Former TV anchor Susan Hutchison wants Sims' job

[Erasmus05]

Highlander wrote:

<quoted text>
They both operate under the very same set of standards as called-out in their respective constitutions.

Name one private corporation whose constitution is the same as the US Constitution. You will be doing that, won't you?

Also, when I go to the polls do I get to vote whether Microsoft will release a new OS that year?

So-called 'public schools are OWNED by the corporate government in the very same way as a subsidiary company is OWNED by a private corporation.

The difference is that government owned schools are headed by elected officials and are accountable to citizens. That is the difference.

<quoted text>
Since =WHEN= has enforced communism NOT BEEN totalitarian in nature?

By the very definition, ENFORCED communism is totalitarianism. Hippy communes tried out experimental forms of communism in the 60's and 70's. Perhaps you should study those. They were not totatilatarian in nature, but it was also a failed economic system.

The term 'People as used in the U.S. Constitution and the amending articles means THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN AND =NOT= your favorite COMMUNOFASCIST WET DREAM of a 'collective.'

It means ALL of the individual citizens.

<quoted text>
Trying to scurry away from being held accountable for >YOUR< dissemblance?

No, are you?

<quoted text>
So then, you agree with W.E.B. Dubois that keeping blacks and other dark-skinned peoples is better than allowing them to seek the pinnacle of the possible?
.

Keeping them where? What are you talking about?

I have this crazy idea that allowing private schools to discriminate against minorities is a bad thing. I have this other crazy idea that only a public system can truly serve a diverse community because it is beholding to the US Constitution, not the profit margin and bigotry of a private corporation. And you?

[Highlander]

Erasmus05 wrote:

<quoted text>
Name one private corporation whose constitution is the same as the US Constitution. You will be doing that, won't you?

Of course I will!
.
Name one who's constitution doesn't protect it against a suit at common law!
.
:-))
.

[MikeF]

{opens door, peeks in}

Wow! This is still going on? Sheesh!

{closes door quietly}

[Highlander]

MikeF wrote:

{opens door, peeks in}
Wow! This is still going on? Sheesh!
{closes door quietly}

:o)
.
Oh, c'mon, Mike, you =KNOW= you love the back and forth!!
.

[MikeF]

Highlander wrote:

<quoted text>
:o)
.
Oh, c'mon, Mike, you =KNOW= you love the back and forth!!
.

True, true.

[Erasmus05]

Highlander wrote:

<quoted text>
Of course I will!
.
Name one who's constitution doesn't protect it against a suit at common law!
.
:-))
.

Again, US Constitution. How many companies have a constitution that is the same as.

[Highlander]

Erasmus05 wrote:

<quoted text>
Again, US Constitution. How many companies have a constitution that is the same as.

Companies don't have constitutions.

[MIDutch]

Bummer. The local school district just disbanded and all of the parents are now quitting their jobs so they can stay home, farm the back 40 and teach their kids calculus and relativistic physics.

Wonder if all of the Japanese, Korean, Indian and European kids who are kicking butt out of the American kids in standardized tests are doing it this way?

[Highlander]

MIDutch wrote:

Bummer. The local school district just disbanded and all of the parents are now quitting their jobs so they can stay home, farm the back 40 and teach their kids calculus and relativistic physics.

By your thoroughly arrogant remarks above, one gathers that >YOU< think being self-educated isn't a possibility, and that home-schooling is —at best— not ~even~ second best in the world of academic achievement.
.
Yet the record shows that your assessment is so far from the truth that >YOU< need to be reminded of just these facts:
.
http://www.marcopolo-u-edu.org/MPIU-Story/sel...
.
Yet, you would off-handedly dismiss the lot of them because ~many~ of them never attended so-called 'public school.'
.

MIDutch wrote:

Wonder if all of the Japanese, Korean, Indian and European kids who are kicking butt out of the American kids in standardized tests are doing it this way?

You sure do like contradictions, don't you?
.
If American so-called 'public schools' are so good, then why are they failing so many kids?
.
You've been asked that before, when you made that very same comparison.
.
Oh, and one other thing: You might give a gander at the psychological health of the over-achievers from far-away lands, in that all of them are made to achieve under extreme pressure.
.
But that works for you, eh?
.

[Highlander]

CoLLapse: You don't have to go to school
.
By Dmitry Orlov
.
A small but already by no means negligible number of Americans is starting to realize what their future looks like: no retirement, no job, no savings, plus they are getting old. Their only possible means of support in old age is their children.
.
And so, in the meantime, let's continue to mindlessly send our children off to "learning" institutions, where they will be properly supervised at all times, bored half to death, medicated into submission should they rebel, even by simply refusing to pay attention, not taught anything worth knowing by demoralized, underpaid public servants, and then spat out into the world with their spirits crushed.
.
On second, thought, let's stop doing that. When thinking about making big changes, sometimes it's healthy to hear of places halfway across the world, which may have their own issues to deal with, but they are not the same ones we have here, allowing us to see past them. But the problem of institutionalization of children and emphasis on mindless discipline and rote learning is the same in all "developed" nations, being part of the worldwide legacy of industrialization and militarism, which we all have to deal with somehow. And a good first step is to starve this mindless suicide machine of fresh cannon fodder - by denying it access to our children.
.
http://www.inteldaily.com/news/173/ARTICLE/11...