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To: tejek who wrote (321973)	1/20/2007 2:18:56 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576805

>Has it ever dawned on you that just maybe not enough money has ever been "thrown at them"? Not to mention that the distribution of money isn't equitable... areas with poorer tax bases have worse public schools. -Z

To: tejek who wrote (321973)	1/22/2007 10:40:38 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576805

Has it ever dawned on you that just maybe not enough money has ever been "thrown at them"? Resources are finite, the increase in resources going to education has been massive. (For example federal spending on education more than doubled on Bush). Also even if the current funding was inadequate, and more resources where the main thing needed to clear up the problem, you would expect improvement from all the additional resource that have been spent on education. Maybe the improvement wouldn't be as much as we want it to be but the movement should be in the right direction. Since there hasn't been such a strong movement in the right direction despite the massive growth of funding, its reasonable safe to assume that more than just more funding is needed. That each year there are people like you arbitrarily cutting money out of their budget Overall that just hasn't happened. The budgets haven't been cut, they've expanded, and expanded, and expanded again. I'm sure you can find some particular school district where this didn't happen for a period of time, but that would be an exception to the strong general trend. As for "people like you" - Point to where I suggested school budgets be cut.