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American schools Doomed?
Does that come as a surprise?
American schools have been doomed ever since the teachers’ union have decided to put their greedy interests before the education of our kids.

Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while China’s Shanghai topped the charts.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said recently, “The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global economy.”
He said, “The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are,” Duncan said. “This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country.”
No kidding! Duncan heads a department installed by President Jimmy Carter. A good first step to making American kids competitive again would be to erase the Department of Education.
An excellent second step would be to install a national voucher system that would allow parents to send their children to the school of their choice.
Haverford School Director Larry Feinberg, who was one of the event’s organizers, is obviously unhappy with the thought of school choice and vouchers.
Geez, the idea of giving parents an opportunity of sending kids to a school that provides a decent education can really rub some people wrong.