifestyle, there social status, prestige and income.
The real push for control of education started with Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority when Reagan ran the first time in 1980, my mail box was swamped with his propaganda, and from them I learned the effective way of writing for effect.
Short paragraphs with one thought or subject.
Meanwhile Democrats (liberals) have been content with sitting back and putting their energy into more "important" things, like the General Election, especially the Presidential race.
Thus leaving the patriarchal, white Christian nationalism to command the low ground, in warfare the objective is almost always to command the high ground, however a persistent assault from the low ground almost always takes the high ground. Caesar at Alesia , battle of Missionary ridge during the siege of Chatanooga. Salah al din's siege of Jerusalem, Rome's siege of Masada
Yes Democrats take the high ground, because they are too weak and feckless to invest money in the low ground. Also they don't have the money, because those with enough money for discretionary spending, splurges most of it, on those most likely to give them tax and regulation breaks, and that is the party that is supported by a highly motivated , fearful and angry base.
He who controls the amygdala, the lizard brain, controls their society. Then it is amygdala vs amygdala, and if the pre frontal cortex steps in, it invariably loses to the amygdala.
If we are to save a secular democracy, then the Democratic party had best start investing in local races, school board, sheriff, animal control officers.
And here comes the skeptic, the cynic, if the Democrats haven't learned a lesson in over half a century it is already too late
Does anyone here feel like Sisyphus, rolling that stone up a hill, only to have it roll back down.
I am genuinely fearful that the MAGAts and Trump will attain power next year and that will be the death knell of a great experiment, unless somehow the Democratic party shakes off it's fleas, and becomes aggressive, because it is our only hope, as we are in struggle for not only the soul of a nation, but the very freedoms, that took 27 Amendments to secure.
A cynic would say that public education is merely babysitting. About half of the students have no interest in learning anything. Socialization is probably more important anyway.
Where I live, the Bush family had an economic interest in privatizing everything. Jeb's kids went to school with my niece. They had an investment interest in the standardized tests required by the federal Department of Education, had a financial interest in charter schools, etc . The concept is to take funds that would normally go to public schools. Never mind that the charter schools were an abject failure.
In Pennsyltucky, we sold part of our local schools to the Amish, after Wisconsin v. Yoder. 13 year old "teachers." The object is to avoid promoting the kids to the junior high level, where they would have to go to an integrated school.
Because of Lemon v Kurtzman, had to pay for transportation, special services for parochial schools, especially when board members were Catholics.
Nepotism, fraud are the currencies in many, if not most districts. At one time, here in Baghdad By the Sea could have a quorum of board members in the big house. Same with union officials.
Daniel this is an off topic rant, I just read an email from Democracy Now. "“No Ceasefire, No Votes”: Arab American Support for Biden Plummets over Gaza Ahead of 2024 Election" Idiots just like black males who are blackmailing Biden because they haven't got all they want, now.
What do these shallow idiots think will happen when Trump wins, business as usual? Until the next election when the Democrats will be crawling on their knees for their votes.
Trump is the racist avatar and butt buddies with Bibi, both are criminals and anti human, so tell me how that is going to work out for the Palestinians and their sympathizers.
I live a boat ride away from Canada and have a lot of money in savings, I just hope that Canada will accept me as a political refugee.
Pure unadulterated myopic stupidity thinking that holding their breath till they turn blue, will achieve their goals.Not even considering the unintended consequences of a second Trump presidency, and a completely MAGA congress.
I am upset with Biden as well, because he and the Democratic party did not do what they promise, and he selected a Conservative Republican as AG, and never cleaned the Trump humpers out of cabinet positions, which Trump created in his final days. He even revoked the Trump Executive order, which he could have used to purge DOJ, DHS, NSA, FBI, IRS, DOD, etc of the Trump humpers that Trump embedded in his final weeks." His Deep State is thriving well, and subverting justice, especially in the DOJ, a good example is the special counsel that is prosecuting Hunter.
But I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Biden, because the alternative is unthinkable, These self righteous assholes, think that they can punish the Democrats for not acceding to their demands, and all they are doing is laying the foundations for their own persecution by the MAGAts. Trump has warned them, and the fools are not paying attention. They deserve their just reward for fecklessness, but I and you don't.
Their motto is, whether they know it or not, Bibbi and Trump, not Biden.
I agree. Check out Robert Reich today.
Thanks, I get his newsletter. You are three hours ahead of me.
I remember the 1973 war vividly. My boss, Col Baranowski, got his nose into the airlift of weapons and munitions, and proudly displayed a picture taken with Golda Meir. Personally I don't recall suffering from the long lines and prices at the gas pump, then again I drove a 1970 Maverick, six cyl flathead, which got great gas mileage.
It doesn't quite look like an oil embargo at this point, maybe because we produce enough oil, that Exxon and their ilk are exporting, the excess but the oil cartel will take advantage of any event, to raise prices and maximize profits.
Daniels says" Never mind that the charter schools were an abject failure." and who immediately springs to mind but Rahm Emanuel and Chicago, he and Betsy Devos.
Rahm is a poison that naive Obama, probably at the behest of Larry Summers, another abomination, brought into the government.
I had the misfortune or rather the good fortune, of having been exposed to the dregs who posed as teachers, after WWII. All of the good teachers were either drafted or enlisted in the war, or served on production lines "Rosie the Riveter",who no longer than VJ day was proclaimed than women in the factories forced to attend classes on how to wear sun dresses, make up and become submissive dollies again.
The 4F's, the elderly, the mentally unbalanced were left to fill teaching slots, and in Philadelphia, PA that was the cadre of public schools, a teaching staff of non compus mentis, my 1st algebra teacher was certifiable, my English teacher was beyond her ken, and boring. In all of their classes, I sat staring out the window, until I stopped going to school, and instead headed for the public library, under the mentorship of the librarian, who promised not to report me for truancy, if I finished her reading assignments and passed her quizzes.