John Oliver wrote: > > California spends more on education than every other state in the Union > and probably 90% of the rest of the world put together. There is no way > that more money is somehow going to magically fix our problems. Until > we have a way to cut through the unions, the special interests, the > ivory-tower academicians, and the certifiable crazy left-wing > politicians who have created and keep maintaining the current mess; we > are *never* going to see change, only more of the same... "Send us more > money! And more! AND MORE!!!"
Before you start spewing propoganda you might get your facts straight. California may spend more than any other state, only because it has more students. Ranked by per pupil spending california is 32nd in spending, and if the Governor's cuts go through, it will be 48th. ....... In 2001-02, California spent $6,542 per student, compared to the U.S. average of $7,158, putting us 32nd among the states. When high costs are considered, we ranked 46th among the states, spending only 82 percent of the national average. The states that spent less included Mississippi, Tennessee and Utah ...... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/09/EDGGA3HJ311.DTL&hw=Straight+talk+on+school+spending&sn=005&sc=618 And as to why we have public schools, "[We proposed a plan] to avail the commonwealth of those talents and virtues which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as rich, and which are lost to their country by the want of means for their cultivation." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:440 ... Thomas Jefferson "This [bill] on education would [raise] the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety and to orderly government, and would [complete] the great object of qualifying them to secure the veritable aristoi for the trusts of government, to the exclusion of the pseudalists... I have great hope that some patriotic spirit will... call it up and make it the keystone of the arch of our government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:400 ...... ..I have two propositions I would like to put to you. The first is that the official education reform movement in Massachusetts and the nation is part of a decades-long corporate and government attack on public education and on our children. Its goal is: --not to increase educational attainment but to reduce it; --not to raise the hopes and expectations of our young people but to narrow them, stifle them, and crush them; --not to improve public education but to destroy it. My second proposition is that the education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society. ....... http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/edspeech.htm -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D I help busy professionals diversify their self-directed IRAs and portfolios with real estate they don't have to manage. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like more information. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
