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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (479067)	10/20/2003 11:33:50 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The most important factor in educational achievement is the home environment and the day-to-day involvement of the parents in nurturing a child's mind. That day-to-day involvement continues in tandem with the school in most successful cases (with an occasional home schooling success story thrown in, though I am not a fan of that approach). How much money is thrown at the student by the educational establishment comes a ways down the list. Obviously you need decent facilities and teacher talent and books, but incremental funding increases often do little to produce better outcomes because they don't address the need for more learning in the home environment. That having been said, I usually vote for increasing my own taxes to fund the local schools. At the state level, however, the money is often not used for local schools but to fund an administrative superstructure which does little if anything to positively influence or affect educational outcomes. That is where throwing more money at the issue does not help and may hurt by eroding the resources available to address other issues (or requiring taxes to be raised so high that the business climate is adversely affected). I have not seen AS argue against a tax increase or a spending cut yet (except maybe defense related items in the federal budget). I keep having to remind myself that he is a moderate, since the writing sure isn't coming from the middle.