Comments on: Our Failing Culture Will Destroy America http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:57:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: The Outsider http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-1055 The Outsider Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:50:50 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-1055 I say nothing about the teachers being the source of the problems in our failing schools. They are only a part of the problem. The parents are part of the problem as well, especially in the inner city schools. It is the curriculum that needs to be questioned, much of it being politically motivated, (politically correctness). Our public schools have been politicized by the Democrats and the unions for their own selfish reasons. The children are left out in the cold. If we continue to ignore this growing problem, it will only get worse. Spending more money on education will not work. Only private controlled education has a chance to overcome the problems of insufficient education among our young. Competition is needed in education as it is in all other free enterprize ventures. The left has been calling for more and more money to be spent on education and all I can see is more and more high school dropouts, especially among African Americans. Education is not a priority in the ghetto's. We can no longer afford government run schools. In PA, the governor wants to sell off the highways on the basis that the state can no longer raise taxes any higher to maintain those highways. The government only makes matters worse. We must change that! I say nothing about the teachers being the source of the problems in our failing schools. They are only a part of the problem. The parents are part of the problem as well, especially in the inner city schools. It is the curriculum that needs to be questioned, much of it being politically motivated, (politically correctness). Our public schools have been politicized by the Democrats and the unions for their own selfish reasons. The children are left out in the cold. If we continue to ignore this growing problem, it will only get worse. Spending more money on education will not work. Only private controlled education has a chance to overcome the problems of insufficient education among our young. Competition is needed in education as it is in all other free enterprize ventures. The left has been calling for more and more money to be spent on education and all I can see is more and more high school dropouts, especially among African Americans. Education is not a priority in the ghetto’s. We can no longer afford government run schools. In PA, the governor wants to sell off the highways on the basis that the state can no longer raise taxes any higher to maintain those highways. The government only makes matters worse. We must change that!

]]> By: JesseAlred http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-1054 JesseAlred Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:17:21 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-1054 Having captured district leadership positions in several cities, and having created two charter school networks, Wendy Kopp's Teach For America friends are pursuing an approach to school reform based on the false premise that teachers are the cause of sub-par academic performance in urban schools, They disregard major factors like the degree of parent commitment, students habits and economic inequality. D.C. Superintendent Michelle Rhee's school reform recipe includes three ingredients: close schools rather than improve them; fire teachers rather than inspire them; and sprinkle on a lot of media-thrilling hype. Appearing on the cover of Time, she sternly hovered over the camera holding a broom, which she was using to sweep trash, the trash being a metaphor for my urban teacher colleagues. MS RHEE, MY COLLEAGUES WHO WORK IN SOME OF THE TOUGHEST SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE NOT TRASH. The implication that a small group of self-proclaimed reformers from elite colleges have all the answers represents class arrogance not genuine talent. TFA teachers are a welcome addition to our nation's public schools, and TFA and its offspring, the KIPP and YES charter schools, provide valuable services, but no data exists proving they are closing the achievement gap, or that they have a formula to close the gap, for the majority of low-income students. KIPP/YES teachers do great work, but they have students whose families apply to schools with longer school days, Saturday classes, an extra month of school in the Summer, as well as Saturday classes and nightly loads of homework. Only a small minority of working-class families will allow a school to take over their kids lives that much. When TFA's leadership argue that schools, and not bad habits, are the cause of the achievement gap, they are discounting the role INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY plays in education. If you cannot look to government and public employees for the solution to every social problem, you cannot blame them every shortcoming either, especially in an endeavor like education which relies so much on individual hard work. In fourteen years teaching, I have met maybe two teachers who did not teach. Teachers do teach. By blaming teachers, and seeking in Washington D.C., Houston and New York, to terminate teachers based on student behavior, they are waging an Ivy League class war against professionals who endure challenging circumstances for lower-middle class pay. Having captured district leadership positions in several cities, and having created two charter school networks, Wendy Kopp’s Teach For America friends are pursuing an approach to school reform based on the false premise that teachers are the cause of sub-par academic performance in urban schools, They disregard major factors like the degree of parent commitment, students habits and economic inequality.

D.C. Superintendent Michelle Rhee’s school reform recipe includes three ingredients: close schools rather than improve them; fire teachers rather than inspire them; and sprinkle on a lot of media-thrilling hype. Appearing on the cover of Time, she sternly hovered over the camera holding a broom, which she was using to sweep trash, the trash being a metaphor for my urban teacher colleagues. MS RHEE, MY COLLEAGUES WHO WORK IN SOME OF THE TOUGHEST SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES ARE NOT TRASH. The implication that a small group of self-proclaimed reformers from elite colleges have all the answers represents class arrogance not genuine talent.

