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all right i want to start off with the fact that the chinese continued to pass
all right and the lady who has the story
the latest in a decade in az on is education
now this is something that we've always suspected except now we have actual numbers to back
it up alright so there was a study done by the program of international student assessment
and what they did is they looked at adn basically the level of achievement
in reading math and science
amman
all different cities and all different countries ok yet and what they found is
fifteen-year-olds in shanghai
are at the top of the list
well-coordinated lowell
everyone out of the water
so you would think i'll blog i'm sure the u_s_ is coming in at a close second
not even close we didn't make the top five we didn't make the top ten
but that epic fail
but they ought to give you a list of pat that's a wellness
uh... okay so when it comes right now at the top we have shanghai
coming in at add saket is finland coming in at thirties korea
okay our terms
all too crazy to me so
that definition there
and the chinese p_m_ u_n_ dot where is this immediate reaction america
there were will last
the uh... will get back to the readers
uni
dresses that's now that you have to have happen right about that i don't think u_n_-designated
change anything
you know npr did a really great
like piece on this where they had like education experts come in and talk about our education
system in all of that things that were doing so wrong and whether or not we're gonna check
switch things up in change things for instance teachers are getting paid nothing ok i mean
it sure thirty thousand forty thousand dollars a year
that's not nothing but it's still a rediculously low amount of money especially when they're
responsible and for educating our youth right
uh... examinations no
through this a real quick
the average at guy the top one percent based on the old bomber bush tax cuts that are gonna
pass now
will get on average seventy thousand
in
here yet nearly double an average teacher salary
in hacks breaks
next year okay
that's our priorities
that surprise in geology i wonder why chinese picking on us
but jr there are two percent right if you call republic that the bond funds are doing
well yeah
wonderful
but with the press and the that with dot
group
or here
not not only that jane republicans argue that one of the main reasons why our education
system stocks is because we're wasting public education on the masses no and that abdication
should only be for the elite
however in china they don't think that way they
emphasize education for all okay not just delete another thing that this as study found
is that private education
is no different than public education
okay when you take the socioeconomic factors out of it
students perform exactly the same
so while these republicans are like has privatize education make it for the lead
score you know we have the facts it doesn't work
by the way if you've ever studied the history of education
uh... whenever at country does success begins to do public education
takes off
but rocket
okay it happened in scotland and all of sudden these geniuses all coming out of scotland
adam smith
q et-cetera et-cetera why it is the the public education
that answers in the fumes exist as governor ridge that ride education
don't just give it to the law
wards and you don't just give it to the royalty you've everybody it allows more people to
come up added improves your economy zakat apathy and of course the most famous example
is the united states of america
right we get those founding fathers out of nowhere ok and of course they pushed for public
education in this country defended by the state
and so
when the republicans go to kill public education by wanting to do privatizing et cetera et
cetera
local on the effing enemies are color me naive here for not coming to this conclusion earlier
it's part of the class warfare
big absolutely him so if they think look era
we don't
need all these people getting rich ok we need workers
and we need the rich to get even richer and how would you do that it was stratified
if they got to go to the best schools they were private schools
and others that didn't have money got crunched at and crush in the system
well then we win they lose
it's our secret class warfare
and the secretary gagne a look at me i'm barely catching
so
and i don't know if they're that evil and another that nefarious
alleviating goto overall conclusion in a row
great
but that has been affected their policies
absolutely
and once so interesting about that is they claim to be that patriotic individuals right
the ones that the ones that are still american in their fat from erica and democrats are
anti-matter that's always their stance right
but the reason why our founding fathers establishing this government
is because there wasn't supposed to be class warfare okay that wasn't supposed to be a
huge division between the extremely wealthy and the poor and that we're headed in that
direction
and you know people they targeted ho back then only their property people could vote
if cetera et cetera right
uh... at the time
we have to understand
that that was the whole point of the country was there was a revolution to change the way
things work
and uh... expand upon people's rights and a give more more people rights it was a revolutionary
idea that wasn't just the world he would make decisions
they wanted
that kind of democracy to progress and the flowers cetera and not to go back to the world
the that something with the service and they remember the service or gets a revolution
the first place
by any look i know it's different peoples like comparing the cowboys in the nineteen
seventies
and the cowboys of today's two different things i get it but at the same time the frame of
mind is not that different
protect addition
protect their upper-class
you know and fight against any change and the but the most critical part of what binds
them together whether it was a guy s
in this country and it was a whole for the country that was with the british arthur that
were in the middle of course because you remember
from elementary uh... history class
and i think that that those guys who wanted was protect themselves right
i wanted our concern is today one
protect this out
an establishment of the powerful on the rich
look so far in american history
we have one and they have lost
and that's what this country's gotten better and better
and we want a lot about also there was some rice who was with him was the right of women
the vote
etc et-cetera as you go down that the chain
right now we're losing
uh... but
i have long term free i really do
but he gets tested every day
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