Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Politics Ramsey Favors Forcing Parents to Go to PTA Meetings
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:03 PM
"I’ve got three daughters and when they went through school, I don’t guess if I was at home, I never missed a PTA meeting. Most of the time they were on Thursday nights and I’d get home from Nashville, and I’d go with my wife to the PTA meetings. And if you looked around the room at those PTA meetings and the parents sitting in that room weren’t the parents that needed to be there. They were the ones that were interested in their children’s education, but the ones who really need to be there never show up. I think we need to look at some kind of requirement to require these parents to take part in the PTA meetings, to take part in their schools, require them to be there. Because you’re right. It goes back to the Great Society. That’s exactly why people right now are so upset in the nation as a whole that we’ve let government become that nanny state, and we’ve inched and inched along and liberals are good at this. They started back in the early ‘60s and took a little more and a little more, and somewhere—and I think it’s now—we’ve got to draw that line in the sand and start backing up from that."
Comments (11)
Showing 1-11 of 11
Well dang, 15 years on PTSA boards trying to figure out how to get more parents involved and Rammin' Ron Ramsey had the answer all along. I don't guess he has the logistics quite worked out. When he does, I hope he shares with PTAs all over the nation.
like
dislike
That is the most bewildering gush of gibberish I've ever heard. He's proposing government getting in people's lives and then in the same breath ... Never mind. It speaks gibberish for itself. I avoided PTA meetings myself like the plague. Stifling boredom for small pieces of real information. Talking to the teachers is the way to get involved. Ol' RR prolly thought it was a good place to do some retail electioneering shake and howdy.
Okay do you or don't you want the government off of peoples' backs, already? Make up your freaking minds already. Can't have it both ways, Goopers.
Well, shit yeah! Make it a matter of state law – compulsory attendance at the PTA. Why haven't we thought about that before? And just imagine the revenue to be derived from what up 'till now could be considered rampant violation of this potential brand new statute.
By God the legislature can really sink its teeth into that issue. All that would be lacking is The Bat Poet in full regalia standing, guitar strapped on; on the assembly floor singing, pointing, gesticulating, lending real drama to our august legislative drama.
Now you might just have an idea there So What. Is it too late to insert a PTA phrase in the current 'guns allowed' bill?
Do the police get to ask all the hispanic looking parents for their "papers" at these meetings?
looks likes ramsey spend too much time studying sharia law now he wants to use it in TN,.
