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Does he forget that computer technology was invented in this country by public school graduates? Does he also forget that American automakers plan to double their production in Mexico by the end of the decade? Is it Mexico's school system that is the drawing card?

"Money, without reform, will not fix the problem," Obama said. The president voiced support for overhauling performance standards, including firing teachers who fall short." My nephew filled out his senior schedule and for math put calculus but the school changed it to business math. His mother had to fight the administration arguing that the boy wanted to go to college. The school countered by explaining that if he took calculus and failed why the school would be made to look bad.

Blame the teachers, blame the administrators but don't blame the states that under fund public education. Don't recognize that America's public schools are the sea wall of a damaged society. In 2000 1.35 million school-aged children were homeless on any given night. Children under eighteen accounted for 39 percent of the homeless population. Within a single school year, 41% of homeless students attend two different schools, 28% attend three or more.

43.6 million Americans now live in poverty and 77 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck so Obama's all most right, "Reform, without money, will not fix the problem." U-6 the formula that was used to compute unemployment statistics until 1995 stands at 16.4 percent nationally and in California it is at 25 percent the same rate as in 1933. Durable goods manufacturing is at the lowest level since 1950. Manufacturing payrolls are at their lowest levels since 1946 Employee financial activities are at the lowest level on record since World War II.

So Obama is scapegoating the teachers, never mind what we elected him to do let's blame someone else. Let's blame schoolteachers while we spend more money trying to attract new ones. Yes America needs better math and science skills but America also needs better logic and reasoning skills. To understand that the wars go on and the money pours out. The jobs sail away and the politicians and space mutants laughably blame the schoolteachers.

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