Yet still the myth continues. There are still some groups that simply live and die spreading the myth that money = education. Sorry, but that's a complete lie, only designed to get more cash out of the taxpayers hands and into government. Of course, "It's for the Children."

Another lie-filled "advocacy" group has announced an astounding fact -- that poor counties in North Carolina are spending less money than rich counties on education. Their solution? Of course, to steal more money from productive citizens and give it to the "poor" counties.

MONEY DOES NOT EQUAL EDUCATION. It never has, and it never, ever will. There are ZERO studies that even suggest that any amount of increase of $1 or $1000 has ANY effect at all on education. None. Zero.

Increasing funding for education does have ONE effect: it steals money from the economy so that hard-working people get less for their work. It violates the North Carolina Constitution that says, "We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are ... endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor."

All government spending on education should be reduced to zero. EVERYONE will benefit tremendously -- well, except for the bureaucrats and "advocacy" groups.

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Are a total mess and a nightmare. But if you live anywhere near here, you'd know that. Of course, if you live elsewhere and support a strong socialist idea of an education system, then you worship and adore the Charlotte-Mecklenburg System (CMS).

A year ago, a LARGE number of parents tried to secede from the school district. They wanted to break the gigantic, massively unresponsive school system up into smaller, more manageable districts. Of course, since the North Carolina General Assembly is Democrat, there was NO way they would succeed because it would require government to shrink.

So instead, in a miserably feeble attempt to appease these parents, the Democrat-controlled school board set up a "task force" to "study" the problem. The results of the "task force" are in. And yes, once again, I could have saved the state millions of dollars on the task force -- because the results were known before the task force even met for the first time. more...

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Here's just another example of anti-Americanism that's snuck into the government-run monopolistic education system. I'm sure it's not new news to those on the "inside" of education, but I hadn't heard of it before.

It used to be that America was The Great Melting Pot. The idea was that there was a unique American culture. This American culture was a great culture -- this was one of the primary reasons that people came to this country -- to join in with freedom, capitalism, and rugged individualism.

As people came to the country, they learned how this culture worked. They worked hard to learn the English language and to assimilate into the culture so they could effectively participate and work together and be a part of this superior culture.

Now I'm told this is all different. Apparently in education circles, including the horrible government-run system, there is no longer any melting pot. America now is supposed to be considered a "tossed salad."

Instead of joining in and becoming part of the unique, superior culture, immigrants are supposed to transplant their own culture and NOT adjust at all to America.

They are expected to bring their own traditions and culture (like macho drunk driving) and not only not assimilate, but to reject the American culture as inferior to their own, thereby creating a large group of different cultures that are specifically NOT American.

This was tried most recently in France. How'd that work out for them?

Importing various different cultures with ZERO assimilation is simply a recipe for total disaster. Cultures clash -- they ALWAYS have, and they always will. By teaching people that diversity is good, just for diversity's sake are plain wrong.

This forced diversity brings us things like saying it's a good experience for students to be in classrooms with convicted sex offenders (as is the case in Charlotte-Mecklenburg skills). This "tossed salad" brings us dangerous gangs (like MS-13) that are accepted as a different, diverse group of "undocumented workers."

This new "enlightenment" of mandated diversity provides us with pedophiles accepted as "alternative." It has brought us generations of welfare families that demand and expect everything to be given to them.

The tossed salad has wilted and grown moldy. It is nothing more than a potful of smelly garbage. Unfortunately, I think it may be too late for America to regain it's superior culture.

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1 Have you ever seen a salad that was in the fridge too long? It turns into a big gooey mess. Have you ever seen when a melting pot sits too long? It turns into a hardened cohesive lump of material. Keep that in mind when thinking of how you would like your country to be? Wilted, runny and disgusting or Hard, unified and strong.

