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.

[The Westerner]

Give him a break! Without the fire in the belly of this young 'un, we wouldn't have soldiers to fight this battle.

Thanks to the writer for saying exactly what needs to be said!

Without cognition, logic, grammar, i.e., without a real education, this Republic is over.

[MozarkDawg]

Face it, we’re a nation of dumbies.

Oh I so hate it when someone gets picked on for the typo -- clearly he meant we're a nation of gumbies.

[MozarkDawg]

That'll teach me to come up with the pun before reading the entire thread -- you beat me to it!

[Leisler]

Vouchers. The Educrat industry is scared to death that its captured customer base will walk away from its monopoly, leaving it the high cost, low quality provider.