Dick Morris & Dana Loesch Headline AFP’s St. Louis School Choice Conference
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 26, 2012, 12:03 PM
Last night I moderated American for Prosperity’s School Choice Conference at Loyola Academy in St. Louis.
Here I am with Dick Morris, Dana Loesch, University of Missouri professor Mike Podgursky and Robbyn Wahby, St. Louis Mayor Slay’s education policy advisor, at the Restoring American Exceptionalism in education event in St. Louis last night. (JD Wilson)
This week Americans for Prosperity teamed up with National School Choice Week to bring you a week full of events discussing the American education system. Last night a town hall event was held at Loyola Academy, a Jesuit middle school in the heart of St. Louis.
American 15-year-olds rank 35th out of 57 countries in math and literacy,behind almost all industrialized nations. America shouldn’t be 35th in anything. It’s time to Restore American Exceptionalism!
It was an excellent conference. The panelists of experts were exceptional and there was a good turnout.
Stacy on the Right has more on the event.
JD Wilson has more pictures from last night’s event here.
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More Liberty commented:
Dick Morris is another neocon big government statist.
Peggy R commented:
I just heard that Dana is going 12-3 against Rush in StL. No more Laura Ingraham?
donh commented:
Interesting date , an old toe sucker and a wannabee golden shower necromancer.
myohmy commented:
Why have the primary if our dear leaders and their cheering squad already chosen their nominee? RINOs are not fighting for this country and its people. RINOs are fighting for the control of money and money begets power.
tommy mc donnell commented:
you can talk about the schools and the teachers all you want but the biggest factor in the decline of educationin the united states is the breakup of the family. the liberals are always talking about this group is favored and this group is discriminated againist and its all a bunch of bull. the groups with the highest number of broken homes do the worst and the groups with highest number of two parent homes do the best. charter schools do better than the regular public schools because the kid in the charter school has a parent who cares about their education. thats why they are in the charter school
to begin with..
IronDioPriest commented:
Gosh, Dana is a pretty lady.
Soviet of Washington commented:
Tommy has a point, but it’s a chicken/egg problem. Probably easier to start with fixing the schools, but yes, ‘necessary but not sufficient’ applies.
Jim, American Exceptionalism isn’t generally held to mean that the American people are exceptional (though in some respects, they are), but rather that the American political design as created by the founders is Exceptional because it aspires to apply to all humans (“…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…”) rather than just a selected subset.
Zilla commented:
That’s wonderful, Jim! (The conference and you being there, not that our kids are ignorant.)
You sure are a tall hunk o’ man, aren’t ya?
You look nice. Will you have video of your speaking posted later?
tommy mc donnell commented:
#7…there is nothing wrong with the schools. if you took a school with a bad academic record and a school with a good academic record and switched the students the performance at the schools would be reversed.
that is not to say that there are not bad teachers and administrators, there are plenty of them. and the AFT and NEA are run by leftists who are not interested in quality education but advancing their leftist agenda.
most teachers know that the real problem is the home life of the students(or rather a lack of one)but they are too afraid to say it.
MustComment commented:
Bravo Jim! I hope discussion was made about how our textbooks are being rewritten. Specifically, history text.
MustComment commented:
Here is just one example: http://patriotupdate.com/17539/us-textbooks-muslims-discovered-america
Paul A'Barge commented:
Hey, who is the tall good looking guy with the glasses?
Ripped commented:
Dana Douche, that’s one haggered looking old neocon hag.
Merri commented:
Ripped sounds jealous. Hope you used a proxy for posting silly troll!