Making Ron Paul's case about Education.

[Matthew Zak]

Help me please.

I don't know where to find the graphs I am looking for. I need two:

1. Graph showing the quality of our education in America compared to the world.

2. Graph showing the amount of money we've been spending on education over the years.

Thank you. :)

[Matthew Zak]

bump

I should have been a bunch of stars and exclamation points in the title...

[RobS]

I don't know, but I"ll give this a bump because I am interested in the same info.

[ST0PandL00K]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swl8frWSNEQ

and i too would want to know the answer to this Question

[zakkubin]

A bit old but may help:

http://www.willisms.com/archives/2006/11/trivia_tidbit_o_379.html


I believe the thing to know is if you throw enough cash at something your going to do some good....but that doesn't mean more cash is the answer.

[Matthew Zak]

google is not my friend today.

[zakkubin]

But to make his case is much simplier... you don't really need charts.

- Constitution doesn't give Federal Government the power to regulate public schools.

Yet the department of education does exist and regulates the entire nation.
What do they do? - No Child Left Behind.

They attempt a one size fits all strategy for all schools.


Ron Paul would eliminate the federal department which would mean no more taxing states to fund that. So each states department of education would grow to compensate and would have sole control over their respective state.

The advantages-

1- It's constitutional

2- It saves fed. gov money helps balance budget/pay debt which is our nations primary problem

3- A state knows what their schools need more than someone in Washington.

4- When a state spends it's own money it will spend it more efficiently and will get the most bang for it's buck.

( when you pool money together your going to waste it initially on silly things, when you spend your own limited money you will likely buy things that you need )

5- Put yourself in the child/parents shoes. Now if you have a problem you go talk to your school board member who talks to the state level if need be. That is the top of the chain who can make the appropriate changes if needed. If this representative is unwilling to rep. popular vote of the people the state elects someone else.

Currently the chain can go all the way up to Washington! In doing so the common citizen has lost a tremendous amount of power...

[Matthew Zak]

A bit old but may help:

http://www.willisms.com/archives/2006/11/trivia_tidbit_o_379.html


I believe the thing to know is if you throw enough cash at something your going to do some good....but that doesn't mean more cash is the answer.



Thank you... that helps a bit. :)

[zakkubin]

np