Originally Posted By Donny I have been watching education Nation on MSNBC today and I encourage anyone who wants to understand what we can do to improve our schools goto this website <a href="http://www.educationnation.com/" target="_blank">http://www.educationnation.com/</a>
Originally Posted By fkurucz Here in Colorado there are three ballot issues that if passed will cut tax collections by as much as 33%. This of course will affect our school districts which are already amongst the lowest funded in the nation. If these ballot issues pass (and it looks like they might) it will be interesting to see how schools will cope as many of their costs are fixed and cannot be cut (say for instance winter heating costs). I expect that all those who will vote for these tax cuts will be the first to scream to high heaven when optional programs like athletics and band get cut or they have to buy textbooks for their kids. Oh well.
Originally Posted By ecdc In addition to Education Nation, the new documentary "Waiting for Superman" is making waves. Every review talks about how it has the power to galvanize people to affect real change in our education system. I hope it's true, but my cynicism runs deep. I don't think people in this country have the attention span to do anything that lasts longer than a season of Dancing with the Stars. And with Obama pushing public education, I won't be surprised if a lot of people - whose own children go to public schools, mind - start talking about how it's socialism and indoctrination and start supporting private schools even though it doesn't help them.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 ^^If only the idiots that feel that way and the idiots that felt that school kids shouldn't hear a back-to-school message from the president (I am sure there would be a lot of overlap there) pulled their kids out of public school there would be a lot more resources for the remaining students. It would help greatly in my state (WA) where our governor just cut education spending yet again.
Originally Posted By plpeters70 It never ceases to amaze me how politicians always seem to cut spending from schools first. Why is education spending always the first thing to go? Don't people care about the future of the country?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Why is education spending always the first thing to go?<< Because uneducated future voters make better followers. They tend to ask fewer tough-to-answer questions of politicians.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda There is that... but the other reason, is that parents usually get up in arms about education funding being cut and they are more inclined to vote for more taxes.
