Central MN TEA Party

I went to another Tea Party event last weekend.  It was pretty good.  They had a guest speaker. I can't remember his name right now, but he had spent a few terms in the Minnesota State Senate, and had been the Minnesota Republican candidate for Governor back in 1994.

The speech was pretty good.  He went into a lot of detail explaining a UN education program called IB for International Baccalaureate.  It is sliming it's way into our schools as we speak, and schools sign off to teach our kids to be "citizens of the world" and to teach "United Nations values and beliefs". 

Many of the people in the crowd were teachers or retired teachers, and said that this is a legitimate problem.  It started after I graduated high school, so I was completely unfamiliar with it. 

It did seem like something that people should be concerned with, but I just couldn't get excited about it.  To be honest, I think we should have pulled out of the UN back when the Berlin Wall fell.  That should be our main focus.  The longer we stay in this group that has shifted its focus to trying to hurt us and Israel, the longer they can claim some legitimacy.  These guys are chumps, losers and thugs.  There is absolutely no excuse for us sticking around pretending like they are respectable.

As far as the education aspect goes, I actually agree with Ron Paul when he says that we need to just get rid of the Dept. of Education.  American kids were some of the best educated in the world until 40 years ago when we started the Dept. of Education, and created govt standards for govt schools that  forced every single kid to fall into the lowest common denominator.  Every year we have had the Dept. of Education, it has consistantly failed.  Every year it has gotten worse.  It is time to stop rewarding failure, and turn the education of children back over to the people who do it best-- their parents and communities. 

Seems to make sense to me, right?  We tried that and it worked well,  thought this would work better, but it hasn't.  So why in the world would we not go back to what works???  It is just stubbornness and powerhoarding that keeps us from doing right by our kids.