Can someone explain how pulling money from schools that have low test results makes any sense whatsoever? This may be my socialist side talking, but wouldn't it make more sense to fund these schools even more?

We all know the rich can afford to send their kids to private schools that are unaffected by federal budgets. We also know that the rich hate paying taxes on anything in regards to the poors. So they'll do anything they can to discredit the idea that *GASP* they should be paying higher tax brackets on the wealthy to afford funding in the education system. This here is a propaganda piece. Those bastards ought to be stripped of every nine out of ten dollars they own, and be sent to the educational system so that the next generation isn't so educationally devoid.
Even with 9 out of 10 dollars stripped from the ultra wealthy, they'd still be better off than you or I. And don't say it's unprecidented. It happened during the Eisenhower administration, and those were the golden years of capitalism.

Originally posted by ShadeWolf
Can someone explain how pulling money from schools that have low test results makes any sense whatsoever? This may be my socialist side talking, but wouldn't it make more sense to fund these schools even more?

No Child Left Behind. That's exactly what it does--for schools who don't meet the testing standards, they don't get the federal money. My kids' teachers hate it and think it's completely unfair for the students. No Child Left Behind leaves a LOT of children behind.

Here in SC, the standards to become a teacher are very low. They need to change this--make the teachers get a better education so they can better educate the students.

What it has to do with is who has the money to fund propaganda pieces about the school system. And that would be the people with the wealth.

Originally posted by Grifter42
We all know the rich can afford to send their kids to private schools that are unaffected by federal budgets. We also know that the rich hate paying taxes on anything in regards to the poors. So they'll do anything they can to discredit the idea that *GASP* they should be paying higher tax brackets on the wealthy to afford funding in the education system.

I'm not entirely following the point your making here...but if you're trying to use the educational issue as an excuse to rant about rich people...I'd note something very important here. On a per pupil basis and per capita basis, the United States ranks near the TOP in the World for Education funding. Despite that, the United States ranks near DEAD LAST among industrialized Western nations for education levels of the people graduating from public schools.

So... The idea that money spent has ANY relation to outcomes achieved seems to be put solidly down as total crap on a daily basis. It isn't like we've have the warped ratio as a new thing...it's been this way in America for a LONG time now. We spend more and more and get less and less in return. Of course the Teachers get their raises, like clock work, regularly...but the kids it's ALL FOR get shafted year in and year out.

Money isn't the answer and the rich have NOTHING to do with why our schools are among the worst on Earth within those nations capable of having the very best of everything.

On another note... Private schools just FIRE Teachers who can't cut it or don't have what it takes to be a leader of kids....as it SHOULD BE. Just my personal thoughts....but I believe the totally absurd lengths it takes to throw out Educators who are just incapable of doing the job is a LARGE part of why we have schools that can't teach and graduating students who can barely complete a resume without extensive help or remedial training.