Lil' Tuffy - Education

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Teachers should receive performance-based merit pay. To me teachers are as important as doctors, and they should be held to accountable to the highest standards--AND if they deliver they deserve to be paid like doctors!!!!

The government should not issue vouchers for private school tuition. Charter schools, yes. Private or parochial schools, absolutely not.

Meditation should be incorporated into education. It would increase attention span, release anxiety, subdue aggression.

Higher education is a right. It's a necessity. A functionally educated society prospers the most. The "dyseducated" Sarah Palin types are truly dangerous to any healthy, vibrant society as we saw with our last President.

Failing public schools should lengthen their days. More time can promote greater learning, and keep "at risk" children in more productive environments.

Schools should ban food and beverages with poor nutritional value. Would we allow drugs dealers into our schools, why do we think this crap is acceptable for our children to put into their bodies?

All-day kindergarten should be mandatory. They're better off playing with each other, socializing and bonding and exercising then stuffing their faces with junk in front of the TV.

Public schools should be required to offer home economics. But I'm not a fan of the name, i prefer "personal economics."

Prayer should not be permitted in public schools. Religion should be something deeply private, like having sex. Do you think it's OK to have sex in public? If you want to practice your religion go to a religious school or home school where you can do your thing without making anyone else uncomfortable

American schools should offer bilingual classes for native Spanish-speakers. All Americans need to know at least two of the "core" languages. It's a testament to our poor education system that we don't emphasise it as necessary.

The public school systems in America would be improved if they were federalized. Long-term yes, short-term, like right now, they could greatly benefit from additional, supplemental federal funding, especially for teachers' salaries, art and music programs, free meals and school supplies.

College entry exams should play no role in admissions decisions. The rich are taught by "the system" they own and the poor (public schooling) has always been left to fend for itself. College entry exams favor the wealthy who are not always deserving.

Sex education should begin during elementary school (before 6th grade). "Sex education" is a broad concept and should include immediate education on topics of molestation and sexual abuse and sexual predators to all children of all ages in the public domain.

Race should not be a factor in the university admission process. but socioeconomic status should be...

Education should have a higher priority in the federal budget than military spending. Look at all the uneducated idiots we have hollering hollow phrases like "Country First" and who have no idea what it actually means.

The government should not offer cash incentives for better student performance. That would skew to favour wealthy prep schools who have more far more resources to bolster a stronger performance from their students who already have trusts or come from dual income families.

The federal government should increase higher education subsidies for low-income students. Absolutely, or just offer free college tuition with a post four year residency program of community services using the degree of their choice to benefit society.

The classroom is an appropriate venue for teachers to express their political opinions. but only in progressive schools that teach critical-thinking as a mandatory, foundational skill for learning where children can naturally deconstruct arguments, otherwise they can be too easily indoctrinated.

The No Child Left Behind Act has not been effective.

The No Child Left Behind Act should not be reauthorized. Instead, we need to pass the All Bushes Left Behind For Good-Seriously, We Must Never Again Elect Another Bush (A.B.L.B.F.G-S.,W.M.N.A.E.A.B.) Act.

I rate America's education system "Unsatisfactory." We are being educated to remain distracted, unaware and unable to self-actualise.

States should not be forced to fund the federally mandated No Child Left Behind Act. Bush is the only child I know who benefits from this law.

Schools should not punish students for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Actions not words show/betray the true desires of the heart. Forcing someone to recite a daily incantation is a meaningless ritual, especially if s/he possesses critical thinking ability.

Arts programs are an essential part of education. They are the lifeblood and true religion of the family of progressive cultures.

the U.S. military should not be allowed to recruit in public high schools. Lambs to the slaughter house.

Private school is the most effective method of education. The very concept of how and what we learn has to change. Public school students should be taught the principles which constitute critical thinking as a core basis for education starting in elementary school and beyond.

It is not acceptable for courses on the Bible to be taught in public schools. Go to a church if you want to learn about the Bible.

Colleges should not allow fraternities and sororities. A truly vulgar aspect of the heterosexual culture. It's so sad how you guys divide up into groups and cliques and shun each other in very cruel ways.

There is political bias in academia. All humans have bias. It's a primal aspect of our cognitive process.

Abstinence-only sex education should not be taught in schools. Sex happens.

Race should not be a factor in the university admission process. but socioeconomic status should be...

Failing public schools should lengthen their days. More time can promote greater learning, and keep "at risk" children in more productive environments.

Schools should ban food and beverages with poor nutritional value. Would we allow drugs dealers into our schools, why do we think this crap is acceptable for our children to put into their bodies?

Teachers should receive performance-based merit pay. To me teachers are as important as doctors, and they should be held to accountable to the highest standards--AND if they deliver they deserve to be paid like doctors!!!!

The government should not offer cash incentives for better student performance. That would skew to favour wealthy prep schools who have more far more resources to bolster a stronger performance from their students who already have trusts or come from dual income families.

Sex education should begin during elementary school (before 6th grade). "Sex education" is a broad concept and should include immediate education on topics of molestation and sexual abuse and sexual predators to all children of all ages in the public domain.

College entry exams should play no role in admissions decisions. The rich are taught by "the system" they own and the poor (public schooling) has always been left to fend for itself. College entry exams favor the wealthy who are not always deserving.

UNKNOWN: Do parents have an obligation to pay for their children's college?

UNKNOWN: Should private schools receive public funding?

UNKNOWN: Should school districts give parents a choice of schools?