The left loves Europe?
Where do you guys pull this shit from?
I like French food.... and Italian.
so do I, you can throw in German and Sweden as well, BUT my point was you love their politics, government intervention, ext, I mean Greece, Spain, and Sweden are you dream states.
Their death by firearm rate is lower than ours in Europe for the most part.
Their students scores on tests in the STEM fields are higher than ours for the most part.
Do you dispute that? Amazingly, most conservatives seem to be all too eager to embrace the education stats when they are slamming the President. As for the murder rates, they are well known.
US Gun Homicide Rate Higher Than Other Developed Countries - ABC News
There are things we do better and there are things they do better. While I will let you account for the things we do better, theirs seems tied to government intervention. For example, Thomas Jefferson was removed from school books in Texas (in part) by some weirdo members of the Board of Education.
Messing With Texas Textbooks | BillMoyers.com
Better explained here:
In their revision of a report by social studies teachers, board members recently decided to cut Thomas Jefferson from the list of historical figures whose thought influenced or expressed political revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - See more at:
History News Network | Why is Texas Afraid of Thomas Jefferson?
So a whole group of Texas kids are growing up without knowing the full score on Thomas Jefferson. According to Moyers the restrictions placed on the books extend to Title IX influence, the New Deal, and other items.
Should the government just write off these kids because some guys on the board have a political agenda?
Now...the Board's political slant has been cutting both ways for a long time and I'm sure that Jefferson's actions are probably diminished in California as well with a bend toward what Barbara Streisand has contributed and the benefits of veganism. I'm sure that the kids in Wisconsin learn the benefits of a cheese and sausage diet.
Wouldn't it be better if we had some national standards so the liberals won't be slamming the next conservative President and the conservatives won't be slamming Hillary when the 2017 scores come out and we're 40th or whatever? Is it that important that the directives be wrong instead of coming from Washington? Maybe it is to some but I'd rather have smart kids.
It would be a good thing if the federal government sponsored compulsory education. Having more educated persons is better than having fewer. Nearly everyone has to borrow money to go to college or sacrifice taking classes in a more timely manner so they can work more hours to pay for it. I sponsor the solution as to where the government pays for the first 60 hours of your post-high school education and you repay the government with a little taken out of your paychecks during your lifetime plus a modest % added at the time the loan is taken out to pay for future generations. If you want to study liberal arts, great. If you want to take AC/Refrigeration, great. If you want to take drama, fine. If you want to take 60 hours of dodgeball...wonderful. Even better. But when you go to work at General Motors, General Electric, or the General Store, you'll be paying off the hours you used.