Only if you measure efficiency by the ability to churn out students who score well on standardized tests. Not only is that not education, it actually does violence to education by substituting the ability to regurgitate homogenized and discrete facts for independent thinking. Want to know who the stupidest kids on campus are (besides the baseball players)? They're the ones who took all those SAT prep classes and did super great on their exit exams and now can't manifest an original thought if their life depends on it.
Yeah, you're right. I shoulda said "recent historic high" or something like that. I wanted to draw attention to the facts that 1)his approval ratings fly in the face of some of the rhetoric around here and 2) his approval ratings are higher at this point of his administration than those of the two most recent ex-presidents.
Public education doesn't need more money. The Atlanta Public school System spends over $10K per student and that school system produces some of the dumbest kids on the face of the planet. My aunt was the State School Superintendent and we would argue about how the school system needing more funding. She got it and it didn't produce a damn thing except higher taxes. We need school vouchers so schools compete for students, the teachers unions don't like competition and they don't want to be held accountable.
I can be rightly accused of a lot of things, but making up data is not one of them. I don't need to make them up. It's all very readily available. Now I understand that many here don't like the numbers, but that's no reason to devolve to the Repuglican tactic of blaming the messenger. It makes you look childish, insincere, and, most of all, afraid.
