07-02-2007, 03:09 PM
The real problem is the Feds: What are they doing dictating to local school districts and setting up demands that are impossible to reach? They do this because this administration does not believe in the concept of a publicly funded school system. They want all aspects of government privatized. They best way to accomplish this is to set impossible and ridiculous standards and then yank funding from those schools (many, many schools) that don't meet those standards. While it is good to have standards, the motivation behind these standards is not a more efficient school system, but the complete destruction of that school system.
The Feds are the problem, not the solution. As for the unions, without unions workers would have no power at all to bargain with their employers for better wages, conditions, and benefits. When this country finally has no unions, corporations (aka the junta that runs our Federal government) will finally achieve what they wanted: a nation that is emulating China in a race to the bottom in terms of what workers are paid.
The Feds are the problem, not the solution. As for the unions, without unions workers would have no power at all to bargain with their employers for better wages, conditions, and benefits. When this country finally has no unions, corporations (aka the junta that runs our Federal government) will finally achieve what they wanted: a nation that is emulating China in a race to the bottom in terms of what workers are paid.