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Healthcare, Education: Two Reasons to Worry About America's Future

Howard, I grew up in the USSR like another poster there. In the USSR all mothers had to work and then they came home and cooked and checked the homework. There were no private schools. Everybody attended the same daycare and the same school. But our education was OK, actually better than what I see in the US today. We had hand-nme down books, crumbling building but we had good teachers. And that is all that matters. And I guess, our parents were more responsible because in USSR if you had bad grades, your future was going to be bleak indeed. It seems in the US kids and parents don't have the same fear of consequences, of hopeless future, they think that they can catch up on eudcation later but they never do.

Healthcare, Education: Two Reasons to Worry About America's Future

How is it that US pays so much for education and cannot afford smaller class sizes? They put the money in the wrong places - the buildings, the sports, the after-school activities and such. These should be minimal and anything extra like fancy sports should be paid by parents. Instead, hire twice as many teachers and cut the class sizes in half.