This is an attempt to religiously sterilize the teaching of history in our schools.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

The fact that they tried to make the change in the first place to us was an indication that they didn't think it was any big deal to anybody, which I think is a measure of how out of touch they are with what people care about. ... For a government body to just ignore that, I think they do at their own peril.

This amendment is basically a defense of the Constitution against activist judges who in recent years have turned our courts into centers for left-wing social activism and playgrounds for political correctness.

Even [within] those schools that accept associate's degrees for a teaching position, they typically place greater value as far as compensation formulas on educational experience than they do on work experience. A guy with 30 years of experience as a technician and an associate's degree might not be given pay equal to someone with a bachelor's degree who [has] no technical experience.

Teaching reading is rocket science, ... You need somebody in each of these schools who knows how to do it, and that reading specialist has to be looked at as sacred ground, not as someone who can be pulled out every time you need a classroom covered.