It gives you a clue to some of the information that people should be paying attention too, however most do not. If the vote is for more monies for "education" it is all ok, that has been part of the problem. We need to shut down the Department of Education, the GOP had that as one of their planks several years ago, but like all the rest, it really does not matter what is in their platform, they are probably not going to do any of it, just use it as a way to get people to vote for them. Thanks to people like are man Roy Blunt, who was at one time going to do something about the Department of Education, and that was not to give them more money, but guess what, he voted to give them more money.
Until, and I have just about reached a point of thinking that it is not going to ever happen, people concern themselves as to what is going on down at the local school building, nothing is going to change, well except the vote will be to give them more money to throw away. Jerry "Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." ---Ronald Reagan From: missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com [mailto:missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Linda Herd Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:33 AM To: missouri coalition Cc: ty...@googlegroups.com Subject: [MoLiCo] Fw: Would You Back Down? There are many groups in Springfield beside these two groups. Won't Back Down sounds extremely interesting to me. I taught here although my son went to Nixa where I have the strong feeling students are getting a better education. Is anyone with children interested in this? It sounds intriguing to me. I am retired. I knew when I worked that special interests ran the schools and was very unhappy with much of what went on to the point of having my normally low blood pressure become high one year when I saw the worst of it. I am not at all very well informed from reading this, but would think that if there are disgruntled parents in Springfield (duh?) that perhaps this could be a model for us. I hear from teacher friends still in the system that school is a zoo and it was a zoo 22 years ago when I became disabled from an accident traveling to three schools a day because I had already shown my discontent with discipline policies in a school where I worked. They hoped I would quit since I already had some health problems so sending me to three schools was a way to get me to quit. I didn't, a drunk driver hit me en route to one of the schools and within 4 years the damages caused a sharp decline in my already weak health condition, so the system disabled me with my asking. Another way to shut me up. (never end a sentence with a preposition-I didn't teach English but learned it well). What do you think? This system is pretty bad. The superintendent and board members are more interested in themselves than any of the students. I think this is obvious already. Watch some of these videos to see if there is interest. Linda Herd ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Matt Kibbe - FreedomWorks <mattbki...@freedomworks.org> To: linda.h...@sbcglobal.net Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:31 PM Subject: Would You Back Down? Dear Linda, WON'T BACK DOWN - The movie that America is taking about - is in theaters NOW. 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