Controlling would be saying government should create a standard curriculum and a national standardized test (like Common Core). I'm saying government should provide schools with better funding, and more resources. I don't know about the rest of America, but here in Florida our schools are grossly underfunded, my kids' books are typically used, ripped, torn and broken upon issuance, their computers are early 2,000's laptops with the first versions of XP still installed, and their lunches are a slice of pizza or another proportianately small, unhealthy meal.
So why are resigned to believing that the only option for your child is public school?
You sound like you have no choice in your child's education options.
You whinge about the lack of money and say we need to spend more on all the welfare crap and less on the "war machine". Well let me tell you a little something g about that "war machine" money you so despise.
The budget cuts that have happened to the military to pay for the welfare programs you live don't just affect the beans and bullets...they affect things like schools child development programs Commissary operations and after school programs.
Thanks to the need to pay for the universal health care that you seem to think is a "right" money has been taken from the defense budget....billions of dollars.
So now instead of the Class of 2015 graduating from a new high school. Which was the plan when my daughter was a Freshman...the next four classes will continue to use a 60 year old building that was originally a military hospital.
Our kids have the same computers your kids do in the schools....but because of the increases in spending on the social welfare shit you seem to think we need...when they break they can't be repaired.
Soldiers who once relied on a Commissary on the weekends to get stuff to eat in their Barracks rooms because there is no chow hall on the Kaserne now have to travel 20 kilometers to the nearest DFAC or Commissary. Most of them do not have cars. And those that do have to fill them with gas that costs us almost $2 more a gallon on post than what you're paying in the states.
So save me your girlie bitchi.g about not having enough money for this and that.
What you're too obtuse to realize is that the billions of dollars your state already throws at these bloated ineptly run agencies that you think we don't spend enough on...is the very reason your child's school is in the shape it's in.
But like a typical Progressive you think the fix is to just toss more money at the situation.
