Should schools be suffering budget cuts?

Budget cuts are nessesary in other places but not in our educational system. The government is currupt with people who dont seem to care about the consequences this might have on our students later, a solution would be to start taxing the wealthy a lot more. Long story short our kids should not pay for the other peoples mistakes.

No they should not be suffering budget cuts. Children are the future and a good society needs well educated citizens, but it seems our politicians do not have there priorities straight.

Yes, they should be "suffering" budget cuts. The money never gets to the students anyway; it goes to teacher, administrator salaries and is always misused. I say that as an educator for over 40 years. I have worked poverty areas and wealthy areas and it's always the same: wretched, torn up books and materials, teachers who cannot themselves properly "read, write, and spell, union "power" in holding our children hostage while dumbing them down. What you don't understand is that the public school system IS the government. That's also why there is also a "Dept. of Education", which should also be abolished. Teachers' unions are in bed with local all the way up to federal corruptocrats; that's where all the money comes in and changes hands for "favors". I have taught all across this country and it's always the same. It's all about money, greed, power politics. I've sat in on the meetings, though I never joined the "union". I know about the "percs" and politics, cheating, etc. Homeschooling is the only safe and intelligent way to teach a child anything today. These are just examples of some of what goes on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqQTIQhn5A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdgzBNh6kEM&feature=related http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43970932/ns/us_news-education/#.TnDS0dRv2uI This is some of the info that is available for making wise choices. http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-am-no-longer-willing-to-hurt-children.html I say, also, that children are not safe at any level in the "public school system". Schools today are an academic and moral wasteland. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" in a public school, and even some private ones today. And bullying is rampant, from the teachers on down. Throwing more money their way is beyond foolish.

I certainly agree with you Samzcorner, schools shouldn't suffer budget cuts through economic depletion.In fact, the government can start cutting a little of their compensation if they're planning to help.Schools must be given all the facilities and budgets that they needed so that we can obtain the quality of education that we're looking for. Education system must be given attention before anything else.