I agree, for 2012. For 2010, the focus has to be squarely on the deficit, the spending, the jobs, and Obamacare.
Bookmarked.
So, you're proposing to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic. Lovely.
Fact is, there is no proper constitutional jurisdiction for the national government when it comes to education.
Signed, the Republican Party
The ONLY education platform needs to be the UNFULFILLED Promise of Reagan to END the Dept of Education and Privatize it all.
I am a proud member of Citizens United for the Separation of SCHOOL and State.
that you’ll make public schools recapture the safety and efficiency they traditionally had.
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Bruce, how is it that you repeatedly come to such a ridiculous conclusion? This isn’t the first time you have posted such drivel.
Government schools **are** by definition socialist-funded, godless, compulsory, and government owned and run. How is it possible to reform godlessness, socialism, compulsion, and government ownership and management?
Solution: Return all education issues to the states, and form there work toward complete separation of school and state!
What is WRONG with it is the Math is dumbed down, the reading is touchy feely, and to sum it up it's dumbed down stuff with LOW STANDARDS. It's all about FUN and GAMES. Learning must be “entertaining”. Well the truth is some learning can be “fun” but not all.
The bigger issue is the CONTENT. Our history has been rewritten. Instead of having Algebra in middle school, it's now in high school - according to the Race to the Top folks. I can honestly say, what I had to learn in Junior High is taught in a watered down version in today's high school.
We keep dumbing kids down, teaching them to hate their country and worst of all - not to have KNOWLEDGE. You should just know where to “get the knowledge” and have GROUP THINK. The individual is disappearing but the SELF ESTEEM factor is at an all time high. Empty, headed, touchy, feely kids is what is coming out of high school and college. It's biting us when compared to other countries. U.S. education is not so great.
The U.S. has a bleak future if this is not straightened our properly. CLOSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and leave it to parents as to where they want their kids to go. Even in Belgium the MONEY follows the kid. It keeps education competitive.
Obama, we can't all use BRAWN to make a living, such as BUILIDNG ROADS and BRIDGES and other monkey like jobs. These occupations do NOT make a country prosperous. They are necessary but people do have some cerebral talent. Obama has everything backwards.
Stop making education mandatory. Kick out kids that don’t want to learn.
Then hire more police officers.
Sure. Let's ignore the elephant in the room of staggering debt and unemployment to emphasize education, a typical home turf of Democrats who own the teachers unions and school boards.
Just dumn.
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
I agree, the liberal socialist have hijacked our education system and are using it to “re-educate” our children. They have rewritten history by leaving out important events. They teach our kids that immorality is ok. Everything they do goes against showing kids that hard work brings you rewards, you are not entitled to them. It is sickening.