Class Size, Money, and Education

In his commentary, Have We Become a Nation of Lemmings, Thomas Segel makes many good points. One is below. Read the whole piece though.

"In any number of international tests American students are continuously outscored by Asian nations such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and even Hong Kong. With European nations, the Americans find themselves scoring around 15th to 18th among some 24 nations taking these educational tests."

In municipalities across the USA various Teachers' Unions are demanding higher wages for that ever-so-special class of human being, the TEACHER. I mean, the EDUCATOR. Come on, they NEED those raises or else something happens and they cannot perform effectively.

But getting back to Segel's piece, as Americans, we cannot afford to act as Lemmings, blindly following what the media or our government leaders tell us. Negative talk streaming from BO's mouth doesn't help anyone or anything. We cannot trust elected officials - Hell they WON'T even do their homework - read a bill before voting to accept it.

But if we will act as lemmings, let's do it in a positive way - when the next election rolls around, let's lemming together and vote all of the liberals who have financed our futures out of office.

Let's do that, shall we?