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Rick Santorum has declared war on modern day America. He doesnt think Protestants are real Christians. He thinks we should be at war with all of Islam. He believes Americans should suffer because in his sick mind, suffering is a good thing. He believes strongly in income inequality. He also believes women should be relegated to the home and controlled by men. And now he wants to destroy the minds of our children.
During a speech at the Ohio Christian Alliance, Santorum told the crowd that public education is an artifact that must come to an end, and that parents should withdraw their children and rely on home schooling and online education.
The Los Angeles Times reports,
In the nations past, he said, Most presidents home-schooled their children in the White House. Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility.
Yes, the government can help, but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/20/rick-santorum-calls-for-end-of-public-education-says-parents-should-home-school-their-kids/
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)He home-schooled his kids.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Lint Head
(15,064 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Most First Ladies, maybe (at least before Sidwell Friends opened )
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)It was (and is) simply not that expensive to hire a tutor.
Missy Vixen
(16,207 posts)were the Kennedys'. Think about it.
Johnson's kids were grown, weren't they? Amy Carter went to public school. The Bush kids were grown by the time Bush 1 was in office. Chelsea Clinton went to Sidwell Friends. Jenna and Not Jenna went to private school - actually, they were both almost in college by the time he took office. The Obamas' kids go to Sidwell Friends.
WHEN will a member of the media challenge Santorum's asinine "facts"?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)How do you like that, you little worm....
The more he spews, the more I despise him.
spanone
(135,827 posts)Liberal Gramma
(1,471 posts)Of course, people who are that busy could limit their family size, but then that would mean the use of *contraception*! What's a poor person to do???
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)wilsonbooks
(972 posts)Santorum's residency has been controversial, with critics noting that Santorum had made the residency of his opponent a major campaign issue when he first ran for Congress in 1990.
In 1997, Santorum purchased a three bedroom house in the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills. In 2001, he bought $640,000 house in Leesburg, Virginia,[115] but sold it in 2007 for $850,000,[160] and purchased a $2 million home in Great Falls.[161]
In November 2004, the Penn Hills School District, which was paying 80% of the tuition costs associated with the Santorum's five older children attending the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, asked Santorum to repay $67,000 in tuition costs as the district believed that he and his family were spending most of the year in Virginia and did not meet the qualifications for residency status.[162] Santorum disputed the assessment and withdrew his children from the cyber education program.[163] On July 8, 2005, a Pennsylvania state hearing officer dismissed the complaint as not being filed in a timely manner. The school district sought reimbursement from the state and in September 2006, the Pennsylvania Department of Education agreed to pay the district $55,000 to settle the dispute.[164] In September 2006, Santorum asked county officials to remove the homestead tax exemption from his Penn Hills property.[165] Since 2006, Santorum has been home-schooling his seven children.[166][167]
Santorum responded to the dispute saying that school children should not be part of the "politics of personal destruction".[168] One of his children appeared in a 2006 re-election campaign ad saying, "My dad's opponents have criticized him for moving us to Washington so we could be with him more."[169]
TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)own costs.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)Initech
(100,064 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)I actually think it needs to be protected. It also needs to be regulated as it is now.
That being said, one of the most important things for us to support it a strong public education. It means more to our economy and sustainability than anything else. A well-balanced public education will give us the future we all aspire to have.
Edit to add: Fuck Rick Santorum
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...in between "working class" and "lower middle class" incomes, barely able to stay afloat, with minimal college and retirement savings...
...then make one of them say home to teach the kids.
Brilliant.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Butler Area public schools student he was nicknamed "Rooster.....they have another name for rooster too.