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First...and I know this is odd in 2015...I'd wait until I felt there was an actual issue before running to social media to bitch about the perils of such and such long before such perils actually occurred.

I'm not going to respond to all of that strawman blabbering about social media, bad parents, and intelligent design. Those things have nothing to do with any of my comments.

Once again, my beef is not with common core. or even consistent standards. I'm responding to your comment that we should just hand education over to the feds because Lousiana sucks. I'm not ready to toss the keys over to the same idiots that run Amtrack and the Postal Service. There IS no turning back from federal control of schools and we are already throwing $9K per student down a black hole in the current public school system with no end in sight. We have no way of knowing if the outcomes would even be better, but somehow people like you just assume it will be.

My school isn't broken and I don't want politicians trying to "fix" it. If it needs to be fixed, my fellow parents and teachers will drive that change. Where other Louisiana schools "rank" nationally is of no consequence to me.

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Posted by LSUFanHouston

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Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 9/24/15 at 4:01 pm to Vacherie Saint

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My school isn't broken and I don't want politicians trying to "fix" it.

Again, your kids are in a private school. Why are you ranting about the government fixing a private school? Not gonna happen.

If and when someone - anyone - in the federal government advocates getting rid of all local and state school boards, and that every public school in America will report - and be funded by - DC (i.e. like the post office) then I'll pay attention. Otherwise, your comments about the federal takeover of education are ignorant, garbage, and misleading. Therefore, it's hard to take seriously anything else you - or your fellow tin-foil wearers - say.

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Posted by GeauxTigerTM

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Posted on 9/24/15 at 5:05 pm to Vacherie Saint

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I'm not going to respond to all of that strawman blabbering about social media, bad parents, and intelligent design. Those things have nothing to do with any of my comments.

The minute locals quit trying to jam things like creationism down the throats of children via school boards, come back to me. When you say local control, I see asshats standing before school boards making fools of themselves trying to pretend a scientific theory means guess. Again...no thanks.

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I'm responding to your comment that we should just hand education over to the feds because Lousiana sucks.

Well...it does. Or are we going to argue about the sad state of affairs that is the Louisiana public school system?

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I'm not ready to toss the keys over to the same idiots that run Amtrack and the Postal Service.

What was that you were saying about strawmen...?

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We have no way of knowing if the outcomes would even be better, but somehow people like you just assume it will be.

No...I assume it can't be worse, because what we already have is horrific in this state. Again...if we were in a state that ranked even in the top half, you could make this argument with a straight face. Given we're lower 40's...? Nope, no solid argument for continued LA control can legitimately be made, and if it could you'd have made it by now.