Author tells Lehigh Valley Tea Party that public school system should be dismantled.
An audience of about 100 gathered at this month's Lehigh Valley Tea Party meeting to see Andrew Bernstein, author of “Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas,” published in October by Transaction Publishers, give his book talk and lecture “Free Market Education” Friday evening at the Chrin Community Center in Palmer Township. Bernstein claims there has been a “horrific decline in educational quality since 1850” and says the public school system should be abolished in favor of private, for-profit educational institutions. “Almost 90 percent of American children are forced to attend abysmal public schools,” he said. “Our education system is in a shambles.” Taxes make it impossible for many to send their children to …
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Superintendent Victor Lesky warns that voucher programs, charter schools could ruin public education.
Nazareth Area Schools Superintendent Victor Lesky made an impassioned plea recently that public education must be protected at all costs. The retiring school official targeted charter schools, funding issues and voucher programs as threats to public education. "Education is under attack in Pennsylvania," Lesky said. "I love competition and would relish the chance to compete with cyber and charter schools. But it has to be on the same playing field." Lesky argued that those schools don't have to adhere to such mandates placed on public schools, like special education, for example. "If we could start a school for science and technology only, I'm sure it would be among the best," he said. Lesky said that if charter and cyber schools take away…
I Am Knowledge
12:25 pm on Wednesday, December 7, 2011
This is all about not wanting to accept the bell curve. Some kids are really really smart. They do great in public schools, take AP courses, get college credits, become doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc. They you have the less gifted kids. They don't do as well... why? They're less gifted. Then you have the dim kids. Nothing will help here, they are dim. THE BELL CURVE. It's always … more ›