http://www.redstate.com/monstermom Just another RedState: Conservative News and Community weblog Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:38:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you know that the GOP has a health care bill?   Amazingly, it does.  A fellow RedStater pointed it out to me on another forum. It's HR 3400, has been proposed in the House, and goes by the name Empowering Patients First Act. You can find the bill ... http://www.redstate.com/monstermom/2009/08/13/house-gops-health-care-plan-hr-3400/ In the latest in the move to nationalize the public schools, the groups leading the Common Core Initiative, namely the National Governor's Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, are looking for partners to endorse their effort. I have to admit that it all sounds wonderful. A common ... http://www.redstate.com/monstermom/2009/06/20/three-blind-mice/ Public education in the United States is broken. American children spend less time in class covering fewer topics with less depth than children in many other nations. American students are consistently outperformed by students from other nations in math and science, according to both the PISA and TIMMS assessments.  American companies no ... http://www.redstate.com/monstermom/2009/06/15/nationalizing-public-schools/ Pro Educational Choice, that is...... For some time I've been involved in a fight in my local community to get rid of a mathematics curriculum I think is remedial.  The group fighting to bring real math back to our schools has pushed the county school board to dump the remedial program ... http://www.redstate.com/monstermom/2009/03/17/is-it-time-for-the-gop-to-be-pro-choice/ and take a back seat because they, the professional educators, are smarter and know better than parents do. **** Post revised due to my poor grammar and overly emotional rant ******* I agree with him in a sense, because professional educators do know more about teaching children than non-professional educators do, however, ... http://www.redstate.com/monstermom/2009/01/22/gop-leaders-says-schools-know-best-parents-should-shut-up/ This time it's not because the county Board of Supervisors have decided to enforce the rule of law regarding illegal immigration, it's because the county School Board is set to consider giving parents control over how their children are taught and with what materials. How could something so shocking happen? ... http://www.redstate.com/monstermom/2009/01/15/prince-william-county-va-in-the-news-again/