Reply #10: Well, they're pretty much spot on.

[MadHound]

The bipartisan effort to do away with public education and turn teaching into a profession with no more value than flipping burgers is well underway.

Having the Obama/Duncan agenda coming on the heels of the Bush agenda is, with quick strokes, wiping out over a century of public education gains.

What's truly sad is that it will be this, and future generations that suffer, "educated" in cookie cutter corporate schools that will barely make our population literate, much less truly educated.

The effects of Bush's destructive swath are already being seen and felt throughout the country. The high school graduates of the past two years are sadly ignorant in many areas, including History, Literature, Art and even the focus of testing madness, Math, Science, Reading and Writing. College professors are frustrated with the lack of education displayed by incoming freshmen, and this is only going to get worse.

Of course this is all part of a plan, since after all, jobs that require higher education are becoming ever more scarce in this country, as more and more of these jobs are shipped overseas, or are taken over by H1-B recipients, who work for less. That leaves the service sector jobs for the rest of us, and those don't require higher education, just enough education to read and follow directions.

In fact the power elite tend to frown on a well educated populace, since a well educated populace is a threat to their position and goals.

Since I've been unable to find a teaching job for the past year(budget cuts, the usual story) I've been forced to take a cashier's job at a local truck stop. One of my co-workers, freshman at a local community college, has little knowledge of history. I've been taking great delight educating him, and sparking his interest in history. Perhaps this is how teachers will have to educate future generations, one at a time.

And educated populace is a rebellious populace, and the power elite don't want that.