Glenn Beck opened his radio show Monday in a state of near disbelief over an MSNBC promo where anchor Melissa Harris-Perry calmly explains how your children don’t really belong to you — they belong to the collective.
“It’s almost a parody of reality,” Beck said of the clip. “It is so far beyond what we have ever thought as a nation, it’s remarkable…”
For those who haven’t seen the advertisement, Harris-Perry says:
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parentsor kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. [Emphasis added]
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I think she could have said something like "education is an investment in the future and we want to make sure we're getting a return on our investment" and more people would have agreed with her.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with academics is they have a certain lexicon and they will use it, without thinking ofut how their message will be received.
It would be nice if we could address the failure of public education in the US without inflaming one group or another. We're becoming a nation of semi-literates with minimal technical and/or vocational skills.
More than 55% of my taxes go to public education, and my children answer to me, thank you. The only thing that belongs to you is that tax money, and I'm working on taking that back for lack of performance on your part!
ReplyDeleteWe educated our children in private Christian schools due to the lack of caring, and the lies often taught in the public school system. NO ONE in the government HELPED with their raising.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time, in the past, when the children played together in the neighborhood and all the parents/grandparents kept an eye on the children. None of that was done for money, just the care and safety of the children. No one paid them to do this, it was the love of the children and their safety.