Embedding videos?
| Posted On: 12/20/08 01:05:26 AM |
Age 49, FL |
Would you consider providing an embedding code (like YouTube has) so that we can place your videos on other websites? I'm not sure whether you would allow that, but I would love to place some of your videos on my blog site (http://jeffjenkinsocala.blogspot.com/).
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Re: Why Should The Children of Low-Income Families Be Trapped in Failing Schools? Why Are Liberals Pro-Choice on Abortion But Not Pro-Choice When it C
| Posted On: 02/23/07 03:05:01 AM |
Age 50, MO |
Please tell me why "catholics" and "islamists" have built their own schools, taught their own form of religion and "Christians" have sat on their Bibles not considering that they should do the same?
If we declare we have a constitutional right to freedom of religion, then why aren't we exercising it to the fullest extent of our being? Perhaps it is the same reason our
"public" system has become so disgraceful -
No one is willing to really FIGHT for our own children. We have let our government take complete control of our lives. They continue to spend OUR money without control, taxing us to poverty, dictating laws that are unconstitutional if not immoral. The stupidity of it all! God help us!, we went to war with England because we wanted freedom, yet we are allowing the government we now have to treat us like servants and slaves - the few RULING over the masses. No wonder they want to take away our weapons, they are afraid we might fight back at a certain point, as our forefathers did. It is in our constitution to abolish the government if it becomes destructive of the pursuit of LIFE, LIBERTY and HAPPINESS. As I see it, they are letting criminals run free, illegal aliens to trample laws we already have, demanding tax percentages we have no authority to guestion or disallow, telling us what and how our own children should be taught (brainwashed), making treaties with dictators and thugs, allowing industry to outsource without taxation - growing our joblessness, etc., etc. We have become afraid to demand our rights - or is it that it's just too much bother? "Our children are paying the price."
GABRIEL
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Re: Why Should The Children of Low-Income Families Be Trapped in Failing Schools? Why Are Liberals Pro-Choice on Abortion But Not Pro-Choice When it C
| Posted On: 02/22/07 03:15:24 PM |
Age 28, TX |
Well, I am in the situation currently that my children would go to a very poor school should I choose to enroll them. The gangs are running them it seems, and the programs are severely lacking, particularly for special needs children of whom some of my children would be a part. There are no nearby private schools, and the ones even half an hour to an hour away that are SOMEWHAT affortable (not to us, but to others who have two decent incomes) are not much better then our public schools. I can say this with confidence because I know people who have attended each of these schools. I went to one and and my sister went to three of them, her husband went to two of them, ect. They are all awful. There are many who disagree with the theology taught in the private schools and would never put their children there. That should be their right as well. They may also not be able to homeschool. Many states have very strict homeschool laws and make it terribly difficult to homeschool. Many parents would not make good homeschooling parents or simply cannot afford it (particularly in single parent homes.) Homeschooling and private schooling is not the answer. I will be homeschooling my children, I always planned to. But what if something happens that I can't continue? I shudder at the thought of them going to our local public schools. Why did we move here? Because we couldn't afford to live anywhere else.
My parents paid school taxes even when homeschooling. We pay taxes although we never expect to put our children in school. These schools are in desperate need of an overhaul. I think that we DO have a responsibility to properly educate the children, even if it means educating children of unregenerate children in poor families in a public school forum. I do agree with pooling the money together and having all the schools more equal in their services and equipment. Vouchers? I don't know if they are the answer, but it seems to have worked in foreign countries.
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Re: Why Should The Children of Low-Income Families Be Trapped in Failing Schools? Why Are Liberals Pro-Choice on Abortion But Not Pro-Choice When it C
| Posted On: 02/21/07 08:12:06 PM |
Age 71, AR |
We---the whole country---forget that preparing an individual to be competitive in life is only a secondary purpose, more correctly just something that happens, for the public financing of education. The original and still most important purpose is to ensure a better qualified electorate and more generally a productive citizenry. Wouldn't it be more helpful all around for influential organizations like CWW to put its shoulder to the grindstone with the purpose of making sure public education truly met the needs of our country, and that education would be taken seriously enough that there would be no failing schools, instead of inciting doubt and distrust?
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Re: Re: Re: Why Should The Children of Low-Income Families Be Trapped in Failing Schools? Why Are Liberals Pro-Choice on Abortion But Not Pro-Choice W
| Posted On: 02/21/07 12:35:10 PM |
Age 60, MO |
Age 35 in CA has struck a chord with me. Good discussion. Vouchers were voted down about 14 years ago when I lived in VA, because no one believed that vouchers would come with no strings attached. The discussion at that time already acknowledged the failing public school system due to lack of competition. Tax credits were of no consequence to most parents who had already committed to alternative schooling. We didn't mind paying the tax even if our kids wouldn't use their fascilities.
The issue of low income, usually inner city, families is a tough subject. Global and national politics has moved many people into a welfare mentality; and rightly so, because, ultimately, that's where most of us will be forced to operate from--at one level or another, anyway. If you think not, then consider that 98 per cent of the worlds wealth is in the hands of only 2 percent of the population. The American dream for the next generations is going to prove to be an American nightmare of servicing debt. These low income families need more than an opportunity for better education. They need an honest all around economic structure within which to operate. The likelihood of this happening is not very good, because a very small percentage of the population are willing to stand against the current political economic powers that are currently running the show.
