@ ontheborderline.net: We’re not radical …We’re fanatical.

Welcoming New Richmond borderline blog readers with open arms, the ontheborderline.net Admin made the following statement: "I want to thank J Nelson again, though a few things need clearing up. His method of operation has been to attack the messenger, slander, discredit at any cost. His discrediting would have to include anyone who does not believe in his ultra-left ideologies. He may appear to come to the middle on some issues, but really never does. Members of this blog are characterized as extremists, neocons, and out of the mainstream. Here is the Blog Mission Statement:@ OTBL. Radical? hardly!"

Not so fast Mr. Borderline Admin. Let’s take a look at one of the core values you “expouse." (Does "expousing" have something to do with leaving a marriage?). Let’s just take a little journey into radical extremist fantasyland. Ok, boys and girls, point your browser to honestedu.org. Enter a town, in the search engine, perhaps Hudson, WI. Low and behold we find two familiar ontheboarderline expousers, and surprise, surprise one just happens to be the bordliner admin who claims above to not be a radical.

I’m sure that the majority of moms and dads sending their kids to the Hudson Public Schools wake up with this thought in mind. “ Oh no, my child is in the hands of dangerous Socialist propagandists filling our impressionionable child’s little head with indoctrination from Stalinist, Soviet style, collectivist brain washing manual. We have to end public education as we’ve known it for the last 150 years and replace it with a competitive free market educational system that gives the greatest opportunity to the children of the country club/ yachting set and prepares the average child for a Wal-Mart greeting career.

(Oh and by the way Socialist, statist, collectivist teacher spouses, we expect to be receiving a check in the mail from the State of WI and the Hudson School District to send our kids to the freemarket school of our choice.) I better sign the proclaimation stating: 'I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.'

Well my friend, that’s what our blogging buddies over at ontheborderline.nut believe. When 75-80% of Hudsonites recently surveyed expressed a positive attitude toward the Hudson public schools, the point of view expressed in this proclamation certainly appears RADICAL to me.

Here’s a little more “moderate” commentary from our friends on the other side of the borderline. ‘Legislators of the Harsdorf and Rhoades types will do nothing until and unless there is a real crisis. So, the only rational thing to do is to simply say NO. No more additional taxes, no more pay increases, no more buildings. We will not budge until and unless the state of Wisconsin, or local school districts, institute universal education tax credits, local levy tax credits, or an intelligent voucher system. And that is simply the first, but primary, step that must be taken and is non-negotiable. We must demand capitalism and market forces free to work in education - not in 20 years, but now.”

Republican State legislators too liberal? Uncompromising ultimatums demanding the creation of a radically different educational structure? Your tax dollars redistributed into THEIR pockets via tax credits and vouchers? The destruction of public education as we currently know in WI? In short, the borderliners battle cry is “We want our way and we want it NOW!”

Sounds "moderate" to me. And they wonder why people perceive them as Anti-Education? If you agree with the “moderate” ideology of the ontheborderline.net philiosphers, administrators and the candidates they will inevitably support in the next Hudson School Board election, perhaps you should consider signing the petition.