Anyone know what kind of "education reform" chimp is talking about?

I can only imagine. I'm a teacher and I can only imagine how much he wants to screw teachers.

No teacher I have ever met is for vouchers.

I guess the next step is mandatory religion class.

Teachers are already leaving.

I too am involved in education and am interested in your comment.
Thanks,

No offense to the teachers, but I want NO one teaching my son religion and thwarting it into something crazy like about 1/2 of our population sees it.

There is not one friggin thing I agree with this fool on. I am disgusted.

has proposed this school voucher shit every year since he took office, and even with a Republican majority, he hasn't been able to get it pushed through, except for a small "Demonstration" program in DC (which made news yesterday for having serious problems). I've been researching his proposals for work this week, and this is what I've gathered he wants to do:

1) Give priority funding consideration to early childhood programs in states that have a coordinated early childhood plan involving Head Start, pre-K and other childcare services programs.

Translation: This is where I think the "faith-based" bullshit comes in at. It's also another way to underfund Head Start.

2) He's proposing a $200 million program for struggling readers in middle & high school called "Striving Readers". This will be a federal grants program similar to Reading First but administered by the Feds.

Translation: Can't really see any downside to this one.

3) Establish a $200 million fund for states to encourage schools to develpo performance plans for entering high school students.

Translation: A get-rick quick scheme for *'s buddies who own computer technology and software companies--the idea is that teachers would test students using computer software which would then given them "prescriptions" on the student's learning problems/trouble areas and recommend strategies to improve these problem areas.

Translation: Uhm---isn't this what teachers have always been supposed to do--test and find out what students aren't getting and adjust their teaching strategies accordingly?????

4) Create an ELearning Clearinghouse of online courses available to students and adults.

Translation: I think (and I could be wrong) that this will make it easier for "home schoolers" to find course content available via the internet.

Also, when Tommy Thompson was our Gov. he put in place the voucher progaram in Milwaukee.

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Q: What's the square root of 1738?

A: God's will.

Don't get it. (Politics and English major here)

Should've done a setup -- it's a math quiz after fundies reform education, the optional always-correct answer to anything.

Like: "Many years ago, our Forefathers left the Secular Humanistic Liberalism of decadent Yurop, to establish Xtianity in Gawd's Country". (Picture Jesus, with a chip on one shoulder and an assault rifle slung over the other).

pnorman (Paul Norman)

Before I teach any sort of religion. They will have to have me removed before I do that crap.

More likely in the short term - vouchers, support of faith based education, trial relgious organization control of some public schools, limiting science curriculum, standardized rules on what can be taught in civics, history, social studies classes, requirements that creationism be taught as equally valid to evolution, mental health testing of all students and school personnel, loyalty oaths, goodby to cultural classes like art and music, ...

classes seperated by gender, the great revival of home ec classes,

a suburb of Los Angeles and she's learning evolution in 6th grade social studies. Last week she learned that Neanderthal fossils indicate care and concern for the weakest among them - that Neanderthals had developed a social conscience. Either the repukes have devolved or they never made it out of the more primitive stages of the "Southern Apes" with heads the size of baseballs.

this is key--having a social conscious for those in trouble, weak, sick or just unable to care for themselves. I fear for these vulnerable people in the US in this Dark Time!!

What else is new?

What is going on with education? I never got it any how. The Red states have just bad school and the blue states have pretty good ratings. I wondered what was up when Bush said he was going to do for US school what he had done in Tx. Clinton.s school were bad also. Isn't this a local or state thing?

who needs it anyway? we have our faith!

He will attempt to dissolve public schools. He is already in the process of starving them and forcing them out. It will become more and more privatized, and they will get tax payer money to boot I bet. So we will be feeding the corporations so that they can make more money. Or feeding into the teaching of a religion that we do not believe in.

We can probably expect the same to happen to prisons. We can probably expect the same to happen to our National Parks , Monuments, Museums and Forests.

stretched out saluting their feuhrer. Next thing you know they will be expected to report all Democrats, including their parents.

This is the kind of education reform I expect from this asshole.

as something else but those are the objectives
they want religious brainwash schools only

I see the further segregation of the races and of the classes. Already, the well-off white students attend church-schools or other private academies. The minority/poor-whites attend the public schools. So, eventually, the classes will be further seperated, and the "superior" people will continue along their path to control the "inferiors."

"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=8&u=/nm/20041106/ts_nm/health_texas_textbooks_dc"
Texas Sex-Ed Texts Barely Mention Contraceptives

Fri, Nov 05, 2004
By Jon Herskovitz
DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas education officials on Friday approved health textbooks for high school students that extol the virtues of sexual abstinence but only make passing mention of contraceptives, which critics say violates state regulations and endangers the health of teens.

The battle in Texas has national implications because the state is the second-biggest market for textbooks in the United States. Books approved by the state's school board are typically marketed nationally.......

Prepare to have your children brainwashed.