Education Must Be About Children - Not Insane Globalism

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What kind of person would make the following statement:

"If we are serious about rebuilding our economy and restoring our competitiveness," Miller, D-Calif., said, "then it's time for states to adopt a common core of internationally benchmarked standards that can prepare all children in this country to achieve and succeed in this global economy."

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America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. And the greatness of
America often has not come from the best students, but the children who were free to learn what they wanted to learn, to experiment, to dream, to accomplish their talents in the real world.

This hatred for America as a free nation has got to stop. This preaching that our ways are inferior has got to end. We have a business community that pretends that a work force that can not speak English, read English, or write English are more literate than Americans who can. This is not because foreigners are better educated to do American jobs. It is because of the self hating, self loathing, crazy bullshit that our media and that our politicians have preached for the last 60 years.

An American who speaks with a Southern accent is looked at as ignorant not because they are but because the media and politicians have reinforced that bogus stereotype. The same is true if someone speaks with a strong Northern accent or any of the various other decidedly American accents. But now a foreigner comes into Amerca with a foreign accent and they have the best bogus college degrees that can be bought on the black market and they are treated like royalty by America's insane Corporate State.

The American economy did not crash because of America's great and wondrous children who will accomplish much greatness if just allowed. America's economy crashed because of the traitors and the con artist and the evil men who were never taught that which no written test can measure. They were never taught right from wrong. They were never taught that success isn't measured by how much money can be horded. They were never taught that children weren't born and put on this earth to become indebted like mindless slaves to some corrupt, corporate police state.

If a child's gift to the world comes from great intellect then cool. If that child's gift to the world is great music, then beautiful. If that child's gift to the world is bravery and a willingness to sacrifice then respect that heroism. If that child's gift to the world is to work in a factory and produce for the masses, don't disrespect that gift.

True educators understand that education is about helping children. It is not about testing children. It is not about profiling children. It is not about some global economy. Is a child who spends their lives picking apples less worthy than a child educated to build bombs.

Both Obama and Bush need to be rebuked as strongly as possible for not understanding that success in education is not tougher, culturally biased, standards and testing that will only increase the drop out rate. Success is to help children best accomplish their individual talents.

Know that no government and that no business owns those gifts, talents, any more than they own the children. To claim that education is for globalism is the same as to say that the children belong to the State. Any person who would even suggest that is evil!!!

Children must be allowed to live for their own dreams and not become the slave of someone elses dream; someone who perhaps is dreaming of some insane global empire. That is what Hitler did in Germany and we do not need to relive that crazy shit.