Education (A Loosing Battle)

[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.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Longer version:

"Ode to the Spell Checker!"

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Fare?

Uh oh, here we go again . . .

[GovernmentShrinker]

FReeper Brytani managed to become a legend without even misspelling anything (IIRC, she was the original "shower" FReeper).

[LongElegantLegs]

See now, if you had told everyone that you did it on purpose, they would have applauded your sense of irony.

Remember..."Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -Scott Adams

[Maximus of Texas]

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Thailand????

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[JRios1968]

Ah, but the typo was hugh!

[speekinout]

I clicked on this just to see how long it would take someone to hop on that error. You did it in 1 min. 11 secs.
You must have gone to school before the Internet was invented. :-)

[Maceman]

Education (A Loosing Battle)

[Chode]

[CottonBall]

Anyone else ever make a typing error, or is it just me?

I once heard that the only thing making someone look more ridiculous posting a typo is pointing it out.

But I think the pointer in this case didn't see it as a typo, but as using the wrong wrong. A grammar error.

[CottonBall]

The Los Angeles Unified School District admits to spending $20,000 per student per year.

What a waste of money. Many LA students are illegals that couldn't care less about their education. They were happy to leave school to march on May 1. (And many of the marchers were from schools whose average SAT scores were ~800!).. Again, a huge waste of money!

[Tijeras_Slim]

did Slim ever bother thanking us for the pingjob while he was on vaca?

I feel vaguely dirty.

[martin_fierro]

I once heard that the only thing making someone look more ridiculous than posting a typo is pointing it out.

There. Fixed.

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[wildbill]

The problem with your argument is that it's usually not a typo.

As a writing teacher, I see this incorrect usage all the time. I've even spotted it in an editorial in the Houston Chronicle.

It's truly a sign of the state of education in our country.

[Larry Lucido]

I want to be a nation of gumbies.

[Larry Lucido]

Hmm, looks like are looser their was band.

[Leisler]

Something like half the 'utes don't even graduate. So, a graduate cost about $40,000 a year, or more.

All we hear, and little of that, is dollars per student. We never hear of cost per graduate, or cost per some type of academic standard.

If NEA, public schools were thought of as factories, their products would be world class crap and highly expensive at that.

But whether teachers or taxpayers realized it or not, teaching and student learning is just a myth. The school industry is a racket to transfer money from the public to the teachers, admin, and contractors as a reward for their votes. No difference than poor to welfare, engineers to defense/road building, and such.

[Leisler]

Git paper spats! Toss'm after a night of charlestoning!

[CottonBall]

LOL! Figures I'd make a grammar mistake in that post. Thanks for the fix!

[CottonBall]

If NEA, public schools were thought of as factories, their products would be world class crap and highly expensive at that.

Good point. I always thought that schools and the government should be run like businesses. And if they fail, fire the CEO and bring in someone new to make changes.