QOTD
"High-school graduation rates are lower today than they were in 1970."
- WSJ article, source
Another stat worthy of your consideration: public schools spend an average $10,000/pupil.

President Obama's solution:
  • Hire Arnie Duncan, failed poo-bah of Chicago public schools, to head the Education Dept
  • Give him $100B to piss away in the stimulus bill
Hope and change?
Are you kidding me?
And I'll be Mr. Bipartisan here... W's solution was to go watch movies with Ted Kennedy, spend a bunch of money for 8 years, and not get a dang thing out of it either.

Williamt solution (stolen):
  • Give any parent that wants it a $5K voucher to educate their crappy kids wherever they please.
  • Let the public school keep the other $5K.
Hey, the schools in Naperville ain't bad. Or Plainfield. Or tons of lily white suburbs.
IMHO, inner-city poverty and violence is rooted the inability of these kids, mostly non-white, to get a quality education.
Are these the last tendrils of systemic racism in the US? You tell me.
peace... yow, bill

PS - Hillary Swank (below) running away from Obama's anti-choice education platform... in her bikini, of course. He he.

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