Of course, we already have people producing these programs at all levels of education; why do we need the federal government to develop parallel curricula?

The International Baccalaureate is not leftist enough?

IB: The Boston Tea Party was Terrorism

….why do we need the federal government to develop parallel curricula at all?

Can any one answer this?

Does ANYONE remember the hundreds of Universities that were STUFFING seats in order to get federal student loan money?

Does anyone remember the lost billions from this crooked scheme? A scheme so insidious that NO university ever paid back ANY of the money it STOLE from the federal government? A system so corrupt that not even 1 university chancellor was fired over this corruption? Think about it, the University steals money from the federal government that grants other money to those same universities. The universities use the money to jack up ‘costs’, like salaries and benefits of their staff. It is all for the CHILDREN! Even the ones that were NEVER in the classrooms!

This ‘new’ federal approach will simply recreate the UNACCOUNTABLE theft of taxpayer money by the CORRUPT TEACHERS and ADMINISTRATORS in the university systems!

College classes are full of people The White House is headed by a person who can’t write an essay, speak English correctly,

The Precedent has yet to learn how to use the indefinite article correctly. “Aaay illegal …”, “Aaay enormous …”, …

my personal favorite is “I be going”, or understand basic math principles ie; multiplication and division.

“profit and earnings ratios” – The PRecedent never learned that ratios are NEVER translated to English with “and”. That’s something that any normal 8th grader knows … but not The Precedent.

Another complete failure of the public school system and entitlement.

elclynn on October 22, 2009 at 2:14 PM

This failure, in The Precedent’s case, is due to affirmative action and the Indonesian school system. The public school system’s failure is in generating enough idiots to vote for the imbecile.

Colleges have absolutely NO incentive to cut costs, run efficiently and offer a superior education when the Gov’t is making sure that everyone can get HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in student loans!

The Gov’t is creating indentured servants who graduate with a mediocre education at best and an enormous burden of debt.

I am already hearing advertisements for gov’t agencies who are willing to forgive student loan debt in exchange for “service” from the indebted citizen.

Think this through, folks!!

Easy money is exactly what caused the debt tsunami that is destroying our economy right now… except you cannot discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy.

The gov’t will haunt you until you die if you do not pay your student loans back. Many people will have no choice but to work their debt off by “serving” the gov’t.

And how will private business compete for new hires when the gov’t is willing to hire them and forgive all that debt for 10 years of their life?!

Easy student loans for everyone is NOT a good thing.

People should have to save up money or work to pay for education, just like they do for every other thing they buy in their life (or like they had to do before everything became an entitlement).

Schools would have to lower their prices and offer a better product if people had to pay out of pocket for their education.

The gov’t is blowing up a bubble in the student loan market and it will not end well.

Wake up.

Smart idea. It’s been hard not to get wasted every day since we went through the looking glass.

NTWR on October 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM

I don’t get wasted, but it helps my days off (work nights) go better when I read the news–HA news that is–don’t buy fishwrap anymore. Watching our country go down the toilet is hard to take straight.
(Since maryjane and I are no longer the good buddies we were in my youth, I find a certain solace in coffee with whiskey…)

Question: Did anyone buy stock in the liquor industry after the election???

lovingmyUSA on October 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM

Smart idea. It’s been hard not to get wasted every day since we went through the looking glass.

The truth is, they have us by the short hairs on this. Private loans run between 10 and 12%, government Perkins and Parent Plus about 7.9%. So, I don’t know, as I said, this is a tough one for me.

The health-care and cap-and-trade debates deserve our close attention, but let’s not let this one slip through our fingers.

I agree..but I think the education system is lost. There is not time to influence that right now. If health care and Cap N Trade become binding, its game over. We’ll all be just another brick in the wall for decades to come.

Well, the Confederate Constitution had written in that there would be no bills financially supporting industry.

If we want a better Constitution, we need to adopt the South’s. (No, slavery won’t play a role, Delta Alphas)

Tim Burton on October 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Something like that; the US Constitution with a few alterations here and there – being more specific about the concrete limitations of the federal government, for sure, specifically disallowing dual citizens from being eligible for any elected/federal positions (ever for Presidency, Supreme Court, Federal Judiciary, etc. and temporary for COngressional positions) … More important, though, is to adopt only a subset of US federal rulings, leaving aside all of the destructive decisions on the Commerce Clause, the denigration of states’ rights, private property attacks by the SCOTUS, …

Why does a bankrupt government need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to duplicate what already exists in the private sector? Perhaps the same reason they needed to seize the student-lending process. Congress and this administration want to control the flow of funds to schools and the choices made by students and administrators alike. Just as with the more massive interventions in energy and health care, the motive is power. This is the reason that the founders, in their wisdom, limited Congressional and executive jurisdiction in the Constitution.

The health-care and cap-and-trade debates deserve our close attention, but let’s not let this one slip through our fingers.

Ed, the last words of your column leave me shuddering…This is “stealth warfare” at least–and nobody knows…
*Starts muttering to herself, as she adds whiskey to her coffee…

Itchee Dryback on October 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Great, now I have to add more whiskey to my coffee…and it’s raining here in Iowa–great :(

Compulsory volunteerism factors into this eventually, you wait.
Akzed on October 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM

That is coming but I read somewhere there is a policy being proposed, maybe already passed that allows a student to have their college debt cleared if they take a government job and hold it for 10 years.
That will draw 10′s of thousands into Fed jobs as is the intention.
Consider a 120k student loan debt, that’s $1,000 per month for 10 years added to your salary for all intents.
By age 32 the debt is paid and they can move out from under the gov wings and begin their lives.

Can you imagine the type of curricula Obama’s people will develop? Nothing but Marxism.