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Saturday, February 13, 2016

2016 Medley #4 | Live Long and Prosper

2016 Medley #4 | Live Long and Prosper:

Politics, Charters, “Failing” Schools, Status Quo, Literacy “Experts”

POLITICS
Here’s a link to a chart explaining current candidates’ education policies. The column on vouchers says it all. Every Republican listed in the chart (except for Donald Trump) either “Supports” or “Strongly Supports” vouchers. Each of the Democrats “Opposes” vouchers. Trump supports vouchers as well (see here andhere), but apparently Parents Across America missed it.
Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, is the only one who is specifically against using tests for teacher evaluations.
So, no surprises…
PAA does not endorse any candidate, but we are committed to educating parents and the general public about where the candidates and parties stand on education issues. The information in the following table was retrieved on Feb. 10. 2016 from www.ontheissues.org/education andwww.ballotpedia.org. We have focused on the two remaining Democratic candidates and the top 6 Republican nominees based on [February 10] national polling.
Louie Gohmert (R: TX) has got to be one of the stupidest members in the US House of Representatives. Why is Bernie Sanders doing so well? Simple, thinks Gohmert, because…Hippies!
According to Gohmert, “socialism has never worked”…except Bernie Sanders is aDemocratic Socialist and that has worked is working in lots of places…just ask the folks in Denmark (happiest country in the world), France (best health care system in the world), Canada (wealthiest middle class in the world), Norway (world’s highest standard of living) and elsewhere.
…we let some of the hippies from the ‘60s who created such chaos then start teaching the teachers,” Gohmert said, “and teaching them how great socialism is and just rewriting history and keeping them from realizing socialism has never worked, it will never work in this world, in this life, because if you’re going to pay everybody the same thing then they’re going to quit working.”
The Dirtiest Election in History: The campaign of 1826
You think today’s election campaign is dirty? You think the fireworks at the Republican Debates are offensive? Historians agree that today’s campaign is nothing like the Presidential campaign of 1826.
According to the John Quincy Adams campaign, Andrew Jackson married a bigamist which meant his wife was a whore.
According to the Andrew Jackson campaign, John Quincy Adams was a pimp for 2016 Medley #4 | Live Long and Prosper: