Thread: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
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Old 02-15-2008   #38 (permalink)
Osiris
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Originally Posted by DC_DEEP View Post
You and I often have our disagreements, but we agree solidly on this. It's a sad state of affairs when athletes have multi-million dollar contracts, and a staggering number of our educators receive pay hovering at the poverty level; and Faux (pronounced: Fox) News would rather report on Britney's latest trip to rehab than real news and current events.
I agree, but I am more sickened by the sheer amount of money some criminal middle school drop outs get for spewing hate ridden lyrics and screaming about "The Mann" keeping them down. How can you be down in a $5,000,000 house, driving a $365,000 Bentley, and pulling in about $100,000 weekly?

The teacher:

Struggling to keep payments on a $200,000 home, driving a few year old Toyota, Honda, etc., and making chicken scratch for a salary.

In a society where salary is truly based on what you have to offer, the rapper would be on the street with his can and the teacher would be living in Trump Tower.

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I received a fine education in the public school I attended in the south, and the state school I attended isn't well known, but it is top quality. My freshman year, I did attend a better known, larger, "better reputation" school, but the quality sucked. The professors might well have been teaching to a video camera, and even at semester's end, none of them even knew any of the students' names. In the smaller state school, the professors actually cared. The education was excellent and personal.
There are some bad school systems out there, but there are more excellent public school systems than there are crappy ones. Having gone to private school for K-5, then public school 5-12, then to an Ivy League school, then to a Community College. I have to agree. I got the much better education for free. All the money my parents spent on the "posh" schooling? Total waste of money.

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Most of the south is actually much more cosmopolitan than the midwest. I would much rather spend time in Georgia or Arkansas or Louisiana than in Ohio or Indiana or Illinois or Wisconsin or Michigan.
You had at least better be amenable to a trip to Kansas City, Missouri for Blues and Barbeque otherwise my friend I'll be meeting you in the schoolyard after school.