Subj : Re: FAILURE
To   : Finnigann
From : richardw
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 10:18 am

  Re: Re: FAILURE
  By: Finnigann to richardw on Wed Sep 28 2005 06:41 pm

 >  >  > Education should be the federal government's business. As a matter of 
 >  >  > 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?

Who said anything about the constitution?

 > 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.

I'd prefer to pay someone of MY choosing to educate my child.  I don't 
like your socialist government taking my money in the name of education, 
then not allowing me to choose the educator.

 > 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.

Education is part of the essence of life itself.

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