President-elect Barack Obama added sweep and meat to his economic agenda on Saturday, pledging the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Dwight D. Eisenhower built the Interstate system in the late 1950s, and tying his key initiatives ”“ education, energy, health care ”“back to jobs in a package that has the makings of a smaller and modern version of FDR’s New Deal marriage of job creation with infrastructure upgrades.
The president-elect also said for the first time that he will “launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen.”
“We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms,” he said in the address.
To heck with the energy efficiency and new computers – how about some discipline, some reading, some writing, some ‘rithmatic, less social engineering and more accountability among the teachers and administrators. If the Catholic schools can turn out a better product for far less money, then let’s talk it over with them.
#1, I’m totally with you and your statement. If it were up to me I would put computers on the shelf until the students start to approach the 6th grade level. My favorite statement regarding the use of computers is ” let’s get that two pound computer between the kid’s two ears (the brain) functioning first. It’s been around much longer than electronic gadgets.
#1 and #2
Amen!