Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann Criticize Public Schools

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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Comments

[Austro-libertarian]

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?

[gsh77566]

06:02 PM on 03/28/2011

Ron Paul's grandson is an administrator in the Texas public school system. Go figure!

[Nutcase]

03:20 PM on 03/27/2011

Just consider who is doing the criticism.

Move along.

[SeptimusDSX]

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?

[gschear]

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.

[Whinger]

01:44 PM on 03/25/2011

Yeah, where would they be if they had nothing to whine about.

[Mary Sue Mc Cormick]

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!

[teacher39years]

09:30 PM on 03/28/2011

Great Post, Mary Sue. I just saw it.

[Ramseytwo]

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.

[Father Tom]

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/

[maninal2]

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]

12:46 PM on 03/25/2011

How is religion, any organized religion, not a propaganda machine?

[pceasy]

12:22 AM on 03/26/2011

Good point

[Daisygeo]

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.

[Ohio5470]

01:55 PM on 03/25/2011

Well I see that your unique experience means it applies to everybody. Public money should not be given to religious or private schools for sectarian means. Vouchers could never provide the cost of an education you seem to think your children need. Maybe your child never got the support he or she needed at home and you expect the teacher do all the educating. If your desire that "public schools fall by the wayside" ever happens, our nation will surely fall with it. Narrow self interest never made a country great.

[Sandman911]

04:45 PM on 03/26/2011

Private schools are not only doing a better job at educating the kids, they're doing it for alot less money, and the teachers get paid more.

[goleafsgo]

09:03 AM on 03/28/2011

Good post, Ohio.   I wonder what criteria was used in judging that her child had finally caught up.  I wonder as well, if the 23 foster children of MB and her biological ones were evaluated which ones would be better educated.  Just thinking.  LOL!

[maninal2]

08:15 PM on 03/25/2011

Your anecdotes have no validity. Stick to facts or go back to your corporate site.

[Endersdragon]

10:30 PM on 03/25/2011

So just curious. Do you believe that any kids who struggled in public school might do better in a Montessori school? Or do you not believe a child has ever struggled in public school (I can point you to a few who have, or Ken Robinson can do the same thing if you wish)? I am failing to see your problem with everything.

[sharin]

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?

[Andy49]

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.

[Endersdragon]

10:31 PM on 03/25/2011

Actually facism hates homeschooling, was outlawed in Nazi Germany and Italy too I believe. Just saying.

[Andy49]

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.

[Aesthete]

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]

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.