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To: tejek who wrote (618283)	7/6/2011 3:21:33 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1584454

I am enjoying the Liberal reaction to the Atlanta educational scandal. Blame it on Bush and his "no child left behind" program. What is going on is the inevitable result of five decades of ever increasing rotten schooling. A highly Unionized system that rewards failure. Constant dumbing down of testing to make up for bad teaching. My conclusion is: The schools are bad. They will get worse. No amount of money can fix the present system. If you don't agree with the above, you don't understand the problem. There are four groups involved in our present system. Politicians. School Bureaucracy. Teachers. Parents. The first three groups control the schools. The last one has no real power over them. Yet the parents are the ONLY ones of these groups who have a proprietary interest in the kids learning. The other three groups are there for their own benefit. The answer is simple. Totally private schools. Financed by tax credits the parents control. All of the debate about which system is "better" ignores the real point. Which is that the parents should be free to choose where their kids go to school. Only then can the schools get better. The first three groups HATE this idea. Easy to understand why. They lose all power over the schools. They also believe that parents are too dumb and stupid to be able to pick out a "good" school for their kids. Parents pick out everything else in a child's life. But they can't pick out a good school? Bullpucky! Message 27474689

To: tejek who wrote (618283)	7/6/2011 4:12:44 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584454

Thats a non answer. We have what your asking for already and look how well its working out. Private and Charter schools are educating those families that care about having educated kids. Public school teachers are hamstrung with kids that either dont speak english or have little desire to be in the classroom because there is no family unit to support them. Your use of you guys is a cover up for your lack of understanding of what is happening in the public system. Here in Ca, where the left has been in charge since the early 70's, we spend $30K per kid with graduation rates below 50%. And your solution is more of the same.