Homeschooling by Ron Paul?

[marmar]

Perhaps it shouldn't surprise that the Ron Paul Curriculum -- the former Texas congressman's educational institution and answer to the American education system -- is actually a homeschooling kit of sorts, according to the Houston Chronicle. After all, the onetime GOP presidential candidate pushed for the demolition of the U.S. Department of Education.

The program's website says students will learn "liberty vs. coercion in Western history," "how to defend the freedom philosophy," "what it takes for success in college" and "how to start a home business."

Critics like The Atlantic's Philip Bump suggest the curriculum is simply another means to push Paul's political views and pump out mini-Ron Pauls. Fox News is skeptical too. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/ron-paul-curriculum_n_3055837.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

[shenmue]

1. Remember when history class was about facts?

I miss those times.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. Like the Barum and Bailey Ron Paul and the republican parties motto

is There is a sucker born everyday and boy do the fall for their shit. This country is going down so fast because of the republican party and how they want to destroy education. Our grandkids don't have a chance. Really they don't have a "f"ing chance.

[JHB]

3. Sounds more like a master's course in axe-grinding n/t

[kestrel91316]

4. Ron Paul's school curriculum is written by Gary North, dominionist extraordinaire,

who advocates for government by the Old Testament rather than by the Constitution, and wants a return to death by stoning for gays, women who have premarital sex (but not men), adulterers, and children who mouth off to their parents.

Oh yes he DOES.

[Initech]

5. Christian Reconstruction is an incredibly dangerous and scary idea.

Having these fascists in charge - we'd seriously be no better off than the Taliban. They want to implement Biblical law which is scary. in and of itself.

[kestrel91316]

6. Christian Reconstructionists aka dominionists see the world of The Handmaid's Tale as utopian.

[FSogol]

7. WOOT! Job security. No one of the Paul-educated simpletons will ever compete

with me for a job.