{"id":8225,"date":"2012-07-01T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2012-07-01T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T18:16:54","slug":"the-republican-education-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/the-republican-education-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Education Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the few things for which Republicans actually do have a plan would devastated if Republicans get control, because their plan is to take something already bad, and make it worse.  Willard Romney, who has never met a lie he wouldn\u2019t tell, outlined his views on the subject.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1Closed\"What a shining example this is of Mitt Romney’s policy ideas. In his stump speech yesterday, he mocked President Obama’s vision of fairness and opportunity for all by saying he agreed with it. It’s mockery because of course he does not agree with it, as he reveals a few short words later\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

…Some definitions, so that his statement may be parsed more clearly:<\/font><\/p>\n

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  1. "Every single citizen"<\/font><\/strong><\/span> means people who reside in this country legally but also excludes those who are undocumented workers, especially if they are brown or black.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n
  2. "Place of opportunity"<\/font><\/strong><\/span> means a place where one navigates all barriers with no safety nets or possibility of a hand up. It is a meritocracy where one must have at least one special advantage (obsequiousness is helpful) in order to grasp the opportunities in that place.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n
  3. "Willingness to work hard"<\/font><\/strong><\/span> means they may not ever join their collective voices in a union or expect fair wages or any benefits whatsoever, but instead accept jobs with substandard pay and scrape together whatever they possibly can to advance to the next rung on the ladder. It is especially important that these people with this willingness also agree to pay their dues to Wall Street and the bankers.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n
  4. "Right values"<\/font><\/strong><\/span> means these people must, at all times, look down on others who are poorer, less educated, and have fewer advantages than they. They must not, under any circumstances, view women as equals. That goes for LGBT as well. It’s fine to pay lipservice to both groups but when it comes to matters of consequence, it’s critical that Those With Right Values turn their backs and discriminate as much as they possibly can. Right Values also include God and Guns.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Provided a person meets those requirements, Mr. Romney then affirms that they should have as much education as "they can afford." <\/font>This is a man who wants to privatize our K-12 education system, who slashed Massachusetts’ education budget<\/a><\/font> by large margins, increased class sizes to unmanageable levels, attended an exclusive private school, exclusive private colleges, and has the means to send his children to any college they can afford so that they too, can make tons of money by stripping other people of their jobs and futures\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

    Here is is.  Watch Willard lie!  Lie!  Lie!! Lie!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

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    Now, I\u2019ll be the first to admit that our system is broken.  We need national standards for education, based on preparing our young people to make a living, not just to get a passing test score.  We need to evaluate teachers on the quality of the work they do, not just their student\u2019s grades.  One cannot fairly compare grades between a teacher with a class of 15 in an affluent district and a teacher with a class of 150 in a slum district.  We need to address the problem that some districts have everything they want, while others have nothing that they need.<\/font><\/p>\n

    However, if Willard and the Republican Party have their way, most resources will go to fancy prep schools for the rich, like the ones Willard attended, and pseudo-Christian schools, where science and critical thinking take a back seat to dogma and obedient intransigence.  Willard and the Republicans want a well educated super-rich class overseeing submissive, unthinking work<\/font>er drones.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the few things for which Republicans actually do have a plan would devastated if Republicans get control, because their plan is to take something already bad, and make it worse.  Willard Romney, who has never met a lie he wouldn\u2019t tell, outlined his views on the subject. What a shining example this is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}