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“[State controlled] education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” – Joseph Stalin

"[I]f you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever.  But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with."

--Ronald Reagan

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)

 

We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government. — Democratic National Platform [1892]

Good Ideas Don’t Require Force            By Theresa Fritz Camoriano

Many of the people who founded the U.S. came here because they just wanted to be left alone.  They were tired of governments hassling them over their religion and preventing them from living their lives as they thought best.  So they established a government that respected individual liberty and property – a place where peaceful people would be left alone to live their lives in peace.  Where parents could raise their children in accordance with their own values.  Where they didn’t have to worry about police knocking on their doors in the middle of the night.       (click to read more)

Harper Speaks Out in Favor of School Choice at Capitol Rally  – Says House Bill 30 is a step in the right direction –

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Republican Billy Harper participated in a school choice rally on behalf of House Bill 30, legislation that would give Kentucky’s special needs students an opportunity to transfer from failing or underperforming public schools to institutions that offer stronger learning environments.       (click to read more)

Special-needs students: Burden or privilege?         By Rick Christman

Not long ago, I ate dinner with a college friend who is now a public high-school teacher.

Eventually, our pleasant banter led to the topic of school choice. I said that school choice would quickly create conditions within Kentucky public schools that would improve education for all children. Not surprisingly, my friend – the teachers-union representative at his school – found the whole idea of school choice appalling.       (click to read more)

Justified Cynicism

In a recent Courier-Journal article, Jefferson County’s teachers boss Brent McKim belittles Rep. Stan Lee’s proposal to help the state’s 109,000 special-needs students by offering them the opportunity to obtain the education and services they need.  

He accuses Lee and the program’s supporters of engaging in “a cynical effort to use this particular group of students to advance their privatization agenda.”        (click to read more)

The AMC’s taxing scourge         By Brian Balfour

Despite the strong opposition to Kentucky’s alternative minimum calculation (AMC), our state’s leading policymakers are not making any kind of firm commitment to rid the commonwealth of this taxing scourge during the 2007 legislative session.

The most damaging aspect of the AMC is the fact that it forces businesses to pay taxes based on gross receipts … not profits. Even if a company loses money, it still must write a check to state bureaucrats in Frankfort.       (click to read more)

A Reich of Their Own       by Terry Gray

Short people and fat people are indeed second class citizens in the eyes of the state of Kentucky.  We all know that our great leadership knows what is best for us and is ever seeking to protect us against ourselves.  Proposed House Bill 284 gives exemptions from mandatory seat belt use for people under 5’ 4” and those too fat to get the seat belt fastened.  (The fat exemption addresses seat belt length, not fatness, making it a work of art on the politically correct canvas.)  How about exempting smokers?  Sometimes when I’m drinking coffee, eating a donut, looking at my calendar, talking on my cell phone, smoking a cigarette, and scanning the radio talk shows while cruising at 65, I’ll accidentally drop my cigarette on the floorboard.  My seatbelt makes it next to impossible to pick it up quickly.  This is unfair and I should have a seatbelt exemption.       (click to read more)

KEEPING SCORE         by Donald M. Heavrin http://www.lrni.us

Every time I swear off about writing about the war, something will happen that aggravates me to such an extent that I feel compelled to return to the subject. This past weekend, about 70 people died when a car bomb blew up in a marketplace in Baghdad. Eight of our finest died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. These episodes beg the question, ‘What on Earth are we doing, and what do we think we are accomplishing by participating in this madness?’       (click to read more)

[T]he amount of money required to bring every poor person in the country above the official poverty line is a fraction of what is spent by government on the welfare state. -- Thomas Sowell

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