[mburbank]

In my daughters school they just had to fire the librarian becuase we're so low on funds. Where we used to have one phys ed. teacher for each school, we now have one for the town. The science specialist has been dropped from full time to part time.

My daughters school is a magnet school and runs on a year round schedule. They meet the educational standards better than almost any public school in Massachusetts. Every year since the school opened, they cut the approved budget line for air conditioning becuase it's the only way they can keep class sizes down, the only thing all the research agrees always works at improving students achievement. Next year we will be forced to go to a regular school schedule becuase of declining tax revenues in my town.

You don't have kids. You are one. You don't know anything about education, it's just nother button issue you've been programmed to cut n' paste on.

Sourcing an article doesn't mean posting the original authors name. It means saying where you got it. Why? So one can take the source into account. You do know you should do this, don't you? For instnce, if your source is paid for by a firm heavily invested in privatizing education, or a lobbying group pushing school vouchers, it might call the articles credability into question. If the article i funded by a 'think tank' that is actually just a fund raising operation for political special interest, the article may have been tailored to provoke just the response you gave it. Have you checked any of the information in the artcile to see if you can find other sources for it, or do you just blindly believe it's conclusions like fish swallowing a hook if it's burried in a fat worm? I NEVER post an article here unless I've found corroborating sources. It's not any sort of gaurantee, but it helps.