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Thought For the Day
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Why is she a teacher? Doesn’t she know her presence is White Privilege? Isn’t her “teaching” anything a form of oppression to “others”?
Tax dollars to kill children via PP.
Tax dollars to make children hate.
Tax dollars to make children dumb.
Tax dollars to fund AOC, Shifty Schiff, Pelosi…….et al.
Taxation without representation.
I love her certainty, and the crazy eyes/cult-like stare. Just in case anyone doubts Leftism is a religion, well here is one of its adherents spouting dogma. Also, just a hunch, but I’m guessing they have more than 7 sacraments.
I’d like to go full R. Lee Ermy on that moron.
You no longer have demand constraints that would generate a local monopoly anywhere in the United States bar very remote areas like eastern Oregon. Outside these areas and outside the realm certain niche programs, there isn’t any reason to provide primary and secondary schooling through public agencies or public corporations. Schooling is a fee-for-service activity which appears naturally on the open market and can be provided by philanthropic corporations organized per state law. Distribution of vouchers which can be redeemed from county funds financed by local taxes and state grants can act to guarantee baseline services for all strata of society. Annual or semi-annual regents’ examinations can provide for quality control. Parents wishing to make use of tuition-funded schools or to home school can turn in their vouchers to the local fund in turn for the re-imbursement of that portion of their property taxes devoted to financing that local fund.
That having been said, please note that the inappropriate use of public agency as a delivery vehicle and the exploitation of the schools by public employee unions is only part of the problem. The big problem is the teachers’ colleges and the social ideology of their faculties. Another problem is the markers which define ingroups and outgroups among the professional-managerial bourgeoisie. Take a gander at the controversy at the Dalton School in New York. The same sort of woke-tards are to be found in the faculty and administration of private academies. At the Dalton School, those implicated include the bulk of the trustees, the headmaster, the rest of the administration, and about 2/3 of the faculty. These are affluent and educated people they’re trying to push around. If the residually Catholic schools have any mission left, it may be to provide the education that secular private academies provided 30 years ago – services not corrupted by the unions or the social ideology of the teachers’ colleges.
You want to work to fix this, job one has to be to close the state teachers’ colleges and to remove any requirement in state law that schools hire people with degrees or certificates from these cesspools, whether they be public cesspools or private cesspools.
That’s why we homeschool.
Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
…organized per state law.
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We do not need state law involved in education. Nor state money.
I’d like to know if there are ANY black people out there who find this BLM bandwagon demeaning to blacks? This woman is a nut, I’d take my kids straight out of her class- imagine how she treats the kids with an opinion different to hers…
We do not need state law involved in education. Nor state money.
Define ‘need’.
I’d like to know if there are ANY black people out there who find this BLM bandwagon demeaning to blacks?
Blacks who own auto parts stores.
Wow, even in song form the left still can’t meme.
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/need?s=t
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TREBUCHET, LOL. I’d like to be a fly on the wall when that happens. She’d probably drop to the floor in the fetal position sucking her thumb.
“I’d like to know if there are ANY black people out there who find this BLM bandwagon demeaning to blacks? ”
Yes. Plenty. Every (black) engineer I work with speaks of BLM as hoaxers and Marxists. “They don’t care, if the did-“One word. “Chicago”. “It’s virtue signaling-“
My children say, but dad you work as an engineer with engineers. That’s true.
Yes. Plenty. Every (black) engineer I work with speaks of BLM as hoaxers and Marxists.
I think there are about 17 million employed blacks in the United States of whom about 100,000 are engineers. I suspect John Derbyshire has the proportions about right – that about 15% of the black populations are lumpenproletarians who cause a great deal of trouble for the rest of society and about 5% are so hostile to whites they’ll go out of their way to injure them (a 5% of which examples can be found in every stratum; the example Derbyshire used from his own experience was a DMV employee). There are two problems: (1) rank and file blacks who want public order never seem to have the megaphone and (2) there’s invariably a combine of gentry liberals and black chauvinists running interference for bad blacks. New York City under Giuliani and Bloomberg managed to beat down the combine and establish order in the streets if not in the schools, an accomplishment that Shira Shlesinger, Bill DeBlasio, et all want to destroy. I’ve come to the point in my life where I think you can sort liberals into four categories: (1) the vicious, (2) the stupid, (3) the vicious and stupid, and (4) a few oddballs like Alan Dershowitz and Harold Pollack.
Nonresponsive, DJH. What are your objects?
Art, I concur with additional components:
In 2021 a story of racism feeds all algorithms and (black & white) coffers… being cast as a victim (black) brings rewards…. virtue signaling (white) provides cover and self-righteousness..
Hardly anyone (black) objects.
And most (white) are afraid to say anything.
@Art:
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I am not sure what you do not understand, since the sentences “We do not need state law involved in education. Nor state money,” seem very clear to me.
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You wanted a definition of “need.” I put in a link to dictionary.com. Again, that seems clear.
Candance Owens and Brandom Tatum have started the Blexit Foundation. https://blexitfoundation.org/
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Ms. Owens has been quite critical of BLM.
I am not sure what you do not understand, since the sentences “We do not need state law involved in education. Nor state money,” seem very clear to me.
When you state a ‘need’, you have an implicit purpose in mind. WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?
News: Chinese Joe’s so-called China Virus Relief Bill contains $1,400 a week for each federal employee whose kids are locked out of schools; and $540 million for teachers’ unions. In fact, only 9% of it goes to real China virus relief. .
Watch that video and weep.
The State has no business in education. Not in mandating it or funding it. Not in certifying anyone’s credentials to teach, or forbidding anyone from teaching, or licensing anyone. That kind of things.
