SteveR Loc: Michigan

because it was better than what the girls' softball team had.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3410316416001/high-school-baseball-team-told-to-tear-down-bleachers/?playlist_id=921261890001#sp=show-clips

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

The Board of Ed is worse than the government.
They are above the law.
They can do anything, anytime, at anyplace they please.
When the revolution comes, the Bd of Ed better be high on the list.

sye Loc: The Old Dominion Near DC

DETROIT !!!

A bankrupted predominantly LIBERAL city government-run Ed Dept.

Would you have expected anything less ?

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

They should have forced more to watch the girls team.

mikedidi46 Loc: WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA

It is time for the parents in these towns to start kicking these people out. This would not have happened 50 years ago. Us Kids, built our own stands for the baseball field with our Dad's. The town pitched in and helped finish off our FB field.

AND THERE WERE WINNERS & LOSERS..................

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

settle down, old timer. This problem has been caused by 100 years of spending 50% on defense and 1% on education...you are not gonna get the best and brightest teaching our kids. Look at the other education-related posts, we have idiots teaching our kids, but we are too afraid of the rest of the world to bother.(so every time you voted for a hawk-republican, you might as well have pulled out a seat your self)

GeorgeH Loc: Jonesboro, GA

We would all do well to review Eisenhower's Farewell Address warning against the rise of the Military-Industrial Complex. In the speech he notes how many schools the monies for a destroyer might have built.

It is unfortunate that President Eisenhower didn't say these things early in his administration in, perhaps, a State of the Union Address. Those speeches are usually pretty thin anodyne "feel good" messages. Sometimes the truth hurts. We have sacrificed our future for a false sense of security that an enormous military brings to cowards.

dlwhawaii Loc: Sunny Wailuku, Hawaii

Most of the folks on the Board of Education have only seen the inside of a classroom as a student, never a teacher. They haven't a clue as to what goes on in the classroom. Retired teacher.

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

you are right of course... obviously teachers aren't in it for the money. I was fortunate to have had wonderful teachers who taught because they loved teaching. In my post I was referring more to the administrators that made that decision.

chiya Loc: Wellsboro, Pa.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-global-list-study-shows/

Money isnt the problem

mikedidi46 Loc: WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA

Quite true, but the other side is not concerned either. They talk a good game, but Education should be left to the States, IMO

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

Higher education is left to the states... but for many, by then it is too late.

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

please show me anywhere in the CONSTITUTION that gives the federal government any authority for education. you can't because they have none and the dept of ed is unconstitutional. According to the 10th amendment all powers nor specifically stated in the constitution for the federal government are reserved for the states and the people only. education has been traditionaly a local and state issue only.

this isn't a funding issue ( we spend ore than any other country on education) but a title 9 issue. also a boys sports are more popular and have more booster support than girls sports. to prove it, can anyone name any of the schools in the final 8 for women's ncaa basketball which is occuring the same time as the mens?

finaly about defence spending. how many millions of americans have jobs in the defense industries? how many veterans have been able to go to college thanks to the gi bill? joing the military has traditionaly been a route for the poor to move up to the middle class. How many more americans are employed by business located near military base? The reason we have a federal government is primarily the protection of all citizens from ALL enemies foriegn and domestic. In other words, defense, state dept, intelligence, federal law enforcement and prisons come first for the budget. when they are fully funded then what is left over can be spent on non essential federal programs.

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

So you think it was Conservatives that decided that if the number of seats in the respective stadiums were not even, though they probably reflected the number of people who require them, the obvious fix would be to rip them out from where they already are...… are conservatives…. do I h a v e i t r i g h t?

What revisionist, convoluted, screwed up page of Orwells book did that come out of Mr Doublethink? I can guarantee that it was NOT a conservative mind who was ultimately responsible for that one…

For the record we don't have idiots teaching our kids, we have idiots in government, who live in a world of theory, dreaming up ways to not offend and avoid commitment who are mandating how our teachers must teach our kids. Common core is not conservative either…. Dr. Spock ( the child phycologist) was not a conservative, but both are where something like this would have come from.

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/erikkain/files/2011/04/full_1302714853military.spending.png If you are a hawk-republican or hawk-democrat and you see this pie chart... You are thinking "how come the rest of the world spends more than us on defense". Anyone else would say WTF?!? We don't have any enemies within 5000 miles, friends on our borders... what are we afraid of?

We are deficit spending and the "conservatives" want to gut education along with welfare, medicare and foodstamps... but heaven forbid we touch our military budget!! :mrgreen: