[RobbyS]

What the NEA cannnot admit is that spending money on schools is like pouring water into a bucket with no bottom. Ash what is happening to the $35 billion in federal funds now being spent. We have heard how inefficient Dod is. Compared with the public schools, the military is a model of fiscal responsibility.

[yoe]

A great part of the $35 billion goes for 'overhead', i.e. more jobs in the front office of schools. Precious little trickles down to the students needs be it supplies or just good teachers. Any school that accepts federal funding must also go by federal guide lines - of what and how to teach. Good textbooks are hard to find, ones that tell the truth in simple language without cartoons poorly drawn and spoken in 'jive' language. Deliberate dummied down and then some.