George Cancilla
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Re: Re: Why Should The Children of Low-Income Families Be Trapped in Failing Schools? Why Are Liberals Pro-Choice on Abortion But Not Pro-Choice When
| Posted On: 02/21/07 11:39:31 AM |
Age 35, CA |
When you ask the question, Why should the children of low-income families be trapped in failing schools? one premise of that question is that the children are trapped. Another premise is that schools are failing. However, these premises are peripheral to what really should be the real questions: Why is education compulsory and why are citizens being forced to pay for the education of others?
Before you roll your eyes and say, This guy is a complete idiot, please ponder these questions. A hundred years ago, the notion of the government forcing parents to send their children to school would have been unthinkable. If officials (no longer public servants) had shown up at Joe and Marys house to forcibly take Johnny and Sally because the parents didnt send them to school, there would have been many police officers in hospitals or morgues. We should be free to send our children to school, and we should be free to not send our children to school. Anything less is a form of slavery.
God did not give laws or instructions to Moses or the kings of Israel to make parents send their children to school. I dont read anywhere in the Bible that parents ought to be arrested, thrown into prison, and children be taken from their parents and placed into foster care because the parents failed or refused to send their children to school. He did not give the responsibility of educating children to the state He gave that responsibility to parents. What we have done is allowed the state to usurp our authority.
My next door neighbors are retired and have no children living at home. They have lived in the same house for forty years and probably no longer have a mortgage. Nevertheless, they are still forced to pay property taxes. If they do not pay their tax, eventually the feudal lords of the state will come with armed men, forcibly remove them from their home, and auction off their house in order to collect what the feudal lords claim is theirs. Is this just? Is this biblical? Search the scriptures and you will not find the concept of property taxes especially the unjust, unrighteous system we have in many states. The reason I bring up property taxes is that a large portion of public school funding is received from property taxes.
I also ask the question, Are the schools failing? From a concerned citizen and parents perspective that answer would be yes, but from the perspective of those promoting a globalist, one-world government that answer would be no. Children in government (public) schools are really being educated, they are being re-educated into the doctrine of global citizenship, subservience to government, and to reject Gods law written upon their hearts. The government schools are producing good, uneducated, thoughtless, hedonistic, slaves (human resources) who will depend upon the government masters for sustenance and worth. Public schools are not failing they are accomplishing exactly what they are designed and intended to do.
Consider what you ask for. School vouchers are not the answer although on the surface it seems like a good solution. Do not go the government with your hand out, asking for permission to spend tax-payer labor and sweat (dollars) at the school of your choice. The nature of man, and man makes up government, is the quest for more and more power. Those vouchers will include or eventually include strings attached and your private and/or Christian schools will become just another branch of the government schools.
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Re: Why Should The Children of Low-Income Families Be Trapped in Failing Schools? Why Are Liberals Pro-Choice on Abortion But Not Pro-Choice When it C
| Posted On: 02/21/07 04:32:29 AM |
Age 29, AE |
ABSOLUTELY!! Our Constitution states that the Federal government has no place in education that education is to be left up to each state, run by the citizens of that state. How in the world did we get to where we are today? Why did Hitler ban homeschooling and private schooling? It is obvious that he did this because he wanted control over the information that the children received, because he wanted to create a race of people that he could control. People that are opposed to private or homeschooling are simply ignoring the statistics which are favorable to private schooling.
Another avenue, in addition to vouchers, is for the government to give tax credits to homeschool families. A public or private school teacher, if s/he has spent personal money on classroom supplies, can be reimbursed for a portion of those expenses. This law, for the time being, excludes homeschool families. However, some rather nasty people try to accuse homeschool families of having children just to get tax credits. (It is interesting that most of these accusers do not have children of their own!) It is an absurd accusation, considering how much money and time and dedication it takes to raise children. However, we are homeschooling now, and will continue to homeschool regardless of whether we get tax credits or not. It is not a deciding factor in our decision of whether to send our kids to public schools, but it would help homeschool families particularly ones that have less. (We are blessed to have everything that we need, but there are other families who are struggling, and this benefit would help them even more.) These tax credits would support homeschools no differently than this same support is offered to public or other private schools.
People sometimes (though not often) ask me about socialization, but wherever we go, adults comment on how well-behaved our children are. Our children are in constant contact with adults, as well as other children, helping with such tasks as shopping, checking mail, extra curricular activities (ballet, golf lessons, English riding lessons, etc.) and other appointments, and they know well how to communicate with adults and children alike in a polite way.
In the very least, especially in light of the idea of public school in our Constitution, vouchers should be made available to anyone who wants them. We are constantly reading about teachers having sexual relations with students, school shootings, school violence, drugs, bullies, and now such things as children being taken to get abortions during school hours without their parents knowledge, forced religious activities (such as making a pretend pilgrimage to holy places of other religions or bowing down to religious figures), and teaching that is not only inappropriate, but very much against the most common convictions of the majority of the United States! What happened to the original idea of public school that is overseen by the individual state and run by the citizens? Vouchers are a must. Lets support pro-choice in education!
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