Comments on: D.C. Families Need More School Choice Options http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Teach like it’s 1979 « Designated Conservative http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-12232 Teach like it’s 1979 « Designated Conservative Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:44:51 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-12232 [...]  Be aware of what your children are being taught.  Arrange to visit their classrooms, and be prepared to intervene to help your child be successful.  The hearts and minds of our children are under assault, and the [...] [...]  Be aware of what your children are being taught.  Arrange to visit their classrooms, and be prepared to intervene to help your child be successful.  The hearts and minds of our children are under assault, and the [...]

]]> By: PAF http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-8258 PAF Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:37:01 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-8258 In 1995, I walked suburban Washington, D.C.streets for a week. Unbelievable as I am a white female. I spoke to teens who couldn't read. I read signs. One stating the desire to have highways prevented from being built over the heads of residents. Another plywood sign told the danger of an inoperatable fire hydrants several years in duration. Teens were living in old cars. Waterlogged library books littered the railways. The debate over the school vouchers was the news broadcast in those days. A vision of how so many people settled on the foot-stoop of Washington, D.C was clear. The Civil War started the flow, and descendants today still ask for help. However, the self inflicted state-of-the-Nation is ill. Corruption by power has all but crushed the US Constitution's restraints out of existance. Liberty for the individual and Natural Family is on its death bed. The word "Democracy" is replacing the "...Republic for which it stands". Oposition in majority oppinion (political Law) is defacing human goodness and morality. Government fails to excercise anything but force and control. I would like to see a different neighborhood than I did in those days. Nevertheless, Government gets in the way and/or regulates true help out of existance. Self-evidence rings the truth of shattered Liberty as I watch my own family slip from self sufficiency into broader poverty. What a mess! Creating more debt to fund the fat-cat Elite will not help the people in suburban Washington, D.C., but I would return in a heart beat to share with the people I met there, how a free, social and economic, people could prosper-- IF Government would only get out of the road! In 1995, I walked suburban Washington, D.C.streets for a week. Unbelievable as I am a white female. I spoke to teens who couldn't read. I read signs. One stating the desire to have highways prevented from being built over the heads of residents. Another plywood sign told the danger of an inoperatable fire hydrants several years in duration. Teens were living in old cars. Waterlogged library books littered the railways.

The debate over the school vouchers was the news broadcast in those days.

A vision of how so many people settled on the foot-stoop of Washington, D.C was clear. The Civil War started the flow, and descendants today still ask for help.

However, the self inflicted state-of-the-Nation is ill. Corruption by power has all but crushed the US Constitution's restraints out of existance. Liberty for the individual and Natural Family is on its death bed. The word "Democracy" is replacing the "…Republic for which it stands". Oposition in majority oppinion (political Law) is defacing human goodness and morality. Government fails to excercise anything but force and control.

I would like to see a different neighborhood than I did in those days. Nevertheless, Government gets in the way and/or regulates true help out of existance.

Self-evidence rings the truth of shattered Liberty as I watch my own family slip from self sufficiency into broader poverty. What a mess!

Creating more debt to fund the fat-cat Elite will not help the people in suburban Washington, D.C., but I would return in a heart beat to share with the people I met there, how a free, social and economic, people could prosper– IF Government would only get out of the road!

]]> By: no child left behind http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-4694 no child left behind Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:06:01 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-4694 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: mark , Houston http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-4004 mark , Houston Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:48:05 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/08/18/dc-families-need-more-school-choice-options/#comment-4004 Isn't it funny that the only "troubled" schools are in the "inner city".When a school in the suburbs fails to meet state or local expectations we hear "well those students are not applying themselves"and"It's the responsibility of the parents to get involved with their children"while if an inner city school meets the same low grade then it's a social-econmic problem . I send my kids to a private school ; I pay out the wazoo for it as well . this opprotunity wasn't given to me by the government I earned it , as did my parents. You see , my parents did not wait on father government to "give" them a way out , they took it upon themselves.That way of life , or beliefe system if you will ,trickles down to the children.so does a lack of a beliefe system or a lack of an incentive . Let's stop punishing the schools and start holding non-attentive mom's and dad's responsible. Isn't it funny that the only "troubled" schools are in the "inner city".When a school in the suburbs fails to meet state or local expectations we hear "well those students are not applying themselves"and"It's the responsibility of the parents to get involved with their children"while if an inner city school meets the same low grade then it's a social-econmic problem . I send my kids to a private school ; I pay out the wazoo for it as well . this opprotunity wasn't given to me by the government I earned it , as did my parents. You see , my parents did not wait on father government to "give" them a way out , they took it upon themselves.That way of life , or beliefe system if you will ,trickles down to the children.so does a lack of a beliefe system or a lack of an incentive . Let's stop punishing the schools and start holding non-attentive mom's and dad's responsible.

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