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.
A sense of huemer. It's the only way to handle these thugs.
You're right, the fare is $2.50.
What's with you people?
We're just the average collection of bonvivants and recreational killers, seduced by the anonymity of the internet to lash out at our betters, most notably Mensa members wearing spats.
Now, that's the spirit! Welcome to FR, BTW. We have fun here, and one of the things we find to be the most fun is to pummel each other for silly fumble-fingered typos.
Yes, but if your typo is clever or strange enough, you can become a legend!
And once again, the whole thread is screwed because of a typo.
Absolutely hysterical!
Pedagogic Punditry can be sooo Pedantic!
After all "Lose Ships Sink Lips".
If it were just a typo, he'd ask the mod to change it.
Some newbies are just trolls trying to make FR look bad.
It succeeds at its real goals:
"All we want is less to do
More time to do it
And more money for not getting it done."
Where do you get your spats cleaned? I tried to do mine myself, and they shrank.
You're not losing your grip, are you?
I constantly make typos. Someone has a tagline I love: Qwerty Ergo Typo - I type therefore I missppell.
I spit on your spats.
extremely apropos of this thread!
Know, its jost yue.
did Slim ever bother thanking us for the pingjob while he was on vaca?
Of coarse knot.
he's an ingreat ain't he?
Lose - loose
There - their - they're
Your - you're
Then and than get screwed up a lot as well.
These things bugs me but since I didn't attend college
i usually feel i have no room to criticize.
I did, however, come in second in the fourth grade spelling bee. ;o)
Ever try to interview all the high-voltage electricians that made a mistake?
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