Dunce- Obama on Education
By Brandon Scott
Free world, let us embrace Barack Obama’s views on education. We notice valuable things in his statements. Early childhood education goes up, middle education goes down. Teacher pay goes up, which causes more to be laid off. It’s all a cheap attempt to make us feel at home with his words. Further breathe the power of the internet, and realize his incompetence.
He tells us:
“We’ll keep our promise to every young American–if you commit to serving your community and your country, we will make sure you can afford a college education.”
So does this mean if a child is rebellious when young they won’t receive the same education as one who is a perfect kid who isn’t allowed to have fun? Does it seem fair to not allow someone a chance in the world due to their actions as a teen or a child? We need not to judge someone as a child, but as the person they become. Do not hurt someone’s future before it begins.
He is putting too much time and effort on early education, and not realizing how much education is lacking in High Schools. In Coldwater, Michigan alone there were a total of twenty -six teachers laid off. Why is it that so many teachers were laid off in a nice middle-class city? (Ironic how he said he was helping the middle class, isn’t it?) Because he is raising the salaries of the teachers and not realizing side-effects. I’m sure if those teachers who were laid off were asked if they would rather have a job or be laid off, the would take the job regardless of pay. If that many were laid off in Coldwater, think about the state of Michigan, or country as a hole. They need money, yes, but they need a job in order to get the money.
Ahh, a final plea. In his speech in Flint, Michigan he talked about giving free-education to all who want to become a teacher. That maybe a nice thought, but lets be realistic. If you already have teachers being laid off, then you’re just going to have a spike in unemployed teachers. Wait, what was that? More unemployement? Great. Just what our country needs, more people sitting at home wasting government money doing nothing. To top that, they didn’t even pay for schooling so the government wasted the tax-payers’ money . Liberals are known for that though, aren’t they? They waste money like a Hummer wastes gas.
Let’s face it. You can see how Barack Obama is wasting our money in useless places in education. Instead of focusing on High School where a young person becomes an adult, he focuses more on when they are a toddler, when all school is show and tell and playing with toys. Early education is great but to spend billions of dollars on it? That’s to the extreme. Five Billion on early learning, and seventy-seven on grade school, where is the High School money, where is the middle school money? There is none because he doesn’t want to help fuel the future republican candidates of the world. He wants to turn all the young ones into Liberal minds.
About the Author: Brandon Scott is a 16 year old High School student from Coldwater, Michigan. He is a conservative to the heart, who has a left-wing sister. He dominates her in almost every argument. He is in the local “Young Republicans” and is Class President. He is in National Honors Society, Interact, and is the captain of his wrestling team. You can catch him either hammering the opposition, or eating.
I truly agree on your main points.
This is the time when we need greater freedom of education. I mean “true” freedom from liberalism.
With all due respect to Mr. Scott, the PEOPLE are to blame for unwanted federal government interference in public education, IMO. Ironically, this is evidenced in part by the people not making sure that their children are being taught the Constitution and its history in public schools for many generations, the constitutionally enumerated principle of state sovereignty in particular. Otherwise, the people should have tightened the constitutional leash, particularly the 10th Amendment, on the federal government long ago, kicking the self-serving, special-interest groups behind the feds out of the education business.
On a related note, consider that Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html
So not only do corrupt, state sovereignty-ignoring feds have no power to interfere with state-controlled public education, but based on Justice Marshall’s official words the feds never had the power to lay taxes to fund education-related programs in the first place.
What’s going on is that state sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from the power-hungry, tax-loving, Constitution-ignoring “leaders” (crooks) running the federal government.
Finally, the following link should help give people an idea as to how Constitution-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792
It starts out like a season in reverse.
A way to set your mind above and over words.
(Like) attached means (your) identity Erases things so how can we record?
Distress call code-word is “I wanna live”
He makes it up as it goes, it goes away
To places he can only hide in other peoples minds
Oh, He makes it up as it goes .
It goes away
Quoting Circa Survive are we?
