While budgets are always a good thing and money being put into the classroom will return with rewards, I must say that I don’t believe that is the heart of the problem. I come from a family of teachers and the one thing I hear them grumble about is the same no matter how much money is going to education: they can no longer control the class. What can you do to keep control? Can you send the kids to the principle? No, they just returned with candy. Can you sit him in the corner? No, that would hurt the child’s self esteem. Even correcting in red ink was challenged in Texas (I think it was Texas, either way it failed…luckily) because it made the child feel bad about themselves. I don’t care how much money we throw to education, until we take back control it will get us nowhere. Until we learn to deal with little failures like red ink on paper, we will never be able to deal with large failures. What happened to our education? We decided to not feel bad about ourselves and threw it away. I’m not trying to downplay some of the problems in education. I’m just saying that there is another problem that we have to deal with before we can tackle those.

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"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." Alexander Hamilton

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato