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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Your point is well taken, and I will not be understanding if my kid cannot do calculus when he graduates from HS.
But as a matter of social policy, if you want to improve the schools, I believe the way to do it is for the left to sell out the teachers unions and for the right to agree to spend more money. As I say, I don't really know the subject, but I suspect both left and right have an element of truth to what they say but also are avoiding acknowledging inconvenient truths.
If, on the other hand, you don't want to pay more in property taxes and you don't care an awful lot about whether the schools improve, then the teachers and the students make perfect good scapegoats.
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at least in Michigan the schools are funded locally. my kids go to a school that gathers one upper middle class suburb, one middle-middle class suburb and one lower middle class suburb. my suburb votes at like 90% and any school millage passes. the schools are fine.
My concern is for the poor children who are going to school in the City of detroit* (or Oakland?) Monday morning. many will graduate not knowing math- I don't think its the textbooks, that's all I'm saying.
*actually Detroit is on strike because the district is asking for wage concessions, so no one is going Monday- but you all don't know that- read it as the implied image
