re: #111 celticdragon

I have to go with her on that. The GOP has been blaming teachers and the scary teacher’s unions for decades while studiously chopping funds for classroom improvements and property taxes that support schools.

People want to point fingers at the teachers for their little darling failing the GOP mandated high stakes testing(wouldn’t it be nice if mom and dad got little darling to do homework and stay awake in class)…so teachers teach to the test and history, science, geography and music go right down the drain.

Never mind that the schools are falling apart, the textbooks are falling apart and the classrooms are often over-crowded because of the hiring freeze…

Are you sure that you want me to wreck this post with a few simple spending charts and graphs, or do you want to back off of the hyperbole a bit? No harm done…i enjoy a good round of hyperbole…but saying that schools have ‘gone without’ over the past 20 years is like saying you can’t be a public employee in California and put bread on the table/