[kj] Congrats Obama - education

[folk devil]

Mr Me. As someone who works within US academia, an observation of mine would be that an American's education is greatly dependent on how affluent their family is, but yes, as you said, it is a capitalist society. This  'condition' is not limited to just the states, however. Scholarships are NOT that abundant, either.  Many lower income children enter the army after school, just to gain 'skills'. So you have immensely educated people, as well as incredibly 'under-educated' people, with a huge gap inbetween.
 


Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:45:51 -0400From: killingjoke at theimmortalfool.comTo: gathering at misera.netSubject: Re: [kj] Congrats ObamaThe US does a damned fine job for it's people. Regarding public education, the amount of money spent iscrazy. It's just sad that the money given to the educators is wasted on shit like "taking kids to the groceryto learn how to shop and interact with shopkeeps and shop workers". When the US has tough tests youhave the liberal loons crying and bitching that "the tests are to hard for the kids, we need to make it easier".The poorly educated Americans are not due to a lack of effort. It's due to misguided individuals who fuckeverything up. (Oh yes, and also editing or removing Mark twain books because some things are "offensive")Making college tests easier and allowing ppl. with lower scores access just for the sake of it... is pathetic. 
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