I'm sad to report to you that education and reforming education is not a current goal of the regime in power. It would serve the government to slowly take away funding as they have done, to ensure that the masses are not capable of arguing a point or better yet forming an independent thought. Lets look at the semi big picture here, when we look at the war on terror we are looking at tons of funding that go toward other things go directly down the global toilet (We have more people in our nation below the poverty line then Iraq has in total). If you want better education I suggest you go out there and try to get in office and see if you can't change things from the inside. Write letters to your congressmen and have all your classmates/friends do the same everyday. It would seem to me that America will soon have a slave class for it's cheap labor known as the welfare class, lets look at the new work for welfare initiative. OK first of all lets take some single mother that has a child or two on welfare, now she needs to work for welfare, so desperately needs so she can't spend the time care-taking her children. This doesn't make her much of a mother in the eyes of our government which promptly steps in and takes the child sighting the mothers neglectful mothering as the reason. Not only does this behavior go to insure that these people are to busy struggling/working to do anything but that, as well as filling government run orphanages/jails with their offspring. Lets face it orphanages don't have such a good reputation and it is only going to get worse. Not only with this in place do we have more broken families but we now have the work place flooded with cheap welfare workforce that undermines anyone who thought I'm going to be a carpenter, bricklayer etc... The point is education is the enemy of the state. They don't want you to have a well formed opinion and the don't want you to know what your potential is. Lets face it if they did they would have done something besides cut school funding year after year and then insured that teachers make little to no money thus ensuring only the bottom of their studied field for the most part take up the job, since anyone with a better understanding of their potential is out in another job making better money. So I hope something magical happens and changes it all and funding pours into school system, though if I was you I wouldn't hold my breath. I could be completely wrong, and maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about. But certain realities would have me remain on my current chain of thought.

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George W. Bush