Let's say you have a school system that is generally regarded as one of America's worst, like Washington, DC. Nearly everyone involved that doesn't work for the school system, including the mayor and Congressional representative wants federal funding to send kids to private schools. To no avail.
Except there is lots of money available to send DC kids to private schools, just so long as they are stupid learning-impaired. According the the NY Times, DC schools spend 15% of their budget sending the lowest-achieving 4% to private schools. Smart kids they leave to rot in a system that no Congressman or bureaucrat sends their kids to. What's wrong with this picture?
You know there's got to be a problem when your best chance of getting a decent education is to be retarded.
Posted by: TallDave at June 20, 2006 12:51 PM