[Cincinatus' Wife]

Let's keep it simple:

A LIBERAL nightmare. They want to blame class size, too many immigrants with so many different first languages (they LOVE bi-lingual education), crumbling schools, lack of books, racism, poverty, etc. The answer: MORE MONEY!!!! How much more money and how many more educational experiments will it take? The Left and the teachers' unions have taken our public educational system and literally destroyed it. And in the process they are destroying our country's foundation.

[meenie]

Public schools are a disgrace and operate only for the benefit of the elite in the NEA. The sole object is to extort as much as possible from the taxpayer and to heck with the student.

[ballplayer]

My Daughter is white and she is a fifth grade teacher in the inner city of Bridgeport Ct.I can tell you the problem is that these kids dont care ,the majority of parents dont care ,the system says if the student says 1 plus 1 is 3,thats ok they tried.Fifth grade students cant divde,how did they get to fifth grade?When you say leave no child behind ,they take it literally and just pass them along .