TribLive: A Conversation with Dan Patrick
Full video of my May 10 TribLive conversation with state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston.
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Michael Watts via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A conversation with Dan Patrick!!! I'd love to hear his stories about Sportscenter in the 1990s and co-anchoring with Keith Olbermann. I wonder if there is a chance that the two could team up on the Dan Patrick radio show...
Oh, wait, wrong Dan Patrick.... My mistake...
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As narcissistic as John Edwards...
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The ESPN guy has a brain. This Dan Patrick is a taco short of a combination plate.
Mari Woodlief via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What an ego! A great example of what is bad about politics.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
His ideas for education are disastrous. He wants to starve education and continue with the testing idiocy. He cannot bring himself to give back local control. He is no different than the Washington bureaucrats he complains about, wanting to dictate every aspect of education from Austin. He needs to go away.
J J
I'm trying to find the logic in cutting the jobs of people who care for children, feed them, clothe them, make sure they meet the emotional and social developmental needs of children so they can become productive American citizens...Is it to ensure that there are a continued, yet carefully monitored and restricted elitist and entitled aristocratic diplomats to help perpetuate the infestation of Washington? Is it to keep poverty at a rampantly exorbitant level to the point of over-population of socially mal-adapted people?
Because that can happen……There is only one problem, Mr. Patrick. There will be more of them than there are of you.
Teachers are not having to teach math, science, reading, and other academic subjects anymore, they are having to teach values, socially acceptable behavior, and basically how to help children become functional adults and act like human beings. When is the last time you walked into a public school? When is the last time you entertained the possibility of a collaboration with professionals in education who can effectively identify the challenges they are facing, and even go so far as to offer possibilities for dealing with those challenges? If you’re spouting off that teachers make upwards of $70K in their latter years, then I’d say you haven’t spoken to anyone in public education lately.
The bottom line is that we cannot complete globally with other nations because we have not made education a privilege and experienced the true separation of those in poverty from those with wealth to where having an education is the difference between eating and starving. See, as a capitalistic industrialized nation, we believe that all people have the right to be educated. But with the wonderful rhetoric that you’re sharing now, you’re basically saying that we don’t need to educate everyone, and we don’t need to worry about having teachers who do a bad job and care less about the ones who are doing a good job.
Here, here, Mr. Senator!, let’s raise our golden chalices to your position, as it will not belong before a grotesque and medieval uprising occurs, should you continue your present course of action.
Therefore: the only way to deal with our system is indeed to A.) separate those who can and/or will, from those who can’t and/or won’t and B.) focus solely on fundamental development before academics. That is: development BEFORE academics….hungry kids don’t care about fractions, and kids who are beaten by lousy parents don’t care about the periodic table. Study Maslow’s, Study Bloom’s. Report is due in the morning.
chris skipper
Patrick is really awful. He drapes himself in conservatism, but ignores every meaningful effort to make public schools work the way they should. Someone should explain to him we have a lot of "independent school districts" that would love to have their independence restored....we can start by scrapping the state curriculum and all state testing...place the onus on local school districts to establish means for determining student progress. Fix the public schools first. Require all charters answer to an elected board.