Responding to an MLPF comment about Seattle Schools using tech in educational themes.
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>Now that is innovative thinking and the administrators of the Seattle Public Schools should be congratulated!
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>What say you?
>Jay Deragon
>Social Networking Strategist
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I say pity the poor Seattle taxpayers who had their wealth stolen so that some highly paid bureaucrats could mess with other people’s children all at the point of a gun. (Don’t pay those taxes and see what happens. Don’t send your children to gooferment skoolz and see what happens.)
Sorry, but making happy videos and playlists isn’t education. It’s glorified babysitting and brainwashing. There are hungry people around the world learning in the pressure cooker of poverty to “eat these kid’s lunch”. In a day and age, when we should be first in a whole bunch of categories, we’re last in just about everything that matters. (We may be tops in “I felz gud abut myself”!)
Congrats, you have to be kidding us.
No, I think that we as a society in the USA have “really screwed the pooch”. We, deluded by our politicians (No one can say we don’t have the best money can buy!), have a track record of bad decisions. Just to name a few of our mortal sins: The Civil War, All the various Wars to <insert favorite slogan> creating the American empire, Leaving the Gold Standard, Creating the Federal Reserve, Permitting the Income Tax, Prohibition, Social Security, Creating the ‘dole” of New Deal programs, Bombing Hiroshima – Nagasaki – Dresden, Gooferment Education, War on Poverty, War on Drugs, Medicare / Medicaid, and countless venial sins.
IMHO “our” action plan, that of the USA, should be to: end the “dole” (i.e., welfare to individuals and companies); end “public” education; return to honest money; bring the troops home from the 170 countries becoming like Switzerland and instituting a MYOB foreign policy; and cut the gooferment down to a tenth of what they are today by getting back to strict Constitutional interpretation.
See empires can’t sustain themselves.
As innovative Power Forum members, we should be able to see where the future is taking us and not just “go along for the ride”. The essence of “seeing the future” is to be able to avoid the pitfalls. Else, we are nothing more than the Delphi Oracle with a neat tool (i.e., the crystal ball). We can tell people what’s going to happen but we can’t change “their destiny”. I think we can. But it calls for some “heavy lifting”. First is, at the very least, to be judicious with our “congrats”. If I was going to give kudos to anyone in education, it would be those in the “home schooling” movement. They are demonstrating success. Then maybe I’d look to the private and parochial schools who educate in direct competition with the gooferment’s free education. They are demonstrating success. Then, maybe I’d look to the various “bees” (i.e., the National Spelling Bee; the National Geography Bee) who are seeking to make “learning” kool. Then, I laude people like Bill Cosby, Walter Wiilliams, and others who are castigating the culture of “being dumb is kool”.
No, I’d say that is NOT innovative and we should NOT send Seattle congrats. Sorry to be the bearer of an opposing point of view. Wish I could be funny and make a joke. But this is “funny”. Not “funny haha”. But “funny sad”.
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