I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about this, but either way this is completely crazy. Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) of Minnesota set up an education committee which clearly wanted to advance a conservative agenda. Among their many batshit crazy ideas (like teaching kids that Reagan singlehandly won the Cold War), this one in particular stood out:
Representatives from the Marx and Engel Preschool in St. Paul were unavailable for comment.
Darn right. Thy should sell toys to each other at the highest profit they can. That’s the American way.
Does that include sharing guns?
It’s definitely a social concept so quite possibly you could consider it a socialist one.
It’s pretty stupid to equate promoting sharing as a common courtesy with sharing as a mandate.
The great state of Minnesota, in their infinite wisdom, apparently thinks Ayn Rand is more worthy of emulation. At least her ideas about sharing. :dubious:
Damn straight, sharing is socialist! Each kindergartner should have their own box of crayons, that they have to take care of if they want nice crayons to use. They break or blunt or chew up their crayons? Tough: they’ll have to color with broken or blunted or chewed-up crayons. They lose or eat the green crayon? Tough: they’ll just have to make the grass some other color.
Whereas, if the class just has a big bucket of shared crayons that they own in common, they’ll all get broken and lost and chewed up, and the kids who really care about having nice crayons won’t be able to.
Requiring kindergartners to share things just makes me pig-biting mad.
"The battle that followed put Pawlenty at the center of a culture war conflagration. Members of Yecke’s handpicked standards committees dismissed sharing and cooperation as “socialist” "
good to know people in charge of this kind of thing are doing their research and not just pushing personal agendas.
yeah that was me being a smart ass
This is getting cartoonish.
What the fuck? They’re not teaching Rand in the pre-schools anymore? 
A coworker who’s raising her grade school age grandkids tells me she has to buy extra supplies, such as pencils, for the whole class to share. Yet recently one of the kids got in trouble for not having a pencil, she apparently isn’t allowed to have any of the extras that her grandmother bought for the class and if everyone’s parents had to furnish extra pencils you’d think there would be plenty to go around but apparently those are just for the really poor kids. Or the teacher has a black market school supply business going on the side. But here’s a crazy idea, how about actually funding schools so there are extra pencils for everyone? I suppose that’s a communist ideal?
I’m voting for seating in public schools to be up to the highest bidder like in a concert. If you care enough for your kid, you’ll pay for them to be up in the front row.
Pawlenty? Bachmann? There’s a reason I’m switching to bottled water.
They can also share pinkeye, lice and peanut butter sandwiches too…fair is fair.
Anybody care that this is old news?
One of those exceptions came in 2003, when the newly elected Republican governor selected Cheri Yecke, a little-known Bush administration veteran, to produce new educational standards for what students should—and shouldn’t—learn.
They do fund the schools, but the money doesn’t make it all the way down to the actual schools somehow…
If you’re not active on the Dope, listen to Faux news, read nutbag bloggers, reject the lamestream media, get your views echoed back from peers and family, well then you might actually “believe” all this stuff.
I do think that this make up the facts to suit your belief is starting to get way over the top and will backfire on the Republicans come election time.
Jerome Corsi’s new book “Where’s The Birth Certificate” might be the tipping point where the loons poison the GOP message. I sure hope so.
How about a video game?
I tried to find that clip from the first or second season of The Simpsons where Maggie was left in the Ayn Rand Daycare center, but nothing came up after thirty seconds of searching YouTube. Sorry.
Is this supposed to be a whoosh? Because it actually sounds like a reasonable position.
Ever notice that the same sorts of people who claim that we are descended from monkeys are the same people who claim that sharing is somehow “natural” to humans? Connect the dot!