"Smart Start." It sure sounds nice, doesn't it? Heck, if you're opposed to "smart start," then you must like "Dumb Start." You must be a racist if you oppose this one. It fits in the same category as "Smart Growth." SURELY you wouldn't DARE to oppose a program with such a wonderful name as that, would you?

Wait, before you answer, I need to tell you one more thing -- it's for the children. No, wait, it's for the POOR children. If you haven't heard anything about this program, don't worry, you will. There's no way ANYONE can oppose this. It has a good name and it's not just to help the children, but it's to help poor children. Do you support it yet?

Well, it costs billions of dollars and produces absolutely ZERO measureable results. Sounds like a Democrat's dream come true, doesn't it? Well, it is. And socialists gathered by the thousands hundreds dozens last week to "celebrate" this wonderful program that sucks tens of millions of dollars out of the pockets of working people to help the poor children, yet produces absolutely no results -- to ask for more money. And it's being held up as a model for the rest of the socialist nation. Just try to hold on to your wallet.

The concept is that since poor black children are doing bad in school, if we just give them money and train them before they enter school, since their parents aren't doing it, then they will do better. The concept sounds great. Let's take those who are "pre-disposed" to do poorly in school and get them up to the level of everyone else so that everyone starts at the same level. Then everyone will be wonderful.

One problem: it doesn't work. There has been no decrease in dropout numbers for participants. And the reports in the linked article are blatant lying -- they actually claim that a program started in 1991 produces people who are "more likely to ... be employed at age 40." For those slow on math, those who started the program in 1991 at age 4 are now only 18 or 19. So even graduation rates cannot even be measured yet! But dropout rates can. And they're bad.

But, like any good socialist program, all they need is a little more money. They measure success by how much money they spend, not by how many people are actually helped. Smart start is nothing more than yet another income redistribution plan that punishes the working and rewards the lazy.

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It's perfectly okay, according to the United States government, the government of Idaho, and the education establishment in America, to tell captive students to assassinate those who vote Republican. According to the members of the ruling class and the education bureaucracy, that's fine because it's "to get ... students to think."

However, if someone tries "to get them [students] thinking" -- but DARES to refer to the Bible, you're out the door as fast as the very same people can throw you.

Can someone please explain to me how this is not a double standard? If the educrats are trying to induce students to think, why is it okay to suggest murder to get one to think, but not okay to refer to a book that's sold more copies than any other book in the history of the world?

Go ahead, try and convince me that Christianity isn't under attack in America. Someone please explain to me that suggesting outright slaughter of vast numbers of people in America is fine, while using a book that has provided a pathway to freedom, prosperity, and peace for millions is bad.

Once again -- when government gets involved where they should not be -- education -- they can do absolutely nothing but make a horrible mess of it. This provides yet more evidence that government is completely incapable of education. They cannot do it. They were never authorized to educate the populace. They should not be in the business because they absolutely stink at it. Go ahead, trust your children to be educated by a system that openly despises the Bible, yet praises those who suggest mass murder.

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The march for forced acceptance, no matter the cost, continues for the gay movement in America. They continue to use the absolute force of government to demand that you completely and totally accept and approve of their lifestyle choices. This time, they're doing it in Deerfield, IL.

The militant gays are using the power of government schools to not only force 14-year olds to listen to graphic depictions of gay sex acts, but they are using that same force of government to force children to lie to their parents. And if the children dare disobey the all-powerful government, you can be assured that they will be severely punished. There's no word from the school district as to whether they will require all students to start wearing brown shirts. It was not clear at the time of this writing whether students are being asked to turn in any parents who attempt to pry the truth out of their children.

There is a reason that Ogre supports homeschooling. No matter how much you might think that YOUR government-run school isn't this bad, it is. I bet every single parent of every child in Deerfield High School thought that THEIR school was just fine and that they wouldn't have to put up with the radical leftist agenda being forced down their throats before this.

