GOP Lawmakers Pass Bill To End Compulsory Education In New Hampshire

[redqueen]

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/01/05/397818/new-hampshire-end-education/

The Dem governor won't sign it of course, but it sure says a lot about republicans. Keep em stupid and afeared of gawd, and fleece them regularly.

[jpak]

1. ultimate morans

yup

[CarmanK]

2. Just in time for the Republican Primary. How ashamed mainstream repugs must be of lineup!

It has never been conservative to deprive a child of public education. And children must be protected from ignorant or irresponsible caretakers. School is where the children are guaranteed an education, opportunity for a future and daily food. It is incredible. When did New Hampshire become so anti-enlightenment?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. This just in: New Hampshire Republicans vote to end

mandatory toilet training.

[justiceischeap]

4. If fundamentalists are so hopped up on teaching theocracy

why don't some of the big dollar churches get together and start creating Fundamentalist schools that offer free education... sorta like Madrasah's that teach terrorism.

[redqueen]

6. That is a frightening thought.

Truly.

[justiceischeap]

10. But that's what they are trying to do to our public school system

This, I guarantee, has everything to do with teaching creationism. It's an end-around. I wouldn't imagine the Fundamentalists that homeschool are doing much different than a school would.

[zipplewrath]

5. Actually it's strategic

If it isn't compulsory, then the state isn't obligated to provide it. First step in privatization

[sinkingfeeling]

7. There's an update that takes back the 'end compulsory education'. But the passed bill

does allow any parent to pull their kid out of any class lesson, at any time, for any reason. The school would then have to provide an alternative lesson.

[redqueen]

11. Yes, and thats completely impossible.

Custom curricula for how many students? These people are idiots.

[zbdent]

8. "Duh, whi do I has to lern to read and rit when I ken here Rooosh Limbaw on the radyo?"

[LiberalAndProud]

9. There is an update.

An earlier version of this post said that the bill would have ended universal compulsory education in the Granite State. An earlier version of the GOP’s bill did, in fact, allow parents to pull their students out of school entirely, for any reason, but the latest version requires that an alternative lesson be provided when parents object. This still effectively allows parents to pull their children from any school lesson for any reason, making public school curriculum optional. We apologize for the error.

I wonder if the lawmakers also cut funding to public schools while passing a bill that requires alternative lessons? I think stupid people should be barred by law from messing with public education. I believe that ban would encompass the greater majority of the Republican party.

[Arugula Latte]

12. The Republican Party embraces willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and superstition

It's pathetic. It truly is.

[fascisthunter]

13. Proof the Want Voters to be Unedcucated

and in turn they destroy the middleclass so people have no way of climbing the economic ladder. There is your fucking glass ceiling fascist shitbags!

[BadgerKid]

14. Apparently they want even a basic education not to be a right.

I can see how several steps down the road only children of the elite will get formal education, thereby bringing back European middle ages with monarchies, etc.

Muy disgusting.

[LiberalFighter]

15. Their thought must be that since all the good jobs are being outsourced

there isn't a need to have students with a good education for the workforce.

What do businesses have to say about this?

[jwirr]

16. How are they so stupid that they are showing their true colors like that? Over and over they are

attacking the 99% and are expecting no one to notice.

[The Genealogist]

17. No doubt destroying education like this is necessary for the theocracy

Further tear down education, stamp out the remaining vestiges of critical thinking in modern education and make sure the population is stupid and unable to think well enough to say "no" to theocracy. My thinking is that a huge number of RWers want to make the US a theocracy in which a few corporations and their heads call each and every thought, with 90% or more of Americans being little more than serfs.