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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: y2kate who wrote (113154)12/12/2000 8:41:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
oppose funding adequate to maintain, let alone improve, the quality of our schools.
Are you familiar with the phrase "throwing good money after bad"? That's what pouring more money into the public schools is. The amount of money going into them has steadily and greatly increased in the past 40 years. And, yes, it is cause and effect. The bureaucracy has grown and grown and grown and grown as the amount of money has increased. ANd bureaucracy gets in the way of actually accomplishing anything. SO the output has fallen and fallen and...

And the unions have been willing accomplices in this. As tey have gained power, the quality of education has fallen. Why should a teacher care if they are doing a verifiably good job if the unions will protect them anyway?

You don't improve a bloated bureaucracy by feeding it more. You improve it by by putting it on a diet, firing bureaucrats, and make clear to the small fraction that remains that they are next if things don't change.

anti-public education initiatives such as 'school voucher' programs
Vouchers appear to be the only hope. I say the state collects education money and gives ALL of it back to you in a voucher.
And anti-public education? Yes. Bureaucrats HATE competition.

But hypocritically, those same people are spending thousands of dollars a month to insure their own children are getting a safe and superior education- by sending them to private schools.
Yes. Private schools that dn't have the bureaucracy. Or the unions.
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