EVERY single government school in the country is suceptible to this truth-twisting by the left. The left will continue to work and penetrate every school they can get to -- and as you can see, they have absolutely no qualms about lying to get their agenda forced down the throats of the young people. You can be that in this secret presentation, in which children were forced to LIE TO THEIR PARENTS, there was no equal time for any other side of the debate. The entire discussion appears to have been about how being gay is wonderful, including graphic descriptions of gay sex acts -- and you can be sure there was NO discussion of the risks and societal consequences of those same acts.

Government schools stink. They have absolutely NO redeeming value AT ALL. There is absolutely NO reason to send your child to ANY government run school anywhere in the country. Those that run the school only want your child because it gives them cash from your pocket. The left only want access to your child to ram their viewpoint down their throat while unopposed. YOUR CHILD WILL SUFFER if you send them to ANY "public" school in this country. You can teach your child everything that is taught in a government school in about 15 minutes a day -- seriously.

For those who are going to cry about your child not getting to "socialize" with others -- keep in mind this gay lobby assault. Your child is learning to socialize by being told to lie to you and to approve and participate in gay acts.

There is absolutely NO VALUE at all to any government school. They should all be shut down immediately.

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For those who read the Charlotte Observer, their socialist position should come as no surprise. For those who actually read that paper and expect unbiased news, you'll be in for a rude awakening.

This time, they're supporting socialist education. They honestly believe that everyone else should pay for ANYONE who wants to go to college. They think that college should be completely "free" -- which means working people will have to pay for it, instead of the people who will actually attend and benefit from it. But that's how socialism works -- a few people work to support those who do not.

They're complaining not that the cost of education has gone up -- including salaries to their pals in the education bureaucracy -- but that the tuition might go up. They think that their friends and allies that work in education should get a lot more money, but they don't think that students who will gain the education and degrees should pay for it. Instead, those who are working should pay.

They do not care that the costs of higher education are rising across the country -- they don't think students should pay. Oh, and if you're not from North Carolina, they support you getting a free education here, too. Socialists unite in North Carolina behind the Socialist Charlotte Observer. Productive working people? Get out while you still can.

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Absolutely incredible. You are an innocent, law-abiding citizen. You're minding your own business. You're not breaking any laws and you're not disturbing anyone. Then, some government bureaucrat decides to tell you to be somewhere at 10am on Tuesday. No, it's not even to investigate wrongdoing. It's not as a witness to a crime. In fact, no crime has been committed.

In addition, the bureaucrat is not from the executive branch, nor are they associated in any way with law enforcement. They have nothing to do with taxes (other than living off yours). They have absolutely no force of law behind their request at all.

You, being rather busy doing something like working to earn enough to pay that bureaucrat's bloated salary, decide that you cannot get the time off from work and so you choose not to follow the bureaucrat's "request" to meet them on their terms at the time of their demanding.

In a free country, that would be the end of the story. However, the United States is not a free country. Instead, in Texas, if you DARE to refuse a non law-enforcement bureaucrat, they want to make that a misdemeanor crime that will cost you $500 and possible jail time.

Now go ahead and read the story and claim "it's for the children." That's crap. It's damn wrong, no matter how you frame it. To give unelected bureaucrats the power over people's lives like that is completely and totally wrong. If you want to hold parents responsible for their children, kick the children out of the school.

Of course, that will NEVER happen because schools don't do that at ALL any more. Short of committing a murder on school property, no child is ever removed from a public school. Heck, Charlotte openly welcomes convicted sex offenders into the classroom so others can experience diversity.

Some days I really wonder if there is any hope for freedom left anywhere on this planet.

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Once again, we see the bias apparent in the press if you only look. An article that doesn't appear on the opinion page, says

The gap in funding between North Carolina's richest and poorest school districts is among the widest in the nation, an advocacy group for low-income and minority students reports.

If you twist the numbers just right and hold your head the right way, it would appear that there's a tiny difference in spending between poor people and rich people -- rich people apparently spend more, a bunch of scum-sucking slimeballs that rely on greed and jealousy to steal their income from taxpayers and works full-time to take from those who work to line their own pockets report.

