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It seems in America we solve our problems in one of two ways: A. Spending more money indiscriminately. Money always makes everything better. Just look at hea
by narrator 15y ago
It seems in America we solve our problems in one of two ways:
A. Spending more money indiscriminately. Money always makes everything better. Just look at health care!
B: Getting the federal government to take over and centralize everything.
Creative ideas are almost always ignored unless they are a means of executing strategy A or B.
- ChuckMcM 15y agoI think it is simpler than this, we take an action that we can both take and demonstrate having taken it, whether or not that solves the problem. If you are a politician and your constituents are telling you to 'fix education' you can't create a 'Khan Academy' what you can do is add requirements that teachers 'do better' and since better is subjective you create an artificial measure of 'better.' Then you report back that you helped to 'fix education' when you not only didn't fix it, you didn't even move the ball down the field. However this mythical representative didn't have take the hard road of pissing off some entrenched interests in education in order to change it. Not only would that cut into next year's re-election budget, there would be nothing concrete to show for it and a lot of soft money ads in your district saying how you were bad for education.