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chromeboomerang · 08-29-2007 08:16 PM

For what it's worth, I have a good friend who is an education lobbyist & activist. Goals 2000 in several highschools had the highest non advance to college rate of all time in those schools where it was studied. 20-30 percent dropout increase roughly as well. Don't have exact figures to hand, but that is essentially the results.

Another note of interest was an educator in SLC few years ago proposed going back to what was done in the 50's, ( which produced better results), i.e. the 3 R's, Reading, writing & arithmatic. He was lambasted by the predominately Liberal educators & labelled an insensitive brute & Conservative neanderthal etc.

"Are you actually capable of simply debating issues?"

Yes. Are you capable of processing known verified data?

Here's proof that the NEA, National Education Association is "very" leftwing.

http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2006/ju...http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2006/july06/06-

Parents who wonder why the public schools teach so many things parents don't approve of need look no further than the official policies of the nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA). Meeting in Orlando this year in annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend, the NEA adopted a long series of left-liberal resolutions.
Word leaked out several weeks ahead of time that the convention was ready to take the plunge and endorse same-sex marriage. That would be no surprise, since the NEA usually passes at least a dozen resolutions promoting the gay rights agenda.

Other NEA resolutions that have nothing to do with education include calling for national health care and statehood for the District of Columbia. To nobody's surprise, the NEA opposes any requirement that a school schedule a moment of silence.

After reading the NEA resolutions and policies, parents should reflect on last year's decision of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Fields v. Palmdale School District. The court ruled that parents' fundamental right to control the upbringing of their children "does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door," and that a public school has the right to provide its students with "whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise."

Edited By chromeboomerang on 1188448812

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