State of the Union

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Originally Posted by artdutra04

This is like one of my favorite quotes from my physical education teacher.

"You have twenty tomato plants: ten of them are perfectly healthy, and the other ten are barely surviving. You only have enough fertilizer for ten plants. Do you give the fertilizer to the ten plants that are practically dead, and hope for a 30% increase in the amounts of tomatoes they produce, or do you give the fertilizer to the ten healthy plants, which would result in an increase of their tomato output of 80%? Sadly, 9 out of ten times the govermnent tries to squeeze tomatoes out of dead plants."

I'm making my own slightly political comments here:

The answer is, GET MORE FERTILIZER! I'm shouting this at the government. Just like someone mentioned earlier (though I'm not sure I agree) that 25K is play money for a special ed program, 1 million is nothing out of a huge military budget. The military budget for the US of A is more than the next top ten contries COMBINED. We have the finest military in the world, and yet our schools have no AC or heat. I'm not saying that the quote above is wrong (though I'll get to it in a second) it's just that we need more fertilizer.

My cousins used to go to public schools in Atlanta. They hated it. For one thing, because of NCLB, they were, with a bunch of other families in their area, required to rent an apartment in another district just to go to a halfway decent school. But whatever.

The problem is, we can't just give up on kids. This is, I suppose, the good intention of NCLB (though I don't like it). The answer, again, is more fertilizer, not less.

Just my comments. For the record, I'm a Democrat/Independent (I have some really strange views on business).

Good day to you all!
Paul Dennis


P.S.: Anyone think this is sounding blogish?