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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:32:00 -0400
From: Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: OT - languages was : GM to cut virtually all Saab's ties to Sweden


Pooh Bear wrote: > Walt Kienzle wrote: > > >>>>>Out of curiosity - does the US school curriculum include compulsory >>>>>study >>>>>of a foreign language ? >> >>For illustration, asking about the US school curriculum is much like asking >>about the EU school curriculum. How would that be answered? Establishment >>of school curriculum is done at the local/state level. The US government >>occasionally insinuates themselves in the activities of locally run schools, >>but they can only do that by threatening to withhold payment of the funding >>programs they sponsor. The only areas were the US government can establish >>school curriculum are places like Washington DC, Puerto Rico, US Virgin >>Islands, Guam, and on all US Military Bases (in and outside the US) - all >>are part of the US, but do not enjoy statehood. > > > I hadn't realised that the states could be so individual in that respect. > Naturally I'm aware they have their own legislatures or whatever but I had > imagined that a school curriculum would be pretty much uniform nation wide. > In some areas it goes further than that. Up until about 4 years ago, in my home state of New Hampshire, it was up to the individual *townships* to both fund and make all decisions about school curricula, etc. The state did set some "bare minimum" requirements, but they had no teeth as there was no leverage without providing any funding. Unfortunately (IMO), the judicial branch of our state government got their fingers into it and mandated that *any* inequality in educational opportunity between towns is unconstitutional. So now a portion of my real estate tax bill (the only tax that I directly pay to the state by the way) goes to the the state capitol to be "redistributed" to the less affluent towns. I do not understand this kind of thinking at all. The way I see it, everyone is free to seek a life in the town or cities that they want. Nobody is holding a gun to the heads of those people who move out into the boondocks so that they can improve their quality of life, where property values and tax rates are lower. But now I am forced to subsidize *their* choice. The closer to home that decisions are made, the better IMO. -Fred W

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