| I assume this is the Tea Party's continued war on government and the Republican Party's war on the MEA. Get unqualified people into classrooms, filling sponge-like children up with a bunch of nonsense about how the country was founded by conservative corporatist libertarians. Then, certified history teachers have to waste valuable time correcting those misconceptions, which will leave them precious little opportunity to fill those young minds up with Teh Lib-ruhl Agenda. With school districts’ permission, Tea Party members could give presentations similar to business classes offered by Junior Achievement, said Gene Clem, president of the Southwest Michigan Tea Party Patriots. He said the idea is not to promote the Tea Party’s political views.
Oh, of course not. They just want to "teach the controversy," as we've heard endless times from the same people who wanted biology classes to teach impressionable young minds about the "alternate" theories to evolution, and who want "both sides" of the climate change "issue" taught. It doesn't surprise me that we'd see this kind of proposal made by people who insist that all knowledge is relative to one's point of view, and it especially doesn't surprise me that the Tea Party would suggest a remedy that exists outside an already existing set of channels that is more appropriate ... trying to use their heroic influence in public policy to get curriculum standards changed. Instead, they want a bunch of retirees dressed up like Ben Franklin (do these people actually know anything about Ben Franklin aside from the fact that he's that guy who looks like Carl Levin with long hair?) to show up when students are supposed to be getting instructed by regular teachers and tell them that the Founding Fathers carefully constructed a constitutional form of government that they hated. Sweet Weeping Jesus. I note, with only a whiff of hilarious irony, that the News today has an editorial lauding new, tougher curriculum standards for raising test scores of high school seniors applying to colleges. Make of that what you will. By the way, towards the end, the guy says the goal of the Tea Party is to take over the Republican Party. Apparently, it has not yet struck this guy that having a wing of a political party that takes over -- vigilante like -- a segment of public education might yield negative ramifications in the political process. |