The most appropriate response, yet again, to these envious, lazy bastards is, "SO WHAT?" You know what? People who work hard and earn money actually spend more. I know that the "Education Trust" people actually seriously HATE that people who work hard earn more money. They despise that people work and earn money -- they sure don't do it, I'm sure they wouldn't know how. But they sure do work at taking money AWAY from those who earn it.

And more importantly, show me ONE STUDY, go ahead ANY study that actually shows ANY difference in the level of learning based on money. There isn't one. Every time a scholarly group actually tries to find a causal relationship between money and education, it simply CANNOT BE FOUND. Money DOES NOT equal education.

But these scum at "Education Trust" not only know that, they honestly don't care. They want money for their own pockets and they're perfectly willing to take it from those who produce it. Scum-sucking leeches, the lot of them.

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Lexington schools are considering banning evil at schools. And of course, when I speak of evil, I'm not talking about The Great Evil (Bush), but all that is evil, smoking.

They are considering making their school "100% tobacco free," meaning no one, including teachers and administrators, will be able to use any tobacco on school grounds. Since tobacco is a legal substance, I'm not quite sure how this is possible for a government agency to ban a legal activity on it's own grounds. Of course, this is perfectly legal for a private company to do this, but government isn't a private company and has it's own rules.

In addition, since this is government, they don't have to follow ANY rules, because they just make up any rules as they see fit. As long as NC is led by Democrats, no one will complain -- especially since this is not only evil, it's "for the children" which means it's perfectly okay, no matter what.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a truly free country.

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Have you seen the recent happenings in Germany related to education? Oh, the left in America would absolutely LOVE this to happen here. Seriously. I'm not trying to be funny or exaggerate at all:

On Friday 20 October 2006 at around 7:30 a.m. the children of a home educating family Â… were brought under duress to school by police

Of course, remember, the education establishment in America is also honestly NOT interested in education. Their primary purpose is to spend money and secure teacher jobs (to be paid with MORE government money). In case you didn't know, the amount of money given to all government (public) schools in America depends DIRECTLY upon how many students attend. Therefore, the more students you have at your school, the more money you get. Homeschoolers are the enemy to the state.

Go ahead and elect Democrats and watch them crush this enemy, too.

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Govn'r Easley has decided that to fix education, he needs to spend some money. Since it's For The Children (TM), then it's okay. He wants to audit all the schools in the state.

The audit, Easley said, was an effort to ensure that money was being spent wisely. The review is expected to cost the state $300,000.

Look, government has failed. Government cannot educate our children. It really doesn't matter how much money is spent, they are completely incapable of completing the task at hand. The education system across the country, not just in North Carolina, is not even interested in educating children. They're interested in passing tests so they can get more money. The government school system should be shut down. It simply does not work. It's the largest waste of money in the entire state budget. Since it cannot educate children, it's alleged purpose, then why should we keep paying for it?

Of course, if you ask anyone in the education system, they will claim they are a success -- and they are if you accept their terms. To the average person, the purpose of the education system is to educate children. If that's your view, then clearly the program is a complete and total failure. However, if you accept that the purpose is to obtain and spend money, then it's a monumental success! And that is the purpose of the education system to Democrats and bureaucrats.

So, if you want a system to raise and spend money, be happy with the education system in North Carolina, because it's a complete success. However, if you want a system that educates people, the North Carolina education system is an utter failure. Shut it down. And yes, I'm serious.

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1 Well, I guess that shuting down the system is not the way out However, I noticed when living in Sydney the education system down there is something completely different

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2 But it would work -- no question about it.

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Oh, the poor children. It's the end of the world for children because the state is utterly incompetent. Therefore, the state needs to raise taxes and spend more money to hide their inability to educate.

That's the summary of this article that describes a potential plan to pay even more money to teachers in North Carolina -- as much as 57% more. They claim that there is a retention problem with teachers and by spending more money that problem will go away. It hasn't worked in the past, but like every other Democrat program, the solution is always just a little more money.

