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Education (A Loosing Battle)
Posted on 09/20/2006 1:18:22 PM PDT by halfthebattle118
Education
The public education situation in this country has become a chronic example of wasteful and ineffective government spending. It is a travesty that we have to relinquish our tax dollars to under-educate and indoctrinate our children. The public school system’s standards are so low that we have high school students who literally cannot read. The majority of the public school students have no idea about world events, government, geography, history, or grammar.
On the flip-side, their knowledge of modern pop-culture is amazing.The Republican idea of vouchers lends a solution to the failed school system. This idea has been fought and shot down at every turn. Why do you think that is? Billions of tax dollars are poured into the public education system yearly.
If we were able to keep that money and use it to pay tuition to better schools, the public school system would either improve dramatically, or it would cease to exist.
When you create a free-market product, many companies will compete to make the product better and cheaper. Education is no different. When schools compete for tuition monies, they will have to improve their overall curriculum. It’s just common sense. There is no reason for the government to have a monopoly on our children’s education. Not only is it a complete disaster, but it’s dangerous.
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To: halfthebattle118
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:19:34 PM PDT
by
Rokke
To: halfthebattle118
Well living in God forsaken New Jersey with the HIGHEST PROEPERTY TAXES in the NATION, funding public school ... (get control ...) we private school. It's worth it.
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:20:45 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: halfthebattle118
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:20:51 PM PDT
by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: Rokke
Looks to me like somebody done "loosed"
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:22:28 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Once again, raw sewage has overflowed into the arab street)
To: halfthebattle118
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:22:30 PM PDT
by
halfthebattle118
(Large government = less freedom)
To: halfthebattle118
But Democrats assure us that everything will be just hunky-dory in these youth propaganda camps, if only we will reach down into our pockets and dump a few more billion into the gaping maw of this "public school" butterfly farm. And we, the idiots, buy it every time.
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:22:38 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
To: halfthebattle118
One typo and it's all meaningless. Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:24:18 PM PDT
by
halfthebattle118
(Large government = less freedom)
To: halfthebattle118
Lets throw more money at the problem. >>>S<<<
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:24:19 PM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: halfthebattle118; Constitution Day; aculeus; Billthedrill; Senator Bedfellow; Petronski; ...
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:24:31 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: dighton
I'm a product of the public education system... i.e. "Loosing"...:)
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:27:40 PM PDT
by
halfthebattle118
(Large government = less freedom)
To: halfthebattle118
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:29:34 PM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: Rokke
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:30:29 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: halfthebattle118
I is a college student ;-)
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:30:54 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
To: savedbygrace
Thank you for the spelling information. I will take it into account.
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:30:58 PM PDT
by
halfthebattle118
(Large government = less freedom)
To: Rokke
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Irony can sometimes be ironic
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:32:37 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Rokke
Sure proves his/her own point, doesn't it? LOL!
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:32:49 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: halfthebattle118
I think the battle is already loost.
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:33:12 PM PDT
by
Comico Atómico
(I want the government to defend this country, not to wrap it in cotton.)
To: halfthebattle118
The Republican idea of vouchers lends a solution to the failed school system. This idea has been fought and shot down at every turn. And as a homeschooler, I say "Thank God!" and "Please keep it up!"
I don't want the money; I'd rather have the freedom. Government NEVER lets you have both.
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posted on
09/20/2006 1:33:37 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: halfthebattle118
Good Post, but the powers to be, teacher's unions and Democrats will make it very hard to reform.
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