Mediocre Minds

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly" -- Albert Einstein, March 1940.


Cathy

Unions versus. Taxaper

Be it unions or schools the have the same affect on the taxpayer in my humble opinion.

Cathy

The Blob that Ate Children......and their Minds

John Stossel hits it out of the park and happens to agree with me, or I with he if you prefer.  No town is spared... including Croydon.

Cathy Peschke


"Education reformers have a name for the resistance: the education "Blob." The Blob includes the teachers unions, but also janitors and principals unions, school boards, PTA bureaucrats, local politicians and so on.
They hold power because the government's monopoly on K-12 education eliminates most competition."  John Stossel

Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/20/the_blob_that_ate_children_117539.html#ixzz2O5uiBQOt
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The Reason for Opposition to Choice

"It’s always been the dream of tyrannical governments to eliminate all competitive thought. Adolf Hitler understood it better than anybody. The following is from William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:

“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ [Adolf Hitler] said in a speech on November 6, 1933, “I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’” And on May 1, 1937, [Hitler] declared, “This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”"

Read more at American Vision.

Unions and school employees oppose choice because they want control over you children and our greedy and do not like competition. 

Cathy Peschke

Greed

How did our society come to a point were it is considered greedy to keep the money for which a person has worked so hard to earn?   Don't answer it is a rhetorical question, I know the answer.  Discuss this amongst yourselves. 


Cathy Peschke

Are You Puppet or Puppet Master?

Today, was the annual Town Hall Meeting.  Husband asked me not to post this as to not to offend people.  I obliged until after the meeting.   During the meeting an audience member said that we should respect our neighbors.  First, respect is earned not commanded.  Second, As Thomas Jefferson said, "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."  Having to support a system and a tax I think is sinful and tyrannical I will not take lightly, a minor majority is taking money against my will and from my children because they refuse to fund their own children's education.  Third, I do respect my neighbors and the Ten Commandments.   I will never support a tax increase because, "Thou shall not covet" and "Thou shall not steal"  any good Christian would never vote to raise their neighbor's taxes.   In my humble opinion, to do so makes said person a huge hypocrite.   Fourth,  our current public education as it is was designed by progressives to achieve their idea of utopia.  The system as it is now as anyone who knows our Founding History would not be one of which our Founders would approve.   If they had they would have not found the need to leave England. "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." Martin Luther King, Jr.  Just because a person supports what is legal does make it moral.   Slavery was legal, too.  Lastly, character matters.  

Cathy Peschke

Indoctrination Lasts a Lifetime

Sadly, schools tell children what to do and what to think, not how to think for themselves.  Worse yet this carries over to adulthood.

Cathy