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I'm certainly not going to deny that our education system has a buttload of problems in its current state and could certainly do with some massive overhaul and improvement.
__________________But from what I understand about vouchers, I don't really see how that's exactly any better a solution. PhilsFan is right. Cutting funding is a pretty damn big reason for a great deal of the problems. Especially given that the reasons for doing so often don't make any sort of sense. |
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I dunno. . .The U.S. spends more per student than most other industrialized nations and yet we're still lagging.
__________________I'm not convinced that throwing more money at it is the solution. |
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Not sure. I'm not following the logic. I don't have an issue with vouchers though. (Full disclosure: the vast majority of the students who attend the private school I teach are voucher students. And the city schools are pathetic. The kids that come in from the district, especially those coming in at seventh and eighth grade--which I teach, it's like they learned nothing over there). |
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![]() Our problem isn't how much we spend but how we spend. Off the top of my head we waste or misspend funds on: 1. Poor teachers that can't be fired 2. Educrats in the Dept of Education (10 of the 15 riches counties in America are in the Washington D.C area for a reason) 3. Palatial estate school buildings 4. Self-serving teachers unions 5. Superfluous courses 6. Students that shouldn't even be here I'm sure you could add to the list. And how sad to hear firsthand accounts of how kids are being so underserved by our education system. I really believe every, EVERY, American child should have an opportunity for a quality education. But providing that would require, as Newt would say, fundamental changes in how we provide it. This is a topic were conservatives are for overhauling the system and liberals defend for the status quo, i.e., demagogue and keep throwing money at the problem. |
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Tell me, what is a superfluous course?
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This session is over, and many are saying The Conservative Court
leaned a bit left this year. And I am not just talking gay marriage and Obama Care. Huge is the redistricting case that just got upheld today. If it had been over turned this would have been a giant gain for the GOP. Every two years the GOP loses the congressional elections. (popular vote) but come away with more seats. If Kennedy had gone with the 4 conservatives their gerrymandered margins would have gotten even larger. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...629-story.html |
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looking at the chart in this article
it looks like the 4 liberal judges bested the 4 conservative (not including Kennedy) 11 to 3 Supreme Court Decisions 2014-2015 - WSJ.com |
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with the scathing decents by Scalia and other conservatives,
__________________hopefully Kennedy will see them as the worthless backward thinking feeble minded people they are : textualists, originalists, what a bunch of crap! So now they let GOP pols know they can not make fake laws to outlaw all abortion Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion law from taking effect - LA Times |
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