female anchor confronts ron paul over saying women should quit work, homeschool children

[niyad]

Female anchor confronts Ron Paul over plan for women to quit work en masse and home school

BBC anchor Katy Kay on Thursday asked former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) if his libertarian plan to have 20 percent of children home schooled made sense because so many women would have to drop out of the work force, but the former congressman insisted that even a woman living at a shelter with two jobs could find a way to do it if she worked hard enough.

During an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to promote his book, The School Revolution, Paul said he wanted to offer families an education alternative that emphasized “the importance of the individual versus, you know, everybody coming together.”
“I want people to be able to home school their children,” he remarked. “Not everybody, this is designed to pick out the leaders who want to. And maybe 20 percent might be interested in doing this. But these would be leaders who would be talking about running for Congress and understand why the Federal Reserve is a problem.”

But Kay, who was guest-hosting, noted that “if you want to get to 20 percent of children who are being home schooled, that’s going to mean a vast drop of number of women in the workforce because it is largely women who are doing the home schooling.”
“A lot of women can’t afford to give up their jobs and home school their children, a lot of families can’t afford that, and do we actually want to encourage women not take part in the workforce because we know how valuable that diversity is?” Kay pressed. “I’m concerned about advocating home schooling on this level, when women are having such a hard time already staying in the workforce.”

“Those are the problems created by what I’m trying to correct,” Paul insisted. “Because they have to be in the workforce and they have to work and not take care of kids because of the system that we have because it’s survival for them.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/19/female-anchor-confronts-ron-paul-over-plan-for-women-to-quit-work-en-masse-and-home-school/

[Whisp]

1. Fuck the Pig Ron Paul.

[niyad]

2. he is a disgusting pos. will not insult pigs, noble, intelligent beings.

[Sunlei]

3. I guess Paul & Rs invested in the online "home school" lesson plans you pay with your voucher.

I don't have much faith the USA can get away from all those who pretty much steal our Federal and State taxpayer money for their own private profits.

Must be very profitable to make an online program then rake in vouchers/federal/state money for years.

wonder what stock they are listed under, anyone know?

[BlueMTexpat]

4. IMO, part of the general dumbing down of US society

can be attributed to the growth of so-called home-schooling. A large number of those "good Christians" who are currently home-schooling their children have had minimal formal education themselves and have chosen to home-school in order to avoid association with those who do not share their own narrow world views or their own limited religious views.

One major goal of a well-rounded public education is for students who would otherwise remain in insular, parochial surroundings to open their minds by exposure to people, ideas and experiences they would not otherwise have occasion to experience. They need to learn critical thinking, how and when to question, to recognize injustice, to show empathy, etc. - in other words, to become functioning members of a civilized society.

Dumbing-down our society literally is weakening the country from within and will continue to do so in our uniquely "exceptional" American way. We become our own worst enemies, which is exactly what we see happening before our eyes today among those who are Faux watchers, Limbaugh listeners and Christian home-schoolees, for the most part. These young people are also penalized. If they do not learn the same life skills, techniques and subject matter as those young people who are being educated more effectively elsewhere by other nations, they will find themselves consistently at the bottom of the career ladder, ceding places to increasing numbers of imported professionals, all the while watching the wealth gap between their parents' generation and their own increase, and not in their favor.

Ron Paul is as nutty as a fruitcake in addition to being a sexist. But that is nothing new, unfortunately.

[niyad]

5. you are absolutely correct. I have been saying for decades that the reason for our lousy

educational system is because you cannot control and educated populace capable of critical thnking. and that was long before homeschooling became so prevalent.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. Paul and his "corporate masters" are very short-sighted.

Having to recruit educated foreign professionals to do the work or outsourcing work that a minimally educated - but an obedient God-fearing - home-schooled or poorly schooled citizenry cannot do will itself end by toppling the nation.

Our democratic system functions best when ALL citizens benefit from it. We do not have to benefit equally, but we must benefit fairly. Since the 1970s (yes, even before Reagan, when our social and economic systems began to fracture quite badly; his election only sealed our fate), our system has skewed towards unfairness to all but a very wealthy few.

Prior to the Civil Rights bill and affirmative action, our system's unfairness was visited primarily on racial/gender minorities and not as visible to all. Now we who are not of the 1% share in inequity, although some minorities (racial/gender/age, etc.) remain among the most vulnerable.

Economic inequity should have been the principal focus all along. But it takes a good education to recognize that.

[Orrex]

6. It's worth reitering that I have never met a Libertarian who wasn't a selfish asshole

Paul is hardly an outlier in this regard.