BD,

I already work from a moral compas, don't need to check a bible for navigation either, kinda comes with knowing how immoral the church and christianity has been to me and mine..you learn from their mistakes.

Under this compass I learned all about

the immorality of child abuse
the immorality of stealing children
the imomorality of christian doctrine
the immorality and hypocricy of christian values

When you've witnessed immorality at its best, you're set for life!

you should try it sometime!

“…a form and order of a reformed church limited within the compass of God’s Word, which our saviour hath left unto us as only sufficient to govern all our actions by; so that what so ever is added to this word by man’s device, seem it never so good, holy, or beautiful, yet before God… it is evil, wicked, and abominable.”

Rainier,
So now the people who are the role models in schools are the school janitors and gardeners, but can they talk to the students? They might be able to, but not for long because they have a job to do, and to be a “big surely bloke” is not necessarily a credential for a role model.

The US school system would be a good example of educational decay, complete with its Ritalin programs and emphasis on deconstruction. The ratio of left-wingers to right-wingers in many schools and Universities in the US is now about 30:1. But what the male left-wingers over looked was that many left-wingers were also feminists, who were quite anti-male. So when the right-wingers were taken out of the schools and Universities, it left behind few males, and those male left-wingers that were left behind were having to constantly look over their shoulder for all the left wing feminists who are after their valuables

So if you are a male school teacher, it doesn’t matter if you are left wing or right wing. You are now an endangered species, but if you want to become a role model for children, then of course you can always become a school janitor or gardener.

HRS states: "The ratio of left-wingers to right-wingers in many schools and Universities in the US is now about 30:1". I have it on good authority (promised not to tell on my sources) that it ranges between 29.845: 1 on the east coast and 31.896 on the west coast. This is an increase since 1976 of exactly 361.9127%. The statistics come from the ABS - the American Bull-dust Society.

What's he on? Will he be OK on his own for Christmas?

Re:
: "The ratio of left-wingers to right-wingers in many schools and Universities in the US is now about 30:1". I have it on good authority (promised not to tell on my sources) that it ranges between 29.845: 1 on the east coast and 31.896 on the west coast. This is an increase since 1976 of exactly 361.9127%. The statistics come from the ABS - the American Bull-dust Society."

Well, I have to give credit to HRS for not being overprecise here. There is always an element of uncertainty in these observed ratios, and "about" can cover a fair latitude.

As for the American Bull-dust Society, It's wise not to take their pages too seriously. One page (subsequently removed) argued at length that there is no such thing as a fact. That is where statistics can take you, if you stray from the beaten path.

I would dearly love to know the source of all these statistics on the number of left-wingers and right-wingers in American schools. Kevin's research?

Dear Mr Donnelly,
Can you back up these left-right ratio estimates? Which issue of the Australian? Which one of your substantial and erudite tomes? Who is the publisher? Can I get a review copy?

Frank Gol,
I thought new age warrior teachers wouldn’t believe in Christmas, because it is too religious.

The imbalance of left wing teachers to right wing teachers in US schools is one of the reasons for the attempt to introduce the Academic Bill of Rights.

“As a result, while the red and blue electoral map reveals an America that is almost evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, in the nation's universities Republicans (and conservatives) have become almost as rare as unicorns. In most schools, Republicans are less well represented than Greens, Marxists and sects of the far left. This is an indefensible situation with far-reaching implications.”
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/

As well as that, they put nearly 7 million boys on Ritalin, but does it actually make students smarter and better-equipped citizens?

“Does going to college make students better-educated citizens? A new study of more than 14,000 randomly selected college students from across the country concludes that the answer is often no. Not only did many respondents at the 50 participating colleges fail to answer half of the basic civics questions correctly, but at such elite schools as Cornell, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins, the college freshmen scored higher than the college seniors.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15014682/site/newsweek/

It appears that the US education system with all of its left wing thinking is actually a risk to the students, so the important question is whether or not teachers in Australia will learn from that risk, and learn what not to do when teaching.

Sir Vivor, HRS and all other Kevin fans,

Sorry, sorry! Mea culpa maximus! I appear to have been the victim of a wilful and malicious fraud. Not only was the source of my statistics about the ratio of left: right wingers in American schools in error; but also it has now been revealed that the methodology used was seriously flawed.

The American Bull-dust Society should have read The American Bird-eaters Society. It has now been revealed that at their national Christmas convention the turkey and chicken samples were deliberately manipulated. A group of ideologically-driven local bird-eaters had infiltrated the Convention and prematurely plucked off the right wings of every third bird.

Nevertheless, the chief statistician assures me that the data set was able to be restored and the data interrogated satisfactorily. Technical allowances have now been made for the skewed wing sample and the ratio of left-wingers to right-wingers in American schools can be contingently, seasonally adjusted to meet the previous un-random sampling problem.

New statistics just published show that the ratio is now between 31.1469 and 33.3333. This is acknowledged to be a statisically significant result (>.005). Furthermore, the ABS has announced tough new security measures to prevent wings being sampled prior to Christmas next year.