Is it OBVIOUS that our country cares more about war than education?

Question

I ask because of the amount of war funding since this thing began, and the lack of funding for education since I've been born. Now, I ask all of you all to set aside your political influence (If you can), bias and education, and tell me if I'm wrong.

But our priorities here are "screwed".
It's one thing to have a safe nation, but a safe nation of under-educated/trained people. Wouldn't that spell "disater" to anyone with a brain?

Answer 1

Two sides of the same coin. It is much easier to manipulate an uneducated public, as ling as they are well fed and properly entertained. So we get bread and circuses.

Answer 2

I have 2 kids and I am luckily enough to scrape enough of a living to put them through private education - I must admit there are times when I wonder if it's actually worth it - they have friends at state schools who are doing just as well, if not better, yet it's a postcode lottery where you live regarding the standard of such state schools. My local state schools are flick knife comprehensives full with kids smoking at the school gates, meeting up after dark and probably getting pregnant and taking drugs. I don't consider it an honour that I go without to send them to a private school, but this is the way education has made me turn. I don't like doing it but it's something I feel I have to do. When I was educated there was a chance for bright pupils to go to the equivalent of a private school, they were called grammar schools, but the Govt have knocked them all down and nobody with a low income stands much of a chance apart from the odd one or two really bright ones.

And yes I agree with your question - somebody has to work at McDonalds, let it be the British citizens who, unlike the Indians (in my area) can't afford to get educated properly.

Answer 3

The only thing that they have in coming is priceless safety and should be Priceless education. "No child left behind stinks!" The reason why I say this is because and not to make the program a disgrace is the lack of quality of teachers they hire and keep because of 10year. A few weeks ago I have received a letter that my child's school is on a Performance improvement program because they missed the mark by one point. Which can happen but on the same hand, 1/2 of the staff don't have all of their qualifications to teach or do have enough experience and their failures become the students failures most of the time.
Its one thing to throw money at a program but another thing to teach. If they can hire child molesters and teaches that have a criminal background, so why can't they hire less educated teachers until someone screams or someone gets hurt? I think that they should have more of an expetation on teachers and their education/background check. If the goverment of CPS can invade in your life if you are in that situation, why can the goverment be intrusive on our teachers? These are the childern of tomorrow and our future. These are the children that will gard our country! The only thing that they can do to change our childerns education is to require the parents to show up at least 4 times a year and help. Not only at the school, but preach to the parents your childs educations starts with you. All in all, I just think that they should give ppl the money to send their child where they want so that there education will be a succucess. I don't want to slam public school, or private school, home school, what ever works for you and your kids I just think if it's going to be a sucess we as parents need to take a stand and not leave their education up to someone else. It's not the lack of pay, and yes most teachers do deserve it, but some don't!! We don't need babysitters, we need educators!!!
As for funding we are using to protect our country they have a plan but we as ppl need to have one thought, when you lay your head down at night, do you want a gun to your head when you wake up? Now put a price on that! Put a price on your life. Put a price on your childrens life? As for the countrys we are fighting they have the same thoughts. Most of all I think that their plan on the war might be out of control, which I think the president should give more thought to the budget and our troops, families. In all time, I honesty don't belive that this war will not end for quite sometime, there will always be some or a lot of interaction. It's easy to tear down but much hardered to build up.

Answer 4

PROBLEM: We spend almost double what other developed nations spend per capita on education, yet our children are not even ranked in the Top Five worldwide in terms of best-educated. Let's face it -- the vast majority of kids these days don't give a rat's @$$ about getting an education. They just want all their toys like the latest cell phone with a built-in digital camera and an iPod and clothes with designer names on them, the list goes on and on. School is a fashion show and a popularity contest for them, and they couldn't care less about what's going on in the rest of the world or learning how to read, write, or spell properly (look no further than Y!A and you'll see what I mean -- heck, you couldn't even spell "disaster" correctly). Then you have the colleges and universities "dumbing down" their entry requirements to cater to the so-called minorities...What ever happened to earning a high school diploma and earning admission to college? Why do so many people expect everything they want to be handed to them on a silver platter? The entitlement mindedness and mental laziness of Americans spells DISASTER in much bigger letters than anything else.

Answer 5

The history of education funding in the US is that it is local. In most states school funding is from property taxes. Defense funding is done at the federal level, through income taxes.

Most people want to be able to "control" their kids education and not leave it up to a policy wonk in Washington.

Answer 6

An interesting point. However, throwing gobs of money at education, especially today's inept bureaucratic behemoth, is not the answer. Consider, for example the one room schoolhouses of the mid 19th century. They produced students and adults with far greater literary skills and learning comprehension than almost any institution of today, be it public or secondary institution. The idea of more money = better education for kids is false.

Answer 7

Money won't help the education system. Throwing money at the problem has always been done. What it really needs is fundamental change. Curriculum, overhead bureaucracy, classroom size, current methods to teach reading (PLORE and other stupid things). The Education system is about 90% funded and decided at the states level and people don't participate in state politics as much as federal. Personally? Give me my tax money back so I can put my kids in private school.

Answer 8

I'm not sure pouring more and more money to education is the answer. If we have under-educated/trained people after the huge amount of money earmarked to education, then we should look for reasons why. There's something wrong that dumping in more money won't fix.

Answer 9

I agree that our priorities are in the wrong place,but in the end if anyone REALLY wants a change they have to push for it and make it VERY public.

Answer 10

you can give all the money you want to some popele and they will never change. and apparently you have not been educated to the fact that some islamo-fascists want to cut your head off!