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Direct Threat to Education: Bill Ayers

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Aug 13, 2009 5:53 PM

First let me say I support Vouchers.

But Vouchers won't pass because Teacher's Union oppose quality education.

Conservatives won't really push for vouchers because in conservative communities, the schools are doing very well.

The real problems in education are in communites where Liberals run the school boards like the big cities.

The more Liberal the community, the more failed schools.

Imagine if, as you chat with your child’s first-grade teacher and ask about how he decided to embark on a career in education, he told you, “I walked out of jail and into my first teaching job.”

Imagine him telling you that his days in jail and violent protesting were formative to his teaching philosophy.

Most parents would have a serious discussion with the principal.

But the teacher who brags about such beginnings is now a “Distinguished Professor of Education.” Despite his specialty as “Professor of Curriculum and Instruction,” he trains future teachers to dispense with curricula and...