I take it as the second line in the second paragraph “he makes it up as it goes”
That is Barack Obama to the max. He makes it up so that we like what he says. We will all know the truth soon enough
Very nicely written. With education starting to go down, because some schools can’t pass a school levy, some of the schools in ohio don’t have sports or can’t keep good teachers because they can’t create any income. Yet he would rather worry about health care, which doesn’t even need to be fixed. Good job brandon!
Now here is my question to you Mr Scott.. Now those 26 teachers who would rather work for less money than not have a job you were talking about, why don’t they move down south. I am a recent college graduate and I can tell you this with certanty, although I am a horriable speller, I have friends who are teachers getting hired over the phone. There is a desperate shortage of teachers due to the large amount of retirements. The baby boom generation is retireing, and schools are not allowing these teachers to stay past 20 years, because these teachers cost so much. The president offering free education for new teachers is necessary because of the teacher shortages in the south and western portions of this country. Second of all psycologist have prooven that educational principals and ideas are set in a child’s brain by the age of 14, that is why elementry education is stressed so highly, because how a child learns is what is being focused on, not what they learn.
Also the prievious administration set the precident of having the federal government come in and place standards on what is being taught and how school is being taught. President Obamma is just following step by placing his own adjenda. Now with my limited expirence being a Substitute Teacher, and actually being in the teacher’s lounge and hearing and listening to these meetings I can tell you one thing, these teachers would rather see somebody who is lower than them on the senority line get laid off then take a cut in pay and/or benifits. I can tell you from being a superintentant’s son’s girlfriend that the super would rather have less teachers with more benifits than more teachers with less benifits.
Oh, I’m sure that a super indentant would love this, Ms. Scott. Because that makes him more money because he has to spend less on teachers. But those teachers who were getting laid off, how do they feel? Why don’t they move down south? You are mistaking the automotive industry with the teaching industry. Teaching is needed most in inter-cities. There are more inter-cities found in the mid-west and the west than the south. But, why woudl someone want to mvoe their family and spend money on a house they can’t afford to work as a starting out teacher in the south? If anything, it would start to ruin the hosuing market with forclousers and such. Oh, wait. Look at that current situation shall you? Forcloursers are at an all time high in the state of Michigan.
Why would you bring up the baby boomers? They taught our parents, they are dead now or in their 70’s? They wouldn’t be retiring from teaching now unless you are a gym teacher. I’ll give you the shortage in the west, only in the inter-cities. There is no need more teachers in towns like Coldwater, Michigan, or Dekalb, Illinois. Instead, those teachers are now sitting at home doing nothing because un-employment will not move them to those places, and their credit is so bad they can’t move. If anything, money should go to better phycologists.
You are quoted saying, “psycologist have prooven that educational principals and ideas are set in a child’s brain by the age of 14.” Show me where you found this stastic? And acutally, it could help my case. 14 is the age of a freshman in High School. Not a 4 year old todler who sits at home and places with his boogers. A 14 year old mine is thriving wanting to learn. Not a todler. Take the 5 billion they spent on todlers and send it to the High School and Middle Schools, where people acutally are learning, not playing with toy cars. I recently read a article on the best age to start learning a new language. The age? 11-13. Not 4 or 5 early education here is my sited source for you. http://esl.fis.edu/parents/advice/myth2.htm
Well let me take a few of those charges and debunk them for you. First of all the major reason that those 26 teachers got laid off was not money, it was because of the large number of people moving, which yes is another sign of the economy. This would be due to the large amount of forclosures up there which is a completly different subject. In Dekalb on the other hand they are building a brand new high school and hiring teachers. Yeah if you know anyone who’s looking they were as of a couple weeks ago looking for 2 first grade teachers, one must speak spanish, and a high school science teacher and something else. Also these teachers could move for a couple years and oh my god RENT! Yes that’s right, not buy a new house they can’t afford. Here’s the thing, it’s a job, they are using their degrees. Instead of bitching about loosing their job one place, find another and take it. I don’t think there is anything wrong with moving for a job, oh wait that is why those teachers got laid off to begin with, so many other people moved for a job that there wasn’t enough taxes comming in to pay for their position. Kinda funny how that works.
