Oh joy! I found this gem of republican mental deficiency, Dear Black Americans: Democrats Deliberately Hold your Children Down - E_Pluribus_Unum's blog - RedState via alicublog. Gives me enough reasons to focus my rants about education on both republicans and democrats

Let's check out this piece of GOP blogging genius:

Dear American Blacks:

Sometimes the very best act of friendship I could do is tell you that the person you think is your best friend actually works against you behind your back, laughing at you, mocking your hardships, secure in the knowledge that you need him too much to ever leave him.

Sometimes -no, actually always- the true friend is the one who tells you what you don't want to hear. The one who does not indulge you, the one who will neither promise you nor give you candy and other bennies. Instead he tells you to sit down and eat your green beans and spinach -and if you want that nice car, then quit whining, get an education, earn a good job, and earn that nice car.

The really ironic thing is that the slick, good-time "friend" will tell you what a jerk your true friend is. And you will believe him. You will believe him, that is, until you grow up, or until your good-time friend sells you up the river so far that your life is wrecked, and your future is ruined. Your wisdom will have been gained at a steep price.

But your true friend will still be there. And eating your green beans, securing an education, and working hard are still the path to success.

American Blacks, the Democratic Party is that good-time, lying, back-stabbing excuse for a "friend". The DC Voucher story is an illustration -hardly a unique story- of how Democrats continually seek to set you up as a permanent underclass, so that you'll depend on them to throw you scraps and believe their lies, in order to secure your votes to keep them in power.

Isn't "Epluribus Unum" a prime example of republitards at work?

So let me tell you why I think Republicans and Democrats are wrong about school voucher programs : they can be used only for schooling and they usually are used for religion-based schools.

As my readers know, I used to not just homeschool my children but we used to unschool. And for that I went through a period of personal deschooling.

Well, technically we're still using the principles of unschooling to help them cope with the dogmas of schooling. Like, the one that tells you that you can only get an education if you go to school. Or the one that says that blacks and latinos and minorities in general are not smart enough or educated enough to educate their children themselves. Or the one that says that indoctrination is the same as education.

I don't believe in school vouchers because they are yet one more way for the extreme theocracy-loving right to use public funding for their religious agenda. It's a messed up way to divert funds to religious organizations and blur the separation of church and state.

You want to put your kids in a church run school? Have the church pay for it. Am sure those fundies and catholics have billions to spare for their evangelizing.

Now let's go with the logic of Democrats. No vouchers for private schools because it takes away money for public schools? Well why don't the hypocrites then give vouchers for non-religious schools? Why not give vouchers to and promote secular and non-denominational schools? Ah, it's because of those pesky teacher unions.

Well, let me tell you what I think about the teachers' unions : FUCK THEM ALL.

If teacher unions really cared about the right of each child to have the educational experience that is best suited for them, they wouldn't be against independent education alternatives, aka, "homeschooling". Yet teachers' unions look at homeschoolers not just with disdain but they consider them a threat to their bottom line.

If Republicans and Democrats really cared anything about education they would do several things:

1. Pass a federally-funded mandate that would protect the right to each citizen to get an education which ever way was best suited for them; regardless of wether they schooled or not.

2. They would get rid of mandatory schooling requirements and just focus on proof of education. That included getting rid of "No Child Left Behind" and compulsory school attendance laws.

3. They would give all parents a tax exemption per child up to ten thousand dollars a year for all education expenses, regardless of whether they school or independently educate their children.

4. They would open source all education curricula, textbooks, testing and metrics and make it so that not one company nor one interest group could end up controlling the tools necessary for parents to provide an education for their children.

5. They would have a federally-funded mandate to declare all public education facilities including libraries and museums open spaces for groups to organize alternative and have them open to their communities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

6. They would pass a law forbidding any blurring of church and state when it came to publicly funded education or schooling alternatives.

Of course, not one Democrat or Republican in Congress or the Senate has the balls to call for anything like this. Not because it wouldn't be economically feasible or because it doesn't make sense but because too many people in government are still controlled by the schooling dogma.

So, to the republitards who think that "blacks and minorities" should give them their vote because they are a better option when it comes to education all I have to say is : Shut the fuck down.

Education has nothing to do with dogma, whether it be religious, political or pedagogical.