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Originally posted by Carrie@Feb 5 2004, 01:46 PM
Vouchers - thumbs up.

I forget now who said to stop blaming the gov't for everything (Aeon maybe?) but umm... who is to blame? It's the gov't that took away the small hometown schools and pushed the kids out of homeschooling and farmed them into their big public school institutions. It's the gov't that sets the SOLs (Standards of Learning) - and keeps dropping those standards more and more for both the teachers and the students. It's the gov't that creates the environment in which our kids learn in school... zero tolerance, ebonics as a second language, "tolerance" period...
And ultimately it's the gov't that should be held responsible for the results that are coming out of the schools. Shit rolls downhill. If the students aren't doing well, look at the teachers. If the teachers aren't doing well, look at the superintendent and the local school system. If the school system isn't doing well, look at the gov't that is funding it, hiring the superintendents, hiring the teachers, and setting (lowering) the standards.

Where did you get your information? The Timmy McVeigh Foundation for the History of Education?