tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140506531679956515.post9151535818228325328..comments2023-11-03T07:39:32.473-06:00Comments on The Well-Armed Lamb:<br><center><i>The Bleat Goes On!</i></center>: Obama & Education: Faulty Assumptions, Based on "Wrong" DataWoody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140506531679956515.post-41768081756698898142009-06-27T19:35:24.196-06:002009-06-27T19:35:24.196-06:00I suspect a good start would be to stop funding th...I suspect a good start would be to stop funding the goddamn public schools with local property taxes!!!<br /><br />OF COURSE public schools in affluent suburbs (like say, Cobb County) with its countless McMansions (inhabited by families so white they might as well be translucent) are going to perform better than public schools in Appalachia or Compton. <br /><br />I've never understood why people don't take to the streets over this issue. <br /><br />Thanks for this post. <br /><br />It is beyond fucked up that politicians can throw around any figure or statistic they want without having to worry that our free press will do its damn job and, oh, I dunno, do some FACT CHECKING!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140506531679956515.post-63411360295024841502009-05-12T15:40:00.000-06:002009-05-12T15:40:00.000-06:00The best thing he could do would be to prohibit an...The best thing he could do would be to prohibit any single, slender federal dime to be spent in 'private' schools of any kind.<br /><br />The quality of public schools would rise dramatically of the folks now sending their kids to (partially subsidized) private schools were faced with the choiice of public schools or no schools...Woody (Tokin Librul/Rogue Scholar/ Helluvafella!)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09205896988142798901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140506531679956515.post-82873561974117209292009-05-12T13:35:00.000-06:002009-05-12T13:35:00.000-06:00Sounds like the best thing Obama could do for Amer...Sounds like the best thing Obama could do for American education is to redistribute income back down to the ordinary people.Charles Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975241234146573609noreply@blogger.com