TFA teachers are a welcome addition to our nation’s public schools, and TFA and its offspring, the KIPP and YES charter schools, provide valuable services, but no data exists proving they are closing the achievement gap, or that they have a formula to close the gap, for the majority of low-income students. KIPP/YES teachers do great work, but they have students whose families apply to schools with longer school days, Saturday classes, an extra month of school in the Summer, as well as Saturday classes and nightly loads of homework. Only a small minority of working-class families will allow a school to take over their kids lives that much.

When TFA’s leadership argue that schools, and not bad habits, are the cause of the achievement gap, they are discounting the role INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY plays in education. If you cannot look to government and public employees for the solution to every social problem, you cannot blame them every shortcoming either, especially in an endeavor like education which relies so much on individual hard work. In fourteen years teaching, I have met maybe two teachers who did not teach. Teachers do teach.

By blaming teachers, and seeking in Washington D.C., Houston and New York, to terminate teachers based on student behavior, they are waging an Ivy League class war against professionals who endure challenging circumstances for lower-middle class pay.

]]> By: The Outsider http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-910 The Outsider Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:51:36 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-910 Jack, let's take your argument seriously even if you didn't mean it that way. "Jews are terrorists sent to toughen up the weak Americans. The Jewish Zionist Bernie Madoff was sent to teach America a lesson by stealing 50 Billion dollars. We need to get tough. Jews are here to compete and devour our nation. It’s like sending wolves into deer country to eat the slow, sick, lazy, old, stupid, and retarded. Wolves make deer stronger. Terrorists make empires stronger. Jews are sent to terrorize empires to keep them strong." If the Jews are attempting to toughen America, they are failing miserably! They may be doing a better job at weakening America. Maybe they tried to toughen Hitlers Germany. If they tried, they failed and paid a heavy price. If they are really doing what you say they are doing, they will destroy themselves in the process. The other problem is that a weak America is not good for Israel. I personally don't think Israel can survive without help from the U.S. I am on the side of Israel all the way! This is why I am so concerned about the American Jews not taking a better interest in israel's survival. It's as though the Jews in America are on a deliberate path of self destruction. Where do you stand on the issue of Israel's survival and how to prolong Israel's best interests. If you are Jewish and love the Jews, you could have made a better case for it, with all due respect! Jack, let’s take your argument seriously even if you didn’t mean it that way.
“Jews are terrorists sent to toughen up the weak Americans. The Jewish Zionist Bernie Madoff was sent to teach America a lesson by stealing 50 Billion dollars. We need to get tough. Jews are here to compete and devour our nation. It’s like sending wolves into deer country to eat the slow, sick, lazy, old, stupid, and retarded. Wolves make deer stronger. Terrorists make empires stronger. Jews are sent to terrorize empires to keep them strong.”
If the Jews are attempting to toughen America, they are failing miserably! They may be doing a better job at weakening America.
Maybe they tried to toughen Hitlers Germany. If they tried, they failed and paid a heavy price. If they are really doing what you say they are doing, they will destroy themselves in the process. The other problem is that a weak America is not good for Israel. I personally don’t think Israel can survive without help from the U.S.
I am on the side of Israel all the way! This is why I am so concerned about the American Jews not taking a better interest in israel’s survival. It’s as though the Jews in America are on a deliberate path of self destruction. Where do you stand on the issue of Israel’s survival and how to prolong Israel’s best interests.
If you are Jewish and love the Jews, you could have made a better case for it, with all due respect!

