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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts) Wed Sep 24, 2014, 06:16 PM Sep 2014

those pesky public schools...

Radical ideas start there, but...

once you destroy tenure...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/07/28/336050469/teacher-tenure-challenge-spreads-from-california-to-new-york

commoditize education...
http://www.evolllution.com/opinions/commoditization-lessens-higher-education-society/
http://www.thenation.com/blog/179778/despite-shocking-reports-fraud-charter-schools-lawmakers-miss-opportunity-increase-overs

sanitize history...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025575647

and now we get less art and music and more prescribed learning and testing being tied to funding...

the last piece is ferreting out the deviants early on:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014902681

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those pesky public schools... (Original Post) tk2kewl Sep 2014 OP

I find it infuriating that the only issue in education that democrats ever pay attention to is the liberal_at_heart Sep 2014 #1

liberal_at_heart

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1. I find it infuriating that the only issue in education that democrats ever pay attention to is the

Reply to tk2kewl (Original post)

Wed Sep 24, 2014, 07:29 PM

Sep 2014

Christians trying to put Creationism in the classroom. That is an important issue, but on issues of funding, class size, teacher tenure, standardized testing, and one size fits all curriculum democrats are silent and complicit in the destruction of our education system.

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