Making sense of it all

[Sioubisae]

Today, I heard about one school district closing its doors and having to ship its 3000 students to nearby towns. I also heard of another school district having to close their libraries, close services and what not.

And I started to think, what's the sense of giving all that billions of dollars to the military and to Iraq... when 1/10th of that would probably keep these districts open?

I can see the future now... American with a literacy rate of 50% yet still controlling the world economy... 3rd world countries with a literacy rate of 100% yet still costing 1/5th of what it would take to hire an American.

[Frobozz]

And at the same time, here in Cleveland, they are redoing all 36 school districts... tearing down 8 school districts a year and building 8 back up. They've off set it so that no kids are going to be outplaced.

[Evana]

Any time an American political system "needs"money, they raise taxes, establish new fees, tarriffs, whatever, in the name of "education". Whether it be federal, state, county or city government, the education umbrella is the first thing to be whipped out when they need to raise funds (for whatever). And the most asinine aspect is that there is no "education fund" in any governmental budget, anywhere. The funds are dumped into a general fund, from which they magically vanish.

It's nothing but a great cash cow. Meanwhile, schools in many districts across the country are falling apart, both literally and figuratively, while the politicians call again, louder than ever, for "education money!"