This is a follow up on a previous article I wrote about tax supported schools in this country. I quoted a newspaper article last December which stated, “Education represents more than 55 percent of nearly 8.2 billion of Georgia’s fiscal year 2009 budget, according to the governor’s office of planning and budget.
I’m going to round it off to understand numbers easier, instead of 55 percent, let’s just say one-half or 50 percent, this would mean 4.1 billion for schooling in the state of Georgia. Some states may have a higher budget and some may have a lower budget. California may have a larger budget than Montana.
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The Tail Is Waggin The Dog Over Socialistic Schools (Issue 182)
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The newly elected President is trying to ram-rod as much legislation, about as many things as possible, as quickly as he can.
In less than two months, he has proposed, passed, pitched and promised so many billions in bailouts, one would think, what’s left, and what’s next? Oops almost forgot, education.
Yesterday came the speech from the president about large amounts of money to be poured into so-called education. This is the all-time, old time standby pitch for all politicians. Their safety-net pitch, the underlying notion, we can always get away with talking more money for education. It’s across the board. Republicans and Democrats, hang together when it comes to voting for more and more money to be extracted from the citizens for tax supported schooling.
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The Dog Bites the Flea, The Flea Bites the Dog – They Stay Together: Politicians and Schools (Issue 179)
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Confucius says, “If your plans are for one year, plant rice. If your plans are for ten years, plant trees. If your plans are for one hundred years, educate men.”
So what is education? It is simply an acquisition of knowledge and truth. How does one acquire it? Not in the tax-supported school system.
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Confucius Says, If Your Plans Are For . . . (Issue 113)
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The next questions I received from one of my readers were about the current school system. In response to my opposition to the tax supported school system one reader asked, “What does one replace it with? Are you suggesting that every child be home schooled? And, how can we be sure all children are receiving a ‘fair’ education?” All interesting and valid questions.
To the first one, “what do we replace our current school system with?” I ask, “what does one replace cancer with?”
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The School System, How Is It Replaced? (Issue 94)
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