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Sure just pour more money at the schools - the classic dem solution. No matter that the DC school district spends $20000/pupil right now. That is more than the BEST private school education one could buy.
Sure just pour more money at the schools - the classic dem solution. No matter that the DC school district spends $20000/pupil right now. That is more than the BEST private school education one could buy.
Obviously,
substituting money for parental involvement is never going to work.
Sure just pour more money at the schools - the classic dem solution. No matter that the DC school district spends $20000/pupil right now. That is more than the BEST private school education one could buy.
Didn't the article state that Obama thought pouring money into schools was not really the answer?
Hate to break it to you guys but how do you think the government is going to interfere with parenting. Maybe we should bring back corporal punishment at school.
The fact is their are too many kids that have NO discipline so if you teach your kids right from wrong they will not be at risk for corporal punishment at school!
My kids went to school all around the country, some more academically chanllenging than others, but honestly, how many parents on this board think the school their kids went to was the cesspool that seems to be described in these debates? A good preschool program and lots of attention in the early grades 1 to 3 to make sure kids are prepared to learn in the other grades appears to be one real measure of success for students. Years ago a very wise teacher said to me that she spent her years as a second grade teacher making sure all the kids could read, because if they could not read, they could not learn. Her motto was grades 1 to 3 learn to read, grades 4 and up read to learn.
(Although, IMO, the very best way for children to get on track is for moms to be able to stay home and care for them. But that's another problem for another day
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, isn't that an accomplishment....
