Schools and Money Trees

On Obama: Why the Democratic Candidate Is Wrong to Blindly Throw Money Into Schools

Edited on Semptember 25, 2008 8:22 PM

By Lance T. Izumi
September 18, 2008

Barrack Obama recently released an ad attacking John McCain. The ad clearly said that the republican candidate (John McCain) would give “$200 billion more to special interests while taking money away from public schools.” Barrack Obama's education proposal said that $19 billion dollars would annually increase funding for charter schools and classroom technology. Clearly these two were attacking each other for spending more money on school technology and new charter schools.

Our class connection to this topic would be that we have been discussing these candidates and its really interesting how our school kind of relates to what they are attacking each other about. They are both basically saying that they want different schools so that kids can learn in a way that teaches them better by buying technology to do so. In the opposing case, given the numerous studies and reports over the years, giving 200 billions dollars is a risky task to do to somehow " lift up the sinking ship of public education".

Personally when i look at these billions of dollars being handed over to improve technology and uplift charter schools i don't think over doing the money is the best idea. The whole point of charter schools are to be different from the public school system and by just putting money in public schools to get new technology isn't going work. If they wanted to make public schools more like charter schools why don't they just change the curriculum in learning from the public schools to the public charter and use project based learning like we do? If hands on learning if what they are trying to get through to, do u really need 200 billion dollars to do so?