How would America handle socialistic programs being shut down?

[gergroy]

HappySqurriel said:

gergroy said:

Thats a terrible graph, because money is the problem.  Its funny that your graph starts in the 70s because that is the decade that the government started imposing regulations on schools.  They demanded a special education program and said they would fund half but only funded 10%.  Demanded kids had to stay in school till a certain age.  Stuff like that.  The scores is also stupid as tests have evolved and become more demanding over the years.  If a kid back then took a test from today, they would do a lot worse.

basically, the schools today have to do a lot more then they had to.  I am a school teacher and did you know almost half our budget goes just to special education?  Not saying we should do away with special education, it is valuable, but it has never been properly paid for...

 

From my understanding, I think you have it backwards ... Take away a calculator and have your best high-school math student do a test from the 1950s, I'm positive he will struggle to get a passing mark; and probably won't come close to finishing the test in time. Without a calculator students can't do basic arithmitec, without a word processor students can't write an essay, and without the internet students can't write a basic research paper anymore.

 

With that said, I think the primary problems with the school system is lack of discipline and lack of accountability of students; and the protection of incompetent teachers by the union.

Im not going to go into it, but that isnt a very good understanding of the school system.  Except the word proccessor and essay part, that may be somewhat true, at least from a spelling and grammatical perspective...