Gay Marriage: Yes or No?

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SciFiBoy said:

adriane23 said:

mrstickball said:

SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

Property tax and school population are big factors in the disparities between public schools.

build more schools in those areas, shockingly simple solution to the over population problem, and taxes should be progressive otherwise they are pretty pointless, if you need to, raise them to pay for the education system or cut budgets in other less important sectors, lets face it, theyre arent many things more important than education.

But most of the failing schools are also having the most money put into them to 'fix' them, despite no improvements in test scores.

Also, I would question if smaller class sizes invariably lead to better education, SciFiBoy. If you did not know, Utah has the worst student to teacher ratio in the US, and has the best test scores. In the case of many of the schools' budgets I just showed you, how in the world is more money going to change things when its painfully obvious that money doesn't help the problem?