Some days I wish I was back in Government School

 This will be happening on September 8th.



http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/bts.html

I encourage every Parent and School Kid to protest, refuse to comply, turn off the television, skip class, disrupt, walk out, play hooky.

Medved despises the LP so it must be serious when I post a link to one of his articles.
http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2009/09/02/abusing_school_kids_with_pro-obama_propaganda


 

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama%E2%80%99s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009
link to recommended study materials borrowed from Trey Garrison
P.S.  Don't even think about going to YouTube and seaching Obama Kids.

Song

Too many atheists to put this at the other blog

I just paid my automobile insurance

I got a letter delivered to my house, plus an email a month ago.   Then reminder emails every few days.  As the contract deadline approached I decided it was time to pay up.  I'm going to log into the web site and pay my insurance premium. Then, I saw the 1-800 number.  Give it shot.  Maybe, Maybe 90 seconds and I've paid my bill for another six months.  Astoundingly easy, convenient, I love how they go out of their way to please me.  A confirmation email arrives before I hang up the phone.  This is perfectly easy.


I don't want to advertise for them because acronymically they represent government employees, but I'm amazed at what has just happened.  I've paid money to a service provider that I employee, from my bank to their bank, electronically, using software created by other parties.  Myself, the insurance company, the banks, all communicating almost instantaneously across networks created by others and offered for useful exchange, exchanging money safely, all because of our wonderful Capitalistic system of voluntary cooperation.

Amidst this honeycomb of cooperative happiness exist tyrants sticking their thieving little hands into the system in order to extract some booty unearned.  Money regulations, Credit Card laws, Internet overseers, Bank inspectors - but Free Men find a way.

Would, could such convenience have been created by a Monopoly ?

"....most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.” -- John Holt

My brother's wife is a Master Teacher ( 20+ years working in government schools ), one brother teaches at government schools, and I spent many years in the system as a lad.
Am I looking for an excuse ?  Perhaps.
I've watched nieces and nephews navigate the system and have Grand nieces and nephews fast approaching the government schools.  What help can I provide?  I teach them to be an individual, to rebel from the collective.

http://zenhabits.net/2009/08/education-needs-to-be-turned-on-its-head/

http://www.historywiz.com/index.html

http://www.khanacademy.org/

http://www.vandammeacademy.com/

http://www.hillsdale.edu/