Republican beliefs can be a daunting thing to comprehend sometimes. There are moments when I read or hear something so ridiculously bizarre that any fleeting question as to whether or not Republicans deserve the flak they receive is immediately answered with gusto. In the case of the Arizona Senate, Republican beliefs now control how the state legislates the education of its one million K-12 students.
Now, they’ll be learning Young Earth Creationism and chemtrails.
The Arizona GOP has tapped state Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, to head the Arizona Senate Education Committee, much to the chagrin of anyone with even the slightest capability of exercising logic. The committee handles education-related affairs for the state, including curriculum approval and budgets.
Needless to say, the K-12 population of Arizona is screwed.
In a prepared statement, Arizona Senate President Andy Biggs gave Arizonians his glowing seal of approval. From Raw Story:
“‘She understands what Arizona students and parents need in our education system,’ Biggs told reporters in a prepared statement. ‘She is a very experienced legislator and I know she will do a wonderful job.'”
Even though Mr. Biggs seems to think Mrs. Allen will “do a wonderful job,” doing a “wonderful job” is in the eye of the beholder, though not all eyes of all beholder’s are, well, even remotely valid. I mean, could an argument be made that she’s even remotely qualified to lord over the education of one million students?
Just who in the hell is Sylvia Allen anyway?
State Sen. Sylvia Allen did not attend college in any form, which isn’t surprising considering some of the crap she’s said in the past. She helped found George Washington Academy, an EdKey, Inc. charter school, in her hometown of Snowflake. Well that’s good, I guess, even though charter school education is about as useful as getting a degree at DeVry.
But, does Sen. Allen have the right balance of batshit Republican beliefs to be a Republican education committee appointee? Absolutely she does!
Back in March, Sen. Allen took it upon herself to completely derail a discussion about gun control legislation to instead propose a law that forces Americans to go to church on Sundays, despite such a law being as unconstitutional as they come. I’m not trying to be an ass or anything, but considering that she proposed such a law, does it really make sense to put this woman in charge of education? Logically, no, but then again, how often do Republican beliefs actually conform to the constitution anyway?
Another one of Sen. Sylvia Allen’s greatest hits came in the form of this enlightening Facebook post:
“Ok, I do not want to get into a debate about weather. However, I know what I see weekly up here on the flat where I live outside of Snowflake. The planes usely, three or four, fly a grid across the sky and leave long white trails streaming behind them. I have watched the chem-trails move out until the entire sky is covered with flimsy, thin cloud cover. It is not the regular exhaust coming from the plane it is something they are spraying. It is there in plain sight. What is it they are leaving behind that covers the sky?
Things are happening all around us that we see everyday and just don’t get what it is. I think we throw the ‘conspiracy theory’ at people when we don’t understand or have the information they have so we try and explain it that way. Plus we just don’t want to believe that our government would do anything terrible to us. Well, just a few examples, the IRS attack on the Tea Party, Benghazi, wire taping, Fast and Furious just to name a few and we think that they would not manipulate our weather?”
That statement, in all of its grammatical failure and fact deficiency, sums up exactly what Arizonian children can likely come to expect with this woman being in charge of their quality of education. They can likely expect to be peddled lies that compromise what they learn while participating in a system that will effectively compromise how they learn. After all, if Republican beliefs on the quality of education are at all reflected in how they legislate on the matter, does it not make sense to assume that every school in Arizona will be renamed Li’l Reagan Academy and become a place where one million students will learn about chemtrails, “religious freedom,” and Barack Obama’s “treasonous” presidency after mandatory morning prayers?
But then again, when have Republican beliefs actually relied upon fact anyway?
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