Quote Originally Posted by Rooskibar03 View Post
And once again Colorado votes down anything to do that might actually help our schools.

I'm as conservative as anyone here but as a parent in torn on the issue when it comes to school funding. Colorado is always at the bottom of the list when it comes to school funding and I can tell every time I walk into my daughters school.
The problem isn't the funding, it's the attitude and system. I was just listening to an audio book of Heinlein's "Have Space Suit -- Will Travel" and his description of the inadequacies of the educational system of the 1950s is priceless -- you could multiply all his complaints tenfold today and NONE of them have anything to do with funding.

The problems with education today are society's values and emphasis on "soft" curricula and touchy-feely garbage instead of actually expecting students to learn something, particularly critical thinking skills, or demonstrate any initiative or responsibility toward their own learning. More computers actually make the problem worse (and I'm a technogeek both by education and avocation) when students think the answer to any question is "look it up in Wikipedia" or "Google it."

Read William McGurn's column in the WSJ -- he's talking about college but his argument could just as well be applied to pre-collegiate education.