Teachers aren't leaving the industry due to lack of money. They're leaving the public education system because it stinks. They have no control over their classrooms. They're punished if they say the wrong thing at the wrong time. They're not allowed to throw disruptive students out of the classrooms. They're punished if they don't pass enough students. More money isn't going to solve that problem.

In addition, in a capitalist system, you earn money for doing one of two things -- doing something no one else can do, or something that no one else wants to do. Programming a computer is something few people can do -- therefore those who CAN do it get more money. Picking up trash is something few people want to do -- so they earn more money. Brain surgery is something that few can do and few WANT to do -- so they earn even more.

Teaching is not a difficult thing to do -- and there are currently a lot of people willing to do it -- so it does not command a high salary in a capitalist society. Government is interfering with the supply and demand, so the rules don't completely apply. But throwing more money will simply allow the people who are already doing it to earn more -- but that's not going to solve all the other myriad problems associated with public education.

If you don't believe me, compare the attrition rate of government school teachers and private school teachers -- it's not about the money.

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"Of the bureaucracy, For the bureaucracy, and By the bureaucracy..."

That is how the government of this United States is set up, right? It certainly has nothing to do with the PEOPLE today. Just an example, a few quotes from a GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, who is supposed to work for the people:

UNC Charlotte Chancellor Phil Dubois plans to convene a committee this summer to study how rapidly the campus should grow over the next decade or two.

Dubois has previously said he thinks UNC Charlotte's student population probably needs to be much larger

Dubois also told trustees that he's confident that the N.C. General Assembly will approve UNC Charlotte's request for a $45.8 million

This is 100% backwards from how this country was founded. The government was supposed to work for the people. The people were to tell the government what to do, not the other way around. This just gives further proof that the government is absolutely, completely, beyond control.

The only remaining question is whether the government can be brought back subservient to the people with or without violence.

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I seriously, honestly, want to know if ANY government-run school has EVER NOT asked for more money because it was the end of the world and all children would fail or die if they weren't given more money. Johnson schools has asked for a 15% increase for the year. And of course, it's a major crisis if they don't get it:

Some of this is not even break-even, weÂ’re just trying to keep our heads above water

It's a bare-bones budget

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The Ogre received an email entitled, "The Dukes of Cary?" As most people who get piles of email every day, I thought, "Spam," got hungry and readied the "delete" key. But I missed the delete key and read the email by mistake.

I found a reference to a printed letter to the editor in the Raleigh News and Observer. If you've followed politics in NC at all and know the politics behind the current Duke Lacrosse team, you'll get a kick out of the letter.

Nice one, Mike!

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That's the message to the North Carolina General Assembly from the North Carolina Community College System. They want more than $1 billion, an increase of THIRTY percent over last year's budget. Why?

Because we've never been fully funded

Community college officials said they would prefer to keep tuition affordable for working people, so the extra money needs to come from taxpayers.

The theory is that the students will get higher-paying jobs and generate more state tax revenue in the future to ease the burden on the taxpayers who now being asked to foot the bill.

If that theory is so true, can anyone tell me the last time that ANY education system EVER asked for less? At what point will there be a reduction in burdens on the taxpayer? In North Carolina? The morons who run this state can't even make do with cost of living increases -- they're asking for THIRTY PERCENT MORE. No, that's not a theory, that's a blatant lie.

The Community College system might have a purpose, but it's no longer being used to educate -- it's being used to redistribute wealth from those who work and earn money to those who do not. It's wrong -- but the Socialist Democrats running the state disagree. As long as you support Democrats in North Carolina, they will continue to spend and waste money taken from those who work.

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Remember, later this year, as across North Carolina you are absolutely inundated with calls for increased spending, increased taxes, more funding, and bond package support that's For The Children (TM) and government-run "education."

Since the 1997-98 school year:

Cartaret County lost 300 students through decreased enrollment -- but gained 117 new employees.

Craven County lost 278 students -- yet gained 142 new employees.

Rutherford County lost 115 students and gained 146 new employees.

