I'd have to agree with Han, that while education isn't the realm of the federal government, defense is. That doesn't make a bloated defense budget a good idea or anything, though.
I think that the state governments should put a lot more into education. I think it's sort of bad, that about half of all high school students (in California, anyways) drop out, and the ones who graduate are borderline retarded anyways. Federal intervention won't fix it.
State governments already spend millions of dollars on education. Every governor proclaims himself the "education governor" while after graduation the kids get jobs cleaning up dog sh**t. It's time for change.
The best way to improve test scores is to pay stupid people to not have children. Some on this forum may think that this will reduce the population of certain groups, but if you came to that conclusion so quickly, then you might be a racist piece of sh**t who seriously needs to readjust your moral compass.
I think there's a problem with the fundamental
structure of public schooling. School should be for education, not sports and cliques and garbage like that.
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