On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 06:23:26 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:

On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 9:03:09 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 4/30/2015 7:22 AM, trader_4 wrote:

However, I don't have a problem with a common set of standards for
every student in the country.

Cindy Hamilton

I do. It's called state's rights. An example of where we are
today was just on the news. A school in Colorado sent a letter
to the parents of a girl because they sent her to school with
two oreo cookies as part of her lunch. The school wouldn't let
her eat them and sent a letter home scolding the parents. THAT
is what big govt gets you.



Every student graduating high school should know that 8 x 8 =
60something. But they have no business telling a parent what to pack
for lunch. That is an intrusion.

And do you think that any state in the union, any local school
district, disagrees that every graduating school student "should"
know what 8 x 8 is? If the locals and the state can't properly
educate the students, why would you think the feds sticking their
nose in will? What's the fed govt's track record at "fixing" any
similar issues in the last 50 years? How many fed initiatives,
eg Headstart, have we had in education and all the while the
results are worse, not better? We didn't have a DOE at the federal
level until 1979. Now it has 5,000 employees and a $60bil budget,
Has education gotten better, or worse?

I can count to 21 if I pull my pants down.

For convicts; count feet, odd number, add one divide by two.

Moving rocks from one pocket to another needs a person to count the
rocks for every prison seen.