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To: koan who wrote (47336)	6/30/2013 6:51:06 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Respond to of 85487

"Imagine if Bush had spent the 5 trillion he wasted on those two wars and tax cuts for the rich on education." the kids would be just as dumb, it's the teachers union not the kids.

To: koan who wrote (47336)	6/30/2013 7:19:04 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 85487

>> Imagine if Bush had spent the 5 trillion he wasted on those two wars and tax cuts for the rich on education. Imagine if all of us could do arithmetic! We'd all know that the two wars cost 1.4T from their inceptions through now, and around a trillion during Bush's term. Imagine if instead of paying off political contributors Obama had chosen to spend THAT trillion on education. What would that have done? Made education worse. Because for every dollars the federal government spends on education, our kids educations get worse.

To: koan who wrote (47336)

6/30/2013 7:46:55 PM

From: robert a belfer

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<I can't explain it, but I am sure there is one.> That is a classic.

To: koan who wrote (47336)	7/1/2013 10:11:31 AM
From: sm1th	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

I can't explain it, but I am sure there is one. You can't explain it because the facts don't fit your closed belief system Most teachers do a great job and we just need more of them and affordable schooling. It is that simple. If tripling spending didn't help, why would anyone rational conclude that more money would help? Maybe we should look at what the money is being spent on. The reason so many HS graduates are illiterate is that beginning in the 70's we abandoned a core cirriculum which had been proven for years and replaced large parts of it with liberal feel good mush. We spend more class time teaching little kids about oral sex than we do about American history. Didn't your good friend Einstein say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. You are proposing an insane approach to fixing education.