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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230678)	9/1/2013 5:11:36 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542936

"You seem convinced, as do many on these boards do, that simply moving dough into education is the answer" I don't believe that. We spend more on education than most, maybe all other countries already. I think the problems are cultural. More successful countries that spend less seem to have children that realize early that education is important and worth pursuing. Other countries are also less diverse in general than ours. I do think that college should be free for anyone capable of doing the work. If it was, some of our students might put more effort into HS. If you know HS is the end of your educational road, that would seem to me to be somewhat discouraging, especially when you know less capable but more financially able students will continue to progress.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230678)	9/1/2013 5:14:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542936

I'm certainly not saying that you need only add money to public education and that does it. I'm saying you can not improve education for poor folk without adding money. You obviously need to spend it well. For everyone who says money won't solve the problem, just ask them, seriously, if they'll move into the town or section of a town with the most badly funded public education system and then put their children there. Of course not. To repeat. It should be obvious that more money will not, in and of itself, solve the education problems faced by poor families and children. It should also be obvious that it cannot be addressed, let alone solved, without a great deal more money. And we can't do that without the political will to do so. Which we definitely don't have. Only the political will to ship more of my tax dollars off to the wealthy.