Slowpoke is unfortunately accurate. We already see the results of years of reducing standards in order to help those who aren’t genetically able to keep up with the “brighter, whiter” students. And no, I’m not being racist, I’m just spelling out what the liberal elite believe, but won’t say out loud.
We’ve increased funding for education every year, and more and more of it goes to overhead and less and less of it goes to the classrooms. So yes, we have seen the reults of poor spending. Here’s a link to a graph showing US education expenditures vs most of the rest of the world..
Hundreds of thousands of Americans associated health-care reform with the big rock candy mountain. I just threw that in there because like a previous poster’s statement, it has nothing whatsoever to do with education, but rather with ideology.
We have a federal education department which sets the curriculum which should be taught in schools receiving federal funding which includes such essentials as sex education for students who haven’t yet mastered reading and writing and simple mathematics. It also includes little in the line of thinking or reasoning skills at all, but posits that “feeling good” about your answer is just as good as actually learning the correct answers.
We even have commenters on this very comic who believe that more money being spent is decreased funding. Basic math skills would tell one that when the number of dollars spent is higher, that indicates increased spending. But when one is raised under the Democrat mantra, a reduction in the increasing rate of increasing spending equates to decreased funding.
We also have a union in our schools which fights every effort to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate its members’ effectiveness, yet expects the public at large to not only pay their salaries (no beef there, good teachers deserve good pay), but to fund their retirements as well, when many of those in the public at large have no such retirement plan other than Social Security. And then, they wonder why many in the public at large don’t side with them when they go on strike for benefits and job security that no one else has.
We also have many people who believe that extending the school day or the school year will make a difference to students who aren’t really interested in learning because they’ve been told over and over again by pop culture and mass media and even supposed educators that school is for fools, and that going to school will do nothing for them because “the man” is holding them back no matter how well they educate themselves. And when well-educated members of the supposed inferior class are shown, they are somehow made into pariahs and called traitors to their kind, and lapdog lackeys.
Slowpoke is unfortunately accurate. We already see the results of years of reducing standards in order to help those who aren’t genetically able to keep up with the “brighter, whiter” students. And no, I’m not being racist, I’m just spelling out what the liberal elite believe, but won’t say out loud.
We’ve increased funding for education every year, and more and more of it goes to overhead and less and less of it goes to the classrooms. So yes, we have seen the reults of poor spending. Here’s a link to a graph showing US education expenditures vs most of the rest of the world..
http://mercatus.org/publication/k-12-spending-student-oecd
Hundreds of thousands of Americans associated health-care reform with the big rock candy mountain. I just threw that in there because like a previous poster’s statement, it has nothing whatsoever to do with education, but rather with ideology.
We have a federal education department which sets the curriculum which should be taught in schools receiving federal funding which includes such essentials as sex education for students who haven’t yet mastered reading and writing and simple mathematics. It also includes little in the line of thinking or reasoning skills at all, but posits that “feeling good” about your answer is just as good as actually learning the correct answers.
We even have commenters on this very comic who believe that more money being spent is decreased funding. Basic math skills would tell one that when the number of dollars spent is higher, that indicates increased spending. But when one is raised under the Democrat mantra, a reduction in the increasing rate of increasing spending equates to decreased funding.
We also have a union in our schools which fights every effort to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate its members’ effectiveness, yet expects the public at large to not only pay their salaries (no beef there, good teachers deserve good pay), but to fund their retirements as well, when many of those in the public at large have no such retirement plan other than Social Security. And then, they wonder why many in the public at large don’t side with them when they go on strike for benefits and job security that no one else has.
We also have many people who believe that extending the school day or the school year will make a difference to students who aren’t really interested in learning because they’ve been told over and over again by pop culture and mass media and even supposed educators that school is for fools, and that going to school will do nothing for them because “the man” is holding them back no matter how well they educate themselves. And when well-educated members of the supposed inferior class are shown, they are somehow made into pariahs and called traitors to their kind, and lapdog lackeys.
Yep Slowpoke is unfortunately accurate.