Electric Monk
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:31 PM
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Poll question: The real reason for the RW push to defund schools and teachers |
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Edited on Fri Mar-04-11 12:12 AM by Electric Monk
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:33 PM
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They want a cash business that does not use tax money. Even China is turning away from that though.
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:34 PM
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It's always the reason for pretty much everything the RW does. Public schools cost money, they don't make money. Therefore, they must be privatized.
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:35 PM
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3. To enable a corporate takeover of the schools. |
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Big money, in other words.
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:37 PM
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4. They are uneducated and "God fearing". |
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Studies have shown that the more education you have the more likely you are to be liberal.
They recognize higher education for what it truly is: A machine for creating open-minded human beings. And that scares the shit out of them.
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:45 PM
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Thu Mar-03-11 11:46 PM
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What I've read is that the more education you have, the more conservative you are, and this doesn't change until graduate school, where the level of conservatism drops slightly.
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Fri Mar-04-11 12:27 AM
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8. I have never heard anyone else on earth suggest that. |
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Fri Mar-04-11 06:44 AM
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12. That is along the same lines of what I was going to say. |
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What you said is true and they also hate multi-culturism and equal opportunity for all. If they could have it their way, they would have only for profit Sunday School every day of the week...and only for the white kids with the richest parents. Poor kids and all other races? Low wage work until death. THAT is what they want.
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Fri Mar-04-11 12:01 AM
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7. Big lobby money. They want schools to be privatized just like prisons are. n/t |
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Fri Mar-04-11 02:54 AM
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9. Voted "other", meaning all the above except "They know they need to ..." |
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They are more likely to be school haters They like it when the masses are ignorant They are getting money - personal corruption The money is coming from school privatizers They have faith in mass media, if not the Bible. They personally would prefer private schools, where grades, etc. were for sale They abhor the idea of people getting good, 'elitist' education at all They abhor the idea of people getting educated for free They abhor the idea of an educated populace They don't trust education anyways, they prefer mammalian and reptilian politics I'm sure there's more...
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Fri Mar-04-11 02:58 AM
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10. They hate universal education almost as much as they hate the idea of universal health care. It's |
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the money for most of them. They just can't tolerate the idea of their money going to help someone else.
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Fri Mar-04-11 06:36 AM
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11. No prayer, evolution, integration |
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