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To: koan who wrote (7748)	1/30/2012 1:20:56 AM
From: grusum	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

education is too expensive in the USA. kids get government loans and put themselves in a debt hole that they can hardly get out of. get government and unions out of education and kids would be able to afford it again. then we'd be graduating more scientists and engineers. tax payer funded union education is a disaster. the quality of education has declined. overpaid, unqualified teachers abound. unions have destroyed education, just like they destroy everything else they touch. life was much better here before you socialist types started coming to power. your stinking socialism has poisoned the country. this november is when we begin to tear it to shreds. this november.. the communists fall. the 'zero summers' get run out of town. pee ess LOL!

To: koan who wrote (7748)	1/30/2012 6:53:36 AM
From: Bearcatbob	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

When recessions come engineers hit the streets. Graduating 2x the number of engineers without getting a growth economy is folly.

To: koan who wrote (7748)	1/30/2012 9:15:51 AM
From: Little Joe	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

"We could cut defence in half easily and put the money into education." Then we could spend even more money to graduate illiterates. Koan, the difference between you and most on the thread is not as you claim, that the thread is anti education, but most of us understand that our system is broken. We spend more than any other country in the world on education and since the fifties the quality of education at every level has fallen. Like most liberals you appear to believe that if you pass a law and spend more money the problem will be solved. What can I say? lj

To: koan who wrote (7748)	1/30/2012 10:17:11 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

We put more money into education then any country

To: koan who wrote (7748)	1/30/2012 10:44:55 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

Bill Cosby on education: More funding is NOT the answer By Caroline May - The Daily Caller Published: 12:00 PM 01/25/2012 \| Updated: 12:22 AM 01/26/2012 Shortly before President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union on Tuesday night, comedian Bill Cosby joined with school choice advocates to discuss the “State of American Education.” According to Cosby, the country can try as many education reforms as it wants but the real key is getting parents involved and concerned about their children’s education. Cosby added that additional funding is not the answer to America’s education woes. “Cuts, cuts, cuts, that is what we hear, but education is not a thing that big bucks happens to be the answer [to]. The answer is — with education comes teaching children to respect and love questions, looking for the answer, reading,” he said, explaining that these responsibilities fall on the parents, teachers, and school officials. Cosby demanded answers from Education Secretary Arne Duncan, asking why, with so much money going into the schools, the taxpayers still cannot get the value they put in. Instead of whining about cuts, he said, schools and towns should be looking for solutions outside the box. “Okay — we know there are cuts, then let’s work with it. Let’s go to churches, find retired teachers who would like to join us in the basement of the church to work with the child,” Cosby said. “There are ways we can work around this and we have to talk and we have to move.” The telephone press conference was moderated by Michelle Bernard, president of the Bernard Center for Women, Politics, and Public Policy. It was a part of the celebration of National School Choice Week, currently being recognized in all 50 states this week. Education “is the key to achieving the American dream,” Bernard said to the audience. “One of the things that school choice does for people that live in low-income neighborhoods is it gives your child the ability to leave a school that is low performing — if you can get to a point where your dollars follow your child — and go to a school that is higher performing. When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.” National School Choice Week runs from Jan. 22-28 and is focused on empowering parents to get the best educational options for their children, “from encouraging increased access to great public schools, to public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.” Cosby wrapped up the conference with a personal anecdote about how his sixth grade teacher was instrumental in getting him on the educational straight and narrow. “I am 74 years old, I’ll be 75 July 12. I stopped studying in 4th grade on my own, because I had a picture of what my life was like: We lived in the housing projects and I was not a sad kid, I just liked to play. And so I gave up and then I ran into this woman in 6th grade,” he said, explaining how none of the school kids wanted to have “this woman” as a teacher because she forced her students to read, do their work and re-do poorly completed homework. According to Cosby, his mother was the one who sought out this teacher. “For some reason, I wound up in the front seat directly in front of her desk,” he said. “When I graduated from 6th grade, I went from low grades to all A’s because this woman stayed on my case and she wrote on my report card, which I have today — this white Orthodox Russian woman, 4’11’’ — ‘I’m afraid that as William moves on to 7th grade’ — which was junior high school — ‘that if he does not have the same intervention, that he will slide back to his old ways.’” “I am telling all you parents,” Cosby said. “You need more Mary B. Forchicks in the classroom.” Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/25/bill-cosby-on-education-more-funding-is-not-the-answer/#ixzz1kxN7yFJs