In the wake of President Obama's speech to all students welcoming them back to school and stressing the importance of studying hard and staying in school. Republican politicians are up in arms over this, saying that the president is overstepping his boundaries and using this to push his policies onto children. Hmmm, did these same politicians have a problem when Reagan and Bush Sr. did this? Here's why we shouldn't be scared about Obama's speech:
"I believe a case can be made that the decline in the quality of public school education began when Federal aid to education became Federal interference in education." Ronald Reagan
"If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer." Ronald Reagan
"We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years." Ronald Reagan
"You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society." George H.W. Bush
"I'm not what you call your basic intellectual." George H.W. Bush
"Rarely is the question asked. Is our children learning?" George W. Bush
"It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children." George W Bush
"Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our students in America." George W. Bush
Honestly, the last one is so convoluted, I don't even know what to say. Our country has been run by a republican administration for twenty of the last twenty-eight years and out educational system has quickly become one of the worst in the world. It is not the teachers faults, because I know many teachers who are intelligent, nurturing and determined, but we have over sized classes, not enough resources, and spending usually goes to areas that do not help the children.
Let's wait til after Obama's speech to ridicule him. After reading the quotes I was able to find by his predecessors, I don't think the nation's children are in bad hands.
"I believe a case can be made that the decline in the quality of public school education began when Federal aid to education became Federal interference in education." Ronald Reagan
"If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer." Ronald Reagan
"We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years." Ronald Reagan
"You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society." George H.W. Bush
"I'm not what you call your basic intellectual." George H.W. Bush
"Rarely is the question asked. Is our children learning?" George W. Bush
"It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children." George W Bush
"Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our students in America." George W. Bush
Honestly, the last one is so convoluted, I don't even know what to say. Our country has been run by a republican administration for twenty of the last twenty-eight years and out educational system has quickly become one of the worst in the world. It is not the teachers faults, because I know many teachers who are intelligent, nurturing and determined, but we have over sized classes, not enough resources, and spending usually goes to areas that do not help the children.
Let's wait til after Obama's speech to ridicule him. After reading the quotes I was able to find by his predecessors, I don't think the nation's children are in bad hands.
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