Melissa Harris-Perry doesn't deal in logic, that much should be obvious for anyone with an honest assessment of the content put out by the news network that employes her. Her content generally tends to deal in American minority culture-worship, with a particular emphasis on an ethnocentrism of her own lineage. While the author of this blog is happy to support anyone who wishes to be proud of their own heritage and culture, he tends to draw the line when it comes to insisting that everyone join in on the rain dance and actually expecting that a few body gesticulations will affect the weather.
Ms. Harris-Perry caused an understandable uproar when she essentially implied that Americans have a self-centered view of their children as being "private property" as opposed to "public property". Naturally, asserting that parents who wish to steer the educational development of their own children are consequently treating them as property is insulting in itself. But when dealing with an entirely unqualified standard for what the alternative to this standard of private property actually is, in conjunction with suggesting we throw more money at a problem that we spent $810 billion on in 2011 (federal, state and local), things cross over from being illogical to downright absurd.
What is this illusive standard of public property that this kook MSM journalist would have us go by? The majority of the money spent on education is done locally, but every major network (including MSNBC) would have us lament the fact that the federal government isn't spending nearly enough. What resembles a community more to the average person? A small, local municipality of between 2,000-3,000 people where most either know or interact with each other? Or perhaps the whole of these United States of America with it's ballooning population of over 300 million, a massive assembling of persons that no one person could ever truly hope to comprehend on a personal level?
What is this illusive standard of public property that this kook MSM journalist would have us go by? The majority of the money spent on education is done locally, but every major network (including MSNBC) would have us lament the fact that the federal government isn't spending nearly enough. What resembles a community more to the average person? A small, local municipality of between 2,000-3,000 people where most either know or interact with each other? Or perhaps the whole of these United States of America with it's ballooning population of over 300 million, a massive assembling of persons that no one person could ever truly hope to comprehend on a personal level?
The truth is, no one knows, and with the short, small-minded 30 second sound bit that MSNBC has offered us, no one can actually know.
This is the sort of nonsensical news content that encourages conspiracy theories and makes people distrust both the media and the government, a lack of trust that is also lamented frequently by MSNBC's sycophant audience and their online moron equivalents who believe every word that comes out of Cenk Uygur's mouth. We spend too much on education, and on teachers' pensions for that matter, as a simple comparison with other developed nations would suggest. What America should probably consider is revamping it's antiquated, 19th century Prussian Empire approach to schooling, as well as actually developing community relations by freeing up all of the wasted federal expendatures for local use, ergo abolish the Federal Department of Education.
This is the sort of nonsensical news content that encourages conspiracy theories and makes people distrust both the media and the government, a lack of trust that is also lamented frequently by MSNBC's sycophant audience and their online moron equivalents who believe every word that comes out of Cenk Uygur's mouth. We spend too much on education, and on teachers' pensions for that matter, as a simple comparison with other developed nations would suggest. What America should probably consider is revamping it's antiquated, 19th century Prussian Empire approach to schooling, as well as actually developing community relations by freeing up all of the wasted federal expendatures for local use, ergo abolish the Federal Department of Education.
Alas, most Americans don't want to hear about how to actually approach fixing problems, they just want to hear a shallow, bite-size sound bit to keep them from thinking abstractly. The truth is, American education is failing because America is filled to the brim with intellectually lazy and downright stupid people. And fixing the education system will begin with the end of MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and other mind-numbing news outlets telling the country and its respective communities about how to deal with their own challenges.
P.S. - Below are some more interesting sources regarding Melissa Harris-Perry's background and behavior for inquiring minds.