The State has no business in education. Not in mandating it or funding it. Not in certifying anyone’s credentials to teach, or forbidding anyone from teaching, or licensing anyone. That kind of things.
To whom have you sold this idea?
I will not say all homeschoolers, but a great deal of them think that way.
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If you think my ideas are wacked, I can guarantee you yours are equally unrealistic.
DJH-
Art will randomly decide that some phrase that has been used is a slight against his personal honor, or some such, and go to war to demand that you agree that whatever he has taken offense to is wrong and must be destroyed.
I believe last time I noticed him doing this was when I dared suggest that a woman who has been a decently groomed woman for decades, and spoken to women, and studied historical female grooming challenges, and tried to actively learn about at home female hair care, may have anything to contribute to his knowledge of memories of his mother’s routine before she started a hair care routine with which he disagreed.
Don’t let him get under your skin, if you win often enough he just throws a fit and demands you not speak to him anymore.
Foxfier: Oh, got it.
If you think my ideas are wacked, I can guarantee you yours are equally unrealistic.
I don’t think probability assessments are your strong suit. Or thinking things through.
Play nice folks. No attacks on other commenters. We are all friends here.
“Ms. Owens has been quite critical of BLM.” Yes I may have read some of her commentary. Brave lady. But at a grass roots level where it counts, there seems to be silence. I learnt recently that Indians aren’t allowed to join the movement or anyone else for that matter who is not of African descent. You would think that 800 million Indians who live below the poverty line would have the right to say something about being black and their lives mattering.
You would think that 800 million Indians who live below the poverty line would have the right to say something about being black and their lives mattering.
There are about 1.2 million East Indians in the United States, of whom over 85% are from India itself. They tend on average to be moderately affluent and have no particular affinity for the black population. Speaking impressionistically, the 2d generation tends to mesh pretty well with the generic population. The 1st generation commonly have manners which are odd in an American context and put barriers between them and others.
I’m not understanding who the BLM movement encompasses and who it doesn’t. The acronym is Black Lives Matter. So anyone anywhere who is black could make claim to the movement. What do I know.
Ezabelle, you are an Australian who lives in Australia, correct? Not sure all commenters know this.
Black Lives Matter is a Marxist loosely organized group of African Americans. Successor to Black Power movement of the 1960s. Financed by liberals and Leftists of all races including Sen. Kamala Harris now US VP, and corporations they’ve shaken down. It was founded by 3 black lesbian women. They based the principals of their movement on Marxist writings of Assata Shakur who is hiding out in Cuba after killing a police officer.
Ok. But the movement has been adopted by the Indigenous Australian Community (aborigines) with protests held simultaneously with yours across cities in Australia. BLM has been exported to countries across the globe. Yet the African American community say and you say it stands for people from the African diaspora only. I guess it doesn’t make sense that if it claims to be a voice for those discriminated against because the colour of their skin is black, then why can’t anyone with black skin claim it? Like Indians etc…otherwise they should call it something else.
There were BLM protests in the UK, across Europe, Korea….
American black may merit reparations for the wrongs inflicted on them by the American left, e.g., public schools, not something/slavery others long-dead suffered 150 years ago. .
Just a crazy thought. One likely will never solve one’s problems if one’s knee jerk response to one’s problems is to blame them on someone else.
Sarah Hoyt writes that it’s “insane.” She was writing about ‘reparations’ and Barack Hussein Nobama’s 75,678th asinine comment that the main obstacle to slavery reparations is ‘white resistance.’ “Sane people know you don’t punish people for sins they didn’t commit to make people who didn’t suffer from those sins feel better. Perhaps [fill-in-the-blank] needs to meet some sane human beings.”
Yes well that’s my point- I call BS on the movement. It’s an obscure movement claiming to be one thing but dishonest and selective of who and what it fights for. There is no purpose for the movement but an excuse for public mischief and sticking the finger up to anything which resembles peace and order. Like I said if we are going to talk about the injustices to people of black skin there are 800million people in India living in slums below the poverty line. That’s truly unfair. I liken this insanity to the women who decry inequality in the Western World- they need a reality check and go preach female inequality in the Muslim world where women can say they truly have no rights. You see, they wouldn’t dare
Indians are not the same race as blacks. They are Caucasians although residents from the southern portion of the subcontinent can be very dark skinned, but are still Caucasions. Race is defined by anthropologists as more than skin color to include facial characteristics, body hair, skeleton type. As taught in school Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid, and Australoid are the races. Ethnicity and race are often lumped together. The indigenous peoples of Australia are Australoid but, I would guess, because of their dark skin color, being bush people, and past treatment by the government feel comfortable or identify with black/ African American BLM.
The Indian government did away with “race” after independence. In the US our government wants us on many documents to check boxes on one’s race with aadditional choices of Pacific Islander, Native Americans, and Hispanic. I’ve known individuals who check every box or for Other write in American.
The Democrats in the US are all about race because they want division. All Lives Matter.
Most people wouldn’t have a clue about the correct anthropological definitions, unless it’s required to prove your race in the form of a test, anybody can claim to be any race, and where does it end… “The Indian government did away with “race” after independence.” Maybe on paper however the caste system still remains on a social, religious and cultural level- Dalit exclusion from public facilities and segregation in schools, they do the jobs nobody will (scavengers, sanitation cleaner etc..). It’s relative, as there aren’t global protests about this even though the scale of discrimination is larger. “In the US our government wants us on many documents to check boxes on one’s race” as does Australian government for all official forms (school, government) Aborigine or Torres Strait Islander. I would assume this is true of many countries. Of course, all lives do matter. That’s what we believe as Christians.