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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last night Donald Jr. stated that American schools are failing and U.S. students are falling behind other countries because  in other countries people have the choice to go to other schools.  He blamed teachers unions for the fact that students are "falling behind".

This just doesn't sound correct to me on several levels. Aren't the countries that are improving and overtaking US in education typically unionized?  And their teachers are very well paid?  In fact, isn't there a Scandinavian country that actually prohibits school choice-- i.e., there are no private schools, you have to send your kid to a public school-- which not much sacrifice because the teachers are super educated and love their jobs)?  And country scores far better on international tests than US even though (arguably because) there is no school choice.

I thought the reason other kids are surpassing US kids was because poverty is increasing in US while decreasing in other countries?  [/quote]

No he is correct and it isn't because of poverty.  Plenty of information out there for where we fall in compared to other countries and you need to look at our math scores compared to other countries.  Math is important on so many levels.  I bet the teacher unions are all voting for Hillary.

Not a Trump supporter but Donald Jr. is correct. [/quote]

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