Reply #5: Way back when I was in school..... [View All]

[Tippy]

We went to learn, today things are so different we know our education system is broken but what to do about it is beyond me. I home schooled 3 of my 7...not an easy task to be sure. No two teachers are the same, no two studets are the same. But when we alowed Corporations to begin supplying learning materials to our schools I noticed a big difference. I can't blame the teachers, because I know we have many very commited inteligent teachers.

Republicans views on Education....

Promote school choice and home-schooling. (Sep 2004) Support voluntary student-initiated prayer in school. (Sep 2004) Limit role of federal government in education. (Aug 2000) Increase access to higher education with savings accounts. (Aug 2000) Strongly support voluntary student-initiated prayer. (Aug 2000) Achievement is basis for access to college. (Aug 2000)

The plans of the "Republican Tea Party," along with repealing the health care bill, privatizing Social Security, ending Medicare in its current form, extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and abolishing the Departments of Education and Energy. They call it the 10-point platform the "Republican Tea Party Contract on America."

Tennessee Senate Speaker and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, the top Republican elected official in state government, says academic credentials are overrated.

Many in the academic world, he said, "step off campus and they're lost." "They like to get up in the morning, comb their beard, put on their wire-rim glasses, throw their little tweed vest on and go to school for three hours... and hate Republicans," he said.

This is what we are up against.

And with the poverty rate going up I see it getting much worse.

"Child poverty rates in the United States are quite high relative to adults and those observed for children in other industrial countries. This is true even in the best otimes. What’s more, children who grow up poor in America end up worse off as adults than those who do not grow up poor along a variety of dimensions, including poorer health, lower education, and lower earnings. A previous Center for American Progress report shows that these outcomes impose serious costs on the individuals themselves, their families, and their communities. But they also hurt
the U.S. economy as a whole."


http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/09/hit_child_poverty.html