14 July 2008 24 views  Print  Email This

Jenn at Ft. Hard Knox presents some common sense regarding our public school failures.

There’s a group called Ed in 08 that wants you to lobby your legislators and the presidential candidates to direct more taxpayer money for social programs for minorities in the education system. The group claims that our nation ranks somewhere between 19th and 25th (depending on which of their ads you listen to) out of 30 nations in the world in performance and graduation rates. They claim the problem is that kids, especially minority students aren’t spending enough time in school on a daily basis, and are dropping out before they graduate. They are demanding the government fix this problem.

My take, and I know this with all my heart, is to disband the Teachers Unions and privatize.  I have three children with only one in school now and it makes me sad that I can’t afford a better, private school for her and her sisters when they start school.

Read the rest here.

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