The teachers unions aren’t the only culprits’ in the degredation of education. The politically correct morons at the NCAA have forced the University of Illinois mascot “Chief Illiniwek” to perform his last time today because of “an offensive use of American Indian imagery”.

There are more important matters to be resolved and focus on, IMHO.

Ok, I just gotta ask. My screen name is J A I B O N E S, a weird nickname from childhood that doesn’t have anything to do with anything. But at least 10 of my bros here have written to me calling me “JailBones”. There must be a reason, I just don’t know what it is…

Wow… I have seen your handle here many times and have always read it as Jailbones. My mind just kept filling in the small L without me ever noticing that it wasn’t really there.

Boortz can be a little over the top, but he never wavers in his convictions. He also is not even slightly crazy, mean-spirited, and maniacal like Savage is.

Jaibones on February 20, 2007 at 8:53 PM

It’s an optical illusion. Our brain expects the L to be there. Since the back of the small b is small L-ish. We may not see it till you type it in caps, as you did. Have you met Jayhaw(k)?

A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Isabel Paterson, 1943

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Destroy the youth and you will destroy the future of a country.

Joseph Stalin

Considering what Joseph Stalin said, Mr. Boortz is absolutely correct.

Martin Luther

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…In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.

Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) Article 52

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The media, the intellectual community, government officials… those responsible for policy at every level–from the local school boards to the United States Supreme Court… seem determined to subvert and undermine the Christian principles and traditional family values that have upheld this society from its beginning.

Doctor Pat Robertson, From his book: The Secret Kingdom, page 133, (1992)

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I am convinced that the battle for humankinds’s future must be waged and won in the public school classrooms by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity…The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new… the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.

Humanist: John Dunphy — Humanist Magazine, 1983 Jan-Feb issue

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This country is in a moral free fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing Him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak without moral consequences. And life has no inherent value.

Brian Rohrbough
Mr. Rohrbough’s son Dan was gunned down at
the Columbine High School shootings in 1999

That’s why he calls himself the high priest of the “church of the painful truth”. He doesn’t care what you or I think about him. He calls it like he sees it, using his BRAIN, not his EMOTION. Good for him.

Jailbones, I think you may miss the long-term implications of the comparison.

eeyore on February 20, 2007 at 11:01 AM

1. Yeah, I know. I was just throwing Jaquith a bone.

2. No, I don’t miss the long-term implications at all. I just don’t think you can use this kind of hyperbole to justify the very legitimate concern over even this hateful leftist cabal.

3. Ok, I just gotta ask. My screen name is J A I B O N E S, a weird nickname from childhood that doesn’t have anything to do with anything. But at least 10 of my bros here have written to me calling me “JailBones”. There must be a reason, I just don’t know what it is…

Can you help a brother out?

Members of the Teacher’s Unions actively engage in political indoctrination favorable to the Left at the taxpayers expense.

Not all of us, thank you very much.

One of Boortz favorite lines is to ask people if they would expect a school funded by Baptists to teach objectively about Baptists? How about a school funded by Catholics? Would you expect a school funded by Coca-Cola to have a curriculum unbiased regarding Coke and big business? Then why on earth do you think a government funded school would ever be critical of big government?

Terrorist attacks are like natural disastors, devasting in the short term but ultimately just a bad memory. A nation of big government loving idiots is doomed.

The education system begets liberalism and liberalism begets socialist education.

I feel the change has to begin at the hiring standards level.

An enforced balance of educator politics would go a long way towards recognizing that bias and subsequent influencing exists and move towards a more realistic balance through mandate.

However, none of these groups would pose any danger if not for leftists, so in this regard, Teachers Unions are like AIDS, it isn’t the disease that kills you but that it allows other opportunistic devils to attack your body undefended.

What a dick. Sorry, but “somebody’s gotta say it”.

honora on February 20, 2007 at 10:58 AM

From what I have read, you are an expect in the dick dept.

No one can rise from the dead after a nuclear al Qaeda attack and reconstitute their atoms.

Boortz’s metaphorical overkill eviscerates his point.

right2bright on February 20, 2007 at 10:00 AM

Right you are R2B. I saw Dr. Strangelove for the first time in 1977 in a high school american history class. This was during the cold war while SAC was still flying deterrent from the air. The message – anti communism is paranoid militarism. How’s that for your post war commie consiracy?

Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association, recently said the setup “is nothing more than a merit-pay system, and merit pay hasn’t worked wherever it has been tried, for the most part.”

Far from spurring teachers on to greater effectiveness, extra bonuses for some and not others simply “creates tension” between teachers and kills any teamwork, he said.

The whole teacher system has to change. They have to be held to the same job performance standards as regular people and the unions have got to go!