Now I’m not an anthropologist, but I know a few people who are and they sugest that if you want to learn how the brain takes in language a learns you should read a few books that were written by creditable sources in the scientific and anthropological communities. The first would be “The Anthropology of Language” by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer, this was one of the textbooks I used in my linguistical Anthropology classes I took in college. Also “Transforming Classroom Practice: Professional Development Strategies in Educational Technology,” by Arlene Borthwick and Melissa Pierso is a great book to read when trying to understand how young minds soak up knoledge differnly than others. Why do you think everything is in pictures on bulitan boards when your little, it’s because a young child learns better visually, so showing the child somthing, then saying it makes it easier to understand. You also debunked your own point, even though your sorce is wrong, by saying that language is best learned between the ages of 11-13, that’s middle school and not high school. 4 year olds picking their noses are not required to be in school by the state, but those 4 year olds are learning more everyday picking their nose than you are googling and picking ideas that happen to work for your arguement. I only argued points that I took classes in college about, or have personal expirence with.
Oh and one other thing, baby boomers are your parents age. Baby boomers are the children of your grandparents. The older ones were the hippies and flower children but the years of the Baby Boom generation are those born between 1949 and 1961. Your parents must be proud to know that you think they are dead or in their 70s. Baby boomers are the largest population group in this country and are in the age were they are or will be retiring soon. And because they are or will be retiring soon their jobs need to be replaced. Also the need for teachers is extrordinary in the south, west and inter- city. There is this program called “Teach for America” where they take college graduates, with ANY degree, and place them in teaching positions in schools where teachers with cirtificates are unwilling to move to or work, Louisiana, Detroit, Pheniox AZ, and about 15 other places. Programs like this wouldn’t exhist if there wasn’t a need.
I recently went a board meeting for Coldwater, and I asked this question, “Why are they being laid off.” Reason, “we don’t have the budget in our system in order to substain a roster of this size. We must cut back on the amount of teachers, and switch to tri-mesters so that we can cut back on budget spending.” Really, our super intendent was saying “We are broke, we need less people.” It has nothing to do with the moving of people. Coldwater has acutally had a increase of people moving into the city, we are on the brink of moving up a division in sports becuase of the increase in people. So, do not say it’s not money. It is. Dekalb is building a new high school to transfer teachers because their school is very small. It is hard for someone with a family to move their child, their spouse, to a new home. 90% of teachers have a family, and without a job you can’t pay rent. Why would you move to forclouse more?
If you read my article throughout Jacqueline, you will see I said the money needs to go to Middle and High Schools, not just High School. A reliable source is wrong? I’m sorry, find me a better one, shall you? You take in to colors and such as a little kid. You are saying the education already givin to the young ones wasn’t good enough? That people like yourself and I could have been more intelligent have we had a better education at 5, 6, or 7? Or could we have been more intelligent had we have a better education at 11-18 years old? Things most of us actually could remember? Would you rather see a student learn to count to 10 faster? or learn trig, pre-calc, and calc at a faster pace. Our high school education compared to other countries is their middle school. Seems pathetic, and we should probably spend more time and effort on our older students.
I looked up your stat on google to see your source. It was a yahoo quesiton and answer. I looked up on a differnt website, says the youngest baby boomer is 50 years old. Oldest? 70’s. Most people retire before 50, so my teachers, are not baby boomers, so they aren’t retiring. And also, previously you said teachers aren’t allowed to stay over 20 years? Not in our town, we have something called tenure, we ahve a gym teacher, Mr. Roger Fuller, who has been working for well over 40 years. Goes to what I said, you retire if your not a gym teacher.
Now you are taking my point wrong. I never said that there doesn’t need to be improvements in Middle and High School Education. There vastly does. What I said, whitch is true is that HOW we learn is established before the age of 14, weither we have any work ethic is established before 14, visual or audital learner. Now what we learn, now that can be improved upon greatly, and counting to 10 faster, i taught kids in 3rd grade who couldn’t count to ten and were making it to 4th. I find that to be a bigger problem
It has nothing to do with the parents attitude towards the kid? Like it was the teachesr fault? I can find more wrong in the parents not caring then the teachers doing their job.
The Game.
Beto, you are a horrible person. I lose.