| The original CC plan would have completely defunded public schools. Completely. It eliminated the property taxes and the sales tax and replaced both with a new sales tax on most every good AND service you bought. The resulting revenue, conveniently, would have only replaced the $5 billion in general revenues with $5.5 billion leaving schools $4.5 billion short.
It was a backdoor way of defunding public schools.
Of course Sam doesn't think government should be in the education business: educate yourself. He and his wife home school their brood so they believe you can too. Please don't allow your job to get in the way.
On the other hand Sam Rohrer thinks it's OK for teachers to manhandle your children. He says strangers should be able to spank your kids:
"To remove it from the tool kits of our educators is to leave teachers in the classroom and school districts very much with one arm behind their back," Rep. Samuel Rohrer, a Berks County Republican, said at a House Education Committee hearing.
Sam has some interesting ideas on schools. While railing against the REAL ID Act (the only thing upon which we agree) and the creation of massive government and private databases on all of us, he actually proposed one for education. This was included in Rohrer's Commonwealth Caucus Plan in 2004.
In this scheme private companies such as TetraData Inc. would be hired (at a cost of $5/student) to create a massive database of our kids school performance. TetraData is an interesting choice for Rohrer, a graduate of Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC. Coincidentally that is also where Tetradata is located. How did Rohrer come upon a small company (50 employees) in South Carolina for his proposal?
TetraData, coincidentally, has ties to BJU. Jonathon Krueger, a data services engineer at TetraData is also the webmaster for SacredAudio.com at Bob Jones University an dis a graduate. Developer Graham Collins graduated from BJU.
TetraData sponsored contest prizes for a programming competition at Bob Jones University.
Martin Brutosky, President of TetraData contributed campaign funds to Bob Jones III.
There are obvious ties through BJU between Rohrer and TetraData. It appears Rohrer's inclusion of this database requirement was an attempt to enrich his fundie friends and, of course, enable them to channel some of the money to Bob Jones University.
Do you really want religious zealots like those who graduated from Bob Jones University to have access to everything your school knows about your children? This is what Sam Rohrer wants. It seems like Sam's attitudes about limited government and no government intrusion stops at the doors of BJU.
Read more about Sam Rohrer at The Real Sam Rohrer. |
