unions killing jobs...

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

"Lack of funding" is the absurd. It costs more to send a kid to public school in Newark than it does to Yale. Money isn't the cure, though that is what the all powerful NJEA (insert any other state here) would have you think. Don't stop believing!

Don't you get it? We spend more money on education than other countries, and our education sucks. We are like 9th in reading internationally, and down in the mid-twenties in math and science. It's pathetic. We're incompetent educationally on the international stage. Our kids can't even afford college - and we just took more money from programs that help kids afford it. Republicans want to strip and privatize it, giving the last money left to corporations for making profit off it.

Education is currently being attacked and even mocked as unnecessary. We have multiple candidates for President of the United States that publicly and proudly simply disregard science and education in favor of cults. It's un-effing-believable. We are an international laughingstock, pitied by other countries as they have watched us fall further and further behind.

You blame the teachers unions. Nonsense. It's the targeted funding to programs that work. Bush -yes, Bush - threw tons of money into the useless No Child Left Behind program that encouraged the very thing you decry. Yes, we need proper funding, appropriate funding as part of trying to get our pathetically uneducated kids educated.

The Republican party is desperately stripping every last cent they can out of what's left of this country, to give to private business, and that's pretty much Social Security, Medicare, and school funding. And they can't do it unless they demonize what stands in their way: teachers, firefighters, policemen ("public unions").