Posted by: Contagion at December 12, 2005 01:55 PM (Q5WxB)

2 Excellent analogy!

Posted by: Ogre at December 12, 2005 01:58 PM (/k+l4)

3 Sigh. I'll have to make sure I teach my kids it is the melting pot...

Posted by: vw bug at December 12, 2005 04:15 PM (SCN6v)

4 You're going to, because the government isn't.

Posted by: Ogre at December 12, 2005 04:26 PM (/k+l4)

5 One more arguement for homeschooling.....

Posted by: Kari at December 12, 2005 05:48 PM (/HZs0)

6 Most certainly, Kari -- a strong argument!

Posted by: Ogre at December 12, 2005 05:56 PM (/k+l4)

7 hee hee hee, he said "tossed salad" hee hee hee

Posted by: Machelle at December 12, 2005 06:23 PM (ZAyoW)

8 You tossed your what, Machelle?

Posted by: Ogre at December 12, 2005 06:37 PM (/k+l4)

9 I think that has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. Naturally, people from other cultures, new to America are going to stick together and try to help one another, just as our ancestors did. And it's not a bad thing to celebrate some of the things from their native country. If you think about our traditional holiday meals, you'll realize that a lot of us still celebrate our ancestral heritage with food. To become a true American you MUST adopt American traditions, ideals and values. You must learn the American language and our history. It is absolutely wrong to discourage imigrants from doing these things. It isolates them, and prevents them from ever feeling that they really belong, or are even wanted here. There is no reason new imigrants can't become true Americans and still celebrate the good and meaninful things about their heritage.

Posted by: Patty-Jo at December 12, 2005 07:39 PM (tIPJZ)

10 Exactly right, Patty-Jo -- but that IS the opposite that is being taught in schools. This is the current result of diversity being more important than, well, anything else in social engineering, I mean, education.

Posted by: Ogre at December 12, 2005 07:47 PM (/k+l4)

11 Can you tell me what a "true American" is? Cherokee? Mohegan? British?

Posted by: M D R at January 03, 2006 09:48 PM (7smj9)

12 A "true American" is not defined by their historical origins.

Posted by: Ogre at January 03, 2006 10:02 PM (s2+Ck)

13 This is a really dumb comment. First of all who ever said America is the USA??? Let's not forget that there is a Northern and Asouthern Part to the continent. Second, all these imigrants are the one creatiating lots of revenue for this country and making it interesting. They are a economical, political and social force and many politiciand rely on their votes. Third, Since when are "Americans" native of this country to begin??. Lastly,I can see that our unity creates a sense of xenophobia. " American people" have never truly had the sense of union that Latinos, Indians, Chinesse ect have installed in their culture. Therefore, you fear because Amrica had always been told to be superior than others. Yet,Without those minorities and imigrants "America" is invisible.

Posted by: Dayanna at March 05, 2006 07:22 PM (Ffvoi)

14 Ummm...yeah, you're right -- that was a dumb comment. The "A" in USA stands for "America."

Posted by: Ogre at March 05, 2006 09:04 PM (CyQ4M)

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The Charlotte Observer has an editorial a news story with the following headline:

Keeping N.C. teachers will take more than pay, licensing efforts

Instead, the article focuses on the lack of teachers, the various school districts that cannot hire enough, and the various cash incentives and bonuses that are being used to attempt to attract teachers.

The easy solution is the one that's overlooked -- if the state can't find enough teachers, stop trying. Seriously. There's no reason that the state should be the only provider of education. The state should simply give up, perhaps starting at the high school level -- just stop providing high school, let the market take over, and give tax credits to anyone with school-age children.

Of course, the politicians are way too entrenched to ever give up any power, so that's not going to happen.

If you cannot attract employees with cash, try another option -- give the damn teachers some authority. Change their working conditions so THEY are in charge of the classroom, not the children.

Allow teachers to dictate what will happen in the classroom. Allow teachers to throw children out of the classroom when they are disruptive. Don't send convicted felonious sex offenders into the classrooms with the teachers. Allow teachers to arm themselves against the gangs and violence. EXPEL students who are involved in felonious assaults and gang wars on school grounds.

But then, you'd have to get rid of students who won't learn -- and that would reduce the federal funding -- so that's not going to happen, either.

So what's the solution? Take your own children and get them out of the government school system and let it collapse under it's own weight.

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