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Friday, March 17, 2006
Posted
12:26 PM
by Susan Darst Williams
www.GoBigEd.com/Public_Policy_Briefs
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THE WEARIN' THIN O' THE GREEN:
ARE FEDERAL DOLLARS RUINING SCHOOLS?
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. As we kiss the Blarney Stone, let us contemplate the sometimes-ridiculous and often-negative influences of federal funding on local schools.
In the spirit of the day, here’s a limerick:
There once was an uncle named Sam,
Whose demands got our schools in a jam.
The truth, when you unearth it
Is his bucks just ain’t worth it.
We’re privatizing! So scram!
The day may be coming when the only way to avoid the unproductive mandates and social engineering of federal grants and programs is to have your children enrolled in private school. And even then, we’ll have to fight to keep federal intrusions – our dollars in the educrats’ hands -- from ruining things.
It’s enough to get your . . . IRE . . . up!
Here’s that good story:
http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article.php/925.html
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