New Feature on the Natural Family BLOG:
As the 2008 Presidential Campaign Season kicks in, I thought it would be fun to highlight certain political debates that show up on C-Span. So I taped Hillary Clintons first Town Hall Meeting in Iowa yesterday and picked the dumbest question that was asked and then commented on it.

Now as I watched this town hall meeting, I was struck by a couple of things. First, it was almost as if the whole thing had been carefully planned and staged. The questioners, the order of the questions, and the way that Mrs. Clinton kept refering back to previous topics to build on her points, it was almost like she had carefully scripted and planned the order of the questions so she could carefully outline her views on a few selected topics.
Most telling point to me, no questions about National Security, International issues and concerns, and/or the War on Terrorism.
As this educrat outlined his disgust with No Child Left Behind I was thinking that it must be a good thing if he was so upset by it.
Here is Mrs. Clintons response to this inane question (with various and assorted comments by me as she is talking)

I was disgusted by her assumptions that testing wether or not a child can read does not serve the child!!! How else are we to learn if the schools are teaching them to read if they are not tested on reading and writing ability??? Testing the children is the ONLY way to hold schools accountable. The only people damaged by testing are those Whole Language Boobies who continue to produce millions upon millions of Americans who are deficient in basic skills.
How can our people be expected to participate in the democratic process and prosper in the Global Economy if they are not able to read at a literate level?
Here is my response to this short portion of her Town Hall:

I pray that Mrs. Clintons pandering to the education lobby, the National Education Association, will expose her as the most extreme form of leftist who is willing to go back to the days of Complete educational failure and top down control of our schools by the Federal Government.
I believe the whole educational establishment should be completely privatized and the control of public schools be put back into the hands of local school boards who are accountable to the voters of their districts.
And those parents who have had the courage to innovate with Homeschool, Charters, and Vouchers should be given a bit of applause for being willing to do whatever it takes to give their children the best education possible.
We home schooled our children for five years. During those years I only had one goal. I wanted to teach our children to love to read. With four avid readers, I can happily say that our home school efforts have been a success. Our kids now attend a local Charter School, and even though I know they are being taught some collectivist thinking, because in America most of our current curriculums are focused on socialism, I don’t worry as much about them learning these things, knowing they can read and can sort it out in their own minds.
I was brainwashed in the Michigan Public Schools during the hey day of the 70’s and 80’s Socialism and watered down Communism in the schools and I still came out a raging conservative. We studied the Communist Manifesto more than The Constitution at my schools. I think the reason why the movie Ferris Buellers Day off resonated so well with my generation is that right at the beginning of the movie he dissed Socialism. He said he wanted to skip school that day because he had a test on European Socialism.
One of the reasons that those of us who are parents now are so fed up with education is because we experienced the worst of collectivist propaganda during the years we were in high school and college. Heck, many of us are still paying off student loans for educations that could only be considered full scale communist indoctrination, and we don’t want that sort of an education for our children.
When educrats are talking about educating the Whole Child, what they mean is that they have goals for education that move way beyond basic skills. They want to massage the childs brain in Secular Humanism and train them to think and feel certain ways when a particular topic is debated. They have largely been effective in these efforts at all levels of American Education and I believe it is time for it to STOP!
We are Americans, and our posterity deserves the birthright of freedom that was bought and paid for with the blood of our ancestors.
When the literacy rates hit 99% in our society then I believe we can confidently say that our one hundred year experiment in Socialistic education that John Dewey Launched at the beginning of the 20th Century is “safely dead”.
Jenny Hatch