]]> By: Jack Goldman http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-909 Jack Goldman Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:30:34 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-909 America is controlled by the Federal Reserve Bank, a foreign owned, invading, power. The Federal Reserve debases our currency, subsidizes unlimited income taxes, and sells our children into debt slavery. One hundred per cent of the Board of Governors are Jews. Bernanke is a Jew. Greenspan was a Jew. Our money supply is expanded to support unlimited profits for foreign investors who want to subsidize Jews in New York City and bust white Christian males in Detroit who have living wage jobs. Israel is America's number one dead beat parasite, per capita, in the world. The Christian Science Monitor estimates 1.8 Trillion dollars has already gone to Israel. That does not count the war in Iraq to punish Iraq for launching missiles into Israel. I love Jews. Jews are terrorists sent to toughen up the weak Americans. The Jewish Zionist Bernie Madoff was sent to teach America a lesson by stealing 50 Billion dollars. We need to get tough. Jews are here to compete and devour our nation. It's like sending wolves into deer country to eat the slow, sick, lazy, old, stupid, and retarded. Wolves make deer stronger. Terrorists make empires stronger. Jews are sent to terrorize empires to keep them strong. Jews are to America what viruses are to the body, infecting it, trying to take it over, making it sick, until the body toughens up and fights off the invasion of the virus that is a parasite on the host. Virus can kill the weak. Some virus' kill the host. If America does not toughen up, America will be destroyed. It's a choice. Get tough and protect yourself or let Jews and the Federal Reserve sell your children into permanent debt slavery. American public debt has grown at 8% a year, interest only, for 100 years. Do the math. Federal public debt was Five Trillion dollars in 2,000. Eight years later it's Ten Trillion dollars. Jews are trying to toughen up America by attacking it and seeing if they can take it all. Will we toughen up or die from the invasion? It's a choice. Protect yourself and your country. Jack Goldman St. Paul, MN America is controlled by the Federal Reserve Bank, a foreign owned, invading, power. The Federal Reserve debases our currency, subsidizes unlimited income taxes, and sells our children into debt slavery. One hundred per cent of the Board of Governors are Jews. Bernanke is a Jew. Greenspan was a Jew. Our money supply is expanded to support unlimited profits for foreign investors who want to subsidize Jews in New York City and bust white Christian males in Detroit who have living wage jobs.

Israel is America’s number one dead beat parasite, per capita, in the world. The Christian Science Monitor estimates 1.8 Trillion dollars has already gone to Israel. That does not count the war in Iraq to punish Iraq for launching missiles into Israel.

I love Jews. Jews are terrorists sent to toughen up the weak Americans. The Jewish Zionist Bernie Madoff was sent to teach America a lesson by stealing 50 Billion dollars. We need to get tough. Jews are here to compete and devour our nation. It’s like sending wolves into deer country to eat the slow, sick, lazy, old, stupid, and retarded. Wolves make deer stronger. Terrorists make empires stronger. Jews are sent to terrorize empires to keep them strong.

Jews are to America what viruses are to the body, infecting it, trying to take it over, making it sick, until the body toughens up and fights off the invasion of the virus that is a parasite on the host. Virus can kill the weak. Some virus’ kill the host. If America does not toughen up, America will be destroyed.

It’s a choice. Get tough and protect yourself or let Jews and the Federal Reserve sell your children into permanent debt slavery. American public debt has grown at 8% a year, interest only, for 100 years. Do the math. Federal public debt was Five Trillion dollars in 2,000. Eight years later it’s Ten Trillion dollars. Jews are trying to toughen up America by attacking it and seeing if they can take it all. Will we toughen up or die from the invasion? It’s a choice. Protect yourself and your country.

Jack Goldman
St. Paul, MN

]]> By: The Outsider http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-787 The Outsider Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:37:01 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-787 My statement is just a statement! What's going on in our public schools is real and could be a prerequisite to something similar to Hitler's Germany. If it happened there, it can happen here. We are what we learn and we are not learning what we need to learn to prevent a Hitler clone from rising to power. No God, no heaven, no hell, no ten commandments... means no rules, no laws, no discipline, only what man wants. It all adds up to trouble. I see it everywhere! My statement is just a statement! What’s going on in our public schools is real and could be a prerequisite to something similar to Hitler’s Germany. If it happened there, it can happen here. We are what we learn and we are not learning what we need to learn to prevent a Hitler clone from rising to power.
No God, no heaven, no hell, no ten commandments… means no rules, no laws, no discipline, only what man wants. It all adds up to trouble. I see it everywhere!

]]> By: Michael Donovan http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-781 Michael Donovan Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:14:22 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/429/#comment-781 We MUST educate the masses with truth and a “proper” non-politically correct educaton. The masses have been indoctrinated with garbage for the last several generations. Garbage in/garbage out. The schools are breeding liberals. The parents don’t know any better because they likely went to the same failed schools their children are now going to, except it is now worse. This statement is as worrisome as one would think of Hitler. We MUST educate the masses with truth and a “proper” non-politically correct educaton. The masses have been indoctrinated with garbage for the last several generations. Garbage in/garbage out. The schools are breeding liberals. The parents don’t know any better because they likely went to the same failed schools their children are now going to, except it is now worse.

This statement is as worrisome as one would think of Hitler.

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