Could you imagine how much more successful we would be as a country if these numbers were reversed?FACT: State prison spending has grown faster than education spending. Let's fix that. https://t.co/fcgqxCDQAH pic.twitter.com/j4DEMRUhFo
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 23, 2016
I have been saying for years that our schools are not failing out country, our country is failing our schools.
If every politician who claimed that they were determined to improve education in this country actually meant what they said we would be a nation filled with highly educated, highly motivated young people just aching to take us into the future.
Do you want to get rich? Get a government contract. Schools will get more money when they're privitized. Of course the money won't go for education, it will go for profits.
ReplyDeleteMany prisons are privately owned, also too!! Dickless Cheney has $80 million invested in private prisons. This explains a lot about the rising costs.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing this assclown show has attempted was to extort money from Americans and privatizing everything that they can get away with. They set up Americans in the housing scam. They bailed out banks. They arranged outragous housing loans and students loans to fail They set up americans and america to fail. They are criminals hiding behind their white collars and paid off politicians, religion and money. Get ready for change folks. Sanders/Edwards 2016
ReplyDeleteYou know what's worse? Those 'state prisons' are mostly for-profit schemes now, thanks to the GOP. In MI, they fired the food service folks and brought in sub humans who were preparing and serving moldy, dirty, and contaminated meals to the prisoners. Just like with the charter schools, no one was accountable, and no one went to jail. Meanwhile, the public schools have seen more cuts, had to face more accountability and state testing, and the teachers are treated like slaves. They can't get subs, because the pay has not gone up in 25 years here. I can now make more at McDonald's than by using my degree and years of experience to substitute teach. Yes, let's fix this. Educate our kids, give them a goal, and get people out of the prison system.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me? SUB humans? What the hell is a SUB human?
Deletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/texas-cop-id-beat-a-trans-woman-unconscious-if-she-tried-to-share-a-bathroom-with-my-daughter/ prepare and serve known contaminated or SUB-par food was a sub-human. I don't think they were relegating a particular race or socio-economic group to a less than human category.
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ReplyDeletehttp://americablog.com/2016/04/mrs-sanders-suggests-bernies-supporters-wont-vote-hillary.html
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ReplyDeleteYet Hillary Clinton walks hand-in-hand with the private prison industry.
ReplyDeleteLike everything said about Hillary, just saying it doesn't make it true.
DeleteProof, please. And one reference doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I should have stipulated this was a reply to 7:45 AM about HC and the prison industry.
DeleteYou have to remember our prison system has been outsourced to a private for-profit corporate model.
ReplyDeleteYou can make a profit out of prisoners. You can't profit from students. Unless they are in higher education and have taken out usurious student loans.
Studies have shown that for every $1 spent on education now you save $3 in incarceration costs in the future.
But politicians and tax payers don't plan long term or think altruistically. If they don't see a fast fix, they keep moving on to the promise of one.
And don't forget how many still believe Reagan's debunked propaganda "A Nation at Risk". We'll be suffering the fallout of all of the attacks on teachers, unions and education for the next decade or two as teachers retire and college students aren't stupid enough to subject themselves to a life of ridicule, austerity and abuse by choosing teaching as a profession. They'll go where the money and prestige are. Until you fix the attitude of the public and the media, there is nothing that is going to "fix" education in this country. They'll continue to defund public education and blame teachers for the results of the growing poverty in this country. Any young idealists that think they can "make a difference" by going in to education will be gone in five years for greener pastures offering better pay and better working conditions.
It's already happening.