Sunday, January 31, 2010

MIlitary frustrated with Hawai'i education system

Students in Hawai'i are now getting an additional seventeen days off this school year in efforts to trim the budget. For members of the nilitary assigned there, it is an additional headache. Students must be supervised and entertained on the days they are not in classes. Parents and the bases are feeling the pinch.
Hawai'i has long had a less then stellar reputation, and the military has comissioned a study to look into this.

Commanders are so concerned about the overall health of isle schools that the military is paying researchers from Johns Hopkins University $1.5 million to study military attitudes toward Hawaii public education over a three year period to see if there's any concrete data to support the unhappy anecdotes.

The researchers won't have to travel far, in fact they only need to journey to Washington D.C. and visit the White House to get confirmation that Hawai'i has the WORST education system in the nation. All that for a measly million five? Heck we deserve a refund.
Kinda casts a dim light on Ivy League Grads as well, don't it? At least George W. Bush could give a speach above the jr. high level.
It would be interesting to see how Hawai'i stacks up against other liberal strangle holds like Lost Angeles, Deadtroit, Shamecogo, and others. We know what a disaster the schools are in many inner city regions, poor schools feeds the inner city decline which feeds the welfare system which votes strongly democrat. its a vicious cycle, its a downward spirial.

Arne Duncan recently praised hurricane Katrina saying it saved the New Orleans school system. Sad thing is he may be right. Won't know for sure for a few years, but prior to Katrina The government was spending over $10,000 per student per year and turning out a crop that has a high failure rate.
maybe its time to get the government OUT of education. All they do is bungle it. How are government can win wars is beyond me, every other thing they tacle comes out a bust, and there are still folks stupid enough to want to trust them with health care.

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