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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum told an audience today that he plans to homeschool his seven children when he is in the White House. Speaking to the Ohio Christian Alliance in Columbus, Santorum decried the government-run school system as "anachronistic";
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“Yes, the government can help, but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.”
Oops.. my bad. This is indeed the section.
anachronistic... outdated... archaic...
At an appearance in Ohio Santorum said the idea of schools run by federal government or by state governments was “anachronistic” and preached about the value of homeschooling. In Ohio Santorum said:
For the first 150 years, most presidents home-schooled their children at the White House, he said. “Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America? Parents educated their children, because it’s their responsibility to educate their children.”
“Yes the government can help,” Mr. Santorum added. “But the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic. It goes back to the time of industrialization of America when people came off the farms where they did home-school or have the little neighborhood school, and into these big factories, so we built equal factories called public schools. And while those factories as we all know in Ohio and Pennsylvania have fundamentally changed, the factory school has not.”
To be fair to Santorum, there is plenty of room for improvement in our public education models. But to describe as “anachronistic” the idea of publicly subsidized education and then in the same breath laud the pre-industrialized world and its method of education in the year 2012 is as astonishing as it is revealing.
Santorum’s people were quick to “clarify” that the Republican presidential candidate was not opposed to public schools outright, but could not identify the “role” Santorum felt government should and should not play in public education. He’s come out as against public funding of schools at either the federal or the state level and certainly opposes government mandated curriculum.
So what role does that leave for publicly-funded education? The answer is none, obviously. Which, had he been pressed to elaborate on his position, would have been obvious.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/santorum-public-education-is-anachronistic.html#ixzz27jsIAKfk
Longshot GOP presidential candidate hopeful Rick Santorum says he is opposed to early-childhood education programs because they are our government’s attempt to “indoctrinate your children.” Speaking before about 20 people at the Perry Public Library on Tuesday, Santorum said:
“It is a parent’s responsibility to educate their children. It is not the government’s job. We have sort of lost focus here a little bit. Of course, the government wants their hands on your children as fast as they can. That is why I opposed all these early starts and pre-early starts, and early-early starts. They want your children from the womb so they can indoctrinate your children as to what they want them to be. I am against that.”
Santorum also said that “We need to get the federal government out of that business” of educating children and demand that the US’s “educational establishment … start meeting the needs of their child, not children.” As Santorum then elaborated,
“Obviously, socialists love children, just like they love people in groups of one million or more.”
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/santorum-opposes-early-childhood-education.html#ixzz27jsThgqG
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I know the importance of local control of education. And having gone through that experience of the federal government involvement, not only do I believe the federal government should get out of the education business, I think the state government should start to get out of the education business and put it back to the state -- to the local and into the community…
http://2012.candidate-comparison.org/?compare=Santorum&vs=Romney&on=Education-issue
If the federal and state governments are out of education, just who is going to pay for it?
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… that local communities and, and parents should be the ones who are in control of public education, not the, certainly not the federal government and to as I said before, as I said in that clip I think the state governments have not done a particularly good job in public education. I think public education should be a dynamic process that's locally run, that works with parents to provide the optimal opportunity for each child in America to get the education that they need, not what the federal government or the state government says that you should have. That's why I refer to it as, you know, going back to the industrialization of America when we had a, we had a system in, in this country with industrialization where, you know, you had one car produced. And, you know, you maybe got it in two colors. And, and we haven't changed public education significantly since then. Every single car on a Detroit line is custom ordered. Why? Because it's designed to meet the needs of the customer. The education system, federally run, state run, is not designed to meet the, meet the needs of the customer. It's designed for the purposes of the school not the children and the parents who are the customers of that system. And I think we need a dramatic change in that system.
What are we replacing it with? He is definitely saying he isnt all about public education.
Certainly there are problems with the educational system in the US. But, according to him, 1 in 3 drop out. Just who will be teaching these children of the next generation? Are we going back to one room school houses? Local communities can dictate, according to their own politicla, cultural and racial flavor what is taught to those children?
His demand to go backwards completely undermines the public educational system.
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