School district candidates oppose term 'democracy'

[proud2BlibKansan]

Several school board candidates in the Alpine School District are earning parental support for wanting to eliminate the use of the term 'democracy' from the district's mission statement.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports a small group of parents has been protesting Alpine's mission statement, which says it is "educating all students to ensure the future of our democracy."

The parents want to scrap the word democracy because they say it is contrary to a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, which describes the nation's government as a republic.

They also object to four value statements that back up the mission statement. The values are drawn from the "Moral Dimensions of Education," a philosophy developed by longtime education scholar John Goodlad.

"He is anti-family and pro-socialist," said Oak Norton, a Highland father and one of the leaders of the group. "The school district is tied to a national agenda which I feel is detrimental to our children and their families."

more . . . http://www.heraldextra.com/news/state-and-regional/utah/article_66c55377-dda8-5295-b5ef-fe318cf67979.html

[Catshrink]

1. Oh brother... invasion of the whack jobs.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Their hangup over 'democracy' vs 'republic' has always intrigued me

I thought we lived in a democratic republic. Or is it a republic democracy? :shrug:

I guess that means I can never run for school board.

[Catshrink]

3. Wasn't the big deal with Iraq to install a democracy?

I'm confused - and I haven't even opened up my beer yet. Vikings & Pack - can they both lose?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. That was Eye rack

You know. Where Sadaam was a bad guy who tortured people so we had to go over there and torture people and kill Sadaam? They needed a democracy. I guess we don't? :shrug:

The Chiefs won today. I stopped paying attention to football at 3 pm CST. Sorry. Can't answer that question. But Dinger can.

Oh never mind. She's at the game. Hope she is having a good time.

[The Wielding Truth]

11. Gee. We should have kept the "Republican Guard "in Iraq for them.

Idiots!Hows that for their name game?

[LWolf]

6. Democratic Republic, representative Democracy...

I guess it doesn't matter when the vocabulary twisters get to work.

Evidence that we need to quit short-changing social studies to try to boost reading and math scores.

[Telly Savalas]

5. This is a pretty compelling argument for not having a monopoly

for the administration of schools in a region where it's logistical feasible to offer choices.

But of course allowing a non-profit organization a chance to provide open enrollment tuition free public education to families that don't want to be subject to psycho school boards like this is a fascist concept.

[LWolf]

9. These are candidates, not board members.

Hopefully, they won't become board members.

Non-profit charter schools are often not non-profit at all:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=564213

School choice won't be democratic until it applies to all public schools, not private. Schools that are run by private entities are not public schools; they are only "public," if they are charters, in that they get to use public money to run their private schools.

I'm a strong supporter of allowing all public schools more autonomy and flexibility, with enough regulation from districts to protect students' and teachers' rights. Of course, if we did that, there would be no need for charters, would there? That's the biggest reason it hasn't happened.

[rpannier]

7. So they must be opposed to the Pledge of Allegiance

Written by Francis Bellamy who was also a Socialist
So he must have been anti-Family as well.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. That's far too complex for them

[Hissyspit]

10. Oh, jesus christ...

Where the fuck have these pod people come from??

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. The Jesus pod?

[RagAss]

13. More cretins born out of the Ass of Ignorance !

[Catshrink]

14. I think

we should only elect CORPORATE TRAINERS to school boards. After all, they know everything.