Has anyone actually read their state's education laws?

[pooja]

I just read Florida's bill... not in depth... but enough to realize where the money is being wasted. It is being wasted on an Education board, it is being wasted on "monitoring" a child from the day they enter school, full with psychological profiling, until the moment they leave school. They are implementing "workforce" policies. Screening potential candidates for "job positions".

I would rather my child read, write, articulate, learn math and science, and think on their own. I would like them to figure out what career they may want to choose. I want them to explore, go beyond, question, reason, listen, learn, think...

The state school's structure is geared around jobs and around discriminately choosing through testing which one's to promote with real education, and which one's to promote to slave jobs or military recruitment. Education in this country needs to be thrown out the door. It is a bureacratic enterprise. And it is disgusting.

[bullimiami]

1. eveything in florida has become about how someone can make money.

its republican (but not only) cancer.

[acmejack]

2. No, but it sounds like a worthwhile project

actually, I imagine the more of the laws one reads, the more of a citizen one would be entitled to consider oneself. However, I am not sure I have that much time remaining to me.

[Sinti]

3. The way you put it sounds so Stalinesque n/t

[pooja]

4. They did a lot of re-amending to the law for 07and 08 school yr.

It sounds worse and worse... on top of it all they want teachers to become more paperless, ie computer generated files that are accessible to who knows what... future employers, colleges, military, corporations. And who's to say that someone won't go back and tamper with the children's files-- they are all tagged with soc. sec. identities now.

Its our property tax they take... its about time that the property tax pays for the actual children and their teachers, not the bureaucratic industry.