Say Anything Blog

We homeschool.  One of the defining moments deciding the issue for me (I’m slower than my wife) was a 6 year old visiting my son.  He didn’t know how to spell his name to enter into a computer game.  My son could type his name into a batch file at the age of two to bring up a game. 

Scary things are afoot.  “You tell the youths of today that and they won’t believe you.”

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at least your kids will learn how to play video games at home.
you might have inquired about the other boy. maybe his mom was a crackhead or a drinker… during pregnancy… or maybe he has a ‘learning disability’ like Gene.

Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Good point, Gene.  If truth be told, I think all of our welfare state “help” for minorities is in reality far crueler than Jim Crow ever was.

It works for College

Gene, do you realize that the vast majority of colleges are public institutions?

Actually, according to the US Department of Education, there are more private than public 4 year schools:

Total number of 4 year degree granting institutions: 2364

Public 4 year institutions: 612
Doctoral level publics: 166
Master’s level publics: 282
Bac. only publics: 101
Other 4 year degree granting publics: 63

Private 4 year colleges: 1752
Doctoral level privates: 86
Master’s level: 386
Bac. only: 546
Other: 742

Potatoe

Excuse me, you were saying?

That’s TOMAHTOE to you, pal.

Here’s what our public schools “Gets us”. But first, lets look at what our private schools get us.

Guess what these liberal folks all have in common?:  Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Joseph R Biden, Mario Cuomo, Elliott Spitzer, Robert Reisch, Ruth Bader Ginzberg, Albert Gore, along with many others? They all went to private school! Indeed, across the land, many of the top private schools are liberal bastions and incubators.

Do I even need to review the private colleges? Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Oberlin, et al?

On the other hand, a whopping 68% of our college and university graduate went to public high schools. Most of the contributors to this blog went to public high school.

And last of all, there is no such thing as a ‘government school’; a provocative phrase created by Rush to spotlight the NEA. “Government skrewls”, he drawls. I love it!

Except for the District of Columbia, a few military bases and certain federal holdings, the federal government does not own or operate any public schools in the nation. Even the vast majority of states don’t. Public schools, for the most part, are run by local, non-partisan school boards.  Lots of them - especially in the inner city - are failures, but the vast majority are not.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

The times, they are a-changin’...
Bob Dylan

pparets, the government isn’t just the federal government, and the reality is that those who work to reform their local schools quickly realize that in a very real way, they’re not the public’s schools, but rather the government’s.  See http://www.johntaylorgatto.com for details.

And those evil private colleges?  Well, you need to add to your list most of the conservative luminaries as well.  Michelle Malkin’s an Oberlin gal, Laura Ingraham’s from Dartmouth, Hugh Hewitt from Hahvid, and I believe that Scalia and Thomas are from Yale--maybe Roberts as well.

Plus, you’ve got great schools like Hillsdale, Patrick Henry, New St. Andrews’, and more.

Yes, a disproportionate percentage of teachers and professors at all levels in all kinds of schools tend to be politically liberal--with the possible exception of parochial schools.  That doesn’t mean that we ought to ally ourselves with the government’s schools to pretend that doing so will make us less dependent on government and less liberal, though.  That just doesn’t make sense.

It’s toemaytoe, what are you, some kind of vice-presadent or somthin?

Excuse me, you were saying?

I iz uh spullin’ weezard.

I went to a private skool untel thay sent me to a sarjent skool. I dont wantta know nothin about no pubic skool nohow.
damn govement!

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u 2??!!??

u 2??!!??

Damn I thought my Francis Gary Powers secret was safe here!

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Bono told me 2 say dat.