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to report their parents to the police under the DARE Program (http://www.dare.com/home/abou t_dare.asp and see http://www.drugsense.org/tfy/d are.htm). Maybe they don't want to report their classmates to the police under the WAVE Program (at the university level http://www.nmsu.edu/~wave/ and the potential abuses http://www.mediastudies.org/te mplates/document.asp?documentI D=12109). Maybe they know that memorization is not learning. Maybe they know at some level that being encouraged to THINK FOR THEMSELVES is learning, and they're just not receiving that.

Think about the differences of educational focus required to become:
MacGiver or Indiana Jones - able to think on the spot
Sherlock Holmes - able to see through the clutter to get down to what's "elementary, dear Watson"
Albert Einstein - able to think deeply into a complex problem until it was reduced into its simplest form, who also said the only thing interfering with his learning was his education
Harriet Tubman - lacked a formal education but still helped others to freedom and never once got caught
Thomas Jefferson - NEVER attended public school, yet was a brilliant self-educated Enlightenment thinker and became President.

The failure is thinking that today's bureaucrats have a higher interest in our children's education than we do. The failure is letting the national government have any pull in this matter at all. Bureaucrats commit money to what is important to them:

Dept. of Offense (I mean Defense)
$661,900,000,000

Dept. of Homeland inSecurity
$43,212,000,000

Dept. of (poor) Education
$58,623,000,000

All that money, science, technology, Google Earth, and where in the world is Osama bin-Laden?

Get your children in private school or homeschool if you can. But even if you can't, be vitally interested and involved in their learning at home.

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