Quote Originally Posted by pisshead
i don't know...why not? i say dismantle the whole fucking thing...it's obviously only doing bad and purposely making kids stupid and not teaching them their rights or history.

imagine what those amazing teachers could do if not in the confines of the federal or state government...

you could choose where your kid went to school...you wouldn't have to pay all those taxes. it's worth a try at least. but then we'd have independent thinkers, which leads to freedom, and we all know our government is basically anti-freedom.
You already can choose where your kids go to school. The public school system needs help, no doubt, but hundreds of thousands of brilliant and independent thinking kids come out of them every year thanks to the most underpaid and overworked public employees in the entire government bureaucracy. Starting teachers make between 25k and 35k a year and are often forced to take money from their own pockets to make sure kids have pencils and paper while the administrators make 6 figure salaries and, in the case of one administrator here in MN, a $700 month car allowance which allowed her to lease a Cadillac Escalade and still have money left to pocket. And it cost the district an additonal $150,000 to buy out her contract and fire her ass. If anything we need to rethink how the feds/states spend our tax money in disgusting and ridiculous ways like funding research for huge corporations and supporting other governments that "might" be our allies someday or supplying weapons and training to snakes like Bin Laden and Hussein to "further our interests" in certain regions. (only to have them turn on us when we decide we don't like them anymore) How much money, which could have been routed to education, have we pissed away supporting mexico who then turns on us and refuses to deal with the flow of their own people in to our country so we can deal with them. For the most part, the public school system if a success, it's the people running it who are broken.

Also, see my previous post in this thread about stupid parents and greedy lawyers.