Blog/Education

A friend recommended Jerry Pournelle's "original blog": www.jerrypournelle.com.  Good stuff; you should check it out.
 
In his blog, Pournelle states "The US school system isn't designed to educate children. It is designed to look fair by leveling the playing field into a deep pit into which money can be thrown."  While that may be extreme statement (even for me!), I agree with the sentiment.  Bureaucrats that don't know diddly-squat about education continue to make unfunded mandates to make it look like all children get an equal chance.  What we need is not an equal solution, but an equitable solution.  Accountability-based education, that assumes all students should go on to college, treats all students equally.  Are all students equal?
 
Here's my two cents for all you conspiracy theorists:  No Child Left Behind is designed to be so difficult that it will fail, opening the path for the voucher system to save education.  It won't work.  I'm glad to see some states pulling out of No Child Left Behind and telling Bush to keep his federal money. 
 
I don't know much about the economy, foreign policy, or homeland security, but I do know education and the environment, and those two areas alone will make me vote for Kerry in November.