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| Matthew Brown |
What message is a governor sending to the public with an appointment like this?
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has tapped someone to your state’s Board of Education who never attended public schools, publicly declared that his children never will either, and actively supported a successful effort to defeat a vote on a school tax in a divisive campaign in his home county?
Bentley, a Republican, named Matthew Brown, a 28-year-old design engineer at the Baldwin County Highway Department, to the Alabama State Board of Education. Brown graduated in 2007 from Pensacola Christian College and attended Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, graduating in 2011.
Bentley hasn’t been what you’d call a friend to public schools, given his support for tax credits, vouchers and charter schools. This year he signed into law legislation that amended the 2013 Alabama Accountability Act and that diverts up to $30 million a year from the Education Trust Fund for “opportunity scholarships” (vouchers). He also recently signed a law allowing charter schools to open in Alabama and giving a new state commission the right to overturn a local school district’s rejection of specific charter applications.
So it looks like Alabama is going to challenge Kansas and Texas for the most screwed up state education system in the country.
Bold move Alabama, if successful perhaps someday students can read about your efforts to undermine their education in textbooks.
Wait, what am I saying? If successful future students will have to have the textbooks read to them by somebody who went to school in another state.
Republican, dumbing down future voters in order to stay in office since....well since forever.
That Matthew Brown is one ugly, uneducated little bastard.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it conservative southerners always look inbred? They really ought to consort with folks outside their extended families.
DeleteWanting to add the obligatory comment about the Heath/Palin family here, also, too...
Why not. Since when has quality public education been important to Republicans?
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Since never. It's too threatening.
DeleteThe ultra-conservative xtian right wing has turned national politics into a media circus while the real action is at the state and local level with domination of state houses, school boards, judicial elections and election commissions. The former distracts the lumpen-proletariat while the latter turns this country into the theocratic tea-infused nightmare they've always dreamed it could be. The stoopidifcation of America through xtian-centric home-schooling is a huge part of the plot, as well.
ReplyDeleteIt ticks me off that AP curriculum has also been changed.
ReplyDelete"American exceptionalism?" Hardly.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/07/30/3686060/conservatives-get-major-win-fight-ap-history-classes/
Texas governor did the same thing...appointed a woman who home schools her kids. It's clear what their agenda is: strip public schools to their bare bones so parents will have to home school (only Christian home school materials will be available) or put their kids in Christian private/charter schools (which they'll give tax credits to).
ReplyDeleteAnd yet they say that sharia law will never be allowed in this country.... it's already here, wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
DeleteThat quote, which has ben attributed to both Sinclair Lewis and Huey Long, is "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross,”
DeleteWhat did you expect in that upside down T section of the USA known as Dumbfuckistan?
ReplyDeleteWhy do these strange young republicans holding local or state office always look like they beat their wives and maintain a bizarre search, I mean "research" history on their computers?
ReplyDeleteThis is big:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.salon.com/2015/07/31/the_koch_brothers_twisted_beauty_pageant_the_disturbing_way_theyre_choosing_which_gop_candidate_to_buy/
This is the Koch brothers big plan, they don't need a republican president, they are taking over our country starting from the local level.
ReplyDeletePeople better start waking up and voting in local and state elections.
That guy has the same big toothed fake grin that Jim Bob Duggar puts on. It makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like his head grew faster than his jaw. All his teeth are canted inward, like a shark's.
DeleteWhaddya expect? It's Alabama. I'm just thankful I don't have to live there!
ReplyDeleteAlabama has always competed with Mississippi for the absolute bottom of the list of best states for education.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they're tired of the fight and are looking to lock in the title of worst in the U.S. permanently.
I feel badly for the sane folks who live in these states who value public education and don't have the resources to fight this "dumbing down" of our future citizens. It's a GOP tactic, divert public monies to religious/private schools, and let the rest suffer the consequences.
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