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Carly Fiorina cries for govt bailout
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lionelhill
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When I was at school (a good, tolerant school, where you could have odd interests and even get encouragement) I used to dream of being allowed to spend 2 days a week lost in a huge library instead of stuck in school. I felt those 2 days would let me learn so many interesting things that school didn't include. There were lots of concrete examples.
Well, I'm no fan of the current educational system. Industry says that we need better educated workers to compete with the rest of the world (I ask, where are the jobs going to be for these better educated workers, certainly not in the United States).
I find that the public education system in my home state
of Nevada completely SUCKS (we rank 48th out of 50 in
the nation for quality.
I find that the public education system in my home state
of Nevada completely SUCKS (we rank 48th out of 50 in
the nation for quality.
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sabrinaduncan wrote:
It sounds like me she is mainly worried about America's abyssmal schools.
I think that's a canard: she's simultumultuously begging for government money and making excuses for big-business behavior. Schools are a convenient political target.
I wouldn't call US schools abysmal. (Then again, I can spell abysmal.
) I don't think that more federal money (and the strings attached to it) will cure what ails the American education system. By and large, that money and those strings have been the very things that weakened the schools.
It sounds like me she is mainly worried about America's abyssmal schools.
I think that's a canard: she's simultumultuously begging for government money and making excuses for big-business behavior. Schools are a convenient political target.
I wouldn't call US schools abysmal. (Then again, I can spell abysmal.
) I don't think that more federal money (and the strings attached to it) will cure what ails the American education system. By and large, that money and those strings have been the very things that weakened the schools.Private schools cost half of a public school on a per student per year basis.
Yeah!! Just keep shoveling the money to the gov't funded public schools - that will fix the problem!
Funny (really not,) gov't institutions have money left at the end of the year, so they spend what is remaining to request an increase the next year. Why would they get an increase if they had money left? That is their rationale.
Teacher's unions are against vouchers because they don't want students to go to private schools because it means less money for the school (fewer students equals less funding.)
Yeah!! Just keep shoveling the money to the gov't funded public schools - that will fix the problem!
Funny (really not,) gov't institutions have money left at the end of the year, so they spend what is remaining to request an increase the next year. Why would they get an increase if they had money left? That is their rationale.
Teacher's unions are against vouchers because they don't want students to go to private schools because it means less money for the school (fewer students equals less funding.)
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