Iowa senator compares preschool to Nazi indoctrination

[bullwinkle428]

Do I even have to bother to mention that he's a Republican? :banghead:

"Political talk about the merits of preschool evolved into a heated debate about Nazi indoctrination today in the Iowa Senate.

Republican Sen. Mark Chelgren said it’s parents’ responsibility to teach young children.

“It is not the role of this government to take that away from families and replace it with an indoctrination process by teachers,” Chelgren, a freshman senator from Ottumwa, said shortly after the Senate gaveled in for the afternoon.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal fired back that all the Iowa Legislature’s early childhood programs over the last 25 years were designed to make sure parents are children’s best teachers."

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/02/14/iowa-senator-compares-preschool-to-nazi-indoctrination/

[RandySF]

1. What. An. Idiot.

[canetoad]

2. Clearly, this guy needs to be pinned down

and quizzed on what he considers 'indoctrination'.

The whole comment is so woefully moronic, it's hard to formulate a serious reply to it. This person has absolutely no understanding of the inherent workings of society and I question his qualifications to sit in the US senate.

[provis99]

3. why is there so much Republican stupidity in Iowa these days?

I used to think it was one of the saner states. No its starting to look as goofy as Michigan or suburban Minnesota.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Hey........lay off Minnesota

the republicans gerrymandered her district so much the border of it looks like a Swiss Alpine road

[Frustratedlady]

6. I've sure never seen anything like it and I've lived my entire life in Iowa.

I'm beginning to think the Repug governors were given the task of doing the most bizarre changes they could think of to cause confusion. They surely don't mean to change all these things.

I keep thinking that they are throwing up a smoke screen to keep our attention from something else. I just can't figure out what it is. I just keep getting an aroma of Rove.

Did I say I don't trust Repugs?

[EC]

4. Stupid

and besides that point, isn't pre-school voluntary? If they want to believe that, then don't send them. And don't most of that type already home school?