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Originally Posted by teethandclaws  LOL, tempting as it may be to not pay taxes because we don't like where the money is going, most people are too wrapped up in their own little lives to think about it. They think their taxes are going to education and to feed the poor.
Which I think is ridiculous because I just spent A LOT on school supplies for my kids, including backpacks, and all this required stuff like 3 ring binders and filler paper, single subject notebooks, pocket folders, pencils, colored pencils, different colored pens, and when I went to school, the only thing I needed to bring was myself and a "cold lunch" if I didn't like what they were serving for the day or it was field trip day.
In the next town over, they are cutting foreign languages. They've cut music and art in some schools, and I've even heard of school systems with no physical education.
Oh how I wish that we the tax-payers would stand up for ourselves and demand that our children, the future of this nation, was priority one. Bush's no child left behind act isn't cutting it, that just tells you your kids have to go to school a certain number of days or they will not pass.
If that was the case when I was a kid, I would have been in kindergarten for 7 years, because I was sick all the time, one year I missed over 60 days of school, but I did my make-up work and got A's and B's, but that wouldn't fly today.
Put the people first, that's what I say. | Year after year we spend more and more on education and what results have we seen? Year in and year out our children's test scores do not improve when compared to other countries. Teachers cry they do not make enough money, yet their salary is based on a 9 month work year, we all seem to forget that. $40,000 may not sound like a lot of money for a year, yet if they worked for 12 months they would be making 54,000 a year. Boo frackin hoo.
No Child Left Behind sought to hold schools accountable by testing the students, guess who cried the loudest??? The teachers. Obviously there is a reason for this, the most prominent is the fear that they have when the test shows they aren't teaching. The bill also sought to hold teachers and schools accountable, again the teachers cried the loudest.
Teachers are against vouchers, why? Because it threatens their jobs. God forbid we actually hold our teachers accountable for actually educating our children. No they just want their checks, screw the kids.
Blame Bush, join the club. Perhaps you can explain why education funding has increased 60% from Clinton's last budget to Bush 2007 budget. Inflation would only account for about an 18% increase. But it Bush's fault, and the teachers are just overworked and underpaid. Yeah right.
dmk Conservatism, I repeat is not an ideology. It does not breed fanatics....But if you want men who seek, reasonably and prudently, to reconcile the best in wisdom of our ancestors with the change which is essential to a vigorous civil social existence, then you will do well to turn to conservative principles
-Russell Kirk- |