Posted on 11/08/2011 12:41:34 PM PST by mdittmar
President Barack Obama chided congressional Republicans Tuesday for "trying to gut our investments in education," and announced new steps to tackle early childhood education that won't require legislation.
President Barack Obama chided congressional Republicans Tuesday for "trying to gut our investments in education," and announced new steps to tackle early childhood education that won't require legislation.
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He just wants to gut our republic.
Somebody tell Barack that paying off Teacher’s Unions is NOT and “investment in education”!
It’s an investment in SOCIALIST INDOCTRINATION AND VOTE BUYING!!
Obama doesn’t want to talk about the economy. He only wants to talk about how bad republicans love stealing money from kids. I don’t think people are that dumb to buy it.
I don’t know what the other GOP candidates would do, but Herman Cain wants to improve education in the U.S. by introducing vouchers and charter schools. There is no better method of improving e anything more than competition!
He may also want to eliminate the Federal Dept.of Education to put control back on the local level where it definitely belongs.
Sheesh....and the GOP wants to kill kitty cats too...../s
I don’t know about gutting anything but when a so called “investment” has cost me a house, car, wife, kids and dog, I think it might be time to reconsider it.
Besides, an investment is something you spend and expect a return on. Let’s score that “Investment in Education” shall we?
I don’t see myself investing in a campfire fueled by $100 bills either. Sooner or later, that fire’s gonna burn out and then what are you left with?
I don’t want to gut it, I want to END IT.
Amen!
Only find a graph showing the amounts of money thrown at "education" and you will see quality declining commensurate with the growth of dollars getting thrown at the Ed. Dept.
The money NEVER gets to the students/classrooms. It goes for more layers of liberal admin, more govt. workers in education, more union handouts as the added layers of staff continually dumb down education and ramp up indoctrination.
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In my part of rural Ohio, the easiest way to become wealthy is to become a school teacher - or, marry one, so the taxpayer can take care of your health insurance, too.
I wish the kenyan would just put a sock in it. His quotes are always so stupid and worthless.
Oh, by the way: in the years since the DOE was created, has the quality of American education increased or decreased? How many billions of dollars have been spent in that effort that might otherwise have been spent by those truly responsible for education: parents and local communities?
And let's please put an end to this nonsense right now - when the government spends your money on someone else's priorities, it's not "investment" - it's taxation and spending. Or theft. Or all three.
What do we need to stop this insanity? Better education? They took care of that nicely, now didn't they? The answer is clear, but... we're not there yet. Return the power and property rights guaranteed to the people under our Constitution - to the people. BWMN. Figure that one out for yourself.
“The new standards mandate that poorly performing programs will have to compete for funding if they have deficiencies discovered in their onsite review,...”
Obama must have something up his sleeve. Requiring the teachers’ union members to demonstrate competence to continue receiving government money is at odds with Obama’s usual opposition to merit based systems. This must be a prelude to replacing all state run pre-school programs with a single federal program/indoctrination camp. Create good little Soviets.
Another reason for the separation of School and State.
“Investments in education” = Wealth redistribution barely disguised as help “for the children”.
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