Friday, February 1, 2008

Bush's Last Address


On January 28, 2008 President Bush addressed the country for the last time. He spoke about our school system, health car, our economy, and green house gasses. What he said about schooling stuck out the most for me though. Bush was very proud of our nations "No Kids Left Behind" act. He said it very successful. Bush was proud that 2000 D.C inner city public school kids were able to get to private schools. However Bush failed to mention the other hundreds of thousands of kids that are being left behind.


Bush's "No Kids Left Behind" act is complete bull! There are millions of kids that are left behind! There are kids who are going into 9th grade that are only reading and writing at a 5th grade level. In order for this problem to be fixed, drastic measures need to be taken right away. Our country needs to spend money on books, supplies, the school its self and paying more money for teachers, so that they want to teach. More money in our education system should be one of America's top priorities!!! Instead President Bush feels that it is necessary to waste trillions of dollars in a foreign country. He cares more about other countries than his own.

1 comment:

Sean Rakowski said...

Okay, good job with that news item. I would like to see you use some research to back up what you are saying, though. What proof do you have that "millions of kids" are being left behind? I tend to agree with you, but many might not.