20/20 TONIGHT!
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School collectivists may look back on Friday, January
13, 2006 as "Black Friday."
20/20 is planning to run a one-hour special featuring
John Stossel. He interviews government officials, union
leaders, parents and students and makes suggestions
about how the system can be improved (w/o, I fear,
even honorable mention for the only real solution,
ending government involvement in education attendance,
content, financing, and regulation).
"Stupid In America: How We Are Cheating Our Kids" with
John Stossel airs Jan. 13 (10 to 11 p.m. ET) on ABC.
See below how to order a copy or transcript.
In the words of E Ray Moore, good friend and president
of Exodus Mandate:
"Now Stossel and 20/20 are set to puncture the last
myth of complacent suburban parents who delude themselves
by thinking that, whatever problems there may be elsewhere,
their schools are "different." As Stossel and 20/20
point out, not only do our 12th graders do worse in
math and science, for example, than students in almost
all other industrialized countries, the longer our
students are in public schools, the worse they do in
relation to their international peers."
While I hate to quibble with my friend Rev. Ray, I
suspect it's NOT the last myth. The "public school"
establishment is certainly adept at making up new myths
when the public sniffs the rat in the current myth
du jour.
The special is set to run Friday night at 10pm Eastern,
9pm Central, and again at 10pm Mountain, then Pacific,
Alaska, and Hawaii.
The Alliance is hosting two teleconferences on Friday
night.... open to all our Signatories of the Proclamation....
and the public!
That means you are welcome to forward this to your
own email list .... or even your pesky brother-in-law
who thinks things are just ducky in HIS local school.
Here's how you connect:
FIRST TELECONFERNCE-----
This will be held 15 minutes after the show airs in
Eastern and Central time zones:
11:15pm Eastern.......10:15pm Central
Mountain and West Coast people are welcome to come
on and get a preview, if you will, from the reactions
of those who have already seen it.
9:15pm Mountain....... 8:15pm Pacific.
Alaska and Hawaii folks.... and even those in Europe
who want to get up in the middle of the night....are
welcome, too. But you gotta figure out the time for
yourself. :-)
SECOND TELECONFERENCE-----
A second teleconference will be held three hours later:
15 minutes after 20/20 airs on the West Coast:
11:15pm Pacific
which is 12:15am (Sat) Mountain
and 1:15am Central, 2:15am Eastern
We may get some Brits on the second teleconference,
as it will be 7:15am Saturday morning in England.
In fact, I was on the phone for an hour this morning
with James Stanfield at the E G West Centre in England
discussing the show. James Tooley, Director of the
centre (who will receive the Alexis de Tocqueville
Award at SepCon2007, May 4-6, Dallas, was just back
from India and his sleep pattern may have him fit to
join us.
HOW YOU DIAL THE TELECONFERENCE-----
Using your cell or regular telephone, from your own
easy chair at home---or driving down the highway----
dial this number at the appointed hour in your time
zone above:
1 (319) 632-1100 pass code 682-129 #
If you have a noisy background, just press 6 to mute
yourself. When you want to say something, press 6 again
to un-mute.
MISCLANEOUS STUFF-----
John Stossel is apparently quite active in his blog
and frequently responds to emails.
If you want to sound off with praise or a suggestion
about a future education special, or both, you can
do so here: <http://forums.go.com/abcnews/2020/thread?threadID=284154>
or, if that is busted, try this link: <http://tinyurl.com/9qz5p>
Earlier, he wrote "If you would like to purchase a
tape or dvd, dial 800-505-6139; for a transcript dial
818-848-6500. Some of my shows can be purchased from
Laissez Faire Books 800/326-0996 or http://www.laissezfairebooks.com
(I'm told that Laissez Faire Books expedites the orders
faster).
Just as we had finished the Education show, we
had to "open it up" again because Florida's Supreme
Court ruled that public money can't be spent on private
schools because the state constitution commands the
funding only of "uniform ? high-quality" schools. How
absurd. As if government schools are high quality.
