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Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann Criticize Public Schools

Ron Paul Michele Bachmann Public School

First Posted: 03/24/11 09:38 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:40 PM ET

Three potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates expressed hostility toward the public school system at a home schooling rally on Wednesday in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa.

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Three potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates expressed hostility toward the public school system at a home schooling rally on Wednesday in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa.
Three potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates expressed hostility toward the public school system at a home schooling rally on Wednesday in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa.
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Austro-libertarian
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11:46 AM on 03/30/2011
Who invented government schooling? The prussians under Bismarck... Prussian children sure grew up to be great trench warriors in WWI didn't they?
06:02 PM on 03/28/2011
Ron Paul's grandson is an administrator in the Texas public school system. Go figure!
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Nutcase
Of, By and For - Elsewhere known as Psycho MD
03:20 PM on 03/27/2011
Just consider who is doing the criticism.

Move along.
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SeptimusDSX
Always question the obvious.
12:28 AM on 03/26/2011
Looks like these people are bent upon turning education into a business. There are problems with the current model of public schools, but does that mean it ought to be scrapped? No way!

Why should it always be one extreme or the other?
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gschear
Buhbye D. Rehberg, Sincerly, Bozeman MT
03:11 PM on 03/25/2011
Ok The rich will send their children to private schools, prep schools, and University. The working poor will homeschool...that is if both parents aren't working... or if there even are two parents. So 2 percent of us will have well educated children and the rest will get various levels of what we deserve. G0ds own free market. Very GOP.
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Whinger
I'm Just Me!
01:44 PM on 03/25/2011
Yeah, where would they be if they had nothing to whine about.
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Mary Sue Mc Cormick
God..Family..Country Always
01:25 PM on 03/25/2011
Is that where she learned that Concord and Lexington were in New Hampshire? And here I learned that they were in Mass.! I really need to sue the public schools for teaching me all the wrong things; like 2x2 = 4 and that 5+5 = 10! Lawdy, Lawdy, it's just no wonder I'm such a mixed up broad now... and I suppose next they'll tell me that Hawaii ain't no real state cause if it were, than that there Obama dude would be our legal President! Well, shucks!
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teacher39years
Educational Reformers need to be "Reformed."
09:30 PM on 03/28/2011
Great Post, Mary Sue. I just saw it.
01:12 PM on 03/25/2011
Bachmann's razor-sharp grasp of American history puts the lie to anything she has to say about education.
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Father Tom
CPA, VietNam Vet, Not a Priest
12:55 PM on 03/25/2011
There is little relationship between the amount spent per student and the resulting amount learned, measured through standard testing. In many instances, there is an inverse relationship; i.e., the more spent, the less learned. Reason: the bigger the pot of money, the more goes to non-teaching bureaucrats, limos, etc.

There is PLENTY to criticize in the public shool system. Maybe we shouldn't leave it to the nubjobs to point out.

http://www.realonlinedegrees.com/the-cost-of-educating-america/
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maninal2
Without knowledge action is useless
08:15 PM on 03/25/2011
Limos? Funny, I haven't seen as single one in any school parking lot I've seen. It may be that you're just lying.
Sloane7
Proud Liberal
12:46 PM on 03/25/2011
How is religion, any organized religion, not a propaganda machine?
12:22 AM on 03/26/2011
Good point
11:10 PM on 03/31/2011
if one man is deluded, he is called insane. If many people are deluded, it's called religion. Just another way to control the masses.
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sharin
liberal and proud of it
12:43 PM on 03/25/2011
OMG - now a public education is a BAD thing?!!! this way of think makes me ill. What kind of a country do these politicians see? education for the privileged only? throw in a couple of token scholarships for the not so well off?
12:39 PM on 03/25/2011
It is becoming evident that this current crop of republicans do not believe in democracy but fascism, when government is controlled by a strong leader and rights are limited to allow business to make as much profit as possible. In this scheme there is not room for an educated electorate they need ignorant enough to keep voting against their own best interests. That we are now showing we are good at.
10:31 PM on 03/25/2011
Actually facism hates homeschooling, was outlawed in Nazi Germany and Italy too I believe. Just saying.
11:53 PM on 03/25/2011
Germany was not fascist it was Nazi a different beast. Italy was Fascist. Fascism in Italy followed the privatization of government route in many areas and other nations at that time took different paths to the same end. As for schooling the republicans are all over the spectrum, private schools, christian schools and home schools but in the end it all is the same keep the population as docile as possible and a dumbed down school system riddled with ideology. The current Texas model is a good example.
12:30 PM on 03/25/2011
It sounds as though they want to control what the "masses" are allowed to learn in order to preserve a more rigid and plutocratic social and economic caste system. Sure, I know that many public schools are not perfect, but to kill off public schools is to kill American ideals of democracy and socio-economic mobility.
RINOVirus
George Carlin was right all along.
12:22 PM on 03/25/2011
Sadly, this can only lead to the further erosion of our country. Cutting Education is not only stupid but it is also cowardly from a governing perspective. Education remains the single greatest investment we can make in the future of this country. Many dismiss it because they disagree on curriculum which itself has become politicized (Texas Board of Education). The sad thing is that cutting Education is easy because the effects are so long term that politicians rarely see the end results of the changes and more importantly have to deal with their consequences. This is just another step towards a two tiered America: haves and have-nots.