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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (248917)	4/17/2002 8:14:38 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

School boards in each district set teacher's salaries--not governors. He placed the emphasis where he could-- on testing. The teachers felt the pressure to prepare their students. They received raises according to their student's performances. However, that's not completely fair since parents have a responsibility to make sure their children get their homework done & behave properly in class. How do we grade parents performances?....if only, we could fine them when their child fails in school. Then we'd really get results. If you read the Texas results, you'll see that real progress was made. As I stated before....he managed to turn a negative academic attitude into teachers & students focusing on test preparation. This issue was one of the few Gore had to at least try to criticize GW's results. When you actually read the report results.....it's more impressive than negative. The skill gap between middle class & low income students was noticeably narrowed.....not a small feat.

To: American Spirit who wrote (248917)	4/17/2002 9:39:09 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush announces "war on terror" will go on for years. Now we can see his real tactic here. If he can keep the "war" going until election time he will have many people feeling duty-bound to vote for him and he can wave the flag against the "evil-doers", thereby covering up all the real issues in the campaign. Nobody disagrees with going after terrorists (except a few fringe types) so that's not even an issue. Let's face it, Bin lauden is probably dead and so is Al Qaudia, more or less. Hamas is Israel's problem. So is Hezbollah. I think we're safer now than we were pre- (/11 so what's with the "war"? Bush mentionmed the Axis Of Evil again today, saying they are gaining weapons of mass destruction and linking up with terrorist organizations. Where is the evidence of that except maybe against Israel? I think it's all a big lie. Yes, they're on our enemies list and probably should be, but they're not provoking anyone outside the ISrael conflict now. Frankly, I think it's time the American people looked beyond terrorism and started focusing in other issues. So what if a few people start shooting at our guys in Afghanistan. What do you expect? That's a vuiolent place. Violence will never stop there.