Cliff wrote:
Happy days for wingers !!!

The US now has the lowest HS graduation rates of any
industrialized/Western nation in the world !!!

Great education plan !!!
Way to go, Team Winger !!!

You friggin' idiot! Bush is not responsible for everything bad that
happens, unless you also give him credit for all the good.
And that ain't going to happen.

It's liberalized education and welfare programs that get the blame for
our uneducated masses. If your Obama wet dream comes true, expect
more
of this.

Bush's "No Child Left Behind" was going to improve education for
everyone, and now the graduation rates are *dropping*.

NCLB is a stupid program from a guy who got C's in college. It's
exactly
what we should expect from a neocon who claimed that education was one
of
his top two priorities, before the 2000 election. The stupidity on our
part was in believing he knew what he was talking about.

Tell us, RB, how "liberalized education" has led to reduced graduation
rates. If it's liberalized, the logical conclusion is that everyone
should be graduating.

--
Ed Huntress


Education should be a State thing.

Why? All of the countries that are beating our pants off in education are
national systems. There's plenty of evidence around that our LACK of a
national education system is a big part of our problem. You can find
studies
on ERIC.

The department of education should set standards.

Why? If they're setting standards, what advantage is it to then have the
system run at the state level? All you get from that is arguments,
unfunded
mandates, and endless political infighting. That's what we have now,
especially with NCLB. It's a completely dysfunctional system.

The democrats systematically destroyed the family unit and wonder why
education plummeted and crime is high.

Well, destroying the family unit is not part of their party platform
anymore. According to John McCain, it's now socializing our economy. That
was AFTER he voted to have the federal government take an equity stake in
the country's largest banks. g

Conservatives speak with forked tongues. That must come from constantly
spewing bull****.

--
Ed Huntress


Not only that they simply refuse to admit when they are wrong and want to
keep plowing ahead with policies that just don't work. Look at the shape the
country is in yet every conservative has the same suggestions how to fix
things; lower taxes on the rich and business, increase free trade, and let
the free market fix the problems without government interference. Those
ideas will add gasoline to the fire but every damn conservative recommends
the same thing. We got here because we listened to them and did what they
said. Hello!, it failed. It's what put is where we are now. But not a one of
them sees their ideology as responsible for where we are now. These guys
just plain have to go. They have no idea how to govern. It's like their idea
of what you should do on a hot, dry, windy, summer day is to start a
controlled burn. They're just plain nuts. Time for all of them to get real
jobs in the private sector and lets see how many of them get rich.

Hawke