Darn! Another typepad snafu! It lost my post again. This is frustrating. A while back we were upgraded to this new editor unfortunately slow as molasse and the system randomly loses posts.
The gist of the post was that 61% of high school students graduate in California. For the 6th or 7th largest economic power in the world, it is pitiful. Considering the problem, the plump boys in Sacremento find nothing better than deal with the chronic budget deficit by cutting down on education. Education is, after all, what we need for a better workforce on the market tomorrow in order to have California stay strong.
Maybe this is another chronic problem California has, it attracts intellectual property from around the world since its own education system is one the worse.
My next door neighbor who is a school teacher in the LA District tells me that the cuts will be passed down to the school, not the plump eduction district that find it worthwhile to pay two "party planners" over $100,000 each. This is especially sad considering a fully vested veteran teacher cannot top $79,000. As a serious warning, most Chinese cities invest up to 51% of their revenues into education. Of course, in countries like these, there is still a thirst of knowledge and life is just hard enough to make students strive for learning. Maybe we have become lazy?
Unfortunately this is symptomatic of our current state. We don't have the right leaders to get to the source of the problems and address them. We have great, eloquent talkers who do little in action. When the general fund is low, California taps into the transportation fund that taxes our gas at the pump. talk about upside down! Unfortunately, working on the problem are the ones who cause the problem in the first place, those same old rhetoric filled politicians. Ultimately, we do vote.
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