In Florida, and most places, competition, which made
even the Postal Service improve, is unconstitutional
when it comes to public education.
To read the entire E Ray Moore news release about Stossel's
education special, click here: <http://www.earnedmedia.org/em0111.htm>
======================================
Note: Exodus Mandate specializes in bringing to evangelical
Christians the message to get their children out of
the spiritually and morally "officially Godless" government
schools.
Further note: The Alliance, from whom you are getting
this email, is indeed an ***alliance*** of people of
many faiths, religions, and worldviews. Indeed, it
just might be the broadest alliance, as measured by
variety of worldviews and political ideologies, in
the history of man.
Special note to non-religious people: I put most, but
not all, of my energy into reaching religious people,
especially evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, and Mormons.
Why? Here in the States, they have the largest numbers!
But I also invest considerable time in trying to reach
secularists and those with differing spiritual systems,
from atheists to agnostics, from Muslims to New Thought
and New Age, and even an occasional Druze, Russian
Orthodox, and Zoroastrian.
==================================
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time to time (last year there were three or four; this
year I am hoping to do almost one a month), please
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:-)
Yours,
Marshall Fritz
PS: Here is an interesting attack on Stossel for his
attack on public schools in an earlier "Give Me a Break"
segment.
< http://www.fair.org/activism/stossel-education.html>
It shows the stretching the Public School Establishment
can do to parry all attacks on it. Here is the beginning
of this piece Note it was done six years ago, about
the time I first met John and we had a nice chat.
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Alliance for Separation of School and State
Tel: 559-499-1776
Fax: 559-499-1703
------------------------------------
1071 N Fulton Street
Fresno, CA 93728
(559) 499-1776 499-1703fax
------------------------------------
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"Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
13, 2006 as "Black Friday."
20/20 is planning to run a one-hour special featuring
John Stossel. He interviews government officials, union
leaders, parents and students and makes suggestions
about how the system can be improved (w/o, I fear,
even honorable mention for the only real solution,
ending government involvement in education attendance,
content, financing, and regulation).
"Stupid In America: How We Are Cheating Our Kids" with
John Stossel airs Jan. 13 (10 to 11 p.m. ET) on ABC.
See below how to order a copy or transcript.
In the words of E Ray Moore, good friend and president
of Exodus Mandate:
"Now Stossel and 20/20 are set to puncture the last
myth of complacent suburban parents who delude themselves
by thinking that, whatever problems there may be elsewhere,
their schools are "different." As Stossel and 20/20
point out, not only do our 12th graders do worse in
math and science, for example, than students in almost
all other industrialized countries, the longer our
students are in public schools, the worse they do in
relation to their international peers."
While I hate to quibble with my friend Rev. Ray, I
suspect it's NOT the last myth. The "public school"
establishment is certainly adept at making up new myths
when the public sniffs the rat in the current myth
du jour.
The special is set to run Friday night at 10pm Eastern,
9pm Central, and again at 10pm Mountain, then Pacific,
Alaska, and Hawaii.
The Alliance is hosting two teleconferences on Friday
night.... open to all our Signatories of the Proclamation....
and the public!
That means you are welcome to forward this to your
own email list .... or even your pesky brother-in-law
who thinks things are just ducky in HIS local school.
Here's how you connect:
FIRST TELECONFERNCE-----
This will be held 15 minutes after the show airs in
Eastern and Central time zones:
11:15pm Eastern.......10:15pm Central
Mountain and West Coast people are welcome to come
on and get a preview, if you will, from the reactions
of those who have already seen it.
9:15pm Mountain....... 8:15pm Pacific.
