Well Deciduous Forest Cat that was a revealing post. I said nothing about religion and no Republican has been out on the campaign trail saying anything about the Bible and schools. Yet you have to attack religion and throw in the Bible for good measure.

This is part and parcel of the Militant Left. Religion isn't under their control, though they have their ideas which I will state shortly. Whatever one's religious faith it's tenets come from the divine and not man, therefore the Left can't hope to control it like they do government and social institutions.

In the 1950s, Bella Dodd former US Communist Party organizer and head of the New York State Teacher's Union stated before Congress that she was given directives by Moscow to help infiltrate religious seminaries, primarily US Catholic seminaries. The plan never really got off the ground because Thank God she had a religious awakening and returned to the Catholic faith of her youth. She stated that Moscow believed it could gradually influence academia and social and entertainment institutions, but religious ones were a hard nut to crack (link below)

It has always been the dream of the Left to dismantle faith. John Lennon shortly before he was murdered also lamented Socialism't influence on him. He even spoke of his admiration for religious faith and Ronald Reagan (link below.)

I say this because while it has always been the Left's attempt to extinguish religion's significance from society, it will be at society's peril. Oddly, I learned from of all people a leftist professor at our alma mater. It was a graduate studies class on Western Thought. The professor began the class by telling the students that they probably never had a professor who would acknowledge to being openly gay, socialist and atheist (this was nearly 30 years ago.) The liberals in the class thought this would be right up their alley. Yet, after a few days one disgruntled student asked how it could be at a public university that he would be taught about St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas (Thomism) and Patristics (the Early Church Fathers?)

The professor reminded him and all of us that western thought has been influenced by all of these and for the better he might add. He went on to say that you can disagree with it, but where would our culture be without the moral compass they established?

Think of it this way, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot had another belief system and look where it lead them. Something to ponder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Dodd
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/28/lennon-was-a-closet-...

Time out my good man. You have no idea whatsoever what my thoughts on education are. On some matters they are quite liberal and on others they are very conservative. Yes, it's possible to have a balanced set of beliefs on a single topic. As for Washington and for that matter the state of Ohio, at the junior high and high school level what happens when the door is shut in the individual classroom varies widely from room to room much less building to building.

I won't or don't pretend to know the answers but having worked in hundreds of schools over the last 40 years, the two most important factors in the education of a child are the stability of the home and the quality of the teacher (well grounded in subject matter and able to deliver it in an engaging fashion - something other than a PowerPoint presentation).

1.I believe it was Joe Biden who said that a Supreme Court appointment should not be made during a president's last year in office.
Maybe he meant only Republican presidents.

2.The left not slamming President Trump ?
I guess CNN,NBC,ABC,CBS,The New York Times and the Washington Post don't count.

3.As far as I know,Presidnet Trumps' divestitures meet all legal requirements.

4.Yemen = Benghazi. Seriously ?

An administration refusing to provide additional security,after numerous requests,not attempting to send aid when an embassy is attacked and then lying about the cause of the attack is the same as a military raid, resulting in a SEAL's death.

If that's the case,then every soldier that died in combat during Obama's term is on him.

The disruptions had jack-all to do with UC Berkeley or its students. UCB gave him a venue to speak, and the student protests were peaceful (hell, they even had a frickin' buffet set up). What happened is that about a 100 professional anarchists from Oakland showed up and started a riot. Berkeley (rightly) canceled the event out of public safety at that point. You (or Vedder or Trump) can't demonize higher education for this.

The guy's been allowed to speak at numerous other public campuses (he was at OSU right before the Berkeley speech) and has met large, peaceful student protests but no violence or riots. Berkeley was an aberration.

Again, UC Berkeley allowed him to speak. They provided a venue for the sponsoring student group. The student-faculty protests were peaceful. Only after the outside elements started a riot outside the facility, set fires and began trashing businesses, threatening the safety of all present did the UC administration make the public safety decision to cancel the event.

You want to call out and demonize the black-bloc and anarchists who came in from Oakland to disrupt the event? I'm with you. But you can't hang this on the university.

Three arrested.

http://abc7news.com/news/3-arrested-in-violent-protest-at... /

Only if there are options. I work 4 counties away from Charlotte mecklenburg county. 3 of the 4 counties only have one high school in the county. One high school public or private. There are about a dozen such counties in North Carolina only. A shift to a voucher system does then no good. The system is a viable approach in urban America but not rural America.

Well I may have over-stated this just wee little bit in my above rant. (It was rant after all.) I wish I hadn't as now we are focusing on that insult instead of all the comments above it.

What county do you live in cc? West Virginia and Kentucky have similar one school counties and Ohio has at least one (Vinton County).

Sure it does....ON-Line private charter schools, the fastest growing ponzi scheme in America. You'd be surprised how many attend on-line schools currently in NC, their are 71 charter schools in operation the largest having over 84,000 students and three others have populations of over 60,000+

That's where I'm not following. I don't hear people vilifying teachers. They do vilify the school system/structure, much of which perhaps stems from having a very distant relationship with the folks who are ultimately in charge. Your school doing something you disagree with?
Teacher defers to Principal
Principal defers to Superintendent
Superintendent defers to School Board
School Board defers to State Education Department
State Education Department defers to Federal Regulations

So, your problem has been escalated to D.C. where you have NO influence whatsoever. Message: Suck it up, buttercup.

Talk about liberal rants and stereotypes. Jeez. Conservatives don't like teachers. Catholic schools kick kids out and don't take kids with learning disabilities. I take it all the African-American and Hispanic parents who send their children to these schools must be rich.

I am going to forward this thread to my friends who are parents and administrators at these schools, they could use a good laugh!

By the way, I understand the liberal Bubble Community (the skit from Saturday Night Live) is still taking applications.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/the-bubble/3...