[Heliosprime]

We are getting short changed…..as far as money being spent on the war as opposed to education, that’s not quite the reality…educational spending has gone up every year, through fed. Hand outs and the states apportioning more of their budgets to education despite the fact that we are being short changed as it appears no matter how much money we throw at the issue, we are not getting the results we are paying for…...money is NOT the issue in education, it’s the quality of the teachers schools and administration that control them..

Somethings got to give..I am strong proponent of vouchers…..those who say it drains resources from public school are being dishonest and not looking at the numbers…….

ex: in Florida were the state and courts are waging a battle over vouchers, parents who elect to take a voucher, only get a portion of the money that the state allots to their school district and school per pupil..……the rest stays with the system and the parents only gets 1/3 if that..so, what is the other 2/3’s of that money being used for since that pupil is no longer in the system? Per pupil spending goes up, test scores are stagnant..its not money that is the issue here….

To surface an analogy; if folks are worked up about spending on the war, they see as ineffective and a waste, why it is okay to protest that, but yet we continue to throw money at a school system that does not work? Pragmatically, there is no difference if they are both losing ventures not meeting the goals, ipso facto- they should both have the plug pulled on them….