This generation is screwed up.

it's the standard Republican approach = declare that government cant work, then when you're in office take steps to make sure that becomes true :(

I went to inner city high school, I am a religious minority immigrant.

Guess what, the education failed in my 100% democratic city. Classmates who were born here strove for mediocrity, not wanting to learn, teachers did not care, but loved to get students to protest during the union negotiations.

Guess what, I graduated, got my BS and my MBA while working and tutoring other children whose parents realized that schools simply stopped teaching the hard stuff.

@firefall: See, FEMA is a failure - just watch how poorly 'heck of a job Brownie' does.

@81redhead: So sample size of 1 of a under-resourced public school. Imagine if they were adequately funded.

@81redhead: Your own statements are betraying your own argument, and you're showing yourself as poorly educated and lacking in rationality. Anyone suggesting that their personal experience is automatically true for everyone in the country, is frankly an idiot, and I severely doubt your claim of a BS because of that. An MBA is more plausible, because that qualification doesn't require rationality, only the ability to make rationalisations.

@GoldenWorm: I tutored children from different school districts and even different counties. So the sample is much larger.