If you still vote for Kerry after watching this... Options

[realdeal]

Then I don't know what else to say.

Watch it through to the end.

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[Blakjak]

Real numbers like that don't mean anything. This money is great but the vast majority of it is misused. The public education system is severly overmanaged and disorganzied.

1.) My mom works at a school where 73% of the students who enroll are hispanic, from poor families who value education little and do very little if anything to help the school. If there were ever any disadvantaged kids, her students would be them. And yet since Bush has taken over very little if anything has improved and some problems have worsened.

2.) Real if you had any idea what these reading programs were then i doubt you would have posted that figure. For the past two years, in accordance with new federal and state education codes, we must have at least 40 minutes allocated for reading. DeKalb county has dubbed it's program READS. This program and others like it have become a running joke among teachers and students. If Bush really wanted to improve literacy and reading levels, he should have made more of an effort to help the states hire more teachers.

3.) Special Education programs are great but that is the same amount of money going to a very very small percentage of students compared to the number of disadvantaged students. I am not trying to sound like an insensitive prick with this particualr rebuttle (I actually work with two mentally handicapped kids during the year as a mentor and tutor, and also help organzie and staff DeKalb county's special olympics) but its a little disconcerting to me that Bush spent the same amount of money on two groups so disproportianal in numbers.

The use of numbers and statistics shows perfectly how misunderstood the problems with public education are by the general population. Cy you hit the nail right on the head with your last post.