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Rick Santorum opposes public schooling

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We thought Rick Perry was out in left field with ending the Department of Education. Santorum takes it one step further. He wants to get rid of public schools. He appears to think that home schooling or small, privately-run neighborhood schools could handle the job. He says public schools are an artifact of the Industrial Revolution. (Damn, that Industrial Revolution!)

Has there ever been a candidate so close to being nominated by a major party that was so completely out of touch with reality?
 
I'm not surprised. Public schools aren't allowed to teach theology as scientific fact.
 
Malcom will be along to quote economic theory and Einstein in support of Santorum's stance to end 'the greatest leveler of violence' state power.
 
He just doesn't like how the education is taken out of the individual parent's hands. Look this guy obviously hates science, and anything that doesn't run with his stripes and he doesn't want that stuff being taught to his kids.

And because of that, he's an idiot. As anti-science as he is, I'd shudder to think what he'd remove from education if he could.
 
Santorum is a hypocritical bastard...

My favorite part is the last couple of paragraphs in the article...

... Santorum did not enroll his kids in local Pennsylvania schools, and he did not home school them: Instead, he enrolled five of them in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. The "cyber" school is considered a public school, as Mother Jones notes, where students have to meet state requirements. It also provides free computers and other perks, and the Penn Hills school district ended up shelling out $38,000 per year for the Santorum children.

Santorum reportedly ended up withdrawing his children from the school. He did not repay the district, though the state ultimately paid the district $55,000 to cover the tuition fees.
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:rolleyes:
 
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Tricky said:
We thought Rick Perry was out in left field with ending the Department of Education. Santorum takes it one step further. He wants to get rid of public schools. He appears to think that home schooling or small, privately-run neighborhood schools could handle the job. He says public schools are an artifact of the Industrial Revolution. (Damn, that Industrial Revolution!)

Has there ever been a candidate so close to being nominated by a major party that was so completely out of touch with reality?
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I don't think he said that.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Did you read the article?
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I read the article. And nowhere in the article do I find Santorum stating that he's opposed to public schooling. He's certainly critical of current public school performance (but even supporters should be), but beyond that, the article relies in making a number of inferences which may very well not be correct. It's bad journalism, because it's essentially an opinion piece masquerading as hard news.
 
Ziggurat said:
I read the article. And nowhere in the article do I find Santorum stating that he's opposed to public schooling. He's certainly critical of current public school performance (but even supporters should be), but beyond that, the article relies in making a number of inferences which may very well not be correct. It's bad journalism, because it's essentially an opinion piece masquerading as hard news.
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Yet he sent his own kids to a public school at taxpayer expense. Funny that :rolleyes:
 
Santorum says govt should not run public schools.

"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."
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Any questions? Is there something difficult to understand about that? Trouble with the word "anachronistic"?
 
The real issue, to me, isn't that he's "opposed to public education"; it's that he thought it was okay for taxpayers to send HIS kids to school (to the tune of $38,000 per year), but apparently not for everyone else's kids. At least, that's the way his comments come off to me.
 
eeyore1954 said:
Yes. Where did he say that. He did say he would homeschool his children in the Whitehouse . So if the op means he prefers homeschooling to public school in one way that might mean he is opposed.
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Read what Randfan quoted, and then read the last two paragraphs of the article. Apparently, while he was a U.S. Senator, Santorum didn't have a problem with taxpayers paying $38,000 a year to send his kids to a public charter school. Would anyone care to address that nagging little fact?
 
eeyore1954 said:
Yes. Where did he say that. He did say he would homeschool his children in the Whitehouse . So if the op means he prefers homeschooling to public school in one way that might mean he is opposed.
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"Santorum said the public education system was an artifact of the Industrial Revolution. "Artifact". "Anachronism". Question, what does that mean?
 
RandFan said:
"Santorum said the public education system was an artifact of the Industrial Revolution. "Artifact". "Anachronism". Question, what does that mean?
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It means that when he wanted/needed it, he didn't have any problem with the taxpayer-funded, evil, Satanic, socialistic public schools teaching HIS kids (to the tune of $38,000 per year); yet now, in an election year, suddenly the U.S. public education system is "a thing of the past."

Santorum is a hypocritical turd. If he wants to avoid this charge, he should pay back every nickel, with interest.
 
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eeyore1954 said:
No it would appear he is against the larger government running school as opposed to local.
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From the article:

First of all, as the LA Times points out, the federal government doesn't run the schools. As a former Senator, Santorum probably should have been on top of that one.
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