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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

— William Bennett

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

— Raghuram Rajan

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

— Geoffrey Canada

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.

— Janet Napolitano

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.

— Vincent Frank

We are in the middle of an education recession.

— Rod Paige

School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged.

— John Taylor Gatto

The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.

— Flea

If more people got involved with their local schools, if more companies donated money, a lot of the problems that are plaguing our schools and our youth would disappear.

— Kevin Frazier

I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.

— Ron White

✗Opposing Perspectives

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.

— Robert Duncan