Alaska and Hawaii folks.... and even those in Europe
who want to get up in the middle of the night....are
welcome, too. But you gotta figure out the time for
yourself. :-)
SECOND TELECONFERENCE-----
A second teleconference will be held three hours later:
15 minutes after 20/20 airs on the West Coast:
11:15pm Pacific
which is 12:15am (Sat) Mountain
and 1:15am Central, 2:15am Eastern
We may get some Brits on the second teleconference,
as it will be 7:15am Saturday morning in England.
In fact, I was on the phone for an hour this morning
with James Stanfield at the E G West Centre in England
discussing the show. James Tooley, Director of the
centre (who will receive the Alexis de Tocqueville
Award at SepCon2007, May 4-6, Dallas, was just back
from India and his sleep pattern may have him fit to
join us.
HOW YOU DIAL THE TELECONFERENCE-----
Using your cell or regular telephone, from your own
easy chair at home---or driving down the highway----
dial this number at the appointed hour in your time
zone above:
1 (319) 632-1100 pass code 682-129 #
If you have a noisy background, just press 6 to mute
yourself. When you want to say something, press 6 again
to un-mute.
MISCLANEOUS STUFF-----
John Stossel is apparently quite active in his blog
and frequently responds to emails.
If you want to sound off with praise or a suggestion
about a future education special, or both, you can
do so here: <http://forums.go.com/abcnews/2020/thread?threadID=284154>
or, if that is busted, try this link: <http://tinyurl.com/9qz5p>
Earlier, he wrote "If you would like to purchase a
tape or dvd, dial 800-505-6139; for a transcript dial
818-848-6500. Some of my shows can be purchased from
Laissez Faire Books 800/326-0996 or http://www.laissezfairebooks.com
(I'm told that Laissez Faire Books expedites the orders
faster).
Just as we had finished the Education show, we
had to "open it up" again because Florida's Supreme
Court ruled that public money can't be spent on private
schools because the state constitution commands the
funding only of "uniform ? high-quality" schools. How
absurd. As if government schools are high quality.
In Florida, and most places, competition, which made
even the Postal Service improve, is unconstitutional
when it comes to public education.
To read the entire E Ray Moore news release about Stossel's
education special, click here: <http://www.earnedmedia.org/em0111.htm>
======================================
Note: Exodus Mandate specializes in bringing to evangelical
Christians the message to get their children out of
the spiritually and morally "officially Godless" government
schools.
Further note: The Alliance, from whom you are getting
this email, is indeed an ***alliance*** of people of
many faiths, religions, and worldviews. Indeed, it
just might be the broadest alliance, as measured by
variety of worldviews and political ideologies, in
the history of man.
Special note to non-religious people: I put most, but
not all, of my energy into reaching religious people,
especially evangelicals, Catholics, Jews, and Mormons.
Why? Here in the States, they have the largest numbers!
But I also invest considerable time in trying to reach
secularists and those with differing spiritual systems,
from atheists to agnostics, from Muslims to New Thought
and New Age, and even an occasional Druze, Russian
Orthodox, and Zoroastrian.
==================================
If you do not wish to receive an email from me from
time to time (last year there were three or four; this
year I am hoping to do almost one a month), please
click below. I read every email, friendly or not.
Bea@...
BTW, the Key number helps us find your record in my
phone book. Believe me, with 40,321 folks, it helps!
:-)
Yours,
Marshall Fritz
PS: Here is an interesting attack on Stossel for his
attack on public schools in an earlier "Give Me a Break"
segment.
< http://www.fair.org/activism/stossel-education.html>
It shows the stretching the Public School Establishment
can do to parry all attacks on it. Here is the beginning
of this piece Note it was done six years ago, about
the time I first met John and we had a nice chat.
------------------------------------
Alliance for Separation of School and State
Tel: 559-499-1776
Fax: 559-499-1703
------------------------------------
1071 N Fulton Street
Fresno, CA 93728
(559) 499-1776 499-1703fax
------------------------------------
E-Mail sent using WorldMerge, the fastest and easiest
way to send personalized e-mail messages. For more
information visit http://www.worldmerge.com 831694
"Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]