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We Should Cut Special Education
OG Hack Wilson:
--- Quote from: The ghost lives on June 21, 2011, 11:20:13 AM ---Without special education, Radiotube would forget to breathe.
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+1
OG Hack Wilson:
--- Quote from: Sami on June 21, 2011, 08:43:10 PM ---I have Cerebral Palsy and I'm in a chair.
You know how education could save money? Stop buying private textbooks, and stop having local school boards and bullshit that adds extra bureaucracy.
The State of California could have different universities create standard textbooks themselves not just for colleges but lower grades as well, because McGraw Hill already pays public universities to write the books and then turns around and charges huge amounts off the top, and because there are different books and they change from place to place the quality of education varies.
I noticed that growing up. Shitty areas I lived in had cheap, shitty books and the rich areas were hyper-rigorous so it was hard for me to jump right in when ever I moved. If the whole state used the same curriculum and books, it'd be much more uniform and higher quality as well as cutting out the textbook companies.
You know how else we save money? End the goddamn war.
You know what else, if I were governor I'd refuse to open any more collectives and instead the state would open weed stores of it's own the way Canada has govt-owned liquor stores.The profits could be funneled to health care and education and drug rehab.
Empty the prisons of weedheads and impose death sentences on rapists, pedos and murderers, with limited appeals and bring back firing squads instead of that lethal injection bullshit.
Abolish property taxes on where people live and raise them on "extra" houses to punish the banks for keeping houses empty.
I have more. There are so many things we could do.
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props on your post
Sami:
You're welcome.
It's mostly just common sense. Education is still in the 19th century, and it needs changes but it should always be public for everyone because a democratic society needs people to read, write and think. If we lose that, our Republic doesn't exist.
Russell Bell:
--- Quote from: Sami on June 21, 2011, 08:43:10 PM ---I have Cerebral Palsy and I'm in a chair.
You know how education could save money? Stop buying private textbooks, and stop having local school boards and bullshit that adds extra bureaucracy.
The State of California could have different universities create standard textbooks themselves not just for colleges but lower grades as well, because McGraw Hill already pays public universities to write the books and then turns around and charges huge amounts off the top, and because there are different books and they change from place to place the quality of education varies.
I noticed that growing up. Shitty areas I lived in had cheap, shitty books and the rich areas were hyper-rigorous so it was hard for me to jump right in when ever I moved. If the whole state used the same curriculum and books, it'd be much more uniform and higher quality as well as cutting out the textbook companies.
You know how else we save money? End the goddamn war.
You know what else, if I were governor I'd refuse to open any more collectives and instead the state would open weed stores of it's own the way Canada has govt-owned liquor stores.The profits could be funneled to health care and education and drug rehab.
Empty the prisons of weedheads and impose death sentences on rapists, pedos and murderers, with limited appeals and bring back firing squads instead of that lethal injection bullshit.
Abolish property taxes on where people live and raise them on "extra" houses to punish the banks for keeping houses empty.
I have more. There are so many things we could do.
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We have different views on specifics of special ed, but i agree w most of this post.
Wars/putting drug abusers in jail is costing our state/country dearly, and the textbook industry is a sham.
The extra bureaucracy part i agree with too, but wouldnt you rather have local control over a federal dept of ed? Local is always better than far away federal.
Sami:
Agreed. Federal control isn't adding anything, it's only destabilizing things in states where things are already bad cause President Obama only supports testing, testing, testing and private schools.
Education ought to be controlled entirely by the states, except the Feds should intervene IMO when things are blatantly out-of-control, like in Texas where they've stopped teaching Thomas Jefferson because he was an avid supporter of church-state separation. Shit like that is immoral, cause the Texans are manipulating history for political purposes.
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