Subj : Re: FAILURE
To   : richardw
From : Finnigann
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 06:41 pm

-=> richardw wrote to Finnigann <=-

 ri>   Re: Re: FAILURE
 ri>   By: Finnigann to Ralph Smole on Wed Sep 28 2005 01:29 pm

 >  >  >  > Folks are quick to throw up Terrorism in the 'Important' category,
 >  >  >  > about education, economics, and other issues that also matter.  Bus
 >  >  >  > sent more to Iraq then he budgeted for the Education system.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  > If me not supporting and agreeing with Bush makes me unpatriotic an
 >  >  >  > opinion is that such opinions require "deportation to a communistic
 >  >  >  > country", that in of itself sounds communistic to me.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > You tell 'em Sam!!!
 >  >  >
 >  > Education should be the federal government's business. As a matter of the
 >  > the education department should be disbanded.
 >  >
 >  RS> Should read: Education should NOT be the feds business. Me bad.
 >
 > No, you stupid. Public education was one of the first concerns of the new
 > nation.
 >
 > That's why school attendance is mandatory.

 ri> No, you stupid.

 ri> In 1870, only 2% of 17-year-olds graduated from high school.

 ri> In 1900 only 31 states required 8 to 14 year olds to attend school.

 ri> In 1910 only 72% of american children attended school, and half the
 ri> nation's children attended one-room schools.

 ri> Considering the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, I don't
 ri> see how public education was one of their first concerns.



Did you think it was a constitutional matter?

Of course not, it's just that these dates support your contention that
education doesn't matter. At least not to the point of your paying for it.


http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/roots_in_history/index.html

	From the landing at Plymouth Rock to today, educators and 
	community members have debated over the best way that government 
	should fulfill its responsibility to educate citizens.

Seems it's been going on a bit longer than this country has been a country.




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