In a total of 36 of North Carolina's school districts, there was a reduction of nearly 10,000 students -- and an increase of 800 new "administration" and other employees. Across the North Carolina system, enrollment is up 11% while the number of employees has increased 19% -- to a tune of over $1,000,000,000.00 in the last TWO years.

Remember that the next time an elected official tells you that ANY increase in taxes or education funding is "For The Children" or even for educating the children -- they're just outright lying.

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Continuing the discussion regarding the 7-point NC Conservative Agenda. Today is Point 4:

Help Communities Build Schools

The lottery is a fact. It was named “The Education Lottery” and sold that it would be new money to help improve education. Now Governor Easley has admitted that the largest portion of lottery proceeds for lower class sizes and “More at Four” will be used to replace the money budgeted for these categories.

Both lower class sizes and More at Four will require additional classrooms, but the lottery proceeds barely address the problem of providing new classrooms. Conservatives should amend the lottery law establishing the distribution of lottery funds and designate more money for school construction. More at Four and lower classroom sizes will not be affected because they are already funded in the budget while school construction is not.

Local school districts that are experiencing phenomenal growth should receive preference in the distribution of funds, instead of the present formula that gives extra lottery dollars to counties with declining school populations.

Now I do realize that these agenda items are items that people have a hope of getting through the General Assembly THIS YEAR, so they can't put up there "Removal of the public school system" -- even if they should. This agenda items suggests that conservatives modify the lottery law to distribute funds differently. I disagree.

If you want to modify the lottery law, just remove the damn thing. It's state-sponsored, monopolistic gambling. If you want gambling in North Carolina, just legalize gambling and be done with it. You would get much better establishments than just the "lottery" if you did -- and there'd be competition and much less blatant lying if you did that.

This item also doesn't mention much about these "smaller class sizes" and "more at four" programs. Those are governor Easley's pet projects that he loves -- because they give him more power, more control, and more money -- not because they actually DO anything, because they DON'T.

After years of reducing class sizes and years of Easley's trademark "more at four" programs, there is absolutely ZERO correlation between participating in those programs and educational process. In other words, reducing the class size from 30 to 18 has NO effect on education -- other than making it cost more because more teachers are required.

There's supposedly a teacher shortage in North Carolina -- yet no one seems to make the connection that it's because of smaller class sizes -- which, once again, has NO EFFECT on the actual education received. NONE. Same with the "more at four" programs -- they're supposed to give "more opportunity" to "disadvantaged" youths. While there may be evidence of very short-term benefits, over the long run (into middle- and high-school) there's NO effect when comparing those who participated and those who didn't.

Of course, this fits into Easley and the Democrat's plans -- they WANT education to cost more. They WANT more money and more power for education -- and they don't care in the least that their ideas and programs don't actually educate. In their mind, the education system exists so they can spend money and spread power around, and for no other reason.

So no, I don't support "rewriting" the lottery to build more schools. If we want to change school funding at the state level, how about completely eliminating any funding for "English as a Second Language?" Seriously! There's BILLIONS being spent on that, and we shouldn't be spending a dime. If you can't figure what amounts are being used there, it's even easier -- if a school district even HAS an "English as a Second Language" program, that district gets no state money. Can anyone give me a reason why not?

Will this pass? It's hard to say. The lottery is such a hot topic up there, I'm thinking the Democrats will be afraid to touch it at ALL.

Previously:
Introduction
Point 1
Point 2
Point 3

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I sure hope that the North Carolina Community College system doesn't teach economics. They just demanded asked for more money because

Growth has created challenges. Those challenges can only be conquered with an infusion of financial support.

So the complaint is that there has been an increase of 50,000 students in the system (since 1999), and they don't have enough money to teach them all. Anyone with a 6th-grade education that wasn't supplied by the government-run monopolistic school system can see the simple answer: charge more money.

But no, not anyone associated with government. Instead of actually asking the people who are getting something from the state, they want everyone ELSE to pay -- through more taxes. And they don't want a little, no, they want $141 million. Of that, only $31 million is to pay for students.

