Billzebub Wrote:
Senator LooGAR, TX Monger Wrote:
I LOVE the Teacher's Unions.
That's because government money is like heroin, and your Dems are the pushers.
Amazing. All that government crack building roads, and crank keeping airplanes from crashing into each other, and ecstasy shipping the children of the working class to foreign shores to defend your sorry ass. Yep, that dern, upatriotic gov'ment money.
Of course that Republican bridge to Nowhere off the deserted coast of Alaska isn't smack. And give me a good ole fashioned corrupt lobbyist anyday... now that's the Republican drug you can really give a rush to the body politic.
Sorry, but the idea that somehow public schools are a waste of public money is shortsighted and comes from a rigid political perspective that warps the truth about public schools, vouchers, and class:
The poor have no cultural capital to build another life. Schools, public education is one of the few recourses. That schools are in trouble, are incomplete in face of this daunting task, and probably need to crack a few eggs (c.f. Mr. Elvis Fu) is a very different question. Actually though, research shows that groups of similar students (white, middle class, in possession of cultural capital) are actually doing much better in recent years and outperform their similar demographics in western Europe. Public schools are NOT underserving the very students whose families can use and respond to the voucher initiatives and privitization of schools. It is the increasing number of racial, poor and linguistic groups who have been historically underserved, and other than in places like Washington DC have been excluded form the voucher movement, that schools are failing. And actually society is failing: lots of research that simply having healthcare will raise these kids standardized test scores.
In any case ignorance is not blilss... and ignorance in these areas is dangerously unpatriotic, and will continue to fuel the widening distance between the Two Americas.... we are close to becoming Nigeria or Peru.