EDUCATION

While campaigning for federal office, many politicians loudly proclaim how our nation’s education system will be a top priority issue for them in Washington. But once on Capitol Hill, our nation’s crumbling schools with their overcrowded classrooms, along with their underpaid teachers, and poorly equipped for the information age classrooms, are issues that become low priority; while such issues as spending mega billions of dollars on outer space (to them collecting comet dust is more important than our nation’s education system) becomes high priority. Then there are those issues such as additional billions to trillions of dollars the New World Order controlled Washington puppet politicians invest in such high priorities as Pentagon, and other government, waste and fraud (especially their “pork” projects); yes, such high priority projects as foreign aid, International Monetary Fund, NATO, FTAA, United Nations, and corporate welfare, as well as huge tax cuts that favor the wealthy, while providing only a fraction of our nation’s public school funding-this is obscene.

The biggest problem with our national education system is where the Washington politicians have placed it on their priority list. I, Vic Roberts, would place our nation’s education system before all the above mentioned issues on my priority list.

The public school system I favor does not include the exploitation, manipulation, and propagandizing of our nation’s children through corporate broadcasting or advertising in our public schools. Corporations spend millions, possibly billions, of dollars to perfect the art of psychological manipulation through advertising. I, Vic Roberts, believe it is ludicrous to let those corporations buy their way into our nation’s schools to work their wonders in the art of psychological persuasion, manipulation, and propagandizing on the captive audience of our innocent, helpless and unsuspecting school children. An estimated 40% of all U.S. high school students are compelled to watch product pushing commercials every school day; commercials that those hawking their products pay up to $200,000 a minute for access to the captive audience of around 8 million young minds that lack the media “literacy” skills to fully understand the insidious, carefully targeted, product pushing commercials that blurs fact and fiction; commercials that blurs between objective reporting and self-serving rhetoric.

While commercials are being aired in classrooms teachers are not teaching; thus cheating us taxpayers who are paying teachers to teach.

The national education system I favor does not include public financed charter schools, or vouchers for private schools. Vouchers that spend public funds on parochial schools is clearly a direct and flagrant violation of our nation’s cultural school policy of separation of church and state. I believe our nation’s founding fathers used wisdom as their guide when they developed a public school system that advocates the separation of church and state
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I, Vic Roberts, believe public schools are far superior to corporate charter schools that are managed by profit seeking CEO’s, who are rewarded with huge salaries and bonuses out of funds provided by us taxpayers; taxpayers to whom those corporate charter school administrators are virtually unaccountable.

Corporate charter schools offer an excellent opportunity for dictatorial corporate masters to dispose of an arch enemy, democratic education associations. While we taxpayers are providing profits for the corporate masters, profits used in their union busting tactics, they are rewarding us taxpayers by educating our children in ways beneficial to the New World Order’s corporate
interests, and away from democratic thinking.

I, Vic Roberts, believe corporate charter schools will not improve our nation’s education system, but rather they will corrupt them with corporate free market propaganda rhetoric; rhetoric that promotes government policies that will not protect our environment, nor rebuild our nation’s infrastructure; a rhetoric that does not provide our citizens with medical care, nor protect our consumers and investors from business deception and malfeasance; rhetoric that does not achieve racial justice, but in fact exploits racial injustice; a rhetoric that promotes a widening of the wealth gap between the rich and the poor; thus, creating a bleak future for our children and grandchildren, as well as for all of us of the American struggling masses.

What is needed is a greater investment in public education, not a return to privilege as charter schools encourage. Public schools are the only guarantee that all of our nation’s children have some basic level of education available to them. Our nation’s public school system did not come into the lives of us of the American struggling masses without great political struggle. Let us not give up our forefathers political struggle for us through such elitists New World Order manipulations as charter schools and vouchers for private schools, which in the long term will benefit the privileged far more than us of America’s struggling masses.

To take funds from already failing schools can be devastating. We need meaningful investment in our public education system, and outreach to disenfranchised communities; schools cannot do it all. The broader lives of children must be addressed; children raised in poverty, or in dysfunctional families are terribly handicapped for school performance, as well as disadvantaged in our society in general.

Exactly how do we usually judge academic performance in schools? Mostly by test scores. There is much more to one’s intellectual performance and ability than any test score could ever indicate. I, Vic Roberts, believe that many politicians in our government are placing far too much emphasis on test score performance, and far too little on one’s overall development toward becoming an asset to our society.

The national education system I favor includes developing and maintaining a modern high-tech library system, as well as advanced vocational training centers that will satisfy our nation’s need for skilled workers; a system that assures all students the opportunity to develop their educational skills to the fullest extent of their desire and ability.

Your campaign contribution to Vic Roberts for Senator is an investment toward a strong voice in the US Senate for an improved national public education system, and an investment against corporate advertising in public schools. Also, your contribution is an investment against vouchers for private schools, and public financing for charter schools at the national level.

I, Vic Roberts, believe our government should be encouraging the development of education and skills to meet the demands of our great nation, not robbing poorer countries of those with the education and skills needed to develop their countries economies.

Your campaign contribution to Vic Roberts for Senator is an investment toward a commitment for a more modern and effective public education system in America at the national level. Your contribution is an investment toward political leadership that will provide leadership for the common good of our citizens, and the general welfare of our great nation; representation for the demise of the New World Order’s evil empire.

In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones, "Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.”

Vic Roberts IL (2004) US Senate candidate

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