RSSHope and Failure in America’s Schools, Part One
Gene Lalor | March 11, 2010
Three-quarters of the way through the 2009-2010 school year, schools are very much in the news, both in the good news category and the not so good.
Today, from the Good News Department offering hope for the future:
Virginia Senate Votes to Expand Charter Schools: Much to the chagrin of the National Education Association, President Obama recently endorsed the idea of charter schools as a way of improving and reforming education. The new Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, favors charters as well and now Virginia’s Democratic-controlled Senate is on record as supporting their expansion following approval by the Republican-controlled House of Delegates.
It’s a weaker version than that originally put forth by the governor and there were naysayers, of course.
State Senator Yvonne B. Miller weighed in with her utter disapproval: “These bills are saying, ‘Let’s not educate all the children of all the people. Let’s select a few people and educate them very well.’ This is a very bad bill. Based on our history, we should be ashamed of ourselves to even introduce such legislation:” http://bit.ly/cjpAQH
Lord knows how Miller came to that bizarre conclusion considering the success of charter schools but presumably it’s based on the ancient segregation history in southern schools. Nevertheless, it’s a promising step forward.
Note to Yvonne: Charters are not in the business of segregating kids but rather in the business of educating them whatever their race. If kids aren’t smart enough to get into one, that’s called Darwinism at work.
Reagan Kids Descend on Reagan Ranch for Inspiration: Ronaldus Magnus may be gone but his spirit lives on out at the ranch.
The 3-day conference in Santa Barbara, CA, replete with speakers from conservative colleges and such figures as Michael Reagan will unveil its list of the top 14 conservative colleges, including Thomas More College, College of the Ozarks, and Hillsdale College with no comment on colleges to avoid.
“That would be quite a few schools,” joked YAF Vice President Patrick Coyle.
In this new “age of Obama,” the conference will provide a forum “where high school students who caught the conservative bug can converge to get inspired, get organized and get active. Conservatives are kind of the new counterculture of today,” Coyle said. (http://bit.ly/9xgkZ6)
The 120 invitees will be encouraged to be tactfully confrontational with left-leaning students at their new schools in an attempt to convert them to the cause.
Lots of luck with that but it’s inspirational to the rest of us that Ronald Reagan is still motivating young conservatives to resist and convert the importuning left, especially as the Obama juggernaut seems to be grinding to a crunching halt. That Age of Obama may yet become the New Age of Reagan Redux.
Next: the Bad News Department
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