“Markets may be troubled, but that’s no reason to stop teaching our children. Yet that’s exactly what we’re doing,” wrote columnist Paul Krugman, noting that 29,000 jobs in state and local education were among the 273,000 jobs lost nationally last month. He blasted centrist senators for having trimmed from the stimulus bill more state aid that might have mitigated public education cuts, and he called on Congress to approve more aid for state government now. “Beyond that,” Krugman concluded, “we need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation’s historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.”
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CONs hate education.
Education leads to thinking.
Education leads to uppity-thinking poor people like the “Half-rican American” (thanks, Rush!) getting into the “Black House” (thanks again, Rush!).
As we see every day on WE Blog, CONs wallow in their ignorance. They hate education, educators, and the educated.
Krugman nails it in this editorial.
And it was the moderates more than the “CONS” (who were and are a lost cause anyway), particularly the two moderate senators from Maine, who scr*wed the pooch on this one by insisting on taking out some of the most likely to be effective provisions of the stimulus bill, aid to states, including the education aid referenced in the editorial.
“Markets may be troubled, but that’s no reason to stop teaching our children…”
What a weasel Lib statement…
Exagerration
Diversion
False accusation
All trademarks of liberal mantra…
“As soon as your born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool
Till your so f***ing crazy you cant follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they’ve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you cant really function you’re so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still f***ing peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There’s room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me”
“Working Class Hero” by John Lennon
Too bad Joh Lennon had such a sucky life.
“Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.”
Considering the state and ranking of government education in the United States it hard to argue that somewhere along the line the whole system did not become neglectful.
Quality of government schools is lacking. There is plenty of evidence that spending is not the problem. Krugman should use his column/megaphone to advocate for changes to the education system rather than complaining about spending cuts during a recession.
Their is a real simple answer to the school problem, eliminate the waste of bloated middle management who like the sound of their own voices. You want federal money… 90% MUST GO DIRECTLY TO THE CLASSROOM!
We do not need a Dept of Education, the local schools and school boards can handle all those functions.
I do not see how any teacher worth their salt could not be protesting and threatening to strike UNLESS THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, and the other big union are not disbanded! Why isn’t the government using anti trust laws to break them up? Teachers can uinionize, I support that, but they do not need to be under the thumb of 1 or 2 huge unions… THAT STILL ARE GIVING MONEY TO ACORN after ACORN was caught trying to aid in facilitating the start up of a child prostitution ring! WE LET YOU NEAR OUR KIDS!!!!! AND YOUR NOT FIGHTING THIS AS TEACHERS!!!!????? WHAT THE FUDGE IS WRONG WITH YOU????
Shemp,
No need for a teacher’s strike- if the teachers don’t want to be represented by the NEA, all they need to do is vote them out and start their own union, join another or do without one. Apparently most teachers prefer to be represented by those big unions. Quit assuming they’re ignorant!
Unions are suppose to deal with the issues Wichita teachers are saying they have problems with.
Why is the union not doing their job?
Third world countries are spending less to educate their chitlens and they’re still kicking you know what and taking names. Less money, better education! (The reverse hasn’t worked for years!) Good Job!