According to the NC state library, there are over 750,000 students enrolled. The average number of courses taken is 2, with the an average credit enrollment of 6. So, if the students paid a whopping extra $7 per credit hour, they'd pay for their own education. What a concept.

But that's not all they want. They want $33.5 million to give "faculty and staff" a seven percent raise. When is the last time YOU got a 7% raise? And being state employees, don't think for a minute that they're not already getting an annual cost-of-living raise -- that's built in for all state employees.

Once again, government fails to make any sense in a free and capitalist society. I think community colleges are a good system -- but the state is utterly incompetent in running that system.

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The education system in North Carolina is really, really broken. Those who work inside it have zero interest in fixing it -- only in obtaining more power, money, and control. Keep that in mind when dealing with the government-run monopoly education system -- they are NOT interested in education, just money and power.

That's why I love reading about homeschooling, especially in North Carolina. I've mentioned before how much homeschooling is growing in North Carolina, mainly because of the poor "school environment" in North Carolina.

This news is regarding sports -- North Carolina Homeschooling just held the largest state championship for homeschoolers in the country for basketball -- there's over 42 teams in 11 cities. So much for the homeschoolers and their "lack of social interaction," eh?

There's other good news in the report, too, including music, debate, and other arts. Go read the good news!

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...So you know it's got nothing to do with the hopeless cesspool that is government-run "public" education system. Homeschooling is on the rise in North Carolina. It's up 36% in the last 5 years and continues to grow each year at a rate of about 8 to 10%. That's awesome. This shows that more and more people are acknowledging that the government is incompetent at teaching, well, anything.

And no, for those who know nothing about homeschooling other than what the liberal news media will tell you, it's not just religious nuts. The #1 reason that people are giving for homeschooling in North Carolina is "concern about the school environment."

Gee, you mean parents disagree with Mecklenburg County's School Board king Joe White, who says that children should experience the "diversity" of sitting next to convicted sex offenders in public school? Or maybe it's the arbitrary division of people by age, rather than by ability.

Homeschoolers ARE a success, by all measures. They are more educated, they are more well-rounded. They score higher on standardized academic tests and they are more socially adjusted (see here, and here) than those who have been sheltered in the walls of a school.

I used to say that homeschooling isn't for everyone -- I don't think that's quite right. You should get your children out of, and away from, the filth and waste that is the government school. If you can homeschool, that IS the best option -- I have yet to meet ANYONE who has tried homeschooling that did not like it.

Oh, and in North Carolina? You won't be alone -- at least 63,000 children are being homeschooled. If that were one school district, it would be the 4th largest in the state -- and that really is good news.

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Michelle Malkin points out Newsbuster's report on scumbag honored, esteemed, exalted, and celebrated member of the education establishment, Jay Bennish. In case you missed the case, he is a government employee who advocates treason against the United States.

He has been reinstated without any visible punishment and is permitted to continue teaching anything he wants in his "World Geography" class, including continuing to advocate that enemies of the United States should bomb this country. If there was any penalty, it may have been a minor "letter of reprimand" -- or it could have been a letter of commendation -- the school district will not say.

Either way, the taxpayers who pay his salary have been told that he can and will continue to preach for the destruction of the United States and the taxpayer will continue to pay for it, allegedly in the name of "academic freedom."

Of course, academic freedom ONLY applies to the left and Democrats. You see, a teacher in Miamidared to mention words from the Bible in school. "Students are upset." "It is distracting." The principle has "discussed his comments" with him and has not yet determined if he has violated any school policies.

So, if you mention the Bible in direct response to other students mocking it, that's insensitive, wrong, and may violate district policies. But if you openly advocate treason against the United States, you get rewarded and celebrated.

Now do you see why I continue to tell you the ONLY way to educate students in this country today is homeschooling? The government school system is a total cesspool of ultra-liberal thought. It has NOTHING to do with educating. If you have children, you are seriously doing them harm by permitting them to attend a government-run school.

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